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Cover
Chair Diary
Finep Sudeste Award
Universe of sensations
38 years ago: cornerstone
Web of Knowledge: Vale do Ribeira
Web of Knowledge: 932 schools
21st century vitamin
Forums
Panel of the week
Job opportunities
Theses of the week
Unicamp in the media
Biomass: energy source
Between the full table and the table of
  surgery
 



Unicamp was chosen by Finep (Financier of Studies and Projects) as the research institution that best carries out technological innovation in the Southeast region of the country. The Finep Technological Innovation Award 2004-Southeast Region was awarded to vice-rector José Tadeu Jorge, on the 30th. The national stage will be on November 10th.

Unicamp teachers and doctoral students are teaching continuing education courses to 2,5 teachers from 932 state schools, in the Teia do Saber Project. The Jornal da Unicamp report followed the work of Unicamp teachers in Apiaí, in Vale do Ribeira, where 356 teachers from the education network participate in the program.


President Castello Branco (center), at the foundation stone laying ceremony, on October 5, 1966; Zeferino Vaz, the creator of Unicamp, appears on the right in the photoOn an October afternoon, 38 years ago

Ensconced in a room at Palácio dos Azulejos, in Campinas, for eight months Zeferino Vaz pored over the floor plan of Unicamp. Finally, on October 5, 1966, the President of the Republic came to lay the foundation stone. At 5 page, the complete story.

(Photo: Antoninho Perri)Biomass, the future

Study coordinated by physicist and professor Rogério César de Cerqueira Leite points to biomass as the energy source of the future in the country.


The '21st century vitamin'

Researchers coordinated by professor Delia Rodriguez Amaya, from FEA, have just finalized the first composition table of the main foods in the country. The data will guide epidemiological studies and health professionals.


HC program guides obese people

Program implemented by the Hospital das Clínicas at Unicamp disciplines and raises awareness among obese people who are going to undergo gastric bypass surgery.




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