lemann institute for brazilian studies - 2013-2014 annual report

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LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES

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CONTENTS4 FACULTY LEADERSHIP

8 RESEARCH

10 GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

16 LEMANN BRAZIL LEADERSHIP FUND

18 OUTREACH

22 PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE PROGRAM

24 BRASA

26 PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE

28 FUTURE DIRECTIONS

32 APPENDIX

The Lemann Institute is focused

on consolidating its programs

and developing a sound finan-

cial footing in 2013-14. A suc-

cessful internal search resulted

in Professor Jerry Davila being

named as Director starting in

August 2014. Interim Director

Mary Arends-Kuenning worked

to ensure a smooth transition.

All planned programs outlined

at the Institute’s inception are

now well established. The In-

stitute leadership has started

planning for future expansion, building on past suc-

cess and in partnership with Fundação Lemann.

The Institute planned and executed an impressive

schedule of events focused on Brazil. Among the high-

lights of the academic year were the Investiture of

Professor Jerry Dávila as the Lemann Chair in Brazilian

History, the Third Annual Lemann Dialogue, a campus

visit by the Secretary of Finance of the State of Rio de

Janeiro, Renato Villela, a campus visit by Chief Econo-

mist, Africa Region, The World Bank and IZA, Francisco

H. G. Ferreira, and the continued development of the

Brazil Scientific Mobility Program (BSMP) on campus.

The Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) contin-

ued to be based in the Lemann Institute. Institute

staff members are responsible for planning biannual

Congresses, communicating with members, main-

taining membership databases, and carrying out

BRASA activities.

The reach of the Institute among Illinois faculty con-

tinues to grow. Two new Brazilianist scholars joined

the University of Illinois faculty in fall 2013, Marc Hertz-

man, Assistant Professor of History, and Michael Sil-

vers, Assistant Professor of Music. Assistant Professor

Marc Hertzman joined the Department of History in fall

2013. Both are Lemann Institute affiliates. Currently,

the Institute has 43 faculty affiliates.

The Lemann Institute continued to lead campus

efforts to engage with the Brazil Scientific Mobility

Program (BSMP). In 2013-2014, the University of

Illinois ranked in the top ten among U.S. institutions

for number of undergraduate BSMP students, hosting

51 undergraduates, 3 Ph.D. students, 7 Ph.D. sandwich

scholarship students, and 3 post-doctoral scholars.

The Lemann Institute sponsored many successful

scholarly and cultural events during the 2013-14

academic year, including seventeen lectures given by

scholars and other distinguished speakers from the

U.S., Canada, and Brazil. Other events co-sponsored

by the Lemann Institute included the Latin American

Film Festival, the Mostra Brazilian Film Series, the Joint

Area Centers Symposium “Children and Globalization:

Issues, Policies and Initiatives”, and a talk about

Brazilian Music and Its History and a Brazilian Film

Night during the 2014 International Week.

The Lemann Scholarship program for Central Bank of

Brazil employees began in 2012 with the arrival of An-

dré Mueller and Camila Maia, who were enrolled in

the Master of Science with a Specialization in Poli-

cy Economics Program. Both have now graduated.

Three students, Gabriel Heqab, Claudio Coutinho,

and Luis Vissoto, joined the MSPE program in fall

2013. Vissoto is planning to graduate in fall 2014, and

Heqab and Coutinho plan to graduate in spring 2015.

Gustavo Isaac Martins will begin the MSPE program

in fall 2014.

The following report describes in greater detail the

many accomplishments of the Lemann Institute

during 2013-2014. Through new courses and pro-

grams, research and exchange, lectures, conferences,

and cultural events, the Institute is having a major

impact at the University of Illinois.

Mary Arends-Kuenning

Director

Director’s Report

I am pleased to share the 2013-2014 Annual Report of the Lemann

Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois. It was a busy

and productive year, with the continuation of many programs and the

launch of several new initiatives.

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FACULTY LEADERSHIP

REPORT FROM THE CHAIR HOLDER, DR. JERRY DÁVILA

The past two years have been a welcome opportunity to work on rebuilding the

graduate program in Brazilian history. The program has deep roots and an excellent

record built by Joe Love in the almost 50 years since he arrived at Illinois in 1966.

The possibility to renew the program so ably led by Joe is a very rare opportunity in

American universities, where the retirement of senior faculty in Brazilian history can

often result in the dissolution of the program. In contrast, we are fortunate in our

ability to continue to build and institutionalize our area of study, thanks to the gen-

erosity of the Lemann family, the commitment of the Department of History to the

field, and the resonance that Brazilian Studies has across our campus. As a result,

this year, the program in Brazilian history continued to grow in numbers and energy.

The addition of Marc Hertzman to the History Department faculty was a tremendous

gain: he had been director of the Brazil Institute at Columbia University and recently

published the innovative Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil,

which won honorable mention for the main multi-discipline book prize in Latin

American Studies.

The program has also recruited a number of promising doctoral students. They

include Marilia Correa Kuyumjian, a graduate of UNICAMP, who is interested in

the trajectories of military officers purged after the 1964 coup; John Marquez,

who studies the everyday struggles of slaves in eighteenth century Rio de Janeiro;

Daniela Parker, who focuses on public health projects in mid-twentieth century

Brazil; and Thais Rezende Sant’Anna, also a graduate of UNICAMP, who is interested

in understanding modernist impulses reflected by the 1922 Centennial Exposition.

My own work saw several publications in and about Brazil. These included an article

on Gilberto Freyre, “O último colonialista,” in the Revista de História da Biblioteca

Nacional, which is distributed to schools across Brazil. I also published in the Cairo

Review the article “Brazilian Triumphs: Brazil has made enviable political and

economic strides but the damage inflicted by military rule is still felt,” which offers a

point of comparison to Egypt’s own recent experience. Finally, I published “Brazilian

Race Relations under the Shadow of Apartheid” in the Radical History Review.

The article examined the role that the anti-apartheid movement in Brazil played in

defining black civil rights as human rights.

This coming year, I become Director of the Lemann Institute in an environment in

which, thanks to Mary Arends-Kuenning, the Institute has robust ties across campus,

and the field of Brazilian history is hard at work training new generations of scholars.

Lemann Chair in Brazilian History

On October 16th, 2013, Jerry Dávila was invested as the Jorge Paulo Lemann

Professor of Brazilian History. The investiture ceremony took place at the Beckman

Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and was followed by a reception and

luncheon. Jorge Paulo Lemann attended the event, gave remarks at the ceremony

and had the opportunity to visit with Lemann Graduate Fellows and Lemann

Faculty Affiliates. Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Dean Brian Ross, and Head of the History

Department Diane Koenker also spoke at the ceremony. Professor Dávila gave an

eloquent address about his vision for the future of Brazilian Studies at Illinois.

INVESTITURE OF THE LEMANN CHAIR IN BRAZILIAN HISTORY, OCTOBER 15, 2014


PROFESSOR ANTÔNIO SÉRGIO ALFREDO GUIMARÃES

The Institute hosted one Lemann Distinguished Visiting Scholar during the 2013-

14 academic year, Professor Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães in spring 2014. Dr.

Guimarães is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Titulaire of the

Chaire brésilienne de sciences sociales Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Fondation Mai-

son des Sciences de l’Homme, and is a Senior Researcher at Centro de Estudos da

Metrópole, supported by FAPESP (Fundação de Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo)

and Senior Research of CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa). He earned a Ph.D.

in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988). He was president of

the Brazilian Sociological Society from 1996 to 1998. His research focuses on racial,

national, and class identities, Black social movements, affirmative actions, and Black

intellectuals. He has published among others books: Preconceito Racial–Modos, Te-

mas, Tempos. São Paulo, Ed. Cortez, 2008; Classes, raças e democracia, São Paulo,

Editora 34, 2002; Racismo e anti-racismo no Brasil, São Paulo, Editora 34, 1999; 2ª.

Edição 2005.

Professor Guimarães taught “Historical Sociology of Brazil” to graduate students

through Latin American Studies and the Department of History. As part of the Le-

mann lecture series, Professor Guimarães gave a talk entitled “Postcolonial Studies

and Afro-Brazilian Studies.” He also gave a lecture at the Center for Latin American

and Latino Studies entitled “Black Identities and Rhetoric in Brazil”, a lecture at

the Center for Latin American Studies at Columbia University on “The Changing

Negritude: Color and Ancestry in Recent Racial Classification Trends”, and a talk at

the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, called “On the Meaning of Abdias’

Artistic Work and His Political Thought.”

PROFESSOR NADYA GUIMARAES

The Lemann Institute also hosted the visit of Professor Nadya Guimaraes, Profes-

sor of Sociology from the University of São Paulo. She gave a lecture as part of the

Lemann Lecture Series, “Labor Flexibility in a Flexible Market – Intermediaries and

its Workers in Brazil.”

Lemann Institute Distinguished Visiting Brazilian Scholars

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RESEARCH

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

The objective of the Collaborative Research Grant program

is to support joint research on Brazilian topics by Illinois and

Brazilian scholars. Grants provide up to $20,000 for one year.

The recipients of the Collaborative Research Grants in 2013-14

are listed below. Reports on their projects supported by the

grants appears in .

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS

Werner Baer and Atilio Elisagaray edited papers that were

presented at a conference in La Plata, Argentina on the topic

“Twenty years of Mercosul.” The papers will be published in a

special issue of Latin American Business Review in fall 2014.

Marc Hertzman, Assistant Professor of History, received an

Honorable Mention in the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award

competition sponsored by the Latin American Studies

Association for his book, Making Samba: A New History of

Race and Music in Brazil, published by Duke University Press.

Under the leadership of former Institute Director Joseph

Love, the Institute agreed to start a translation series in

collaboration with the University of Illinois Press. The first

book, Bosi’s Dialética da colonização, has been translated

and the expected publication date is summer of 2015. A

second book has been identified, Gilberto Hochman’s A

Era do Saneamento, a book on public health and sanitation

programs after the 1918 flu pandemic. The Institute

provided funds to engage a translator and will provide a

publication subvention.

LEMANN RESEARCH FELLOWS 2013-2014

Lemann Research Fellowships support research by University

of Illinois faculty on any aspect of Brazilian culture and

society, including business and economics, history, political

science, language and literature and other topics. Two faculty

members received awards in 2013-2014:

GISELA SIN Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Project Title: Veto bargaining and the legislative process in Brazil

ANDREW SUAREZ Associate Professor, Department of Animal Biology

Project Title: Evolution of traits associated with invasion success

in Brazilian Linepithema ants

LEMANN RESEARCH FELLOWS 2012-2013

Like the recipients of Collaborative Research Grants, Lemann

Research Fellows submit a report on their research at the be-

ginning of the academic year following their award year when

they have made significant progress on their work. Faculty fel-

lows are encouraged to submit unpublished papers related to

their funded research to the Institute’s Working Paper Series.

A list of 2012-2013 Lemann Research Fellows appears below.

Their research reports appear in .

HAYRI ONAL Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Project Title: An Economic Analysis of the Biofuel Mandates in

the U.S. and Brazil and Intensification of the Brazilian Livestock

Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

MATTHEW WINTERS Department of Political Science

Project Title: Rouba, maz faz or not? Corruption, Information,

and Accountability in Brazil

MARCELO BUCHELI Departments of Business Administration and History

Project Title: National Elite, Multinational Corporations and Oil

Policy in Brazil

Lemann Research Fellowships

Research Grants and Activities

Principal Investigator: Hao Feng, Associate Professor, De-

partment of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Samantha C. Pinho, Profes-

sor, Department of Food Engineering, University of São Paulo

Collaborative Research Project: Production of nanoemulsions

with proteins extracted from the light speckled kidney bean:

an opportunity to enhance the value of a Brazilian commodity

Principal Investigator: Roderick Mackie, Professor, Depart-

ment of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-

paign and Humberto Maciel França Madeira, Professor, School

for Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Pontífica

Universidade Católica do Paraná

Collaborative Research Project: Convergent evolution in fore-

gut fermenting herbivorous mammals in Brazil.

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX A


GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Lemann Graduate Fellowship

The Lemann Institute Graduate Fellowship Program awarded six fellowships for students conducting

research on Brazil during the 2013-14 academic year. The Fellows are listed below. The Institute requires

that fellows provide a written report of their activities, including the submission of any publication that

they produced during the award period. The reports of the 2013-2014 Lemann Graduate Fellows are

presented in .

Rafael was born in Santa Rosa-RS, Brazil. He received his B.A. in

Economics from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Sul (UFRGS) in

2004. In 2006, he received his M.A. in Economics from the Universidade

Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). His master’s thesis is on measuring

poverty mobility and dynamics of income inequality. From 2006 to

2008, he worked for the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

(IPC-IG) at the United Nations. Rafael recently completed his Ph.D. in

Economics at the University of Illinois. His Lemann Graduate Fellowship

enabled him to complete his dissertation on the effect of the Bolsa

Família program on employment decisions and entrepreneurship in

Brazil. Rafael now serves as a faculty member in the business school at

the University Amsterdam.

John-Ben received his B.A. in cultural anthropology from the University

of New Orleans, and his M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane

University, also in New Orleans--his hometown. The Lemann fellowship

will support his third year of the Ph.D. program in sociocultural

anthropology, when he will analyze preliminary fieldwork results and

prepare for long-term ethnographic fieldwork. His dissertation project

examines the participation of a rural Afro-Brazilian community in the

regional and international açaí market.

Chris Wilhelmi received his B.S. in Agricultural and Biological

Engineering with a minor in Food Science from the University of

Illinois in the fall of 2012. His undergraduate work concentrated on

food and biological processing, with a personal interest in grains. He

began his master’s work the following spring with a focus on Brazilian

soybeans. He is currently working with UFMT-Sinop on studying and

preventing losses in soybean yield due to transportation from interior

production areas to coastal ports. He is working on gaining proficiency

in Portuguese and plans to visit Brazil in the spring of 2014 to continue

his research in the field.

RAFAEL P. RIBAS

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics

Research Title: Direct and Indirect Effects

of Cash Transfer on Labor Supply and

Entrepreneurship: The case of Bolsa Família

in Brazil

JOHN-BEN SOILEAU

Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology

Research Title: Tensions of Practice: Açaí

and the Commodification of Subsistence

Agriculture in Brazil’s Lower Amazon

CHRIS WILHELMI

M.S. Department of Agricultural and

Biological Engineering

Research Title: Preventing Post-Harvest

Soybean Losses in Brazil

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Lemann Graduate Fellowship(Continued)

Krystal Montesdeoca earned a B.A. in Spanish and Economics from Illinois

State University. Upon graduation, she received a Rotary International

Ambassadorial Scholarship to study at Pontifícia Universidade Católica

in Rio de Janeiro for two years where she studied business intelligence

and conducted volunteer work. She has centered her interests on the

future of agriculture and using this industry to increase the world food

supply and improve the world economy. Currently she is working on her

master’s degree in agricultural and applied economics at the University

of Illinois. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and speaks

intermediate Japanese. Krystal hopes to pursue a career in agribusiness

and international trade.

Isabel Freitas Peres, originally from Joinville, Brazil, earned her

bachelor’s degree in Law at Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação

Getulio Vargas in 2010, as well as an LL.M. degree at the University of

Illinois College of Law in the same year. After finishing her LL.M. degree,

she also earned a master’s in Law and Economics from the European

Master in Law and Economics program through studies in Italy and

Germany. She is currently pursuing her J.D. degree at the University

of Illinois College of Law, and her current academic interests center

around business law, law and development, and law and economics. In

her research, she will focus on the viability of Brazil utilizing diaspora

bonds and other innovative types of financial instruments to finance

investments in infrastructure projects in Brazil.

Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, originally from Campinas-SP, earned his

bachelor’s degree in Popular Music at UNICAMP in 2007 and a Master’s

of Music degree at the University of Iowa in 2010. During his tenure

at Iowa, he was a teaching assistant in the Department of Jazz. He is

currently pursuing his DMA in Jazz Studies at the University of Illinois.

As a performer and researcher, Marcelo is interested in different ways

in which Jazz and Brazilian music interact.

KRYSTAL MARIA MONTESDEOCA

M.S. Program in Agricultural and Consumer

Economics, Department of Agricultural and

Consumer Economics

Research Title: The Economics of Safrinha

Succession Cropping System

ISABEL FREITAS PERES

J.D. Candidate 2014, College of Law

Research Title: Engaging the Brazilian

Diaspora in Development – A Proposal for

Brazilian Diaspora Bonds

MARCELO BOCCATO KUYUMJIAN

DMA Program in Jazz Studies. Division of

Jazz Studies, School of Music

Research Title: Na Cozinha de Elis: Cesar

Camargo Mariano’s Arrangements of Samba

for Piano Trio

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2014 Grantees

Lemann/Tinker Pre-Dissertation Grants

The Institute awarded one Lemann/Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research grant in 2013 and

four in 2014. The objective of the awards is to help students develop their M.A. theses or Ph.D. disser-

tations while giving them an initial field experience.

2013 Grantee

BRYCE HENSON

Institute of Communications Research

Project Title: Politics of hip-hop: globalization,

culture and activism in Salvador da Bahia

Jazmin is an M.A. student in the Latin American and Caribbean

Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She

completed her undergraduate education at the University of California-

Davis where she earned a B.A. in Spanish with a minor in Latin American

Studies. Her research interests lie in the areas of trade, land distribution,

and economic development in Brazil.

Jim is currently a first year M.A. student at the Center for Latin American

and Caribbean Studies at Illinois. He completed his B.A. in Anthropology

and Religious Studies at Illinois State University in 2010. While attending

ISU, Jim had the opportunity to travel and study in Caxias do Sul, Brazil

where he participated in an ethnographic field school involving the

local university. Currently, Jim is a recipient of the FLAS Fellowship for

Portuguese through the Lemann Institute of Brazilian Studies, where he

is continuing his education in Anthropology and Brazilian Studies.

