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Overview: The Bruna Lab at the University of Florida is recruiting a Master’s student with an interest in scientometrics, metascience, or social network analysis to become part of an emerging research group in Latin American Science and Science Policy based in the Center for Latin American Studies.

I’ve been feeling a little cynical about universities these last few days, including my own. Politicians frequently use universities and their faculty as punching bags, accusing us of being a training ground for leftists radicals and saying ignorant things about the ‘value’ the social sciences and humanities.

[caption id=“attachment_615” align=“aligncenter” width=“2932”] His Excellency Mauro Vieira, Brazil’s Ambassador to the United States, met with Science Without Borders Participants during a conference at UF .[/caption] During the Center for Latin America Studies' recent “Emergent Brazil” Conference, students, postdocs and faculty supported by the Science Without Borders Program had the opportunity to meet with Mauro Vieira, Brazil’s Ambassador to the United States and Ricardo Monteiro, Counselor from the Embassy’s Commerce Section.

Emilio has been awarded a Science Without Borders Special Visiting Researcher Fellowship from the Brazilian government. This three year award will allow Emilio to continue working with Dr. Heraldo Vasconcelos from the Univerisdade Federal de Uberlândia to understand how herbivores influence Cerrado plant demography.