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Galvão, Dindara S.; Biazzi, Renata B.; de Morais, Gustavo Chagas; Miranda, Caetano R. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2022
Arts offer an engaging opportunity to bring about women's underrepresentation issues in physics. In this work, we report the creation process, production, and reception of the short 360° video entitled 'Women in Science.' This movie maps and portrays female researchers' situation in physics at the University of Sao Paulo, a representative subset…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, STEM Careers, Disproportionate Representation
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de Carvalho, Vinícius; Martins, Victor Hugo; Fabris, Luís Victor Muller; Muller, Marcia; Fabris, José Luís – Physics Education, 2019
This work shows the production steps of two optical fibre sensing setups which were specially designed for the activities of the 2018 Photonics Lab Open Day realized at the Federal University of Technology-Paraná in Brazil as a celebration of the first International Day of Light (16 May). The systems are based on the sensing properties of fibre…
Descriptors: Optics, Physics, Science Instruction, High School Students
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Bastos da Costa, Roberto – Impact of Science on Society, 1977
Discusses establishment, functions, program development, policy considerations, and future prospects of the Latin American Centre for Physics (CLAF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (SL)
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Physics, Program Descriptions, Research