Marilia Correa Kuyumjian holds a B.A. in International Relations from the

University of Campinas, Brazil. She completed her M.A. in Latin American

Studies in 2013 with a thesis entitled “Indebtedness during the Military

Government: A Study of the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil.” In August 2013

she started the Ph.D. program in History. Her advisor is Jerry Davila.

Elena is an M.A. student at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean

Studies at the University of Illinois. She holds a B.A. in International

Development Studies, and an M.A. in International Economics, Policies,

and Institutions, both from the University of Pavia, in Italy. Elena has

worked in the International Cooperation sector for several years, mainly

in Central and South Asia. Her current research is focused on sustainable

urban planning and development policy in South America, particularly in

Brazil and Colombia.

JAZMIN RIDLEY

Project Title: (Im)migration, community

and contact of deserting soldiers in Brazil

and Uruguay during the Paraguay War of

1864-1870

JAMES SAULS

Project Title: Being Gaucho: An examination

of current Brazilian identity and regionalism

in Rio Grande do Sul

MARILIA CORREA

Project Title: Outcast officers: A study of

officers purged from the armed forces during

the 1964 military coup in Brazil

ELENA BONICELLI

Project Title: Social justice and the green city

of Brazil: sustainable development policy and

mobility in Curitiba


Travel Grants

BRAZIL SCIENTIFIC MOBILITY PROGRAM-RELATED TRAVEL

A new initiative provided travel grants for faculty in STEM

fields to make connections with Brazilian researchers and to

recruit promising students to study at Illinois. The program was

intended to build upon opportunities available through the

Brazilian government’s BSMP. Five travel grants were awarded

to Rod Mackie, Animal Sciences; Glaucio Paulino, Civil and

Environmental Engineering; Mary Grace Danao, Agricultural

and Biological Engineering; Phil Cardoso, Animal Sciences; and

Joanna Shisler, Microbiology. Four faculty members traveled in

the summer and fall of 2013, and Professor Mackie traveled in

2014. Reports outlining the outcomes of their trips appear in

.

The Fundação Lemann offered faculty travel grants to faculty

members in STEM fields at the six U.S. universities that have

received resources from Jorge Paulo Lemann. The Lemann

Institute worked to disseminate information about the grant

program. Several Illinois faculty members received funding

through this program to travel to Brazil and build collaborations

with Brazilian faculty.

LEMANN STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIPS

The Institute serves University of Illinois undergraduates by

offering Lemann Study Abroad scholarships. Summer awards

allow students the opportunity to pursue research projects in

Brazil. A total of six students received Lemann Scholarships

to study abroad during the 2013-2014 academic year, two

for fall 2013, one for summer and fall 2013, and three for the

spring 2014 semester. Reports from Lemann Study Abroad

Scholarship recipients appear in .

JESSICA RAMIREZ Department of Advertising, PUC-RIO, fall 2013

RODRIGO ACEVEDO Global Studies Program, PUC-Rio, fall 2013

MELISSA RIOS-CHAVEZ Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering,

Universidade Federal de Viçosa, summer and fall 2013

ZACHARY SCHNEEWEIS Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering,

Universidade Federal de Vicosa, spring 2014

ASHLEY NAGELE Department of Animal Sciences, Universidade Federal de Vicosa,

spring 2014

MATTHEW NOLAN Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, USP-

ESALQ, spring, summer and fall 2014

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D

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Short Courses

The Lemann Institute supports a program of short-term travel

to Brazil offered through the College of Business for students

in the Business Honors program and the James Scholar

Program. Pre-trip classes offered during the last eight weeks

of the spring semester prepare students for travel to São Paulo

and Rio de Janeiro through a study of the history, culture, and

economy of Brazil. Professor Terry McCoy, an expert on Latin

America, teaches the course and accompanies the students

to Brazil, along with Dan Anderson, Associate Director of

International Programs in the College of Business. While

in Brazil, students attend lectures offered by faculty of the

University of São Paulo, visit businesses and cultural/historical

sites, and participate in a case competition. The student teams

in the case competition are comprised of University of Illinois

students working together with students from the University

of São Paulo. In May 2014, sixteen Illinois students traveled

to Brazil through this program. This was the fourth time the

University of Illinois participated in the competition.

In May 2013, Director Arends-Kuenning accompanied a group

of 26 students in ACE/BADM 436 International Business

Immersion Program for part of their trip to Brazil. The group

visited universities, corporations, government entities, and

farms in Sao Paulo, Mato Grosso, and Rio de Janeiro. Lemann

Institute faculty affiliates gave guest lectures in the Spring 2013

semester to help prepare the students for the trip.

Brazil Scientific Mobility Program

It has been three years since Brazil’s government launched

the BSMP, which provides funding for Brazilian graduate and

undergraduate students to study in world universities. Since

its inception, the Lemann Institute has played a leadership role

in engaging Illinois in the BSMP, with Institute staff serving as

liaisons among Illinois faculty, administrators, and staff, and

Brazilian universities, government agencies, and foundations.

Once again, the University of Illinois ranked in the top ten among

U.S. institutions for number of undergraduate BSMP students,

with 51 undergraduates, 3 Ph.D. students, 7 Ph.D. sandwich

scholarship students, and 3 post-doctoral scholars coming

to the Urbana campus. The University of Illinois was featured

as one of the main universities participating in the BSMP

in publications by the Institute for International Education,

which administers the program. Director Arends-Kuenning

maintained and updated a list of Illinois faculty in STEM fields

who are interested in working with Brazilian students.

In late 2013, the Brazilian government announced a new

program to provide scholarships for Brazilian students to

pursue Professional Science Masters’ degrees. Director Arends-

Kuenning coordinated the campus effort to get enrolled in the

program, which involved the Graduate College, College of

ACES, College of Engineering, and LASPAU at Harvard. As a

result, the Professional Science Master’s Program in the College

of ACES received 19 applications.

The Institute worked closely with the Fundação Lemann

to bring graduate students to Illinois under the BSMP. The

Fundação Lemann provides a stipend to Ph.D. students who

study at six elite U.S. universities, including the University of

Illinois. Director Arends-Kuenning disseminated information

from the Fundação Lemann to Illinois faculty and staff.

On campus, the Institute participated in meetings to find

solutions to the administrative and cultural challenges that

BSMP presents. Institute staff organized meetings of a

representative of the Consulate-General of Brazil in Chicago

with BSMP students, and with Illinois administrators,

professors, and Study Abroad office staff. The University

of Illinois is fortunate to have a very strong, dedicated team

that works on BSMP, which includes Adam Heinz, Study

Abroad Office; Meredith Blumthal, ACES Study Abroad Office;

Teresa Finis, College of Engineering Study Abroad Office;

and Professor Richard Gates, Department of Agricultural and

Biological Engineering.

The Institute hosted several events for BSMP students

throughout the academic year. In August and in January, the

Institute welcomed new BSMP students with a lunch. Program

Coordinator Camila Diel and Research Assistant Vivian

Felicio presented an orientation session on cultural and social

challenges that Brazilians might face at an American university.

In March, the Institute, together with ISSS, the Study Abroad

Office, and ACES Study Abroad Office, hosted a pizza night

for BSMP undergraduate students. Directors of Graduate

Studies and Professors from many departments including the

Graduate College, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering,

Crop Sciences, and Food Science gave students first-hand

knowledge about how to apply to their graduate programs.


LEMANN BRAZIL LEADERSHIP FUND

Lemann Brazil Leadership Scholarships enable Brazilian pro-

fessionals to obtain a professional master’s degree at the

University of Illinois. The University offers several graduate

programs for practicing professionals, including programs

designed for international professionals. One such program

is the Master of Science in Policy Economics (MSPE), which is

specifically designed to enable professionals in government

institutions, such as central banks or finance ministries, or

in private companies to gain additional skills in economic

analysis. More than 1,000 professionals from 88 countries

have graduated from the MSPE program since its founding

in 1984, and many of them have risen to senior executive

positions in the public or private sector.

In 2012, the Lemann Institute signed a Memorandum of Un-

derstanding with Prof. Firouz Gahvari, head of the MSPE and

with the Central Bank of Brazil to formalize the participation

of Central Bank employees in the program. The Institute pro-

vides tuition for up to three mid-level administrators from the

Central Bank to pursue two-year MSPE degrees at Illinois.

The Lemann Scholarship program for Central Bank of Brazil

employees began in 2012 with the arrival of André Mueller

and Camila Maia, who enrolled in the MSPE. Maia graduated

at the end of the fall 2013 semester and Mueller graduated

at the end of the spring semester in 2014. Three students,

Gabriel Heqab, Claudio Coutinho, and Luis Vissoto, joined the

MSPE program in Fall 2013.

Lemann Brazil Leadership Scholarships


OUTREACH

The Lemann Institute sponsored many successful scholarly and cultural events during the 2013-2014

academic year, including conferences, lectures, exhibitions, and film festivals, among other activities.

Lemann Institute Outreach

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

The Lemann Institute had a very busy and dynamic agenda

for events during the 2013-14 academic year, promoting and

sponsoring 17 lectures about Brazil, either independently

or in collaboration with various departments in humanities,

economics, social sciences and political science. Two high-

lights were lectures by the Secretary of Finance of the State

of Rio de Janeiro and Illinois alumnus Renato Villela and by

The World Bank Chief Economist Francisco H. G. Ferreira.

Details about the lecture series are found in .

Renato Villela’s lecture on “Current Issues in Fiscal Feder-

alism in Brazil and Their Macroeconomic Implications” took

place on March 7, 2014 on campus and was organized by

the Lemann Institute in partnership with the Department

of Economics. Villela’s lecture attracted a large number of

students and faculty members, and was very successful.

As part of his visit to Illinois, Villela met with faculty and

Brazilian graduate students at a reception at the house of

Professor Werner Baer.

On April 1st 2014, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Chief Economist

for the Africa Region at the World Bank presented “Economic

Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Class.” The lec-

ture was very successful and well attended. On March 31st,

Dr. Ferreira gave a lecture to graduate students at the De-

partment of Economics about “Opportunity-Sensitive Pov-

erty Measurement.” He also had lunch with faculty members

from various departments of the University. He conducted an

informative session for graduate students in ACE, Economics,

and URP about job opportunities at the World Bank and other

development banks.

In November 2013, the Lemann Institute co-sponsored a con-

ference in São Paulo on Infrastructure in Brazil, hosted by the

University of São Paulo. Professor Werner Baer and Professor

Carlos Azzoni organized the conference. Lemann Institute af-

filiates Mary Arends-Kuenning, Werner Baer, Jerry Davila, and

Matthew Winters presented original research. Professor Joseph

Love gave commentary on Professor Davila’s paper. The confer-

ence schedule is attached in . Follow-up activities

are planned with Professor Tom Trebat of Columbia University

and Professor Edmund Amann of the University of Manchester.

APPENDIX F

APPENDIX E


LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

As part of the effort to promote Brazilian culture at Illinois, the Lemann Institute

once again co-sponsored the Latin American Film Festival along with the Center

for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in September 2013, by subsidizing the

exhibition of a Brazilian film, “O Som ao Redor.” In November 2013, the Institute

sponsored Mostra IV on campus, which was open to the public. On November 12th,

the film “Corações Sujos” was screened at the Illini Union. The Brazilian writer and

film critic Franthiesco Ballerini attended the screening and answered questions from

the audience on a panel called “Brazilian Cinema in the 21st Century”. The event was

followed by a book signing and a reception. On the following day, the film “Besou-

ro” was screened at the Illini Union. These films were among the films shown at the

Brazilian Film Exhibit in Chicago, sponsored by the Partners of the Americas and the

Brazilian Consulate .The Institute will host Mostra IV again this fall.

As part of the International Week held on campus in April, the Lemann Institute

exhibited the film “Divã” and participated in the event “Travel around the World”

organized by International Student and Scholars Services. Both events attracted the

interest of students from around the campus.

Lemann Institute Outreach(Continued)

ANNUAL DIALOGUE

The Lemann Institute continued to work together with Harvard, Columbia, and

Stanford to sponsor an annual Dialogue on a topic relevant to contemporary

Brazil. The location of the Dialogues rotates among the universities. The third

Annual Dialogue, hosted by the Lemann Institute, was entitled “Agricultural

and Environmental Issues in Brazil” and occurred on November 7-8, 2013 at the

University of Illinois. Director Arends-Kuenning was responsible for organizing the

event, with the help of the other universities’ directors and University of Illinois

Lemann Institute Faculty Affiliates. The Dialogue included six panels. Dr. Guilherme

Lacerda, Director of Social Infrastructure, Environment, Agriculture and Social

Inclusion, Banco Nacional de Desevolvimento – BNDES gave the keynote address

entitled “Agriculture, sustainability, and social issues in Brazil.” For the Third

Dialogue, participants represented Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Ohio University,

and Emory University, as well as Universidade Federal de Brasília, USP/ESALQ, and

the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Brazil, and Brazilian governmental institutions:

EMBRAPA (Agricultural Research) and the National Development Bank of Brazil.

The schedule of the Dialogue is presented in .

JOINT AREA CENTERS SYMPOSIUM

The Institute co-sponsored the Joint Area Centers Symposium (JACS), “Children

and Globalization: Issues, Policies and Initiatives” by funding the visit of Professor

Ana Lucia Kassouf from the University of São Paulo-ESALQ. Professor Kassouf

addressed the topic “Child Labor: The Brazilian Experience and Challenges” as part

of a panel on child labor.

APPENDIX E

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PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE PROGRAM

To support the Portuguese language program at Illinois, the

Institute funds a Portuguese Language Director position. Ms.

Nola Senna currently holds this position, and under her lead-

ership, enrollments in Portuguese classes increased from 160

in 2010-11 to 240 in the academic-years of 2011-12 and 2012-

13. Enrollments held steady at about 240 students in 2013-14.

Students who study Portuguese exhibit a high level of satis-

faction regarding all aspects of the program, with all teachers

making the campus list of teachers rated excellent by their

students. This solidifies the teaching of Portuguese at all three

levels. Student retention increased over the last academic

year, and this allowed the Portuguese Program to offer two

courses, Advanced Grammar and Portuguese for Business at

the intermediate/advanced level in fall 2013.

A new Registered Student Organization called Consulting

Brazil was launched last year. Its goal is to provide cultural,

language, and business consulting services to American com-

panies looking to enter the Brazilian market or vice versa.

Another new program is the Illinois Portuguese Language

Connection, an initiative of three universities in Illinois: North-

western University, the University of Chicago, and the Univer-

sity of Illinois. The first IPLC took place on November 9, 2013

at the University of Chicago, and the theme was Urban Art,

with 110 participants. The second IPLC took place on April 19,

2014 at Northwestern University with 150 participants, and

the theme was the 2014 World Soccer Cup.

The Portuguese Program also launched a new website that

offers a comprehensive array of information for anyone inter-

ested in Portuguese at Illinois. It includes information about

how to major or minor in Portuguese, to participate in ex-

tra-curricular activities, and to find career opportunities for

Portuguese speakers.

Portuguese Language Program


Brazilian Studies AssociationThe Secretariat of the Brazilian Studies Association continued to operate at the Lemann Institute during 2013-14. BRASA

is dedicated to the promotion of Brazilian studies and currently has more than 600 members in the United States, Europe,

and Latin American countries, including Brazil.

The Lemann Institute will continue to provide a home for the BRASA Secretariat next year, a commitment that continues

until July 2015, when BRASA will move to Brown University. There have been some changes in administering the

organization. BRASA signed an agreement with Conference Services, which will manage the membership database and

handle membership payments. An executive committee meeting occurred at the end of May 2014 in Chicago to discuss

planning for the next Congress. Graduate Research Assistants Renato Vieira and Vivian Felicio and Information Technology

specialist Daniel Bacon handle the day-to-day tasks of BRASA and are assisting with the improvement of BRASA’s digest,

website and marketing.


PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE

The Institute’s mission is supported by a dedicated staff.

Camila Fuhr Diel began working for the Institute as the Inter-

im Program Coordinator in October 2013, and assists Director

Mary Arends-Kuenning and CLACS Associate Director Ange-

lina Cotler with the organization and execution of the events

and projects. Gloria Ribble, secretary for the Institute, contin-

ues to help organize the Institute’s events. Graduate Research

Assistants Renato Vieira and Vivian Felicio and Information

Technology specialist Daniel Bacon handle the day-to-day

tasks of BRASA and the Lemann Institute.

Director Arends-Kuenning assumed the position of Executive

Director of BRASA in January 2014 following the departure of

Brigitte Cairus in December 2013.

After an inclusive internal search process, Professor Jerry

Davila was chosen to be Director of the Lemann Institute for

Brazilian Studies. He began his new position in August 2014.

Lemann Institute Staff

The Lemann Institute hosted a meeting of the Board of Over-

seers on February 19, 2014. Mary Arends-Kuenning, Werner

Baer, Jerry Dávila, Dara Goldman, Joseph Love, David Tewks-

bury (Interim Associate Dean of the College of LAS), Camila

Diel and Gloria Ribble attended the meeting in person and

Carlos Roberto Azzoni, John Welch, and Jorge Paulo Lemann

attended the meeting via video conference and phone call.

The meeting was very productive and everyone was pleased

with the Institute’s successes with the Brazilian Scientific Mo-

bility Program and overall planning of events and activities.

Suggestions were made to increase the Lemann Institute’s

marketing at Brazilian institutions.

Lemann Institute Board of Overseers


FUTURE DIRECTIONS

A variety of activities have been planned for the 2014-2015 academic year. Recipients of Lemann

Institute scholarships and fellowships were selected during the past year and will undertake their

programs of research and study next year.

