Posted by David in Natural Sciences on October 31, 2014
Something that’s becoming increasingly apparent is just how much the fourth year is geared towards preparation for the world of research. Every other week fourth year natural sciences students present their progress in project seminars, where peers and staff discuss what direction to head in next. This can be really useful in giving points of […]
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Posted by David in Natural Sciences on August 31, 2014
Last Friday was the final day in the SURE programme here at Leicester, culminating in a day of presentations from all students involved. For the last six weeks I’ve been constructing different kinds of neural networks and seeing how classical and quantum mechanical models compare as a consistent model for associative memory. The idea is […]
Posted in Internship, Placement, Reseach | Tagged Interdisciplinary Science, internships, ISci, IScience, Leicester, natsci, Natural Sciences, neural networks, research, student blog, Sure Programme, University of Leicester
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 […]
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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 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 April 1, 2012
Like many of my fellow students, I am often prone to procrastination. Especially when a deadline starts getting close. For me, it is most commonly the internet that I spend the most time distracting myself with. It is always just so close at hand and there is always something I find that appears to be […]
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Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on February 29, 2012
Last week marked the official start of my designated ‘project time’. Being in my third year, one of my modules consists of a large piece of individual work that is termed our ‘project’. A while back we were all given a big list of projects that were available and we had to chose our favourite. […]
Posted in Dissertation, Reseach, Studying | Tagged dissertation, project, research
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