Unicamp in the media

People's Daily

June 1 - That smoking – considered a chronic disease – causes harm to health is nothing new. The aggravating factor is that studies by the World Health Organization (WHO) show that tobacco consumption is related to poverty. For doctor Elson Silva Lima, coordinator of the Viva Mais Program, for the Prevention of the Use of Psychoactive Substances, and of the Smoking Treatment Outpatient Clinic at Unicamp, the anti-smoking campaigns launched in the country from the 1980s onwards reduced the number of smokers in middle and upper classes.

The State of S. Paul

May 31 - Alongside Roberto Corrêa and Paulo Freire, the Minas Gerais musician and composer Ivan Vilela is today one of the most respected names when it comes to viola. Vilela is now the strong name behind the Syngenta Prize for Viola Instrumental Music. With a degree and master's degree in Musical Composition from Unicamp, Vilela is director and arranger of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Violas, in Campinas. He is also the creator of the NGO Núcleo de Cultura Caipira.

The Globe

May 30th - There was a day when the forests, rivers and seas of Brazil were literally blown up. A celestial bomb measuring 400 meters in diameter hit the ground releasing energy equivalent to that of 260 Hiroshima bombs and killed everything around it within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. The cataclysm occurred more than one hundred million years ago — the date is still under study — in what is now the municipality of Coronel Vivida, Paraná, and was revealed with the identification of what remained of the cosmic shock crater by scientist Álvaro Penteado Crósta, from Unicamp Geosciences Institute.

Folha de S. Paul
May 30 - Concrete is about to gain a new recycled aggregate: eggshell. Obtained as waste on farms, the material, mixed with sand, cement and water, replaces crushed stone in the manufacture of products such as blocks and flooring. This research is being conducted at Unicamp's Faculty of Agricultural Engineering by student César Hideo Nagumo and professor Antonio Ludovico Beraldo.