Newsletter #223

RESEARCH

IEA's Board announces the selected professors for the sabbatical year

The Sabbatical Year Program of the IEA, established on June 19, already has its six selected professors to develop individual research projects from 2016. The candidates chosen by the Institute's Board, after consulting the IEA's Research Committee, are: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo, Elizabeth Maria Freire de Araujo Lima, Flavio Ulhoa Coelho, Lucia Maciel Barbosa de Oliveira, Maria de los Angeles Gasalla and Rodolfo Nogueira Coelho de Souza.

AGENDA

Specialists evaluate the impacts of the environmental disaster in Mariana

Five professors of USP, covering various disciplines, will be at the IEA on December 7, from 2 pm, to discuss the impacts of the disrupted dam of the miner Samarco in Mariana, in the State of Minas Gerais. They will also address what needs to be done for the environmental recovery of the affected areas. This is considered the largest environmental disaster ever occurred in Brazil and one of the five largest in world history. The meeting will be held in the former room of the USP's University Council.

Meeting discusses the development of drugs and medicines at USP

The development of drugs and medicines at USP will be the theme of the third strategic workshop of the University's Dean for Research, which takes place on December 10, from 10 am, at the IEA. Carried out with IEA's support, the meeting will bring together experts from the university and the private sector. The workshop has the intent to stimulate reflection and dialogue around the strategic themes for research at the University of São Paulo. It also seeks to create a scientific and technological environment of collaboration between the USP community and external agents.

Seminar presents study on determinants of productivity in Brazil

Fernanda De Negri, co-organizer of the second volume of Produtividade no Brasil: desempenho e determinantes ("Productivity in Brazil: performance and determinants"), will be at the IEA on December 9, at 2.30 pm, to address the main ideas discussed in the book's 19 chapters (written by 37 scholars). The study shows that productivity growth in Brazil over the long term is subject to expansion investments in technology and information, infrastructure, qualification of manpower and the improvement of the business environment.

INSTITUTIONAL

Guilherme Ary Plonsky is named to Costa Rican IAS's Academic Council

IEA's board member Guilherme Ary Plonski has been appointed to the Academic Council of the Espacio de Estudios Avanzados (UCREA) at the Universidad de Costa Rica (URC). The institution was the first IAS created in Central America, in August 2014, after more than two years of study with the participation of Costa Rican researchers and foreign institutions, such as the IEA. It has the University of Bielefeld's Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) as a reference.

Director of the IEA presents critical guide on museums at conferences in Europe

The director of the IEA and coordinator of the Institute's research group Fórum Permanente will be one of the lecturers of the seminar Museums, Museumgoers, Media – A Visionary Project, organized by the Humboldt-Forum and the Humboldt University in Berlin from December 3 to 5. "The Stranger's Guide to the Museum Galaxy" is the name of his conference, to be given on the 4th. On December 10, Grossmann will deliver a more detailed presentation on the same theme at the University of Birmingham's Institute of Advanced Studies, where he will stay as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow Professor during this month and in June 2016.

INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA USP / INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES OF USP

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