Faculty and LeadershipThe Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese conducted a successful search that resulted in the hiring of two new

Brazilianist faculty. Associate Professor Christopher Dunn was recruited from a tenured position at Tulane University. He is a

leading scholar of Brazilian culture, focusing on musical expression under the Brazilian dictatorship. He will start at Illinois

in the Spring 2015 semester. Assistant Professor Glen Goodman was hired as a junior faculty member. He is completing his

Ph.D. at Emory University, and his research focuses on German migration to the southern region of Brazil. These two hires are

crucial for the development of Brazilian Studies at Illinois. The successful recruitment of these two scholars is an indication

of the reach and reputation of the Lemann Institute and confirms that the University of Illinois is a very attractive place for

scholars of Brazil.

Visiting ScholarsFábio Akcelrud Durão will serve as the Lemann Distinguished Visiting Brazilian Scholar in fall 2014. Dr. Durão is professor of

literary theory at the State University of Campinas. He is the author of Modernism and Coherence (2008), Teoria (literÃ¡ria)

americana (2011), and the forthcoming Fragmentos Reunidos (2015). His edited and coedited volumes include Modernism Group

Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship (2008) and Culture Industry Today (2010). He is Associate Editor of the journal

Alea, and has published essays in such journals as Critique, Cultural Critique, Latin American Music Review, Luso-Brazilian Review,

The Brooklyn Rail, and Parallax. He has recently been elected president of ANPOLL, Brazil’s National Association of Graduate

Studies in Letters and Linguistics. At the University of Illinois, he will teach a course on critical literary theory, which will be

offered through the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, cross-listed through Latin American Studies, Comparative

Literature, and English.

Lemann Faculty Research FellowshipsThe following faculty member has been chosen to receive

a Lemann Faculty Research Grant during the 2014-15

academic year:

KAREN MARGARET TABB DINA Assistant Professor, School of Social WorkProject Title: Postpartum Suicidal Ideation in Brazil

Lemann Leadership FellowshipsThree Central Bank of Brazil employees, Gabriel Heqab,

Claudio Coutinho, and Luis Vissoto, began the Master of

Science in Policy program in fall 2013. Vissoto expects

to graduate in fall 2014, and Heqab and Coutinho plan to

graduate in spring 2015. Gustavo Isaac Martins will begin the

MSPE program in Fall 2014.


Principal Investigators: Mary-Grace C. Danao,

Assistant Professor,

Department of Agricultural

and Biological Engineering,

University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign and

Fernanda M. Vanin, Assistant

Professor, Department

of Food and Byosistems

Engineering, University of São

Paulo, Pirassununga

Collaborative Research Project: Measurement of

Resistant Starch in Bananas,

Bean and Chestnuts

Principal Investigators: Marcela Rafaelli, Professor,

Department of Human and

Community Development,

University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Normanda

Araújo de Morais, University

of Fortaleza and Juliana

Prates Santana, Federal

University of Bahia

Collaborative Research Project: Building

Collaborations to Study

Vulnerable Brazilian Youth

Principal Investigators: Joanna L. Shisler, Associate

Professor, Department of

Microbiology, University of

Illinois, Flávio Guimarães da

Fonseca, Associate Professor,

Department of Microbiology,

Federal University of Minas

Gerais and Erna Geessien

Kroon, Associate Professor,

Department of Microbiology,

Federal University of Minas

Gerais

Collaborative Research Project: Identifying

Pathogenic Elements

of a Brazilian Virus that

Infects Cattle and Humans

as a Means to Develop

Diagnostics, Therapeutics

and Vaccines

Principal Investigators: Daniel L. Rock, Professor,

Department of Pathobiol-

ogy, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, Diego G.

Diel, Postdoctoral Research

Associate, Department of

Pathobiology, University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

and Eduardo Furtado Flores,

Associate Professor, Depart-

ment of Preventive Veterinary

Medicine, Federal University

of Santa Maria

Collaborative Research GrantsFour faculty projects were chosen to receive Collaborative Research Grants during the 2014-15 academic year:

LEMANN GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

From a pool of ten applications, the Institute awarded two

fellowships for the 2014-15 academic year. A third applicant

declined the fellowship because she received a fellowship from

another department. The fellowships are open to students in all

academic units that agree to provide tuition waivers. The two

Lemann Fellows for 2014-15 are:

SHORT COURSES

The James Scholar Program of the College of Business will

offer a course/travel opportunity reserved for James Scholars,

James Scholar nominees and Business Honors students.

Pre-trip classes, held the last eight weeks of the 2015 Spring

Semester, will prepare students for travel to São Paulo and Rio

de Janeiro through a study of the history, culture, and economy

of Brazil. Professor Terry McCoy, an expert on Latin America,

will teach the course. Professor McCoy and Dan Anderson will

accompany participating students to Brazil the following May.

While in Brazil, students will attend lectures offered by faculty

of the University of São Paulo, visit businesses and cultural/

historical sites, and culminate with a case competition. The

student teams in the case competition will be comprised of

University of Illinois students working together with students

from University of São Paulo.

Graduate and Undergraduate Education

Annie Contractor Master’s Candidate, Depart-

ment of Urban and Regional

Planning

Research Title: Investigating

the Right to the City through

Interviews Regarding the City

Statute in Fortaleza, Brazil

Hapsatou Wane Ph.D. Candidate, Program

in Comparative and World

Literature

Research Title: Decolonizing

Autobiographies: Narratives

of Detours by African Dias-

poric Women

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Brazil Scientific Mobility ProgramThe Institute will continue to develop and expand upon the

BSMP. The staff worked during the summer 2014 with the

BSMP students on ways to promote Illinois as a destination

for talented Brazilian students through social media and

videos. The Institute will also continue to collaborate with the

Fundação Lemann to recruit Ph.D. students.

Lemann Study Abroad Scholarships In spring 2014, the Lemann Institute selected two students

to receive Lemann Study Abroad Scholarships during the

2014-2015 academic year. Homari Oda, Spanish Italian

and Portuguese, will study at PUC-Rio. Ms. Oda was a

previous recipient of a Lemann Scholarship. Patricia Margis,

Advertising, will study at Viçosa.

One goal for the future would be to increase the number

of students who choose to study in Brazil for an extended

period of time. Developing programs that fit with students’

concentrations of study at Illinois would help to meet that

goal. Another obstacle is language. The Institute might work

with campus study abroad offices to identify programs that

offer some courses in English. Simultaneously, the Institute

will continue supporting the Portuguese Department so that

students can achieve the proficiency in Portuguese that they

need to study in Brazil.

BRASAThe Institute will continue to support the BRASA secretariat

as BRASA prepares for the next Congress in 2014 in London.

Every two years, the association organizes this interdisciplinary

conference for Brazilianists. The next BRASA XII Congress will take

place August 20-23, 2014 at Kings College, London. It is expected

that the two-day conference will have a total of 200 panels, and an

attendance of 1000 participants from around the world.

As mentioned above, the BRASA Secretariat, currently housed

at Illinois, will move to Brown University in July 2015. During the

2014-2015 academic year, IT Specialist Dan Bacon will replace

Mary Arends-Kuenning as Executive Director. Bacon will work

with Brown University staff to ensure a smooth transition of the

Secretariat from Illinois to Brown in the summer of 2015.

Portuguese Language ProgramThe Lemann Institute will continue to participate in the Illinois

Portuguese Language Connection. The next event will be

hosted by Illinois in Spring 2015. For this event, the Portuguese

program received financial support from the Department

of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, CLACS, and the Lemann

Institute for Brazilian Studies.

Outreach

LEMANN DIALOGUE

The Fourth Annual Lemann Dialogue will be held at the Lemann

Center at Stanford University in November 2014. The Dialogue

brings together Brazilianist scholars from U.S. universities as

well as scholars from Brazilian institutions. Director Jerry Davila

and other representatives of the Illinois Lemann Institute will

participate.

CONFERENCES

The Institute is planning to have a conference in the fall 2014

semester jointly with the College of Education, the Federal

University of Minas Gerais, and the University of São Paulo. The

topic will be inequality in education, comparing and contrasting

Brazil and the U.S. The purpose of the conference is to build

collaborations between scholars in the College of Education

and other units and Brazilian scholars.

AdministrationAt this stage of its development, the Institute’s programs are

all fully operational. As it continues to grow, seeking additional

sources of funding will be crucial. Professor Jerry Davila is

already planning meetings with Brazilian research funding

entities such as FAPESP to pursue research projects involving

Illinois faculty and Brazilian faculty. The Institute will continue

to strengthen its relationship with the Fundacão Lemann with

a view to partnering on projects that improve education and

other sectors in Brazil.


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42 APPENDIX B

47 APPENDIX C

50 APPENDIX D

57 APPENDIX E

58 APPENDIX F

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PROJECT OBJECTIVES

This project analyzed the use of vetoes in Brazil. The purpose of the study was to examine the nature of executive-legislative bargaining in the Brazilian setting, where multiple parties compose the legislature and where presidential veto prerogatives are extended to incorporate partial (line-item) vetoes. With support from the Lemann Institute (1) I built the theoretical framework that allows me to explain the use of partial vetoes in multiparty democracies, and (2) I built a dataset that included all bills passed by the Brazilian Congress in the last 25 years.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

With respect to the theoretical framework, in a paper under review at the Journal of Politics, I looked at how vetoes affect the legislative bargaining process that takes place between the branches of Congress. Counter to commonly held beliefs that the partial veto empowers the executive, I argued that the main effect is exactly the opposite: the partial veto makes it more difficult for the executive to induce legislators to pass her preferred policy. Because the executive cannot credibly commit to refrain from using the partial veto, legislators adapt their behavior and alter contents of proposals --both in terms of private and public goods, moving them farther from the President’s ideal point. The package veto, in contrast, empowers the President by providing incentives to the legislature to seek a compromise.

With respect to the data collection, I have collected the universe of vetoed laws and coded whether vetoes are total or item vetoes, as well as many characteristics of each individual bill. I also collected information on congressional overrides and unsuccessful attempts to override the president’s veto. I also classified whether vetoed laws were proposed by the President or Congress; which parties in Congress proposed the bill; the type of divided or unified government under which the veto occurred, and the time frame in which vetoes occurred. With this data I was also able to calculate the levels of preference dispersion within parties in Congress, the intraparty proximity of preferences in Congress, and the level of legislative significance attached to different bills. I am now analyzing the data so that I will be able to determine the probability

that the president will veto a bill given the characteristics of the bill, of the government coalition, and the bill’s origins and its supporters. I am planning to travel to Rio and Brasilia during November/December to conduct interviews with key actors and also scholars who work in the actual Senate and House of Representatives to understand the dynamics surrounding the president’s veto powers.

RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING IN BRAZIL

This project enabled me to establish contacts with many scholars and universities in Brazil. First, because of this work on Brazil, I was chosen as the chair of the Legislative Studies section of the Latin American Political Science Association. As a chair, I am organizing a specialized conference for November 2014 at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos (IESP) at the Universidade Estadual do Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil in collaboration with Argelina Figueiredo (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Magna Inacio (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil). Second, and as a consequence of the work facilitated by the Lemann Fellowship, I was invited by Fernando Limongi to teach a class on Political Institutions for two weeks at the University of São Paulo, Brazil in summer 2015.

PRESENTATIONS

• Empirical Implications of Theoretical Methods- EITM, Chicago, Illinois

• Latin American Political Science Association meeting, Bogota, Colombia

• Political Science department seminar, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, May 2014

• Executive Politics Conference, Washington University, June 2014

• Executive Politics Conference, Washington, D.C., August 2014

• American Political Science Association Meeting, September, 2014

Appendix A / 2013-2014 Fellows

GISELA SIN Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PROJECT TITLEVeto Bargaining and the Legislative Process in Brazil

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RESEARCH TEAM

• Jo-anne Holley, Ph.D. student, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois

• Andrew Suarez, Professor, Department of Entomology and Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois

• Nádia Barbosa Espírito Santo, Ph.D. student, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Dept. de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

• Prof. Dr. Paulo S. Oliveira, Dep. Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

• Julio Chaul, student, Universidade Federal de Viçosa,

• Marcio Pie, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

The main aims of the grant were to 1) sample populations of species of the ant genus Lineptihema in Brazil for behavioral and genetic work and 2) attend the XXI Simposio de Mirmecologia in Fortaleza, Brazil, and 3) develop new collaborations for long-term research.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

To date, we have collected data on 37 populations of 8 related ant species for this project. This includes sampling in Brazil as well as previous research in Argentina and in Ecuador. We have finished all the field work for the project. We are currently in the process of collecting the molecular data and hope to have the data analyzed and written up as part of Jo-anne Holley’s Ph.D. thesis which is scheduled to be defended in Fall 2014.

Professor Suarez attended the “XXI Simposio de Mirmecologia: an International Ant Meeting” in Fortaleza, Brazil in Dec of 2013. In addition to giving two presentations on our research, he interacted with a number of Brazilian ant researchers from a variety of institutions. This meeting has already led to a number of potential collaborations with Brazilian institutions and researchers and the Suarez lab. The first realized opportunity is the exchange of students between the Suarez lab and the University of Campinas. A Brazilian Ph.D. student (Nádia Barbosa Espírito Santo) will be

coming hosted by the Suarez lab for 6 months of training starting this fall. In turn, a student from the Suarez lab will head to the University of Campinas in Brazil in 2015 to work in the lab of Dr. Oliveira.

SIGNIFICANCE

Biological invasions are widely recognized as a key driver of human induced global change. Despite over a century of theory and research on introduced species, we have few generalizations to make invasion ecology a more predictive science. A key approach to understanding the success of invaders is comparing their traits to those of non-invasive relatives. This research focused on the ant genus Linepithema which contains 19 species including the Argentine ant – one of the world’s worst invasive species. The highest species diversity in the genus occurs in Brazil, where they are largely unstudied. Our projects aims to be one of the first examinations of invasions that compares attributes of successful invaders to closely related species that have not been successful. We will not know the impact of this work until the papers are finished and published. However, we have already received very positive feedback on this work when it was presented at a number of conferences. A more immediate impact on the field is the new collaborations between labs in Illinois and Brazil resulting in the exchange of ideas and students.


Julio Chaul and Marcio Pie were instrumental in helping arrange logistics and permits for collecting specimens and their support will be acknowledged in all work resulting from the sampling. Marcio Pie’s research on the evolution of morphology was instrumental in shaping our own projects and his advice will result in an acknowledgement in my student Jo-anne Holley’s thesis paper on morphological evolution in the ant genus Pheidole.

A direct result of attending the meeting in Fortaleza was a new collaboration between my lab at the University of Illinois and the lab of Dr. Paulo Oliviera from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. His student, Nádia Barbosa Espírito Santo, will be spending six months in my lab starting this fall to receive training and conduct research for part of her thesis. Our lab,

in turn, will send a student to Brazil in 2015 to work in Dr. Oliveira’s lab.

PRESENTATIONS

• Holley, J., Moreau, C., and A.V. Suarez. “Evolution of head size in relation to seed harvesting in the genus Pheidole”. Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Nov. 11, 2013. Austin, TX.

• Suarez, A.V., Wills, B., Smith, C., Tillberg, C., Edmonds, B., Freauff, A., Hanisch, P., Paris, C., Tsutsui, N., and S. Wittman. “Foraging and nesting ecology of the neo-tropical giant hunting ant, Dinoponera australis.” XXI Simposio de Mirmecologia: an International Ant Meeting. Symposium: Foraging strategies in ants. Dec 4, 2013. Fortaleza, Brazil.

• Holley, J., Wild, A., and A.V. Suarez. “Evolution of colony structure in the ant genus Lineptihema.” XXI Simposio de Mirmecologia: an International Ant Meeting. Symposium: Control of pest ants and invasion processes. Dec 5, 2013. Fortaleza, Brazil.

• Suarez, A.V. “Understanding biological invasions using diverse data sources.” Biodiversity Informatics Symposium. CSIRO Discovery & Australian National University. April 23, 2014. Canberra, Australia.

• Suarez, A.V. “The importance of mutualisms in invasions.” Master Program for Plant Medicine, National Taiwan University. May 12, 2104. Taipei, Taiwan.

• Suarez, A.V. “Ecological mechanisms of success in ants.” Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS), James Cook University. May 21, 2014. Cairns, Australia.

PUBLICATIONS (TO BE SUBMITTED IN FALL 2014 OR SPRING 2015)

• Holley, J., Wild, A., and A.V. Suarez. in preparation. Evolution of caste-based morphology in the ant genus Linepithema.

• Holley, J., Wild, A., and A.V. Suarez. in preparation. Evolution of traits associated with invasion success in the ant genus Linepithema.

• Barbosa, N.E.S., et al. research in progress. Ecology, behavior and natural history of Poneroid and Ectatomminoid ants of the Cerrado Savanna.

ANDREW SUAREZAssociate Professor, Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PROJECT TITLE Evolution of traits associated with invasion success in Brazilian Linepithema ant


PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Lemann Faculty Fellowship enabled me to undertake the following activities:

We collected of livestock production costs and yields data and incorporation of livestock intensification alternatives into an economic simulation model for Brazil agriculture and the biofuel sector. This was a major addition to a research project I conducted, partially supported by the University of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute. The research led to a Ph.D. dissertation by one of my graduate students, Hector Nuñez in the Department of ACE entitled “A Prospective Analysis of Brazilian Biofuel Economy: Land Use, Infrastructure Development and Fuel Pricing Policies.”

We presented a paper on this research at the International Association of Agricultural Economists meeting in Brazil in August 2012. After the conference, I visited the University of São Paulo and met with Prof. Joaquim Guilhoto in the Department of Economics of USP and Dr. Marcelo Cunha at CTBE-University of Campinas. I later worked with Dr. Guilhoto and Dr. Geoffrey Hewings of the University of Illinois to develop a research proposal. The proposal aims to combine an input/output model developed by Dr. Guilhoto and the price endogenous sector model I developed. We are seeking funding for this potential collaborative research activity.


A collaborative research with Prof. Márcia Moraes at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, is currently underway. This research aims to incorporate water issues into the Brazil agriculture-biofuel sector model that I developed. In the spring semester of 2013, I supervised one of Dr. Moraes’ graduate students, Ana Cristina Carneiro, who visited the Department of ACE at Illinois. This topic is part of Ana Cristina’s Ph.D. dissertation, which she defended in August 2014. A paper drawn from this research was recently presented at the 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE).

