Brazil
Faculty & Students
- 13 Western faculty members have received graduate or professional degrees from a university in Brazil
- In 2015-16, 1 undergraduate student and 28 graduate students from Brazil attended Western.
Publications
Between 2012 and 2016, Western researchers co-authored and published 278 articles, meeting abstracts, reviews, proceeding papers, editorial materials, or book chapters with researchers at Brazilian institutions. Top five institutions with which collaborations occurred:
- Universidade de São Paulo
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Universidade Federal de São Paulo UNIFESP
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Partner Institutions
- Escola de Administraçao de Empresas de Sao Paulo da Fundaçao Getulio Vargas
- Federal University of Pernambuco
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Federal University of Santa Catarina
- National Institute for Space Research
- Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas
- Universidade Federal da Bahia
- University of São Paulo
Alumni
- Approximately 40 Western alumni are living in Brazil
Other Connections
- Western Sociology professor Ted Hewitt is the Canadian co-chair of the Canada Brazil Joint Committee for Cooperation on Science, Technology and Innovation, a member of the board of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce, and was named commander of the Order of Rio Branco by Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2002.
- Schulich Dentistry’s Dr. Walter Siqueira has collaborated with multiple institutions in his home country of Brazil. He accepts many students from Brazil through the RISE Globalink Research Internship Program.