Headstart Summer School

One of the highlights at the National Space Centre: a solar panel recovered from the Hubble Space Telescope during a repair mission. Notice the small holes caused by micrometeorites!

Headstart Summer School 2014

Posted by David in Natural Sciences on July 4, 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 […]

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Sending off George in style before he left on the McMaster exchange program.

Reflections on Third Year

Posted by David in Natural Sciences on June 12, 2014

My third year ended with a final exam in Palaeoclimate and Climate Modelling, followed by the first joint I-Science (natural sciences) and Physics ball. Forgoing the cliché of saying every year seems to go by more quickly, this year really did feel like a large jump in training for a career as a scientist. I […]

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Headstart Summer School

Headstart Summer School 2014

Reflections on Third Year

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