Unprecedented multidisciplinary research from UFRN wins CNPq notice

Do you already know the good news about Azulão?
The research “Good practices on COVID-19 in Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Ceará: translation and preparation of materials in the territories” won a notice from the National Research Council (CNPq), after competing with more than two thousand proposals.
The project, coordinated by professor Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier, was the first with a focus on Social Sciences to be approved in Brazil by the National Research Council (CNPq) and is linked to the Departments of Anthropology, Modern Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures, Public Policies and Public Health at UFRN.
The research proposal seeks dialogue on the translation and popularization of biomedical, epidemiological and socio-sanitary materials of interest among different groups in the Brazilian northeast!
What an achievement, right? We will soon publish more news about the project!

PPGFIL announces VI International Metaphysics Colloquium

The Postgraduate Program in Philosophy (PPGFIL), at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), announces the holding of the VI International Metaphysics Colloquium and invites researchers to submit proposals for the presentation of works on the theme “Inhabitation and the unusual”. The Colloquium will be held remotely, from June 2nd to 4th, via…

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UFRN promotes debate on women's football in RN

   The Department of Physical Education (DEF), at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), is holding the I Meeting on Women's Football in Rio Grande do Norte: from its history to the technical and tactical elements that surround it. The event's target audience is undergraduate and postgraduate students in Physical Education, Physiotherapy, History…

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UFRN professor receives international recognition for the project “Sleep Psychologists Against Covid-19”

By Júlio Rocha, Ascom CCHLA A voluntary project designed and coordinated by the professor of the Department of Psychology at UFRN, Katie Moraes de Almondes, aimed at assisting health professionals from all over Brazil with sleep disorders through a virtual platform, received international recognition granted by the Erasmus Project, the “CAP SUR D’ECOLE EUROPE and…

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Georisk maps the number of diabetics who fall into the Covid-19 risk group

  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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