PRESENTATIONS

• Nuñez, H., Önal, H. and M. Khanna. “A Prospective Analysis of Brazilian Biofuel Economy: Land Use and Infrastructure Development.” Paper presentation at the triennial conference of International Association of Agricultural Economists, Foz de Iguacu, Brazil, August 23-27, 2012.

• Carneiro, A.C.G, H. M. Nuñez, M.G.A. Moraes, and H. Önal. An Economic Analysis of Land Use Changes and Biofuel Feedstock Production in Brazil: The Role of Irrigation Water. Selected paper presented at the 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Istanbul, June 28-July 2, 2014.

• Öna l , H . and H . M . , Nuñez ( inv i ted presentation). Policy Matters: Economic, Land Use and Environmental Impacts of Transportation Fuel Policies in Brazil. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University, March 2014.

• Önal, H. and H. M., Nuñez. Public Policies and Transportation Fuel Markets in Brazil. Third Annual Lemann Dialogue, Agricultural and Environmental Issues in Brazil, UIUC, Urbana, Illinois, November 2013.

• Önal, H. and H. M., Nuñez. An Economic and Environmental Impact Analysis of Biofuel Policies in Brazil and US, Paper presented at the 2013 EURO/INFORMS Conference, Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 2013.

• Nuñez, H. M. and H. Önal. An Economic Analysis of Transportation Fuel Policies in Brazil, Consumption and Choice of Fuel, and Environmental Impacts, Paper presented at the AERE 2013 Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 6-8, 2013.

• Nuñez, H. and H. Önal. An Economic Analysis of Brazilian Fuel Policies, Consumption and Choice of Fuel, and Emission Impacts. Paper presented at the INFORMS Conference, Phoenix, AZ, Nov. 13-17, 2012.

PUBLICATIONS

• Nuñez, H. M., H. Önal, M. Khanna. 2013. Land Use and Economic Effects of Alternative Biofuel Policies in Brazil and the U.S., Agricultural Economics, 44: 487–499

2012-2013 Fellows

HAYRI ONALProfessor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PROJECT TITLEAn Economic Analysis of the Biofuel Mandates in the U.S. and Brazil and Intensification of the Brazilian Livestock Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

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CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro (Department of Political Science, Brown University)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Our research concerns the way that Brazilian voters react to information about political corruption. In survey work completed in 2010, we showed – in contrast to conventional wisdom – that Brazilian voters are not tolerant of corruption when they receive information that politicians are otherwise performing well. In an article published in Comparative Politics, we provided evidence that Brazilian voters, in fact, react quite negatively to corrupt politicians, regardless of their other characteristics.

In the project that the grant supported, we explored in greater depth the types of information to which voters react. We experimented with the credibility of the information by varying the source of the information in survey vignettes from “federal audits” to “the opposition party,” and we experimented with the specificity of the corruption accusations by varying whether it was “the mayor” who was directly implicated in corruption or else members of the municipal administration. We find that voters react more when information is credible and specific. In addition, we find that it is more politically sophisticated voters who are particularly attuned to the credibility characteristics of information.

We used the grant to fund a trip by PI Winters in June 2012 to conduct focus group analyses in São Paulo that informed the design of a survey. The grant was used to cover travel expenses, payments to Brazilian RAs recruited from the University of São Paulo, and compensation for focus group participants. The remainder of the grant was used to partially fund the purchase of questions on a May 2013 nationwide omnibus survey conducted by IBOPE.

Because the May survey occurred before the outbreak of nationwide protests in June 2013, we used separate funding to rush a new survey into the field in July 2013. Based on the information in these two surveys, we compared the shifts in partisan identification among Brazilians from the period immediately before the beginning of the protests to the period after the protests had reached their height.


During the June 2012 trip to do preparatory work for the survey, we met with a number of political scientists, including Lorena Barberia, Fernando Limongi, and Amâncio Oliveira at the University of São Paulo; George Avelino and Sergio Praça at Fundação Getulio Vargas; and Gabriel Cepaluni at the State University of São Paulo. We ran our focus group discussions at the University of São Paulo and Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo using an advanced undergraduate and a master’s student from the University of São Paulo as research assistants.

Because of connections formed during the 2012 trip, PI Winters subsequently returned to the University of São Paulo in August 2013 at the invitation of Amâncio Oliveira to teach a two-week Short Course on Survey Experiments. PIs Winters and Weitz-Shapiro also submitted a preliminary grant proposal to the Experiments in Governance and Politics group with Sergio Praça as one of the co-PIs.

SIGNIFICANCE

Our research on voter reactions to corruption is part of a burgeoning part of the political behavior literature on corruption. The 2013 Comparative Politics article already has been cited 18 times and interacts with a number of other ongoing studies. We expect the article to continue to be an important reference for scholars conducting research on how voters react to political corruption. We similarly expect that the new papers based on the 2013 data will find homes in prominent political science outlets and will help to push this particular area of the literature forward.

PRESENTATIONS

• Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, August 2013

• Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, November 2013

• Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies Lecture Series, University of Illinois, February 2014

• Department of Political Science, University of California – Riverside, February 2014

• Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2014

• European Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, June 2014

• American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, September 2014

PUBLICATIONS

• Matthew S. Winters and Rebecca Weitz-Shaprio. 2014. “Partisan Protesters and Non-Partisan Protests in Brazil.” With Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro. Journal of Politics in Latin America 6.1 (April): 137-50.

WORKING PAPERS

• “ D i s c e r n i n g C o r r u p t i o n : C r e d i b l e Accusat ions and the Punishment of Politicians in Brazil” (currently under review)

MATTHEW WINTERSAssistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PROJECT TITLERouba, maz faz or not? Corruption, Information, and Accountability in Brazil


PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In 2012 I received a fellowship from the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois to conduct historical research on the Brazilian oil industry. This research forms part of a larger book project I have developed during my career at Illinois on the relationship between multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, and domestic elites in Latin America. After having studied the literature on the subject for the case of Brazil at the Illinois libraries, I needed to conduct archival research to understand the evolving relationship of Brazil’s state-owned enterprise Petrobras with foreign investors and the Brazilian private sector. A significant amount of primary material is available at the Arquivo Nacional located in Rio de Janeiro. Among other documentation, it contains the archives of the Conselho Nacional do Petróleo (Petrobras’ predecessor) and relevant documents from the Ministério de Minas e Energia. This field research enabled me to amass a rich body of primary sources that is becoming an important part of my current book project. Second, this project allowed me to

develop an academic relationship with Brazilian Ph.D. students, with one of them coming to Illinois as a visiting scholar in Fall 2014 to work with me using this archival information among other material.


The amount of information available at the Arquivo Nacional required me to hire a research assistant to continue working on the archive after I left. I hired Ms. Mirela Reis, who is currently a graduate student in History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and an advisee of Professor Lise Sedrez from the same university. I mentored and guided Ms. Reis during the research process, and she proved extremely capable. Her good performance as a research assistant has led me to volunteer to write letters of recommendation for her for future grant or scholarly applications.

I am using the archival information she collected and organized in a project on Brazilian state-owned enterprises and politics I started with Elias Pereira, a Ph.D. student at the Fundacao

Getulio Vargas. I invited Mr. Pereira to come to Illinois for two semesters to work with me, for which he received funding from the Fundaçao Capes of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. By bringing Mr. Pereira to Illinois for two semesters, my research will have wider ramifications and will create greater links with Brazilian academia than the ones I originally expected when I applied for the Lemann fellowship. Mr. Pereira’s knowledge of the Brazilian economic and political context in conjunction with his quantitative analytical skills will complement with my own training as a business historian. Mr. Pereira’s advisors are Segio Lazzarini and Rodrigo Bandeira de Mello, two well-known Brazilian scholars on state-owned enterprises, who will provide constant feedback on the development of our project. In addition, Professor Aldo Musacchio (formerly at Harvard and starting this year at Brandeis University) shared some information on Brazilian state-owned enterprises with us from research he has conducted with Professor Lazzarini. These two scholars might also become co-authors of this project. We anticipate submission of a paper for publication in Summer 2015.

MARCELO BUCHELIAssociate Professor, Departments of Business Administration and History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PROJECT TITLENational Elite, Multinational Corporations and Oil Policy in Brazil

COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES

I established a collaboration with Dr. Samantha C. Pinho, University of São Paulo (USP), Department of Food Engineering. I visited Dr. Pinho’s lab in 2013 and gave a presentation about my research. Dr. Pinho visited my at the University of Illinois in July, 2013. Dr. Pinho delivered a talk about her research, which was attended by faculty and graduate students in FSHN. This exchange was enabled by the Lemann Institute Collaborative Research Grants program. Luana Dos Santosa, a visiting student from University of São Paulo (USP) joined the project working on protein modification with pH-shifting and sonication.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a product found in Brazil. For protein functionality modification, the first thing is to find kidney

beans. We worked with Dr. Pinho and other faculty at USP and secured a kidney bean source. We purchased kidney beans and shipped them to my lab. Secondly, for protein functionality modification, we need to use kidney bean protein isolate (KBPI), which is not available in the market. We developed a method to successfully extract KBPI.

This project provided seed funding for me to initiate a project with colleagues in Brazil. I visited Brazil for the very first time and we have established working relationship with faculty at University of São Paulo. Because of that, a second student from University of São Paulo visited my lab and performed a project related food safety.

PRESENTATIONS

• Dos Santosa L. C., Lee H., Andrade J. E., Engeseth N. and Feng H. 2013. “Functional

and structural changes on soy protein isolate (SPI) and its use as a potential natural surfactant in the food industry.” Presentation at the International Nonthermal Food Processing Workshop, Florianópolis — Santa Catarina, Brazil.

• Lee H., Dos Santos L. C., Andrade J. E., Engeseth N., and Feng H. 2013. Improved solubility and functionality of insoluble soy protein. Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting, Chicago. IL.

WORKING PAPERS

• H. Leea, L.C. dos Santosa,b, J. Andradea, N. Engesetha, and H. Feng. 2014. Improved solubility and functionalities of insoluble soy proteins by chemical and physical processes. Working Paper (Manuscript in internal review).

2013-2014 Lemann Collaborative Research Grants

HAO FENGAssociate Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SAMANTHA C. PINHOProfessor, Department of Food Engineering, University of São Paulo

PROJECT TITLEProduction of nanoemulsions with proteins extracted from the light speckled kidney bean: an opportunity to enhance the value of a Brazilian commodity

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PROJECT OBJECTIVE

The aim of this research project is to apply a metagenomics approach to identify genes from fish gut microbes with potential application in cellulose degradation. During the period of stay in the host institution, a DNA shotgun library was to be generated from DNA extracted from grass carp intestines in Brazil and subsequently sequenced. Initial analysis of the generated data will be performed in the U.S., and upon return to Brazil, extensive bioinformatics analysis will be carried out in order to identify potential genes with carbohydrate-acting properties, especially cellulose deconstruction.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The paucity of enzymes that deconstruct plant polysaccharides represent a major bottleneck for the conversion of cellulosic biomass into biofuels. Microorganisms specialized in degrading cellulosic plant material are present in the gastrointestinal tract but member of this complex community resist cultivation. Metagenomic DNA sequencing of microbes adherent to plant fiber present in the gut of herbivores such as ruminants and some fishes may lead to the identification of genes involved in cellulose degradation. Such genes can be used in the conversion of cellulose into ethanol or into improved growth in animal production systems. This project used metagenomic DNA

sequencing of the gut bacteria of grass carp, a large member of an herbivorous species of fish native to southeastern Russia and northwestern China. Previous studies have shown that some gut bacteria strains in grass carp have cellulolytic capability.

SIGNIFICANCE

Discovery of full-length genes with defined functions from complex microbial communities has previously been severely limited by the low throughput of the required cellular and molecular manipulations. With the use of metagenomics, we should be able to demonstrate the potential of deep sequencing of a complex community to accurately reveal genes of interest at a massive scale, and even to generate draft genomes of uncultured novel organisms involved in biomass deconstruction. The identification and validation of new carbohydrate-active enzymes can be a starting point for the screening of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes that be used in biofuel production. One may expect that herbivorous fishes from tropical environments can harbor bacteria that produce enzymes that are functionally superior since tropical plants generally possess a higher degree of lignification.

Brazil is a leading country in the use of ethanol from sugarcane as a biofuel and the discovery of new enzymes that can be used for ethanol

production from biomass can have an enormous impact on the local economy. The amount of sugarcane bagasse that is annually produced, if converted to ethanol, could improve the efficiency of total plant biomass conversion at least two-fold. This technological advance would have a huge impact on the local economy and consequently on the quality of life.

FUTURE RESEARCH

We intend to extend this research by charac-terizing the microbial diversity and function of foregut fermenting animals found in Brazil. In this collaborative study, the comparative phys-iology and enzyme discovery that follows the metagenomic characterization of fermenting bacteria from the foregut of mammals such as sloths, peccaries and criollo breeds of cat-tle that are indigenous to Brazil will bring rele-vant evolutionary insights to the development of foregut fermentation as well as contribute to the identification of candidate gene products with biotechnological applications in biomass conversion to biofuel.

The two investigators intend to travel to their respective collaborators institutions over the next academic year to further develop and extend the research and teaching connection between the University of Illinois and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR).

RODERICK I. MACKIEProfessor of Microbiology Department of Animal Sciences, Energy Biosciences Institute, and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois

HUMBERTO MACIEL FRANÇA MADEIRAProfessor and Dean of the School for Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR)

PROJECT TITLEMolecular characterization of the gastrointestinal microbiota from grass carp and metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes.


RESEARCH TEAM

• Andiara Schwingel and Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, University of Illinois

• Marcia G. Ory, Texas A&M University

• Tânia R. Bertoldo Benedetti, Eleonora d’ Orsi and Edio Luiz Petroski (UFSC)

• Giovana Zarpellon Mazo, UDESC

COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES

This grant helped me to build relationships in Brazil in several ways. First, it served as a platform for research collaborations with Dr. Benedetti and other Brazilian colleagues. It enabled each of us to contribute with our strengths and gain knowledge in other areas. I gained new perspectives on the socio-cultural context and contemporary research approaches in Brazil and developed ideas for future research through working with public health centers. Together with the Brazilian colleagues, we worked on journal publications, conference presentations, academic work with graduate students, a workshop, grants, and an event that was a logical extension of this research. Last year I organized a workshop designed to bring to a diverse research community from Brazil and the United States to the University of Illinois to discuss critical issues related to physical inactivity and public health. The workshop helped stimulate new and effective intervention programs (with focus on Via’s innovative approaches) that can facilitate the prevention of chronic diseases in Brazil. Ten speakers were challenged to address how the unique social, cultural, and economic circumstances of Brazil need to be acknowledged when designing effective physical activity and public health intervention programs. This workshop was a unique opportunity for me to build strong relationships with leaders in the field of physical activity and public health. I truly believe that this information was much in need and provided me with an important opportunity to play a leadership role in the area.

PRESENTATIONS

• Benedetti, Schwingel, Chodzko-Zajko. “Project VIA BRAZIL: Active Living, Finding Healthy Ways.” Presentation at the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June, 2012.

• Benedetti, Schwingel, Chodzko-Zajko, Gomez. “VAMOS-Vida Ativa Melhorando a Saude – adaptacao cultural de um modelo inovador para adocao de um estilo de vida ativo.” Presentation at the Simpósio Internacional de Ciências do Esporte (CELAFISCS), Sao Paulo, October 2012.

• Schwingel, Benedetti, Chodzko-Zajko. ”VAMOS”: Active Living, Enhancing Health. Presentation at the CLACS seminar series, March 2013.

PUBLICATIONS

• Benedett i , Schwingel , Ribas Gomez, Chodzko-Zajko Program “VAMOS” (Active Living, Enhancing Health): From Conception to Initial Findings. Rev. Bras. Cineantropom. Desempenho Hum, 14, 6: 723-737, 2012.

THESIS

• “Programa de promoção de atividade física no SUS: barreiras e facilitadores organizacionais” by Rossana Arruda Borges, January 2014 (under Dr. Benedetti’s supervision, Dr. Schwingel was part of the thesis committee)

WORKSHOP

• “Physical Activity, Health, and Well-Being in Brazil”, March 7 and 8, 2013, Champaign Illinois, 2013. Event sponsored by: Center on Health, Aging, and Disability; Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies; Hewlett Foundation; SORF/Global Health Initiative; a n d Wo m e n a n d G e n d e r i n G l o b a l Perspectives Program. http://chad.illinois.edu/brazilworkshop/

GRANT AWARD

• “Projeto Vamos 2”, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina – FAPESC, (nº 07/2013 MS-DECIT/CNPq/SES-SC) , R$100,000

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

This project proposed to compare advantages and disadvantages of a traditional group-based exercise program with an evidence-

based behavioral change program designed to promote physically active lifestyles among community dwelling older adults living in Brazil.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Physical inactivity has become a significant public health challenge for Brazil. Recently the philosophy of many physical activity interventions in the United States and Europe has shifted from a focus on traditional exercise classes to a more nuanced approach involving the promotion of healthy and active lifestyles (King and Sallis 2009; Bors, Dessauer et al. 2009). Although exercise classes have shown to be very effective in improving health of participants, they are not without their shortcomings. Due to space and staffing requirements, traditional exercise programs tend to be relatively high cost and are able to reach only a small percentage of the eligible population. Furthermore, research studies suggest that traditional exercise programs have little success in sustaining behavior change, with more than 50 percent of participants regressing back to a sedentary lifestyle within one year of completion of an exercise program (Bors, Dessauer et al., 2009; King e Sallis, 2009).

