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It’s not only a video game: symbolic gender violence in digital games
UFRGS doctoral thesis in Communication Studies aims to understand how symbolic violence against women occurs in digital games like Dota 2 and League of Legends
UFRGS to form partnership with Instituto Fome Zero to promote food and nutritional security
The two institutions will act in support of public policies to combat hunger and malnutrition
UFRGS’ Professor is the first researcher in South America to receive an honorary membership by the IAVS
This is the highest award that the International Association for Vegetation Science can give to an individual member to recognize sustained contributions of extraordinary merit to the field
Hops beyond beer
UFRGS´s researcher from the Faculty of Dental Sciences obtains patent about hops usage and seeks for funding to start developing products
UFRGS' professor proposes Consumer Global Compact at UN event
Director of the Faculty of Law, Cláudia Lima Marques was a speaker at the UNCTAD Forum held online in June
UFRGS study changes the paradigm of clean energy production from photocatalysts
Researchers propose a different path that increases the efficiency of the technique of obtaining hydrogen as a source of chemical energy
Technology developed at UFRGS uses solar power to deliver drinkable water to suburban areas
Water disinfection prototype utilizing sunlight is highly efficient and has a low-cost structure. The technology was the first green patent from UFRGS to be acknowledged
Large trees in Brazilian southern subtropical forests are an important resource for carbon storage
PhD student at the Postgraduate Program in Ecology is the lead author of a published article at an international scientific journal. The study on the variables that influence the biomass stock of forests from Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina is the first about biomass quantification in these sites
Article published by UFRGS researchers is the cover of American Academy of Neurology journal
The authors analyzed data from 3,204 Alzheimer patients to identify changes in astrocyte biomarkers
UFRGS's researcher is re-elected to vice presidency of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research
Committee is part of the International Science Council and is responsible for developing and coordinating research on Antarctica
UFRGS' Visual Design student receives award in international competition
Cristian Severo Garske developed a game explaining some issues related to Nielsen's 10 heuristics
A kitchen garden in the middle of concrete: UFRGS research analyzes the reconciliation of contradictions in the urban agriculture
Ana Clara Aparecida Alves de Souza has spent two years accompanying the Collective Ant Farm (Horta Coletiva da Formiga), located in the Historic Center of Porto Alegre. The thesis approaches the urban agriculture in the contemporary world as a complex and multifaceted movement
Computer Science Student Receives Prize in Apple Contest
Santiago Gonzaga developed dynamic app that teaches genetics
Vale’s Coal mine in Mozambique: overdevelopment and social reorientation
Ethnographic research shows some of the dynamics and dilemmas that occurred in Moatize, Mozambique, due to a development project carried out by Brazilian firm Vale
UFRGS's student represents Brazil in event that debates issues about BRICS
Esther Krüger Silveira, student from the Social Sciences Course, was among the 10 young Brazilians who participated last Saturday in the “BRICS Youth Round Table 2021”
Article about cryopreservation of zebrafish’s semen is the cover of an international scientific journal
A study conducted by the research group AQUAM from UFRGS¹, specialized in biodiversity and aquatic species conservation, analyzed cryopreservation protocols of zebrafish gametes. The species is a biological model used in research in several areas
UFRGS researchers find new way to treat event responsible for baby suffocation
Findings show a 50% reduction in injuries caused by neonatal hypoxia-ischemia, an event that causes damage to babies’ nervous system cells. In the study, a residue produced by the body after physical activities known as lactate was used on the treatment. The research was chosen to be the cover of the Neuroscience journal
INPI acknowledges UFRGS' first Green Patent Application
The technology for water treatment is developed by researchers from the Graduate Program in Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology (PPGMAA)
UFRGS’ professor elected vice president of the International Society of Plant Morphologists
The investiture of Jorge Mariath internationally recognizes the result of his contributions to the development of this field of study
Research by UFRGS and UEA concluded that Shell-precious fungi may be able to degrade plastic
Unprecedent results indicate that five fungi that live in an Amazonian tree known as precious bark manage to grow on PET plastic, which suggests that they may be able to degrade the polymer
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