RAG Week 2018
UoL Orchestra performs in the snow. Every February, universities across the UK participate in ‘Raising and Giving’ (RAG) Week, and here at Leicester we’ve been giving it all we’ve got. This year it also coincides with ‘Wellbeing Week’, making the campus a pretty positive place to be. Despite not being very musical myself […]
Rounding off the end of term and the Natural Sciences Newsletter
As 5pm came around students from all years of the degree gathered at the nearest pub in the tradition of celebrating the end of second term exams, and although fourth years are no longer subjected to such things it was still apt as a send off for Easter! The week also saw the end of […]
UCAS Days and Energy Efficiency
Around this time of year the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science hosts a series of UCAS days to prospective students, offering a tour of the labs, seminar rooms, the department’s research and computer suites, along a talk giving an overview of the course, an informal interview, and even a free lunch! For someone thinking of going […]
Headstart Summer School 2014
Today marks the end of this year’s Headstart Summer School, where A-Level students descend on the university to get a feel of what it’s like to be a natural sciences or physics student here. As one of the volunteers, I’ve spent the last week building rockets, studying meteorites, identifying bacterial DNA strands and much much […]
UCAS days, society meals and the IOP conference
On the 19th of February one of the UCAS days was held at Leicester, where prospective students that have selected the university as one of their options are invited to find out more about what being a student here is like. For natural sciences students, this means a lunch with current students and staff, an […]
Exams, Stargazing Live and Engineering Cells
After a rush to meet every deadline, the term kicked off with two exams on Monday for the Evolution and Nanoscience and Molecular Biology modules, followed by a well-earned drink. Reuniting with all the years had to be cut short however, as pre reading was already required to start the next core module today! For […]
Being a Course Rep
With induction week over, third year is now underway with linear algebra, programming, molecular evolution, a journal club, and a lot of papers on solvating metals in helium nanodroplets. The first social event held by the I-Science Society is also now just around the corner, with laser tag taking place this coming Monday, and it […]
GENIE and Dynamic DNA
The annual Dynamic DNA event hosted by the GENIE project took place this week, with over five hundred students from thirteen schools passing through Leicester’s doors in just two days, and this year I decided to volunteer in running some of the activities. GENIE, or Genetics Education Networking for Innovation and Excellence, is essentially a […]
Summer Internships and Volunteering
This summer I was lucky enough to join the materials and interfaces research group in the chemistry department for a project that looks to be taking me right through to September. Even with the academic year over, it’s becoming increasingly common to take internships over the holidays, especially in the sciences. And while you will […]
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