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Public participates of a special session with members of favela community museums during the 2023 IPPUR Week. Photo: Bárbara Dias

Urban Planners at Rio’s Federal University Get Special Class on Favela Climate Memory

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Kay Alvito • December 28, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Invited by the Urban and Regional Planning and Research Institute (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and supported by the Research Support Foundation for the State of […]

Created in 2012 by UFRJ Production Engineering students, ENACTUS-UFRJ currently has 40 collaborators from different undergraduate courses, professors and partners and works in four communities

Urban Heat Islands and Urban Cool Islands: ENACTUS-UFRJ Helps Favelas Fight Extreme Temperatures

By Amanda Mesquita, Ananda Almeida Stroke, Isabela Mattos e Assumpção, Luana Tresoldi Sciotta • Translation by Annie Swank • July 7, 2022

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article in a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on climate impacts and affirmative action in […]

Decade-Old Affirmative Action Law May Be Reviewed in Brazil

By Cleyton Santanna • Translation by Cristina Cortez, Sofi-Nicole Barreiro • March 11, 2022

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article in a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on climate impacts and affirmative action in […]

I Want To Read Black Authors: When Will We See Proper Representation in Brazilian Schools and Universities? [OPINION]

By Cynthia Rachel Pereira Lima • Translation by Carolyn Oliveira • February 25, 2022

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article in a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on climate impacts and affirmative action in […]

‘Color of Mobility’ Project Addresses the Impacts of Racism on How Black Brazilians Transit Through Cities

By Jaqueline Suarez • Translation by Eduardo Antunez Rolle • November 5, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is the first of three articles that cover the roundtable discussions of the Color of Mobility project. It is also the latest contribution to our year-long reporting project, “Rooting Anti-Racism […]