TIME TO INVEST

Brazil can no longer waste time in the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The opinion is shared by professors José Antônio Brum, Marcelo Knobel and Vitor Baranauskas, who are convinced that the time is now to combine skills, identify opportunities, adopt a continuous program and use the infrastructure installed in universities and research centers.

The Minister of Science and Technology, Eduardo Campos
(on the right), intends to provide a “management standard” for sectoral funds through the formation of a collegiate body to be chaired by him. The measure would guarantee the integration of resources provided for in policies

Unicamp researchers are testing a combined vaccine against hepatitis and tuberculosis (BCG), developed by the Butantan Institute. 320 newborns will be monitored at Caism and the Campinas Maternity Hospital.

The rivalry between Brazil and Argentina in football is one of the research objects of Professor Pablo Alabarces, who taught at Unicamp for four months as part of the professorship agreement signed with the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

The Unicamp Memory Center houses the autobiography, reproductions of paintings, writings and drawings made by Hércules Florence, whose bicentenary of birth is celebrated this month. Born in France and considered one of the fathers of photography, Florence lived in Campinas for 49 years.