A new approach to motivating sedentary individuals to adopt more physically active lifestyles utilizes contemporary advances in behavioral science to help people make more active choices (King and Sallis 2009; Bors, Dessauer et al. 2009). Using a number of socio-cognitive theories of health behavior, evidence-based programs such as ‘CHAMPS’(Stewart, Mills et al., 1997), ‘Active Living Every Day’ (Bors, Dessauer et al., 2009; Blair, Dunn et al., 2010), and ‘Active Choices’ (Cress, Buchner et al., 2005; Ory, Evashwick et al., 2005), have been shown to be effective in helping people to find meaningful ways to be active in their own way. Findings from these programs have shown that more than 60 percent of participants are able to sustain active lifestyles more than a year of the completion of the program (Griffin, Wilcox et al., 2010). A study reported that behavioral change programs are more cost-effective when compared with traditional exercise programs (Sevick, Dunn et al., 2000).

Another important concern that we addressed in this proposal is how exercise programs are evaluated in Brazil. Much of what we

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ANDIARA SCHWINGELAssistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health

PROJECT TITLEProject Via: Active Living Everyday in Brazil

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know about the physiological, psychological and social benefits of exercise and physical activity come from randomized control trials (RCT), often conducted in university settings. Although important, RCT’s often do not reflect the complex reality of life in the community, and many interventions developed in controlled RCT environments are difficult to ‘translate” into realistic community settings.

In this study we adopt the RE-AIM evaluation framework to compare the impact and feasibility of a traditional exercise program with a physical activity behavioral change program (Dzewaltowski, Estabrooks et al., 1999). RE-AIM is an example of an evaluation framework that seeks to understand an array of factors that influence the success of a program at individual (study population) and organizational (provider organization) levels (King, Glasgow et al. 2010). It looks at the impact of a program on reach, efficacy, adoption, implementation and maintenance.

The pilot study was implemented in six health centers in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, with a final sample of 100 senior Brazilians. The results corroborate the findings of studies conducted in the United States that have had positive results from this type of intervention (characterized as: simple, effective, replicable, and inexpensive), making them a good alternative for the public health system, especially to be implemented by Physical Education professionals who work in Family Health Support Centers. It should be pointed out that “traditional” programs cost the government around R$ 60 per month per student, while “VAMOS” had a total cost of R$350.00 for the three-month course. “VAMOS” takes only two hours a week for three months for a total of 24 hours. They can be offered four times a year, although we recommend twice per year, in spring and fall. “Traditional” programs are continuous and require 36 hours over three months, and older adults need to rely on the programs being offered regularly. Some of the programs that offer proposals for behavioral change that have proven to be effective and have a high retention percentage are: “Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors” (CHAMPS), “Active Living Every Day” (ALED), “Active-for-Life” (AFL), and “Active Choice”. The programs AFL and ALED showed a retention of 61% and 70%, respectively, one year after the program was

given16. Considering that the financial values applied and the retention rates are similar, the program’s cost-effectiveness is high.

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE

Through this project we are confident we have found a promising path toward change of behavior that encourages physical activity in Brazil. The program still needs adjustments and more testing. This year (2014) we will start a second version of “Vamos” to test its revised version.


Appendix B / Lemann Graduate Fellowship

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Over the past year I have been working on my master’s thesis research on the topic of total factor productivity of double cropping farms in Mato Grosso using farm level data. In the fall, I was able to travel to Mato Grosso to get firsthand experience on the farms and collect data from the farmers. It has been a wonderful experience working with Brazilian farmers and conducting research on such current topics.

“Thank you for the opportunity to fund my research on such an important issue for Brazil and global agriculture.”

PUBLICATIONS, WORKING PAPERS, AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Master’s Thesis: The Economics and Total Factor Productivity of The Tropical Soybean-Maize Double Cropping System in Brazil

• “Land Sparing and Tropical Agriculture Intensification: The Case of Mato Grosso Brazil,” with P.D. Goldsmith, paper presented at ECI Brown University, 2014

• “The Economics of Soybeans: Macro and Micro Perspectives of the Safrinha Miracle,”

with P.D. Goldsmith, paper presented at International Agronomy Day, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013

• “Safrinha Technology: The Rise of Tropical Corn Production,” with P.D. Goldsmith, paper presented at the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Group National Agricultural Policy Seminar, 2013

KRYSTAL MONTESDEOCAM.S. Program in Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

PROJECT TITLEThe Economics of Safrinha Succession Cropping System

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

My work during the fellowship year has consisted of a literature and discography review.

• Analysis of records: Bossa é bossa (Roberto Menescal); Lúcio Alves, sua Voz Intima, sua Bossa Nova, interpretando Sambas em 3-D; 1959 Amor de Gente Moça (Sylvia Telles); 1960 Amor em HI-FI (Sylvia Telles); 1961 Rapaz de Bem (Johnny Alf); 1963 Bossa...Balanço...Balada (Sylvia Telles); 1963 A Bossa Nova De Roberto Menescal E Seu Conjunto (Roberto Menescal); 1963 Balançamba (Lucio Alves); 1963 Tom Jobim—The Composer of Desafinado, Plays (Tom Jobim); 1963 Getz/Gilberto; 1964 Bossa session (Silvinha Telles, Lúcio Alves e Roberto Menescal e seu Conjunto).

• Comparative analysis of the recording transcriptions and the related bibiolgraphy (Fabio Santos; Jose Roberto Zan; Ruy Castro; Santuza Naves; Marcos Napolitano; Walter Garcia)


• “Piano Trio and Samba Jazz: Further implications of the Jazz Influence in Brazil”;

17th IASPM International Conference. Gijon, Spain. June, 2013

• “Piano Trio and Samba Jazz: Further implications of the Jazz Influence in Brazil”; XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington DC. May, 2013

Prezado Sr. Jorge Paulo Lemann, Sou extremamente grato pelo apoio financeiro que recebi atraves do Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies. Sempre acreditei no potencial de impacto social do meu trabalho como músico, porém ao final do meu curso de graduação, percebi que ainda estava muito longe de desenvolver este potencial. Eu também entendi que, infelizmente, o sistema acadêmico brasileiro não me oferecia as melhores condições para meu desenvolvimento profissional. Por este motivo, optei por buscar opções em pós-graduação nos EUA, onde tive estrutura e experiências que contibuiram em muito para alcançar diversos objetivos acadêmicos e profissionais. Acima de tudo, o meu maior foco sempre foi buscar o meu aperfeiçoamento para que eu possa de fato contribuir para o desenvolvimento do Brasil, e acredito que as oportunidades que tive durante o meu doutarado na Universidade de Illinois contribuiram para isso.

Mais uma vez, muito obrigado pelo apoio.”

Translation: I’m extremely grateful for the financial support that I received from the Insitute. I always believed in the potential social impact of my work as a musician, but at the end of my undergraduate studies, I perceived that I was still very far from developing this potential. I also understood that sadly, the Brazilian academic system didn’t offer me the best conditions for my professional development. For this reason, I decided to look for graduate education opportunities in the USA, where I had structure and experiences that greatly contributed to my achieving various academic and professional goals. Above all, my largest focus has always been to pursue my professional improvement so that I can, in fact, contribute to the development of Brazil, and I believe that the opportunities that I have had during my doctorate at the University of Illinois contributed to this.

Again, thank you very much for the support.

MARCELO BOCCATO KUYUMJIANDMA Program in Jazz Studies, Division of Jazz Studies, School of Music

PROJECT TITLENa Cozinha de Elis: Cesar Camargo Mariano’s Arrangements of Samba for Piano Trio

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

During the fellowship year, I completed this paper as part of my doctoral dissertation. This research exploits a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare program in Brazil to investigate the importance of credit constraints and informal private transfers in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on how liquidity shocks change recipients’ behavior through direct effects on reducing financial constraints. However, the shock may also produce spillovers from recipients to others through private transfers and thereby indirectly affect decisions to be an entrepreneur. This paper presents a method for decomposing the liquidity shock into direct effects associated with relieving financial constraints, and indirect effects associated with spillovers to other individuals. Results suggest that the program, which assists 20 percent of Brazilian households, has increased the number of small entrepreneurs by 10 percent. However, this increase is almost entirely driven by the indirect effect, which is related to an increase in private transfers among poor households. Thus the creation of small businesses tends to be more responsive to the opportunity cost of mutual assistance between households than to financial constraints.


• Paper presentation, AAEA Annual Meeting, July 2014

• Paper presentation, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 2014

• Paper presentat ion , 9th IZA/Wor ld Bank Conference on Employment and Development, June 2014

• Paper presentation, GDN 14th Annual Global Development Conference in 2013, where I received the 2nd Prize Medal for Research on Development: Social Protection and Social Policies

• Paper presentations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (twice), the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Amsterdam

“Thank you very much for your support. This fellowship was very important to get me through the final year of my PhD. It has given me the time I need to improve my work without distractions. I am also pleased to join a network of exceptional fellows, having the opportunity to share thoughts and experiences.”

RAFAEL PERES RIBASFormer Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics; Currently Assistant Professor, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam

PROJECT TITLEDirect and Indirect Effects of Cash Transfer on Labor Supply and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Bolsa Famí¬lia in Brazil


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

During the summer of 2013, I conducted six weeks of pre-dissertation ethnographic re-search in the municipality of Gurupá, Pará, Bra-zil. My focus was on the political economy of forest and river resource extraction and how resource commodification affects local live-lihoods. The community I work with is called São José de Carrazêdo and it contains about 100 people who identify as quilombolas and who mainly practice subsistence fishing and farming. While the community of Carrazêdo is my main ethnographic focus, I also work with other quilombola communities in municipality of Gurupá and with people living in the city of Gurupá. I will return to this municipality to conduct long term dissertation research in late 2014/early 2015.

During the first semester of my Lemann fellowship, fall 2013, I finished the required courses for the Ph.D. program. Additionally, I analyzed my experiences and data from my summer research and worked with my advisors in designing a cogent research proposal to submit to external funding agencies. I also finalized my dissertation committee, which includes Andrew Orta (my thesis director, Anthropology), Andrew Bauer (Anthropology), Jesse Ribot (Geography) and Jerry Dávila (History). Each professor administers one qualifying examination. In fall 2013 I prepared for Andrew Bauer’s exam through a readings course with him about Environmental Anthropology and Political Ecology. In spring 2014, I enrolled in a readings course with Jesse Ribot about Agrarian Change and Peasant Economies; and also a readings course with Jerry Davila about Society, Race and Culture in Brazil from a historical perspective. Finally, I enrolled in an independent study with Andrew Orta to better hone my dissertation proposal. I will write my preliminary exams in May and June 2014.

Over the course of both semesters I have submitted several applications for external funding for dissertation research. I was awarded a 12-month research fellowship from the Inter-American Foundation for research about grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The title of my research proposal is The Struggle for Grassroots Environmental Sustainability in Brazil’s Lower Amazon: A Case

study of Quilombolas and Ribeirinho Extractive Reserves. Pending approval from Brazil’s CNPq, I will begin my dissertation fieldwork in fall 2014.


• Book Rev iew in Anthropo logy and Humansim: Kohn, E. 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Oakland, CA: University of California Press (in preparation).

• “The Untold Rio+20: Kari-Oca and Belo Monte” Illinois Review for Latin American Studies, Fall 2012

• “A Student/Anthropologist in an Age of Climate Change” Anthropology News, Vol. 53 (4) April 2012

• “The Value of Autonomy and the Politics of Extractive Economies in Brazil’s Lower Amazon,” paper presentation at the South-eastern Council on Latin American Studies 61st Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2014.

“I am very grateful and I feel very honored to have received this fellowship. The fellowship gave me the opportunity to dedicate sufficient time to my dissertation proposal (which resulted in a 12-month dissertation fellowship) and my preliminary exams, one of the most important components of graduate training. I will continue to apply my research towards the achievement of better social conditions and environmental justice for the rural poor of Brazil’s Amazon region.”

JOHN BEN SOILEAUPh.D. Student, Department of Anthropology

PROJECT TITLETensions of Practice: Açaí and the Commodification of Subsistence Agriculture in Brazil’s Lower Amazon


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The idea behind my research is to tap the savings and the willingness to invest of the Brazilian diaspora through novel public-private mechanisms, such as diaspora bonds. The first effort of my research was to study and analyze the potential of diaspora savings and then focus on the Brazilian diaspora. Diaspora networks have always been a potent economic force throughout history, and modern travel has made them larger and more numerous than ever before. One of the potent forces of diasporas is that they not only help to spread ideas, but also money. Many governments however, are unaware of how to tap the economic potential that emigrants represent. There are limited data on the characteristics of the Brazilian diaspora. I contacted government officials at the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Brasilia and was able to assemble some data on the Brazilian diaspora, and gain awareness of the many engagement policies promoted by the federal government.

In addition, the extensive libraries and data-bases of the University of Illinois allowed to me find significant materials on diaspora bonds and public policy initiatives that were utilized in my research. A diaspora bond is a long-dated sov-ereign debt instrument issued by a country and marketed to raise financing from its overseas diaspora. Diaspora bonds are different from for-eign currency deposits, since the latter are used by many developing countries to attract foreign currency inflows, and diaspora bonds are typ-ically long-dated securities, and therefore less volatile, aimed to be redeemed by investors only upon maturity. Under the diaspora bond model, the government relies on the national-ism and patriotism of its diaspora when offering fixed term bonds at lower interest rates than other sovereign bonds.

Despite the extensive Latin American diaspora in Europe, North America and Asia, there are no examples or studies of the potential of diaspora bonds in these countries. For that reason, my paper is relevant in that it fills this gap. My research included a survey of the Brazilian diaspora seeking to map their understanding and preferences towards this innovative debt instrument. The survey was conducted online and targeted Brazilians living abroad through social media networks and the communities in the Ministry of Foreign Relations’ website.

Unfortunately, the limited number of responses did not allow me to make representative conclusions. However, the survey is still relevant because it is an indication of the preferences of the Brazilian diaspora, and may still be used to better structure and develop a Brazilian diaspora bond.


• Working Paper: “Diaspora Bonds: Bonding Government and Private Investment in Latin America”

• Panel presentation, “The Politics of Financial and Tax Policy in Latin America” panel at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, Illinois, May 2014.

Sinto-me honrada por ter sido escolhida para fazer parte da comunidade da Fundação Lemann, cuja bolsa de estudos me proporcionou a oportunidade de conquistar mais um título em minha carreira acadêmica. Esforçar-me-ei em minha carreira para transmitir os valores da Fundação a outros jovens brasileiros, com vistas a melhorar a educação e contribuir para o desenvolvimento de nosso país.

17 de Maio, minha graduacao na Escola de Direito da Universidade de Illinois

Translation: I feel honored to have been chosen to be part of the FUndacao lemann community, whose scholarship gave me the opportunity to achieve another degree in my academic career. I will make efforts in my career to transmit the values of the Fundacao to other young Brazilians, with the view of improving education and contributing to the development of our country.

May 17, my graduation from the School of Law of the University of Illinois.

ISABEL FREITAS PERES J.D. Candidate 2014, University of Illinois College of Law

PROJECT TITLEEngaging the Brazilian Diaspora in Development â¬“ A Proposal for Brazilian Diaspora Bonds


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

During my Lemann Foundation Fellowship year, I worked on improving my Portuguese communication skills while learning more about Brazilian culture by spending three months in Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil. In August 2013, I enrolled in PORT 401 – Intermediate Portuguese and regularly communicated with Prof. Rodrigo Zandonadi, my faculty host at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT) in Sinop, to prepare for our research field work on measuring postharvest losses during grain handling and transportation of soybeans in January to March 2014. This field work formed the basis of my M.S. thesis project. I also began to work with a UFMT undergraduate student in agricultural engineering, Mr. Jonnas De Marchi, who was assigned as a research assistant for my project by Prof. Zandonadi. Through these regular interactions in class and in research activities, I felt prepared for my upcoming study/research abroad experience.

In January 2014, my University of Illinois faculty advisors and I traveled to UFMT to start our research field work. There is a growing trend among the grain producers of Central-West Brazil where a second crop, called safrinha, is being planted directly after the harvest of the first crop, called safra. Examples of this practice are the planting of corn or cotton after the soybean harvest in January to March each year. The adoption of second crops has produced new requirements and challenges to the agronomic system. Second crops require planting as early as possible into the rainy season, which is reaches its peak in January, in order to take full advantage of the precipitation since rainfall sharply declines in May. This creates a need to harvest the soybean safra at earlier dates and at higher moisture contents than was customary. High moisture contents accelerate postharvest losses in the form of dry matter loss, quality loss, and molding, when grains are not sufficiently dried for safe storage.

Estimates of losses previously reported in the literature or farmer surveys are often fraught with assumptions and measurements done with non¬representative samples. In my thesis research, I used advances in sensing and data acquisition to monitor soybean conditions from the point of harvest to handling, transportation, and delivery to the first storage facility where

beans are cleaned and dried to obtain objective measurements of postharvest loss. These advances included temperature and relative humidity sensors to estimate equilibrium moisture content of the soybean; carbon dioxide sensors to measure of grain respiration and dry matter loss; and a global positioning system (GPS) unit to analyze handling and transportation logistics, such as location; distance; loading, transit, and unloading times; trip duration; and transit velocity. I also conducted an assessment of conditions and general suitability of trucks and trailers used for grain transport in the Sinop area. The assessment catalogued various makes, models, and conditions of the truck and trailer, including truck driver contact information, trailer type, trailer material and condition, trailer tarp and condition, and grain unloading mechanism with the goal of identifying truck and trailer features that mitigate postharvest loss. This research project is among the first to document postharvest and transportation conditions of soybean and correlate these parameters to changes in moisture content and soybean classification.

In the first week of July, I am hosting Jonnas at the University of Illinois and showing him some farms and soybean production in central Illinois. I am also writing my M.S. thesis with the goal of defending it in September and submitting three manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals for publication. I will complete all coursework requirements in Fall 2014 and plan to receive my M.S. in ABE degree in December 2014.


