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The Unicamp entrance exam registered a record number of students from public schools in the first call: 32,8% of the 2.934 approved in the 2005 exam. The number of candidates who declared themselves black, brown and indigenous called in the first call is also record: 15,1% of the total called up, against 10,5% last year. The numbers are directly related to the affirmative action program approved by the University Council in May 2004.
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 Projections reveal how
climate would affect agriculture
Pioneering research by Unicamp and Embrapa has just concluded that cultures of soy, coffee, rice, corn and beans will have their areas reduced by half in Brazil, if predictions are confirmed that the Earth's average temperature will rise by more than 5 degrees Celsius within 50 to 100 years, as a result of the effect stove. page 12
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 Measurement research
mercury levels
A survey coordinated by researcher Anne Hélène Fostier, from the Chemistry Institute, reveals that the median concentrations of gaseous mercury in the regions of Campinas and Piracicaba are comparable to those in the most industrialized areas of the northern hemisphere.
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 X-ray study
Anhumas basin
Research by geographer Ederson Briguenti x-rayed the environmental quality of the Anhumas river basin, in Campinas. The survey, guided by professor Archimedes Perez Filho, can serve as a tool to support eventual public policies.
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