196 - YEAR XVII - October 28th to November 3rd, 2002
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Theses
Atomic clock
Kids
Milk
aids
Violence
Nobel 2002
In the press
Bioinformatics
Agrener 2002
Seminar
Academic life
Labjor
Straws (Canudos)
A fantastically accurate watch
An optical atomic clock capable of allowing the measurement of 100 quadrillion parts of a second is being developed by the Lasers and Applications Group at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics. It counts the oscillations of light in calcium atoms. page 3

Justice of the majority that minorities do not achieve
Extensive research by Unicamp in police stations that deal with violence against minorities finds the need to reclassify crimes and create specific courts in the Judiciary. Pages 6 and 7

Straws (Canudos)
An IFCH historian is producing a documentary with an unprecedented approach to the Canudos War and the saga of Blessed Antonio Conselheiro. The video will be distributed on the education network and broadcast on television.

Theses
The work of a group from the Faculty of Education that has been carrying out a national survey on the quantity and quality of master's and doctoral theses in the educational area for 20 years has become a reference for other higher education institutions.

Bioinformatics
Campus houses the Embrapa Bioinformatics Center, a sophisticated laboratory for researching new drugs and vaccines.

Kids
Psychologist assesses motivation for studying among elementary school students in a master's thesis defended at the Faculty of Education.

aids
Twenty years after its discovery, AIDS begins to be controlled in Brazil, with a fundamental role played by Unicamp, which implemented assistance models and collaborates in the development of medicines.