• Paper presentation, Joint Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and the Canadian Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (CSABE), Montreal, Canada, July 2014

• Poster presentation, Congress of the Brazilian Society of Agricultural Engineers (CONBEA)

“I would like to thank you and your Foundation for providing the funding to students and universities around the world and making it possible for all varieties of research to be conducted. Personally, the funding I received allowed me to grow as a person and experience a culture and nation both different and surprisingly similar to the one I grew up in. Having been raised on a small farm in the United States, I was very interested to experience Brazilian agriculture and interact with other farmers. The Portuguese courses I took, along with being immersed in Brazilian culture allowed me to converse, work, and even joke with people in Mato Grosso, Brazil. I not only completed my research, which I hope will improve the quality of agriculture in both Brazil and the world, but I also was able to make new friends and create memories I will keep my whole life. Mato Grosso has left a lasting imprint on me and I am thankful that your fellowship allowed me to become involved in such an experience

CHRISTOPHER R. WILHELMIM.S. Candidate in Agricultural and Biological Engineering


My visit to Brazil was extremely valuable professionally and personally. I was able to contact stellar researchers in their fields and was able to cover a great amount of “ground” in a short time. The opportunity to be at one of the most important meetings that deals with reproduction (SBTE Meeting) was extremely important since I was able to meet and interact with several researchers, students, and stakeholders. Brazil is the country that exports the most bovine embryos in the world, being responsible for more than 50% of its production.

Visiting professors in their work environment was important from my point of view. For example, in Lavras – MG with Dr. Marcos Neves, I was able to inform him about the possibilities that the Brazilian government offers for students to study abroad. We had a meeting with the University of Lavras international office representative that revealed the actual situation: there are more scholarships than students to use them. He highlighted that the bottleneck for Ph.D. sandwich and BSMP programs is the absence of contact between faculty (Brazil and abroad) that would lead to identifying common research programs to facilitate student exchange.

English language proficiency is still one of the great barriers to having Brazilian students traveling to the United States. Students and professors felt comfortable in sending students to work in my program since, as a native Brazilian, I would be able to “buffer” the language barrier. Providing an immersive English program to the incoming students is important. Overall, there is the need and interest in exchanging of personnel in my field, dairy nutrition and reproduction.

MAIN OUTCOMES

• Provided letter of interest in having undergraduate student Marjorye Kaori Kametani from Dr. Baruselli’s group (São Paulo, SP), working in my group through the BSMP, January 2014.

• Provided letter of interest and documents to have doctoral student Naina Gonçalves from Dr. Neves’ group (Lavras, MG), working in my group for one year in the Ph.D. Sandwich program from CAPES/CNPq, January 2014.

• Provided letter of interest and documents to have the PhD student Diego Acosta from Dr. Corrêa’s group (Pelotas, RGS), working in my group for 1 year in the PhD Sandwich program from CAPES/CNPq, September 2013.

• Taught a class in the Graduate Program in Agribusiness at UFRGS (Porto Alegre, RGS) untitled “Dairying around the World”. Approximately 30 students were present, September 2013

• Presented my actual program and future research plans for possible collaborations to Dr. Corrêa’s group (Pelotas, RGS). Approximately 40 students and 5 faculties were present.

• Presented my actual program and future research plans for possible collaborations to Dr. Gonzalez’s group (Porto Alegre, RGS). Approximately 10 students were present.

• Invited to be co-advisor of the MS student Rodrigo Gonçalves in the project: “Eficácia da dupla administração de Drench em vacas recém-paridas na prevenção de transtornos metabólicos e seu efeito sobre a qualidade do leite”. Advisor: Felix H. D. Gonzalez, UFRGS. Expected conclusion date: March 2015.

• Invited to be a committee member and to be present at the final defense of the MS student Fabio Guagnini and PhD student Alejandra Bahera. Advisor: Felix H. D. Gonzalez, UFRGS. Expected conclusion date: May 2014.

The follow researchers were contacted:

UFRGS (PORTO ALEGRE, RGS)

• Professor Felix H.D. Gonzalez. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5922340038210803

• Professor Jose Luiz Rodriguez. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0688135454900919

• Professora Stella de Faria Valle. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6159008045542551

• Professor Carlos Bondan. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3784169210144686

UFPEL (PELOTAS, RGS)

• Professor Marcio Nunes Correa. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9004968476181175

• Professor Augusto Schneider. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0952566646598843

• Professor Cássio Cassal Brauner. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5518025291169624

• Professora Viviane Rohrig Rabassa. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8957203614372999

USP (SÃO PAULO, SP)

• Professor Pietro Sampaio Baruselli. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3689380418823388

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE LAVRAS (LAVRAS, MG)

• Professor Marcos Neves Pereira. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3833439414036038

SBTE MEETING (PRAIA DO FORTE, BA)

• Professor Roberto Sartori Filho. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0897604346165119

• Professor Mario Binelli. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7518044491871063

• Professor Marcelo Bertolini. CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1311612572712450

Appendix C / Brazil Scientific Mobility Travel Grants for STEM Faculty

FELIPE (PHIL) CARDOSO, DVM, MS, PHD Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


USP-PIRASSUNUNGA VISIT, 30 SEP TO 1 OCT 2013

I visited the Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engen-haria de Alimentos (FZEA) at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Pirassununga campus. On the first day, I was hosted by Profa. Giovana Tommaso who had just completed a six-month sabbatical in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) at the Uni-versity of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I was welcomed by Profa. Eliana Setsuko Ka-mimura, Department Head of Food Engineer-ing, Prof. Paulo José do Amaral Sobral, Director or Dean of FZEA, and Clélia de Godoy, Chief of International Programs and Collaborations. We discussed opportunities for increasing student exchange between USP and Illinois, specifically leveraging programs such as Cienças sem Fron-teiras, Bolsa Mérito Acadêmico (USP’s Academ-ic Merit Scholarship for International Exchange), and Bolsa Empreendedorismo (USP’s Entrepre-neurship Scholarship).

I gave a seminar titled, “Opportunities for Re-search Collaboration and Graduate Training in Bioenergy and Postharvest Research” to approximately 30-40 faculty and students in the main auditorium on campus. After lunch, I had a tour of the Food Engineering Depart-ment and visited with the following faculty members: • Profa . Fernanda Mar ia Van in , Food

Processing and Engineering

• Profa. Giovana Tomasso, Biochemical Engineering and Anaerobic Digestion of Agricultural Residues

• Prof. Gustavo César Dacanal, Modeling and Optimization of Processes in the Food Industry

• Prof. Marco Antonio Trindade, Sensory Analysis and Meat Processing

• Profa. Maria Teresa de Alvarenga Freire, Food Analysis

• Prof. Rogers R ibe i ro , Treatment o f Agroindustry Residues

In the evening, I had dinner with Profa. Giovana Tomasso and Prof. Celso Eduardo Lins de Oliveira from the Department of Biosystems Engineering.

On the second day, I was hosted by Prof. Holmer Savastano Júnior, Department Head of Biosystems Engineering. We interviewed 10 undergraduate students who were interested in participating in my research projects in postharvest loss in Sinop, Mato Grosso and potential internships with Kepler Weber. I also had the opportunity to tour his department and discuss potential collaborations with the following faculty members:

• Prof. Fabrício Rossi, Crop Sciences

• Prof. José Antonio Rabi, Modeling and Simulation of Biosystems Applications in Agroindustry

• Profa. Luciane Silva Martello, Animal Environment and Welfare

NEXT STEPS:

• Lucas Trevisan, undergraduate student, appl ied for C ienças sem Fronte i ras scholarship and, if successful, will be hosted by Dr. Richard Gates, ABE at Illinois.

• Gabriella Mendes, former FIPSE-CAPES exchange student, was pre-selected by LASPAU for a Ph.D. Scholarship from Cienças sem Fronteiras. If successful, Illinois is in her list of schools to attend.

• Profa. Fernanda Vanin will be sending me starch samples from different Brazilian commodities (e.g., green plantains) for measurement of resistant starch. Resistant starch is of great interest to food scientists and nutritionists as a dietary fiber.

• Profa. Giovana Tomasso, Prof. Rogers Ribeiro and I are developing a project on pretreatment of agricultural residues for production of biomethane. This proposal will be submitted to NSF Program on Catalyzing New International Collaborations (CNIC) in Chemistry and to FAPESP’s Regular Research Award Program.

• I will follow up with Kepler Weber’s offer for two student interns in our project on fan and aeration assessment in grain storage.

ADM BRAZIL VISIT, 2 OCT 2013

I met with Ms. Amanda Cosenza, Director of Sustainability in ADM Brazil; Ms. Ana Yaluff, Director of Sustainability in ADM Paraguay; Mr.

Luiz Guilherme Ribeiro, Commercial Manager in Biodiesel; and Mr. Valmor Schaeffer, President of ADM South America in their São Paulo office. Ms. Cosenza has been instrumental in my research activities in Mato Grosso, providing my group with access to their facilities in the region. We discussed my group’s research activities for 2014, opportunities for leveraging their partnership with Aprosoja and SENAR to train farmers and provide future internship and employment opportunities for students involved in our research and exchange programs.

NEXT STEPS:

Ms. Cosenza and I will plan for a postharvest loss workshop with Aprosoja, SENAR, and our university partners for 2014-2015. I will follow up with a list of students for potential internships.

UFLA VISIT, 3 OCT TO 4 OCT 2013

I was hosted by Prof. Tadayuki Yanagi, Director of Graduate Studies at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA). My visit started with a visit with Prof. Carlos Eduardo Silva Volpato, Head of the Department of Engineering. I had a nice tour of the department, campus, and city of Lavras. The next day, I gave my seminar to several faculty and graduate students. Faculty members with whom there are interests for potential collaboration are:

• Prof. Francisco Carlos Gomes, Modeling and Simulation of Grain Storage

• Prof. Pedro Castro Neto, Bioenergy and Biodiesel Production

• Prof. Roberto Alves Braga, Jr., Optical Instrumentation

• Prof. Flávio Meira Borém, Preprocessing and Storage of Agricultural Products

NEXT STEPS:

• Prof. Neto has requested addit ional information on the Arduino course my colleagues offer at the Federal University of Viçosa.

• Prof. Borém is interested in spending one year sabbatical at UIUC and I have agreed to help him find a suitable host in ABE or the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.

MARY GRACE DANAOAssistant Professor for Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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UFV VISIT, 7 OCT 2013

I visited with my collaborators at UFV on Monday, October 7, to discuss our research activities for 2014; opportunities for my graduate student, Christopher Wilhelmi to take a course at UFV in March 2014; and future research proposals in the area of postharvest loss.

At UFV, I had a meeting with the following professors:

• Prof. Daniel Marçal de Queiroz, Grain Storage and Mechanization

• Prof. Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto, Agricultural Mechanization

• Prof. Paulo César Corrêa, Grain Storage

During my visit, I also talked with University of Illinois students Melissa Rios-Chavez and Dylan Walker who are currently studying at UFV on a FIPSE-CAPES exchange scholarship and UFV Ph.D. students, Mucio André dos Santos A. Mendes and Maria de Fátima Araújo Vieira, who are applying for a Cienças sem Fronteiras sandwich fellowship to come and study at Illinois for one year.

JOANNA SHISLER, PHDProfessor of MicrobiologyDepartment of Microbiology

I traveled to Natal, Brazil for a meeting from September 29-October 3 and presented my lab’s research at the 27th annual microbiology brazilian conferenceIn Natal, Brazil. I met many graduate students and several other scientists who I got to share my work with. It was really great to get feedback and to also see the types of cutting-edge molecular virology that is occurring in Brazil.

I then went to the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and gave a seminar to the Department of Microbiology. It went really, really well and two of the professors (da Fonseca and Kroon) spent the afternoon exploring collaborations and I got to meet students from their labs who would potentially come to learn new techniques and to teach my students some new techniques on a virus that is currently causing problems in dairy cattle (Brazilian vaccinia virus). This is a zoonotic virus that spreads from dairy cattle to humans, and has been slowly spreading across Brazil. It is devastating to agricultural farmers and workers.

As a result of these very positive interactions, Da Fonseca, Kroon and I have been working on a proposal that we will submit to your organization for the early November deadline for $20,000. We hope to use this to show that we are very committed to working together on a long-term project that works at the boundary of human health and agriculture.

I appreciate this opportunity and I am very excited about building these new relationships with my Brazilian colleagues.


I had the great opportunity to study abroad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for fall 2013. I attended Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) with approximately 400 other students from all over the globe. During my semester in PUC-Rio, I took four courses: Portuguese Language, Brazilian Culture, Advertising in Brazil, and Brazilian Language and Culture. My time in Brazil helped me learn numerous things about their culture and my own culture. It made me explore new things and test my fears.

PUC-Rio was a great start to my exploration of the Brazilian culture. In my Brazilian Culture class, I learned about the history that influenced the formation of what is today a “Brazilian.” In my Advertising in Brazil class, I got a chance to see how advertising is done differently in Brazil than it is done in the US. I had the opportunity to do two separate marketing analyses for two Brazilian companies. My Brazilian Language and Culture class helped me gain a better understanding of the Brazilian culture. My professor would present to us different scenarios that could occur in Brazil and he would explain why they would happen and how it related to the Brazilian culture. For example, you are at the beach with your Brazilian friend

and you agreed to go to the movies at 5:00 pm with him. However, it’s 4:50pm and you are still at the beach with your friend and it doesn’t seem like he is planning to leave the beach any time soon. What do you do? As an American, I’m used to have things planned out and being on time. Brazilians tend to take things slowly and are almost never pressured by time. While I lived in Rio, it was a real challenge to get used to this new way of life but in the end I was able to adapt.

My semester in Brazil helped me realize the richness of the Brazilian culture. As a Latina, I always thought that the culture in Brazil was almost the same as the one I grew up in. I was wrong. All it took for me to realize my mistake was to step out of the airplane once I arrived in Brazil. I never realized Brazil was so diverse, culturally and geographically. In Rio you find beaches, mountains, and buildings all in one place. It is one of the most spectacular views I have had the good fortune to see. I had the opportunity to explore this wonderful country and interact with the people that live in Brazil. The few months that I lived in Rio were truly eye-opening. I learned to have a better understanding of the culture that will help me pursue my passion for international

advertising. In the future, I want to be able to work for a marketing/advertising firm that works with Latin American countries. Studying for a semester in Brazil has given me a great insight into the culture and helped me become advanced in Portuguese. The reason I was able to adapt so quickly to Brazil was because I had taken a couple of Portuguese classes at the University of Illinois. I also had the good fortune of receiving the Lemann Scholarship for Brazilian Studies. This scholarship gave me the opportunity to not only travel to another country but to learn innumerable things from their culture. I was able see for myself how advertisement is done and displayed differently in Brazil. I also had the opportunity to write a report in Portuguese where I worked with other Brazilians to create a marketing report on an online boutique. Now, I feel confident that I will be able to go back to Brazil and interact with Brazilians with no problems whatsoever. I am also now trilingual which makes me a great candidate to work in the international market, especially in Latin America. Hopefully, in the future I will have the opportunity to work in Brazil and create campaigns that will positively impact the lives of Brazilians. This experience has changed my life and given me the tools to be a better advertiser.

Appendix D / 2013-2014 Lemann Study Abroad Scholarships

JESSICA RAMIREZDepartment of Advertising PUC-RIO, fall 2013

I studied abroad during the fall of 2013, traveling to Rio de Janeiro on July 9th and returning on the 17th of December. The program was sponsored through the Study Abroad Office as an exchange with Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). During my stay abroad I took five courses. In Portuguese I took Cultura Brasileira, Estado Politica e Desenvolvimento na America Latina. In English Special topics in Sociology and Brazilian Foreign Policy along with a Portuguese language course. Before the semester I also took a month of intensive Portuguese language classes at PUC-Rio.

Studying abroad went beyond what I expected. During my time there, I managed to form friendships with other students from around the world and the United States as well as Brazilian classmates, professors, and host families. As far as a tangible gain, I have greatly improved

my conversational Portuguese along with my ability to read and write Brazilian Portuguese. Furthermore, the feeling of vulnerability that comes with experiencing a new culture challenged me to step out of my comfort area to meet people and to become flexible in the face of adversity. I am currently majoring in Global Studies at the University of Illinois. Before embarking on the study abroad trip I was greatly interested in entering the workforce in a position with an international aspect either through the State Department, Foreign Service or the public sector. Studying abroad in Rio de Janeiro only confirmed that working abroad is still a goal I aspire to achieve. Specifically, it opened my eyes to continuing my Portuguese language studies and possibly working abroad in Brazil. A possible career choice that now interests

me is becoming an advisor for programs that support, promote, or provide study abroad opportunities for not only American students, but for those countries that send students to the United States.

As a Global Studies major, I was required to study abroad. Rio de Janeiro fit perfectly because of my previous Portuguese language studies, as well as its comparable costs. However, without the Lemann Scholarship I would not have been able to immerse myself as intensely in the study abroad program and take advantage of the opportunities presented abroad. The Lemann Scholarship allowed me to focus on the experience in Brazil and not financial concerns. In part due to the scholarship, I have become more of a global citizen hoping to learn more about other cultures as well as embracing my own culture.

RODRIGO ACEVEDOGlobal Studies Program PUC-Rio, fall 2013

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The moment I realized what a daring experience studying abroad might be was when I was already on the plane to Brazil. Friends and family had asked me several times before then, “How on earth can you leave the country for seven months for a place where you don’t know anyone?” I had heard it from everyone: “How are you going to communicate with people?” “Where will you live?” “What will you eat?” “Aren’t you scared?” The questions were endless… Everyone else seemed much more afraid than I was. Up until I got to the plane, right after saying goodbye to the closest people in my life, the people I see every single day and the people who are there for me through anything. I wasn’t going to see them again for an entire seven months. And after that, the fear was immediate. The worries poured in, I started thinking how can I do this alone, how can I learn a new language, manage classes, and make new friends all by myself? I was the only person who was going with my department and I knew it was going to be a challenge.

