Credits: Photo: Kelley Travers/MITEI Caption: Karen Tapia-Ahumada, a research scientist and digital learning fellow at MITEI, presents at MITEI’s 2019 Annual Research Conference. Credits: Photo: Kelley Travers/MITEI Caption: Pablo Duenas-Martinez, a research scientist at MITEI, is focused on the long-term outlook for energy systems and how to provide reliable and affordable electricity to all. Credits: Photo: Adelaida Nogales
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Pablo Duenas-Martinez and Dharik Mallapragrada first met on opposite sides of a sponsored research project through the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). They worked together to define a project to study the long-term evolution of the electricity sector in India and the impacts of technological and policy drivers. Duenas-Martinez guided the research direction on MITEI’s
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At the end of this month, the IBI (Instituto Brasil-Israel) is launching the book “Conflicts and religions: Israel, Palestine and Jewish studies in Brazil” (R $ 39.90, 344 pages). The volume, published in partnership by the institute and the University of Pernambuco, is organized by professors Karl Schurster, Michel Gherman and Omar Thomaz. There are 12 articles, including a study on the memory of soldiers during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and research on a Judeo-Pentecostal church in Recife.
It is an important contribution to the field of Jewish studies in Brazil, which dates back to the 1960s with research on migration and anti-Semitism. The book’s blurb provides an excellent summary of this tradition, highlighting its main contributions to the academy – and its shortcomings. “The rise of a new (and frightening) right, in Brazil and around the world, was bound to have a profound impact on Jewish studies,” the authors write.
Chile has ordered enough doses to fully vaccinate its population against Covid twice
Chile has become an unlikely winner in the Covid-19 vaccine race.
Veronica Diaz-Cerda 14 February, 2021 2:27 pm IST Text Size:
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At first glance, it may seem that the race to acquire COVID-19 vaccines has been won by western nations. But alongside the UK, Canada, USA and EU, another country has also secured a high number of doses relative to its population – Chile.
To date Chile has ordered close to 90 million vaccine doses – enough to fully vaccinate its population of 19.2 million people twice. It’s set to receive vaccines from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Johnson & Johnson as well as from the global vaccine-supply programme, Covax.
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