Professor Zoraide Sousa Pessoa, PhD in Environment and Society from the State University of Campinas, Unicamp, and professor in the Department of Public Policy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, was interviewed on the EBC National Radio program about the Vulnerability Index of Brazilian Municipalities in relation to the new coronavirus. Listen below Interview teacher Zoraide
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Last Thursday, the 21st, the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts (CCHLA) installed the Planning Committee (COMPLAN) to evaluate the proposals for resuming academic activities, bringing together representatives of teachers, departments, administrative technicians and students. According to the director of CCHLA, Maria das Graças Rodrigues, “COMLAN aims to project what the possible resumption of […]
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The RECânone Extension project, from the Department of Anthropology at UFRN, which works in the translation of scientific texts, began a partnership with the Center for Studies in Public Health (NESC) to translate strategic materials from English, Spanish and French into Portuguese, which are useful in this extraordinary moment of the coronavirus pandemic. According to […]
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A research carried out by the student of the UFRN Geography Course will evaluate the (Dis)Integration between Natal and the Metropolitan Region. To support the survey, the undergraduate student, Lucyanna Saturno, launched a questionnaire to collect information from users of intercity public transport in São Gonçalo do Amarante, Parnamirim and Extremos, and can be answered […]
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The Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts (CCHLA/UFRN) will broadcast a musical live next Friday, 22nd, at 6pm, with singer Lene Macedo, on the Center's official profile (@cchla.ufrn). The director of CCHLA, professor Maria das Graças Rodrigues, the objective is to involve the entire academic community in a moment of good music and quality […]
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The concept of “risk society” by German sociologist Ulrich Beck is more than current at this time of emergence of a new coronavirus, which has been causing the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the last five months, this pandemic has thrown the entire globe off track, causing something unprecedented in the histories of contemporary societies, which […]
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By Sandra Gomes and Anderson Cristopher dos Santos According to epidemiological bulletins from the Ministry of Health, the growth rates of incidence and deaths from Covid-19 in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) have grown at a slower rate than in the rest of the country. Another example of this would be the […]
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The Georisco Group, from the Disaster Research Center – NUPED, which is part of the UFRN Coronavirus Combat Committee, presented new results from the Covid-19 participatory mapping research in Greater Natal, called “Coronarisk Task Force”. The survey asked respondents whether there was anyone in their household who fell into the Covid-19 risk group. […]
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The Interstate Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Northeast (Consórcio Nordeste) has in its composition a network formed by the governors of the nine states in the region to collectively deal with issues such as the purchase of goods and services related to health, infrastructure, education and public security that benefited the entire region, being […]
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The GEORISCO research group, from the Disaster Research Center (NUPED), is leading a task force to produce monitoring maps for the COVID-19 pandemic. Entitled CoronaRisco Task Force, it has produced monitoring maps of confirmed cases and deaths in Brazil, the Northeast Region, Rio Grande do Norte and Natal. The research that has achieved national […]
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