I arrived at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa on May 10th, 2013. Looking back, it feels like forever ago. I’m a completely new person now with hundreds of new experiences added to my life since then. I gained so much from my experience abroad it’s hard for me to put it into words. I would say one of the main things I gained while abroad would be my adaptation skills and how I had to quickly cope with new stressful situations. The first day I arrived in Viçosa, I had to wait a few hours for the international office to talk about getting my schedule together, which was supposed to have been set up already. I knew that it was a new system and it was not as simple as making an appointment like at Illinois so the first day had already tested my patience and flexibility. After that, I felt tested all the time. Finding a place to live, getting lost in the city, trying to communicate with my very basic knowledge of Portuguese. Every experience for the first month involved dealing with stressful situations and getting better and better at remaining calm during difficult situations. I was challenging myself and reaching far out of my comfort zone, farther than I ever had before in my life. It was unfamiliar and very difficult, but I loved it. I loved learning how a completely new culture lives their lives and I loved broadening my mind to new ways of life.

My classes were quite difficult at first. In fact, I had a headache after listening to a professor for two hours every class after having to put so much attention into understanding what was being said. I had to just keep pushing and trying

to listen until I finally understood the language. I took two general education classes, Portuguese and History, in which I got a lot of help from other students and where I made the most friends. I also found a lot of other international students in these classes and was able to meet even more people from different backgrounds and cultures, which was my favorite part of studying abroad.

I also took a technical class for my major called Armazenagem e Secagem de Grãos, an Agricultural Engineering class, and, in addition, conducted 12 hours of research for a professor. My research included contributing to the study of ozone as a sanitizer in rice grains and its effects on pesticides, microbial fungi, and insecticide residues, all with the hopes of minimum grain and environmental contamination. The environmental contamination is a much larger concern in Brazil because of their love for nature and natural foods, and that was one of my favorite difference from the concerns of the US. I tested and modified methods of sample preparations, extractions, and quantifications of biological compounds with my group in order to meet the needs of the research objectives. The research continued even after I left, and I’m keeping in touch with my project team, because I’m very interested in the data they continue to collect and analyze. Most of the work was trial and error, and it was my first experience working with hands-on research.

My classes and research were even more of a learning experience than the actual material I was learning. I learned to adapt to new teaching methods that are not used here in the US and I improved my Portuguese everyday by using it to talk to my peers and professors. I also learned how to better communicate with others in my research, even with the many cultural differences and language barriers. I know these skills will someday help me in my future career as well.

I am really thankful for the Lemann Scholarship because I know that without it, I wouldn’t have developed my Portuguese language skills as quickly as I did. When I first arrived in Brazil, I was overwhelmed by the difficulty of understanding everyone but knew I wanted to pick it up as quickly as possible. I was eager to advance in my classes and research along with making Brazilian friends. So I looked into a Portuguese tutor that could meet with me a few times a week for an hour to practice my Portuguese. I was able to do this with the scholarship money that was awarded to me and quickly started understanding much more Portuguese within

the first month of arriving. I was able to make more Brazilian friends and help my English-speaking peers learn Portuguese as well. The scholarship definitely helped my education by allowing me to keep up with my classes by being able to have a tutor outside of my classes.

I was also able to live in a Republica with four other Brazilian girls with the scholarship money. I had money for rent and food because my Republica always cooked and did activities together. Because of this, I was able to practice Portuguese outside of classes. This scholarship was tremendously valuable to my experience abroad!

My photograph is of “International Night” in Vicosa and it includes all the study abroad students and the Brazilian volunteers that hosted us when we arrived on campus. We all organized this event together after first meeting in our Portuguese class. There was an International Republica on campus where a lot of study abroad students decided to live, so it was organized there to welcome other international students. We wanted a night where we could all share our cultural differences by bringing a special dish from our country. There were over twenty countries represented and twenty different foods to share with each other! We all got to meet and communicate with other Brazilians and make friends from all over the world! It was definitely one of my favorite times while I was abroad because I had never met so many people from other places at one time. I would say it represents my experience because my favorite part of studying abroad is experiencing new culture and this night was definitely filled with multiple cultures and new experiences.

MELISSA RIOS-CHAVEZDepartment of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Universidade Federal de Viçosa, summer and fall 2013


My program in Brazil was only for two months, but it probably changed the course of my entire life. I attended Universidade Federal de Viçosa and studied Portuguese, sat in on two journalism classes (radio and student newspaper) and had an internship in nutrition. I left the United States eager to experience a new country for the first time, and I took back Brazilian family and friends in my heart, a new language to speak, and a culture to admire. There was something about Brazil that just clicked after I got off of the four-hour van ride through the steep hills from the airport to my college town. I was completely exhausted, but my host family had made a light dinner, which I would get accustomed to, and my host sister was eager to talk and help with the list of things to do the following day. During the first week, my host sister dutifully stuck by my side. She helped with the process of registering for school, registering with the federal police, and finding an apartment. The strange part about it was that she was happy to help—even excited to do these tasks— not only for me, but for the other international students as well. As I began to meet her friends that week, I realized that all of them were equally as accepting and kind to me as she had been, taking me in and making me feel comfortable, as if I had been one of them all along. One even offered me a place to live after I had just met her.

I think it was this initial acceptance of a foreigner who did not speak the same language that first struck me about Brazilian culture. It wasn’t just my host sister and her friends who were patient with my inability to speak Portuguese. It was everyone from the man in the bakery when I was trying to order a chicken salgado the first week, to the woman working in the laundromat when I was dropping off my clothes. This warm attitude and affection Brazilians have towards people and life made me let go of the way of life I was used to in Chicago—the disconnect between one another, people who would not so much as make eye contact with someone on the street. And I embraced the friendliness I felt from complete strangers and cherished it, because I knew in two months I would go back to a culture that would think it was bizarre if you hugged someone or kissed them on the cheek after meeting them for the first time.

And just like my experience of cultural differ-ences and friendships grew over those two months, so did my ability to speak Portuguese. That first day, when I stepped out of the van af-ter the four-hour ride to my college town, I only knew how to say hi or “oi” in Portuguese. I didn’t know I was going to Brazil until two days before

I got on the plane when my visa came through. It was during final exam time at my university and I had to first get a passport, and then a visa. It came so close to the point where I finished my exam, got home at night and packed, and got on the plane the next morning. Suffice it to say, I did not even have one of those little Por-tuguese phrase books with me to look over on the airplane.

At university, I attended four classes all taught in Portuguese (including my Portuguese language class). At first, I was completely lost, but I did not give up trying to speak to my friends in Portuguese (although this varied), reading in Portuguese (google translate helped a lot), and even thinking in Portuguese. My host sister and I also began teaching a conversational English class for people who had to take the TOEFEL test to travel to an English-speaking country. The exchange of English and Portuguese helped further my comprehension. By the third week in class, I was starting to understand. It hit me in my radio journalism class when the teacher was handing out water bottles. She was saying you needed to drink water every day to protect your voice, and then started talking about factors that would hurt your voice. I looked at my journalism friend who only knew English from the music he listened to and said “Entendi!” or “I understand!” He laughed at my excitement, but from that day forward I could understand more bits and pieces of Portuguese.

I am thankful for receiving the Lemann scholar-ship because it gave me the gift of not only of

experiencing the education in a foreign country, something I could have never done without this support, but experiencing these incredible friendships as well. I know I want to go back and I am applying for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in hopes of continuing my time in Brazil. In a note my friend Guilherme wrote, he said “Know that this isn’t a goodbye, it’s a see you soon, or a come back soon, or anything that means the future holds much more than saudade.”

I have been back in the United States for over a week now, and I have a lot of “saudade” (the feeling when you miss) for my friends, for Portuguese, and even for my attempts to interview people for journalism class. However, I am grateful because I had one of those summers I’d always been so jealous of when I read about them in books. This trip meant more to me than I could describe in three pages, but I hope this helps highlight the importance it holds in my life.

The photo above was taken on my last day (July 16, 2013) eating in the cafeteria at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa with my Brazilian friends. Every day we would meet outside the cafeteria on a bench they call “banquinho” before going inside to eat. There were so many of us we always had to push tables together so everyone was able to fit. It is a representative photo of my trip because I spent a lot of time with this community of friends, and we always had the two-hour lunch break to be with each other.

2012-2013 Lemann Study Abroad Scholarships

CLAIRE EVERETTDepartment of Agricultural Communications University of Viçosa summer 2013

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This past summer here in the United States, which was actually winter in Brazil of 2013, I was given the once in a lifetime opportunity to participate in a student exchange program at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Federal University of Viçosa) in Minas Gerias, Brazil. During the program I lived in the rural city of Viçosa off-campus for two months, while taking a Portuguese language and independent research internship course. For the first week of my stay I lived with a Brazilian family and for the remainder of my stay, I moved in with a Brazilian student and another American student. Juliana (the Brazilian student), Claire (also an Illinois student), and I lived together in a one-bedroom apartment for the following two months and it truly became my home away from home.

To start from the beginning, the Brazilian family I stayed with had a daughter named Maria, who also attended the Federal University of Viçosa. Maria’s family was highly involved in their church, Igreja Presbiteriana De Viçosa (Presbyterian Church of Viçosa Vicosa) and she introduced me to their student organization, Aliança Bíblica Universitária (University Bible Alliance). I was very hesitant at first, because in the past I had less fortunate experiences with religious organizations. But everyone was so friendly that I wanted to be friends with them all. I started to meet a lot of people and also realized the vast knowledge they had that I craved. From learning the beautiful language of Brazilian Portuguese and Brazilian cultural ideologies, I was enticed to learn as much as I could about the Brazilian culture with emphasis on family structures, community development projects, educational opportunities and body image.

Being involved in the University Bible Alliance greatly improved my Brazilian Portuguese language skills as well as my understanding of the Brazilian culture as a whole. Through the University Bible Alliance, I was able to meet many students and get a glimpse of Brazilian students’ lifestyles as well as their family structures. I am extremely grateful to University Bible Alliance for many reasons, but especially for allowing me to join in their lives and for the patience the students had with me trying to learn Brazilian Portuguese. They invited me to church, engaged in conversations about faith in bible study, walked me around campus to learn where places were, had movie nights (in English and Portuguese) and even gave me the opportunity to plan for and speak at one of their meetings. We took a trip to visit the Brazilian historical city of Ouro Preto (Black Gold) and even attended a traditional Festa de Nina (similar to an American Barn Dance except

with much more tradition). I learned more than I ever thought I could in that short time because of these experiences and because of what the organization exposed me to, such as “Rebusca,” a social justice group run through the church.

For part of my research internship, I volunteered for Rebusca Ação Social Evangélica Viçosense in June at two different neighborhood locations in Viçosa. On Tuesday and Friday mornings, I went to a neighborhood called “Posses” and helped with the Centro Educational Rebusca Educacao Infantil (Early Childhood School) program with the 2- to 3-year-old group and 4- to 5-year-old group. By volunteering with this group I saw a small piece of the education system in Brazil. On Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, I would go to a location in the downtown of Viçosa called Centro and helped with the Programa Mais Que Vencedores (after-school program for elementary school) with the 12- to 17-year-old students. It was here that I learned of the necessity for such an after-school program by spending time with the youth and staff. I was able to help with the students’ English homework, co-translate letters between youth and their financial sponsors and help plan art activities. This opportunity exposed me to the similarities and differences in curriculum and the quality of life of children and their families in different parts of Vicosa. Currently, I am working on completing an interactive curriculum book of inside and outside games for each age bracket of Rebusca.

I also attended the graduate class of Professor Wania Maria Guimarares Lacerda from the Mestrado em Educação (Masters in Education) program. The class, which I attended for a week, met on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Fridays 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Outside of class, I received many articles to read and many resources to learn from, about the education here in Brazil. It was interesting to be able to discuss the similarities and differences in education between the United States and Brazil.

During my time in Viçosa, I gained an awareness of the importance that the outward physical appearance of the human body holds for Brazilians and Americans. Using the experiences and knowledge I gained in Viçosa, I am working on a research proposal. The research method involves a survey of the students’ perspectives related to things about the body. For example, one question will ask students about their thoughts on plastic surgery. The research project will be conducted in Brazil at the Federal University of Viçosa, in parallel while the same study will be conducted at the University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This project will continue throughout the next year and aims to be completed by the end of 2014, when proposals have been approved by the Institutional Review Board in the United States and the Comitê de Ética de Pesquisa com Seres Humanos in Viçosa, Brasil, where the research will be conducted. Once the data is collected, a comparison will be done in the hope to gain a better understanding of students’ perspectives on the outward physical appearance of the body as well as the differences and similarities between students in Brazil and the United States.

I gained more than I could possibly explain in a few pages during my overseas study experience, but I have my Brazilian Portuguese language skills and future study opportunities specifically to be grateful for – both of which are valuable because they opened up the doors for continuous learning. Not only did learning about Brazil enhance my language skills, but it also exposed me to the vast amount of Brazilian studies resources available and research topics possible. For example, my top ideas are “the role of soccer in Brazil and its effects on the local community break downs, ups, and forwards,” and “the importance placed on physical beauty by some Brazilians as it relates to socioeconomic class and race.” One of the reasons I wanted to study abroad in Brazil was because there is a Master of Arts in Transformational Urban Leadership through Azusa Pacific University. During the program, students live in another country for at least a year and a half, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was one of those places. After spending time in Brazil, I can easily see myself in this program. In fact, I have already been in contact with admissions and am working with other community partners here in the States to potentially go back in 2014.

Growing up I had thought international work was awesome but not for me. Now that I have been to Brazil and absolutely loved it, I cannot wait to go back. Minas Gerias was particularly amazing because it was small but still very politically involved. A few peaceful protests took place while I was there, and I was able to build an understanding of the history behind the protests by asking my newly-made friends who were more than willing to share their knowledge. Studying in Brazil and gaining a network of people has opened my mind to the many possibilities I now have in my future education and career. The Lemann Scholarship for Brazilian Studies allowed me to complete the program without the huge financial strain that could have otherwise brought stress during my experience by causing me to worry rather than enjoy my time there.

NATALI GRACIADepartment of Human and Community DevelopmentUniversity of Viçosa, summer 2013


This past summer, I got the chance to participate in a study abroad program to Viçosa, Brazil that lasted for eight weeks. My study abroad program was comprised of a research opportunity and a Portuguese language immersion course at the Federal University of Viçosa. In my Portuguese course, we learned the basics of Portuguese such as colors, foods, and even some useful phrases that could be used to communicate with the locals. For my internship, I worked in the Animal Biology lab of Molecular Biology and Cytogenetics under Professor Jorge Dergam and his graduate students. The lab’s main focus dealt with freshwater fish from different rivers and streams around the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. During my time in the lab, I assisted the graduate students on their current research project, in which they were trying to map similarities between different species of freshwater fish based on their chromosomes and determine whether they were linked in the same evolutionary tree.

From this study abroad experience, I was able to interact and learn how the Brazilian people live out their daily lives. Being in Brazil exposed me to a different way of living, including food, traditions, dances and most of all, language. I got the chance to live with a Brazilian student and another American student in an apartment setting, which gave me close understanding of how college students in Brazil live. I was able to share my background and American traditions with other Brazilian students and got to see the ways our cultures were similar and different. Also, since I didn’t know much Portuguese coming into Brazil, I had to learn the hard way how to survive in a country with a language barrier. It made me try to speak the language with students and other Brazilians, which I think is the best way to learn a new language. Though I took an intensive Portuguese class for foreigners at the University and was exposed to the language, I am nowhere near fluent and I hope to continue practicing and improving my Portuguese while I am back at the University of Illinois.

I recently became interested in wildlife conser-vation and working with exotic animals in coun-tries all over the world. Learning about different cultures and the environment is very natural to me. Because of this, I plan to pursue a career in Marine/Wildlife Biology or Environmental Sciences, hoping to incorporate international travel as well. I also want to explore more in and around tropical environments to examine and evaluate how the impact of society affects the biodiversity of wildlife populations. Brazil is an ideal place for my research, since there are currently concerns throughout the country

about conserving the declining biodiversity and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and ongoing efforts to save it. After complet-ing this study abroad program and participating in the research opportunity at the University, I got to see another branch of Animal Biology. I hope to come back to Brazil in the future and conduct research with other Brazilians in the Amazon rainforest. I also hope to take part in more Spanish and Portuguese immersion study abroad programs to improve my knowledge of both languages. I think it is vital in our world to-day to learn more than one language, especially in my field of study. Studying abroad will give me the experiences I’ll need to adapt to differ-ent academic systems and ever-changing world conditions within an array of cultures.

As one of the recipients of the Lemann Schol-arship, I was able to reduce the financial burden of this study abroad trip, which allowed me to focus more on the most important aspect of my education, learning. With the Lemann Scholar-ship, I got the opportunity to study in a country that has a rich culture and develop friendships with local Brazilian students and other Bra-zilians. I was also able to work in a laboratory setting at the Federal University of Viçosa with other students to help out with research and get a sense of how things are run in an animal biology lab. Thanks to this generous scholarship award, I was able to continue my study abroad endeavors, obtain a unique understanding of

the world, get a better idea of what I want to do as a future career, and ultimately grow as an individual. The photo I chose to include with this report is a picture of students who were part of the group called ABU Viçosa, along with me in the middle and a couple of other American students scattered throughout the picture. ABU Viçosa is a youth group comprised of college students who attend the University of Viçosa, as well as their high school siblings. This photo was taken in May, a few weeks after I first traveled Brazil. I, along with a few other American students, went with this group to a weekend retreat at a small family ranch, where we participated in different types of icebreakers and other activities (in mainly Portuguese) to get to know and learn about each other. This photo is representative of my study abroad experience because these students played a major role in my time in Brazil. They helped me integrate more smoothly into Brazilian culture, despite the slight language barrier. Since most of them spoke a good amount of English, they were able to communicate with us while we were learning Portuguese and trying to negotiate cultural differences. ABU Viçosa members allowed American students to live in their apartments with them during their stay. These students were an awesome group of people who were very open, friendly, and helpful during a challenging, but interesting time.

