From July 6-12, the fourth edition of this IFT-Perimeter-SAIFR school took place with 65 of the top undergraduate students from all over Latin America. Minicourses on cosmology, high energy astrophysics, quantum field theory and nonlinear systems applied to biology were presented, and the highest-scoring students were accepted to a joint master`s program involving one year at either Perimeter Institute or the CUNY/Princeton Center for the Physics of Biological Function and one year at SAIFR/IFT-UNESP.

On July 28, ICTP-SAIFR organized two roundtable discussions on the scientific and organizational aspects of large-scale collaborations in astronomy and cosmology. Panelists included the science director of FAPESP together with researchers from CERN, Tel Aviv U., Leiden U. and USP, ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP and ON in Brazil

ICTP-SAIFR recently created a website for receiving donations from both private individuals and companies. These donations allow us to attract the top researchers and graduate students to our center, to expand our schools and workshops that train the next generation of physicists, and to engage the general public and high-school students and teachers through our diverse outreach activities.

On August 16, the private non-profit Serrapilheira Institute awarded ICTP-SAIFR with a generous one-year donation for its outreach and research activities. This donation will be used to support ICTP-SAIFR's outreach coordinators who organize activities for high-school students and teachers as well as the general public, and to supplement the funding of ICTP-SAIFR scientific researchers.

Jointly organized by researchers from ICTP-Trieste (Paolo Creminelli and Mehrdad Mirbabayi), ICTP-SAIFR (Rogerio Rosenfeld) and USP-São Paulo (Raul Abramo), this school was held at ICTP-SAIFR from July 22- August 2. The School provided students with the tools for understanding current issues in modern cosmology such as how recent observations can be used to constrain cosmological models and parameters.