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B-MRS Newsletter. Year 11, issue 3.
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B-MRS Newsletter. Year 11, issue 2.
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(Português) Acesso aos periódicos científicos: ACS e CAPES assinam acordo “Read + Publish”.
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(Português) Perda de acesso a periódicos científicos no Portal da CAPES: resposta da CAPES.
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(Português) Acesso às revistas da RSC e ACS: carta enviada à presidência da CAPES.
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B-MRS Newsletter. Year 11, issue 1.
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New B-MRS board takes office in online meeting.
The new board of directors of the Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS) took office on the afternoon of January 4th this year during an Ordinary General Assembly held online.
Elected by B-MRS members in October 2023 to serve a two-year term, the new board is chaired by Ivan Helmuth Bechtold, professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Bechtold was a member of the B-MRS board of directors in the previous two administrations – first, as scientific director and second, as financial director. Now, he became the first B-MRS president from an institution outside the Southeast region, the previous seven presidents being linked to institutions in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Together with the president, Iêda Maria Garcia dos Santos, professor at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), took office as director of Administration, Finance and Assets, and the five scientific directors: Edson Cavalcanti da Silva Filho, professor at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Ingrid Távora Weber, professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), Lucas Fugikawa Santos, professor at the São Paulo State University (Unesp), Lucimara Stolz Roman, professor at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and Rubem Luis Sommer, researcher at the Brazilian Center for Physical Research (CBPF).
Once again, the B-MRS board presents geographic diversity (with directors from the South, Southeast, Central-West and Northeast regions), gender (four men and three women) and disciplinary diversity (degrees in Physics, Chemistry and Materials Engineering).
Around twenty members of B-MRS participated in the assembly, including several members of the Deliberative Council, which was partially renewed in the election in October last year with the incorporation of three councilors (Douglas Galvão – Unicamp, José Antonio Eiras – UFSCAR and Luiza Amim Mercante – UFBA) and three deputy councilors (Carlos Roberto Grandini – UNESP, Bartolomeu Cruz Viana Neto – UFPI and Sydney Ferreira Santos – UFABC). These new members have a mandate until the end of 2028.
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Professor Mônica Cotta (Unicamp), who presided over the society for the last four years, opened the meeting with thanks to everyone who supported her during her two terms. The former president also expressed support to the news board´s plans of reviving the University Chapters program, focused on students of the community, and prioritize initiatives related to racial and gender inclusion and sustainability. Furthermore, Mônica expressed her satisfaction at seeing more representatives of the younger generations on the board and council. “We need new ideas,” she said.
The new president, Prof Ivan, then took the floor to thank the B-MRS partners for the trust placed in him and to introduce the other members of the board. “Let’s steer the ship together, hold the ball together,” said Professor Ivan, highlighting the board’s initial focus on the annual event (“the B-MRS main national and international showcase”) and the University Chapters program.
In turn, the new financial director, Prof Ieda, recalled some struggles that B-MRS is carrying out together with other scientific societies, such as the return of some scientific journals to the Capes Periodicals Portal and the reduction of bureaucratic procedures in the purchase of reagents for research, so that “the choice of the research topic is not conditioned by the reagent we can buy”.
The meeting ended in a pleasant conversation between some of the members present, in which several members of the new board said that they joined B-MRS when they were still students and that they participated in all (or almost all) of the annual events.
Find out more about the members of the new board: https://www.sbpmat.org.br/en/a-sbpmat/diretoria-e-conselho/
B-MRS Newsletter. Year 10, issue 10.
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End of the year message.
This is my last “end of the year message” as president of B-MRS, a position I had the honor of holding for 4 years. I would like to express my gratitude to the community for placing me at the head of such an important society, which so well summarizes the importance of interdisciplinary science that greatly benefits humanity. After all, without advances in materials science and technology – bringing together all the expertise present in our community – our world would be very different from what it is today!
In these 4 years, we have faced many challenges, the main one being the Covid-19 pandemic, which has made impossible the human contact which is so necessary for all of us. After all, it is often in a hallway conversation – one that is not scheduled via communication apps, that does not require a ‘raise of your hand’ and queuing to speak – that new ideas and new collaborations emerge. Despite this, we maintained an active society, with diverse live online events. We called on our partner companies, entrepreneurs, University Chapters, and other members of our community to fill this intolerable void the pandemic had created. And we had incredible responses, with examples that you can find today on our YouTube channel.
The return of in-person events in 2022 was fantastic, despite the difficult times our country has faced for many years. The massive presence of students and researchers gave us motivation and breath to create greater legal and financial security for our society and our future plans to address essential issues for a more equitable world, such as sustainability, inclusion and diversity.
To this end, I am sure that the elected board, which includes three members of the current board and assumes its mandate from January 4th, 2024, will continue the trajectory that we began to follow in the last two years and then create its own paths, always innovating , as is characteristic of B-MRS.
I would like to thank everyone who shared these last 4 years with me at the helm of our society. I don’t mention names, because they wouldn’t fit in this space. However, I could not fail to highlight and especially thank the SBPMat team: Verónica, Alexandre, Aline, Leandro and the staff at Aptor, who make our society always so welcoming to its members.
I wish you all an excellent end of the year, with good health, achievements and a future with lots of science ahead!!
Fondly,
Monica Cotta