MIA LARRIEUDepartment of Animal SciencesUniversity of Vicosa, summer 2013


During my semester abroad, I studied at Pon-tifícia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in Brazil. I took Ergonomics and Por-tuguese as well as International Economics. In my spare time I would take capoeira classes in Copacabana. I also volunteered at Stella Maris, a private school in the favela, teaching English to children ages 10-11 twice a week for one and a half hours each class. I found this program through PUC-Rio, coordinated by Educari. Our classes had three teachers and about eight stu-dents in each. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching the children, and found many differences in the way Brazilian students act inside the classroom compared to American students. It gave me an insight into how children in Brazil grow up.

Having the opportunity to go to Brazil has definitely changed my outlook on my future career as well as my way of thinking. I never imagined Brazil to be how it was. In the six months I spent there, I saw a noticeable change in my actions. The people in Rio de Janeiro are so kind and sweet towards foreigners; they take their time explaining directions and they actively try to communicate with everyone. I found this amazing. I realized that Americans in general are not as nice; we have little patience for people who cannot speak English well. The hospitality of the Cariocas was heartwarming. I feel like I have become a better person and actively try to talk and help others after seeing the Cariocas example. I also became more accepting of cultures; there were a lot of cultural differences such as being late for almost everything.

I was fortunate enough to be able to travel all over Brazil, to Foz do Iguaçu, Porto Alegre, the Amazon Rainforest, São Paulo, and various parts of Rio de Janeiro state. I was able to experience the difference in culture, from the Japanese colony in São Paulo, the Gauchos in the South and the Caboclos of the Amazon. I particularly feel I learned a lot on my trip to the Amazon, where I was able to see first-hand the deforestation as well as the survival practices kept by the families living on the rivers. As a student studying environmental economics it was quite the experience to see the actual effects that some industries have on the Amazon.

During the first half of my trip I stayed with a law professor from PUC-Rio who lent her rooms out to three other international students. Her apartment was lovely, and every other student was jealous of the good living conditions I had. Everyone in the household could speak English and so we would speak in English to each other. The apartment was in Copacabana, the heart

of Rio de Janeiro’s tourism. I was incredibly grateful to live in such a wonderful place, but I was also unhappy. My Portuguese was not improving because of the use of English and the people in the apartment usually stayed in their rooms.

I decided to look for a different apartment and found a place in one of the favelas. Since the communities are unmapped, I had to ask for help and I found the people in the communities to be the nicest I had ever met. They made sure I arrived at the right place and made sure that the person I was trying to locate was actually at his house. When he was not there, they helped me contact him as well as suggested a different location for me to check out. They brought me over to a hostel that also had monthly rates, and I instantly fell in love with the place. I moved in and I met some of the greatest people in my life. They would always look out for me, made sure I always had food and they treated me like I was their beloved sister. Living in the favela changed me greatly. I never knew that people could be so kind. My hostel fit my lifestyle incredibly well. Everyone would come up to the top floor every night and hang out. We rarely had temporary people stay for a couple of days, but we would always welcome them with open arms and try to get the word out about the hostel. It was always a collective effort and I could see that the whole community was involved in the success of the hostel.

The hostel was actively trying to be as environ-mentally sustainable as possible. The roof was made out of recycled Tetra Pak cartons, the ta-ble was a recycled old glass door on a recycled box and the rest of the furniture was all recycled materials. They painted the chairs to look nice and made quilted coverings for the sofa using old jeans. They had a variety of other practic-es as well, which attracted many companies to come visit. One of the companies was Ernst and Young. I had a chance to talk to them and find out that they were working on a project in the favelas to try to encourage people to start sus-tainable practices. They really opened my eyes to coming back to Brazil and working in the favelas with their program. What they were do-ing sounded exactly like what I was interested in and they told me that they might be able to get me a job when I graduate.

I would never have been able to meet with the group from Ernst and Young if I did not live in the favela, if the people in the community did not help me find a different place to stay. After I graduate I would love to go back to Brazil to work and plan to keep up with my Portuguese.

The Lemann Scholarship program helped me gain this educational experience and helped me see a part of the world that is very hard to understand without actually going there and experiencing first-hand the culture and the people. It also helped greatly with improving my Portuguese language skills. Being fully immersed in a country where Portuguese is the first language forced me to use the language and improve. The people who did not speak any English were kind enough to take the time to explain things in simpler Portuguese so that I would be able to understand. It will help me in the future when I am looking for a job in Brazil, since I would already be able to communicate with people. I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity and I believe that my life will go in a completely different direction because of it. It has opened up many more opportunities for me and I have met many different people from all over the world.

I had dreamed of going to Brazil since my junior year in high school, when I met a professor from the University of São Paulo while studying abroad in Japan. I had met him on a school excursion and he was traveling with a different group of international tourists. He opened my eyes to the chance to study abroad in a completely different country, I had not really thought about Brazil being a destination for me. But after talking to him, I had it set in my mind that I would go to Brazil the first chance I got. Originally, I wanted to go to USP so that I would be able to meet the professor again and tell him how he changed my educational path. I was happy to see that the University of Illinois had a program to go to USP. However, due to uncertainty about being able to renew the exchange program contract, I was advised to go to a different university. The study abroad office suggested going to Minas Gerais but with the Federal University strikes, I decided that I would like to go to a private university where I would not be affected by the strikes. The study abroad office suggested PUC-Rio but told me the application was due in three days , on Monday, and since it was about to be the weekend, no one would be in the office to help me. I decided to give the application a try and was able to get into PUC-Rio. I think that this series of events has led me to one of the greatest experiences of my life. I am really thankful that I was able to have help from the Lemann Scholarship to be able to live one of my dreams.

HOMARI ODADepartment of Agricultural and Consumer EconomicsPontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), sping 2013


I feel very fortunate to have received the Lemann Scholarship for Brazilian Studies because it has given me the opportunity to explore a new part of the world while studying international agribusiness. I spent my first two weeks in Brazil as part of the International Business Immersion Program and my last two weeks doing some exploration on my own. Both of these experiences were very rewarding because they allowed me to gain both professional and cultural perspectives of this amazing country.

IBIP allowed me to see Brazilian agribusiness at its source. As a student studying Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Portuguese, this was my dream. I was able to see one of the world’s largest agricultural lending firms, Rabobank. Here we were able to have a discussion with a board of their economic analysts about different agricultural commodities that Brazil produces, such as sugarcane, soy, beef, and milk. We also met with representatives at the Monsanto headquarters in São Paulo. It was an excellent opportunity for us to learn more about the company and how it operates in South America. While there were many company visits, my favorite visit was to the Ambev distribution center in Rio de Janeiro. While free samples were not given out, it was amazing to learn about how much market share Ambev has in Brazil. This company owns nearly three quarters of the beverage market. It is truly amazing, especially when you realize that it is impossible to turn your head without seeing an advertisement for one of Ambev’s many product offerings. My second two weeks was spent exploring and visiting my girlfriend who came to the University of Illinois as part of Brazil’s Science without Borders Program, but had returned to complete her education at the Universidade de Pelotas in Rio Grande Do Sul. This was one of my favorite experiences because I was able to be there for her birthday and enjoy a true gaucho barbecue with her family. I found a new family in Brazil and wouldn’t have been able to have such an amazing experience if I hadn’t been accepted into the IBIP program. We spent our final week together in a hostel near the Christ the Redeemer statue in Corcovado. This gave me a chance to see as many sights as possible and enjoy some quality time with Fernanda.

This short week gave me a pause from the hustle and bustle of the IBIP program, and gave me some time to relax and soak in the culture. I was

able to try new food, practice my Portuguese, and even hang glide off a cliff in Rio. I fell in love with Brazil and realized that I needed to return. The IBIP program and this scholarship has allowed me the opportunity to do explore a part of the world and also to spend some time with my beautiful girlfriend, Fernanda. I want to thank the Lemann family for their donation and for providing me the opportunity to explore my interest in Brazil.

This is a photo of me and Fernanda in front of the Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro which overlooks the entire city. Fernanda came to Illinois to pursue her research on cancer. She has been instrumental in helping me learn Portuguese, which has helped me experience Brazil in a way that would never have been possible. I greatly enjoyed my immersion into Brazilian culture and am already planning for my next study abroad experience.

MATTHEW NOLANDepartment of Agricultural and Consumer Economics Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, São Paulo, ACES International Business Immersion Program


Appendix E / 2013-2014 Lemann Lectures, Promoted and Sponsored Events

NAME AFFILIATION TITLE DATE

Tania Ionin & Elaine Grolla University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Experimental Investigation of Second and Third Language Acquisition in Brazil

August 27, 2013

Peter Beattie Michigan State University Human Rights and Brazil’s Intractable Poor: Flooging, the Death Penalty, and Slavery’s Abolition in Comparative Perspective

September 26, 2013

Philippe Faucher University of Montreal Understanding the Failure of the Brazilian Developmental State

October 22, 2013

Antônio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães

University of São Paulo Postcolonial Studies and Afro-Brazilian Studies February 4, 2014

Matthew S. Winters University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Credibility and Specificity: When do Brazilian Voters Act on Information about Corruption

February 11, 2014

Nadya Araújo Guimarães University of São Paulo Labor Flexibility in a Flexible Market – Intermediaries and Its Workers in Brazil

February 18, 2014

Renato Villela Secretary of Finance of State of Rio de Janeiro

Current Issues on Fiscal Federalism in Brazil and their Macroeconomic Implications

March 7, 2014

Carlos Araújo Mackenzie Agribusiness, Brazil Overview of Brazil Agribusiness – Brazil: World’s Supermarket

March 11, 2014

Brodwyn Fischer University of Chicago Unequal Ties: The Everyday Politics of Survival in Recife, 1870-1900

March 18, 2014

Samuel Araújo Cold War Politics and the Arts in Brazil: Reappraising Guerra-Peixe’s Empirical Research on Northeastern Traditional Music (1950-1952)

March 19, 2014

Francisco H. G. Ferreira The World Bank, African Region Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

April 1, 2014

Marcelo Cavalcanti University of Cambridge (Mis) Allocation Effect of an Overpaid Public Sector

April 9, 2014

Juliana Guimarães Cavalcanti University of Cambridge Less Inequality, More Welfare: A Structural Analysis for Brazil

April 10, 2014

Ana Lúcia Kassouf ESALQ – University of São Paulo Child Labor: The Brazilian Experiences and Challenges

April 11, 2014

Raul Silveira Federal University of Pernambuco Pro Poor Economic Growth in Brazilian Northeast: the Evidence for the Periods 1991-2000 and 2000-2010

April 14, 2014

Rogério de Souza Farias University of Brazilia Industrialists, Economists, Diplomats and Congressmen: Brazil and the Rise of Postwar Trade Negotiations (1946-1967)

April 22, 2014

Wendy Wolford Cornell University Rediscovering Africa? The Role of Brazilian Experts and Expertise in Mozambican Agriculture

April 29, 2014


Appendix F / Lemann Conferences

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013

2:00 – 3:00 PM: REGISTRATION

3:00 – 3:30 PM: WELCOMING REMARKS

• Ambassador Paulo Camargo, Consul General, Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago

• Mary Arends-Kuenning, Interim Director, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Associate Professor for Brazil Studies, Brazil Studies Program, Harvard University

• Gustavo Azenha, Director of Graduate Studies, MARSLAC, Associate Director, Center for Brazilian Studies, Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University

• Tassia Cruz, Fellow, Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil, Stanford University

• Phyllis Wise, Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3:30 – 5 PM: AGRIBUSINESS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGESModerator: Thomas J. Trebat, Director of the Columbia Global Center in Rio de Janeiro

• Geraldo Bueno Martha, Coordinador do Sistema Agropensa, EMBRAPA

• Peter Goldsmith, Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Food and Agribusiness Management Program (FAM), Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois

• Rachael Garrett, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University (and recent Stanford Ph.D.)

5:00 – 5:15 PM: BREAK

5:15 – 6:15 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Guilherme Lacerda, Director of Social Infrastructure, Environment, Agriculture and Social Inclusion, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento - BNDES

6:15 – 8:00 PM: RECEPTION, ALICE B. CAMPBELL HALL ATRIUM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013

8:30 – 10:00 AM: LAND DISTRIBUTIONModerator: Werner Baer, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Economics, University of Illinois

• Bernardo Mueller, Professor of Economics, Universidade de Brasilia

• Lee Alston, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado

10:00 – 10:15 AM: BREAK

10:15 – 11:45 AM: IMPACT OF BIOFUELS PRODUCTION ON LABOR AND LAND USEModerator: Jody Endres, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of Illinois

• Tom Rogers, Associate Professor of History, Emory University

• Marcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, Professor, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Department of Economics, Sociology and Administration, USP/ESALQ

• Hayri Onal, Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM: LUNCH

1:15 – 2:45 PM: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTModerator: Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

• Fabiano Toni, Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Development, Universidade de Brasília

• Tatiana Deane de Abreu Sá, Researcher, Embrapa Amazonia Oriental

• Carlos Azzoni, Director of the Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da USP

2:45 – 4:15 PM: CLIMATE CHANGEModerator: Jesse Ribot, Professor of Geography and Director of the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative, University of Illinois

• Walter Baethgen, Director, Regional and Sectorial Research Program and Leader, Latin America and Caribbean, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

• Clóvis Cavalcanti, Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Researcher, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco and President of Honors of the Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica (EcoEco)

• David Gustafson, Environmental and Agriculture Policy Modeling Lead, Monsanto

4:15 – 4:30 PM: BREAK

4:30 – 5:30 PM: NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: WOOD AND WATERModerator: Jerry Dávila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History, University of Illinois

• Francisco Assis de Souza Filho, Head of Ph.D. and Master’s Program in Water Resources and Environmental Hydraulics and Environmental Department, Federal University of Ceará

• Ariaster Chimeli, Associate Professor of Economics, Ohio University

5:30 – 5:45 PM: CLOSING REMARKS

THIRD LEMANN DIALOGUEAGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN BRAZIL

NOVEMBER 7-8, 2013ALICE B. CAMPBELL ALUMNI CENTER

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

5 8 A P P E N D I X F : L E M A N N C O N F E R E N C E S

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013

1:45 – 2:00 PM: OPENING CEREMONY• Joaquim Guilhoto (Chairman, Department of

Economics, USP)

• Carlos Luque (President, Fipe)

• Mary-Ann Arends Kuenning (Director, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois)

2:00 – 2:40 PM: INFRASTRUCTURE AND GROWTH IN BRAZIL• Tiago Vieira (BNDES) - (21) 2172-6116 ou

(21) 9287-0537

2:40 – 3:20 PM: THE BRAZILIAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM’S BOTTLENECKS: PHYSICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, INSTITUTIONAL• Wagner Colombini, Transportation

Engineering Department, USP and President, Logit

3:20 – 3:40 PM: COFFEE BREAK

3:40 – 4:20 PM: BRAZILIAN ELECTRICITY SECTOR: CHALLENGES FOR THE GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY • Erik Rego, Production Engineering

Department, USP

4:20 – 5:00 PM: INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE BRAZILIAN COMPETITIVENESS IN THE AGRIBUSINESS • Carlos Bacha, ESALQ USP, Piracicaba

5:00 – 6:00 PM: GUEST SPEAKER • Nelson Siffert, Head of the Infrastructure

Department, BNDES – National Development Bank

6:00 – 6:30 PM: FIPE AT 40

6:30 – 8:00 PM: RECEPTION - FEAUSP

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

9:00 – 9:40 AM: INFRASTRUCTURE IN MIDDLE EASTERN DEVELOPMENT• Hadi Esfahani, University of Illinois

9:40 – 10:20 AM: TRANSPORTATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BRAZIL AND INDIA• Werner Baer (Univ of Illinois) and Rahul

Sirohi (University of Illinois)

10:20 – 10:50 AM: COFFEE BREAK

10:50 – 11:30 AM: PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION UNDER CONDITIONS OF INSUFFICIENT CITIZEN DEMAND: INSIGHTS FROM THE URBAN SANITATION SECTOR IN INDONESIA• Matthew S. Winters, Univ. of Illinois

11:30 – 12:00 PM: HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF INFRASTRUCTURE • Jerry Davila, University of Illinois –

comments by Joe Love (or vice-versa)

12:00 – 12:30 PM: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND BRAZIL’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT • Ed Amann (Univ. of Manchester) and

Werner Baer (Univ of Illinois)

12:30 – 2:00 PM: LUNCH BREAK

2:00 – 2:40 PM: ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE BY THE POOR IN BRAZIL • Mary Arends Kuenning, University of Illinois

2:40 – 3:30 PM: THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY: TRACKING THE WIDER IMPACTS OF THE SÃO PAULO SUBWAY SYSTEM • Eduardo Haddad, FEAUSP, NEREUS

3:30 – 4:00 PM: COFFEE BREAK

4:00 – 4:40 PM: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN BRAZIL• Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante and Fernanda De

Negri, IPEA – 061 3315-5341

4:40 – 5:20 PM: TOPIC TO BE DEFINED • Thomas Trebat and Nicholas Trebat,

Columbia Global Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

5:20 – 6:20 PM: GUEST SPEAKER• Gesner Oliveira, Professor of Economics

FGV SP; Partner, GO Associados; former president of Sabesp – State of Sao Paulo Water Provision Agency; former president of CADE – National Council for the Defense of Competition; organizer of the book Parcerias Público-Privadas - Experiências, Desafios e Propostas, LTC Editora, 2013

6:20 – 6:30 PM: CLOSING CEREMONY

8:00 PM: DINNER

GROWTH WITHOUT INFRASTRUCTUREA CHALLENGING SCENARIO FOR BRAZIL AND OTHER EMERGING COUNTRIES

NOVEMBER 21-22, 2013FEAUSP, SALA DA CONGREGAÇÃO, CIDADE UNIVERSITÁRIA

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL


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