interdisciplinary sciences
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on July 28, 2014
Throughout July the department once again opened its doors to prospective students, offering taster lectures, talks on how the natural sciences course is designed, and displaying a host of material made by undergraduates over the years. As well as the seemingly endless biscuits, it’s always great to hear the aspirations of A-level students, and from a potential […]
Posted in Internship, Work | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, hopfield network, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, neural networks, open days, student blog, Sure Programme, University of Leicester
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on July 16, 2014
Today was graduation for natural sciences students, and despite having one more year to go several of us undergraduates went along to the reception to say goodbye. I was also lucky enough to receive the third year prize for best project, so there were handshakes to be had for that! It was a really great […]
Posted in Graduation | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, Graduation, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, prizes, student blog, University of Leicester
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 […]
Posted in Volunteering | Tagged A-Level, centre of interdisciplinary science, Headstart Summer School, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, MIRA Technology Park, natsci, Natural Sciences, PhD, Professor Ken Pounds, student blog, The National Space Centre, University of Leicester, x-ray astronomy
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on June 22, 2014
With all work handed in and every exam finished, there was still the last bits of paper work to do in handing over the Interdisciplinary Science Society to the new committee. Student-run societies at Leicester are rated by the students’ union annually to be either unrated, bronze, silver or gold, the result of which depends […]
Posted in Societies | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, I-science society, Interdisciplinary Science Society, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, IScience Society, natsci, Natural Sciences, student blog, University of Leicester
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 […]
Posted in Future | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, Headstart Summer School, highlights, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, Palaeoclimate and Climate Modelling, reflections, student blog, Sure Programme, The I-Science and Physics Summer Ball, third year, University of Leicester
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on May 28, 2014
As promised, here’s some photos from The Inaugural Employability Symposium hosted by the Interdisciplinary Science Society. This event was months in the making, working in collaboration with both the Career Development Service and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, and fortunately it turned out to be a success! We had speakers from the geosciences company CGG, […]
Posted in Societies | Tagged alumni, centre of interdisciplinary science, cgg, dstl, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, Isci soc, isci society, natsci, Natural Sciences, serjeants, student blog, teach first, the inaugural employability symposium, the interdisciplinary science society, The National Space Centre, University of Leicester, whitecode associates
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on May 22, 2014
With the end of term now just weeks away, my days are currently filled with climate proxies, programming, and thinking of every question that could possibly come up for my project viva now just days away… Unlike a lot of courses, natural sciences has core modules running in all three terms, which, for my year, […]
Posted in Future, Graduation, Studying | Tagged Anthropocene, anthropogenic climate change, centre of interdisciplinary science, Climate Change, climate proxies, inaugural Employability Symposium, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, N-body simulations, natsci, Natural Sciences, student blog, University of Leicester, viva
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on April 14, 2014
With the exams that marked the end of term fast becoming a distant memory, the mass exodus for Easter has reduced the campus to a refuge for those engrossed in dissertations or revision. I fall into the first camp, now trying to piece together the past 20 weeks of project work into a coherent report. […]
Posted in Dissertation, Societies, Stress | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, Easter, inaugural Employability Symposium, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, project, stress, student blog, thesis, University of Leicester
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on April 7, 2014
With this being a blog about the experiences of a science undergraduate, I thought I’d post some of my favourite resources related to science that I find myself visiting. Many of these inspired and continue to inspire me to pursue science, and I hope they do the same for you. Periodic Videos/Sixty Symbols/Deep Sky Videos/Numberphile […]
Posted in Leisure | Tagged Astronomy Cast, Bad Astronomy, being a scientist, Better Explained, Brady Haran, carl sagan, centre of interdisciplinary science, Deep Sky Videos, Frasier Cain, inspiration, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, Kalid Azad, Little Atoms, Martyn Poliakoff, natsci, Natural Sciences, Numberphile, Period Videos, Phil Plait, Reid Gower, Richard Feynman, Sixty Symbols, student blog, Universe Today, University of Leicester
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on March 26, 2014
With the final project seminar drawing to a close, the panic for the approaching final deadline was mediated only with thoughts of this Friday’s exams, making this week pretty hectic in terms of collecting final sets of data while revising the past few months of material! On the Natural Sciences degree, your project is assessed […]
Posted in Dissertation, Exams, Reseach, Studying | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, density functional theory, electronic structure theory, enceladus, Exams, helium nanodroplets, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, JIST, metal foam, natsci, Natural Sciences, project, project seminars, skiing, student blog, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Special Topics, The Winter Olympics, University of Leicester
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