Tensions over university funding in Brazil have been simmering for a while. In January, a Lula administration official visited the University of Brasília and was met by protesters asking for better pay.Credit: Leandro Chemalle/Thenews2/Zuma via Alamy Academic workers, including many professors, are now on strike at more than 60 federal universities across Brazil. Having faced … Read more
On 16 April, the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) announced a bold initiative to combat the brain drain in Brazilian academia. Over five years, the talent-repatriation programme will invest 1 billion reais (US$190 million) into encouraging expatriated scientists to return to Brazil and expanding collaborations with Brazilian researchers overseas. In 2023, more than 35,000 academics … Read more
Cavalcante is serving a life sentence in the US for killing someone. He is also accused of killing a man in Brazil, where he can’t get a life term.The judge in charge of Danelo Cavalcante’s murder case in Brazil said he thought the convicted killer was on his way to his home country when he … Read more