Posted by David in Natural Sciences on October 16, 2013
This week students from all years of I-science joined together in shooting each other with sometimes-working lasers for the nostalgic pleasure in seeing your assigned game character somewhere on the laser tag score board, and being the third in a series of annual first socials, it may have just been the best one yet. Big […]
Posted in Dissertation, Friends, Societies, Studying | Tagged academic seminars, Assignments, Chemistry, dissertation, I Science, I-science society, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, laser tag, Leicester, nat sci, natsci, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, project, research, tetrapod evolution
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on October 1, 2013
Sorry for the short break in blog posts – one of the benefits of doing natural sciences is that they aim to be a paperless course, which includes loaning laptops to students if they require them, but this also means over reliant students are without a computer while they are being updated during the summer […]
Posted in Dissertation, Societies | Tagged dissertation, I-science society, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary Science, Interdisciplinary Science Society, ISci, IScience, Leicester, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, project, research, Societes, student blog |
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on August 9, 2013
Time has flown past and my time at university seems to have come to an end as quickly as it began. Graduation is complete and I am now officially no longer a student at the University of Leicester! Before I started uni I was often told by people that had been to uni that it […]
Posted in Future, Graduation | Tagged Future, Graduation, Natural Science, Natural Sciences
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on July 30, 2013
Last week the university had two open days, which you can read about on Jo’s blog, and having helped out at quite a few of these a lot of the same questions tend to come up. I thought it might be useful to post a few of them here with a student’s perspective, along with […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged FAQ, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, natsci, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, open days, research-based degree, student blog, student perspective, University of Leicester
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on July 18, 2013
During the second year of the natural sciences course students have the opportunity to go on a two week field course in Kenya. Researchers at Leicester have been studying Lake Bogoria for a number of years now, owing to the unique ecosystem featuring one of the largest populations of flamingos in the world, and […]
Posted in Study Abroad, Studying | Tagged Fieldwork, I Science, Interdisciplinary Science, IScience, Kenya, Lake Bogoria, Land erosion, Leicester, natsci, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, Soil erosion, University of Leicester |
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on June 4, 2013
How did it come round so quickly? This is the question I have been thinking for the past few days. At 5pm this Friday all of my University submission will be finished. This last term has been hectic to say the least and I have been so busy working hard on my various modules that […]
Posted in Dissertation, Exams, Future, Stress, Work | Tagged Deadlines, Exams, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, Leicester, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, University
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on February 27, 2013
Last week it was time again for one of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science’s Research Seminar. These lecture events were started last year and aim to provide a lecture accessible to undergraduates and other non-experts to raise awareness of current interdisciplinary research topics. If you want to check out my first post on these lectures […]
Posted in Reseach, Studying | Tagged Brust, gold, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, lecture, Mathias, monolayer, nanoparticles, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, Professor, public, research, Schiffrin
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on February 19, 2013
This Sunday a large portion of my day was spent making a rather large number of cupcakes. The reason for this was that today was the day of our IScience society, charity cake sale. The event was held to raise money that will go towards purchasing much needed equipment for schools in Kenya. In particular, […]
Posted in Reseach, Study Abroad, Volunteering | Tagged bake, Bogoria, cake, charity, field work, I Science, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, Kenya, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, sale
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on January 28, 2013
Today marks the start of my second full week in my biochemistry lab were I am currently working on my 4th year project investigating pathways used to tell cells in the body to self destruct. I was very excited when I organised my final year project at the end of my third year. For my […]
Posted in Dissertation, Lab, Reseach | Tagged biocheistry, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, lab, Laboratory, Labs, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, project, research, Sciences
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on January 12, 2013
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 […]
Posted in News, Volunteering | Tagged BBC, Curiosity, I Science, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, Leicester, Live, Mars, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, Rover, Stargazing, Two, University
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