Professor and coordinator of PPGAMSA, Sónia Carvalho-Ribeiro, will represent former student Argemiro Teixeira Leite-Filho and professor Britaldo Soares Filho at the CAPES Thesis Award ceremony, which will take place in Brasília on Thursday, December 14, 2023.

Leite-Filho’s work, entitled “Interactions between deforestation, climate change and agricultural production in the Cerrado and the Brazilian Amazon”, was chosen as the best in the area of ​​Environmental Sciences.

The award ceremony will begin at 4:20 pm, Brasília time, and will also be broadcast live on the official CAPES channel.