The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Volume 5
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics (JIST) volume 5 is currently being compiled; new papers have and will be added to it over the next few weeks making for another interesting instalment in the journal. For those of you that are unfamiliar with JIST I’ll summarise it briefly: JIST is a student journal run by […]
LIGO and Love
Hello, my name is Osarenkhoe and I’ll be taking over the Natural Science Blog for the duration of the academic year. I’m currently in the fourth and final year of the course. A large portion of this year has and will continue to be spent working on my research project, studying nanoparticles produced using a […]
The Tenth Anniversary of Natural Sciences
Today was a significant day for the natural sciences course here at Leicester, where alumni, students, staff, contributors to the degree and the general public were invited to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Dr Kevin Fong gave a talk on his career as an interdisciplinary scientist, spanning an education in astrophysics and medicine, before embarking on […]
The launch of Frontier Magazine and changing student culture
It’s been several years in the making, but last month the first issue of Frontier went on offer for free across campus. Run by postgraduates, the magazine aims to showcase the many areas of research going on at Leicester, pitched at an accessible level for those outside the discipline. The idea here is to […]
BBC Stargazing Live comes to Leicester
Last week, the University of Leicester was lucky enough to be picked as the host of events for BBC Stargazing Live in the East Midlands. For those of you that don’t know, Stargazing Live is a three day long, live, BBC Two programme hosted by Dara Ó Briain and Brain Cox which first started in […]
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