Unicamp - Press Room

Ianni warns
�satanization�of the public sector

The federal government is demonizing some professional categories, such as civil servants, university professors and retirees, in order to approve reforms that it intends to implement, including the Foresight. The assessment is by sociologist and professor emeritus at Unicamp Octavio Ianni, for whom the changes in direction observed in the government's actions reflect the crisis that the left is experiencing on a global scale. “The left is taking a long time to make an objective analysis of what happened in the world. Capitalism has entered a new cycle of expansion.”

In search of the
�genome of art�

The study of the influences of technoscience on the direction of the production of contemporary art images earned doctoral student Emerson Freire an award in the “Rumos Pesquisa” competition, promoted by Itaú Cultural. Japanese Yoichiro Kawaguchi, who promotes synergy between art, science and nature, is one of the artists researched by Freire.

“Smart” yeast
One of the “smart” yeast”, developed in the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the Genome and Expression Laboratory of the Unicamp Biology Institute by researcher Anderson Ferreira da Cunha, is capable of accelerating the industrial sugarcane fermentation process.

Cancer alert
rarely mobilizes doctors

The finding of an increased incidence of a rare type of childhood cancer, carried out by specialists from the Population-Based Cancer Registry (RCPB), a service of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, mobilized researchers from several countries.

From Unicamp to 3 thousand institutions

At least three thousand public and private institutions in Brazil and other countries are using TelEduc, teaching tool the distance developed in 1998 by the Institute of Computing and the Center for Applied Informatics in Education (Nied), both at Unicamp.