WESTGATE SCIENCE CLUB FESTIVAL - OPEN EVENING - Friday 27th November 2015 'Making Science Cool' for all ages, Welcome to our annual Science Festival. Doors open 6.30 pm to see displays and interactive equipment. 7.15 pm for general presentations by the leaders and the children themselves. A touch of'Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. In the Westgate Church Building opposite the Picture House). Families, friends, visitors all welcome. Entry free. During the event there will be a 'Godspot', a short presentation - 5 mins), a Christian viewpoint of the evening...
A new exhibition at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) will appeal to visitors with an interest in art, science and both.
Starting on Saturday 21 November, Whatever the Weather exposes humanity’s relationship to the elements.
Constantly changeable, occasionally extreme and always unpredictable, the weather has always affected our lives. Our desire to understand, predict and control the weather has led us to invoke the gods and harness science and Whatever the Weather brings together a lively mix of historical paintings and prints, artefacts,...
An Exeter School scientist spent one month on a Nuffield research placement at Exeter University gaining an insight into scientific research.
Upper Sixth Former Robbie Bell spent four weeks in Exeter University's Biophysics department; running a research project alongside a lab partner, working nine to five, five days a week.
Robbie said the experience was incredibly independent and unique.
"No other work placement that I have seen gives the individual so much control over what they do, or trusts them with techniques so fully.
UK fisheries survey logbooks from the 1930s to 1950s have been digitised for the first time, revealing how cod responded to changing temperatures in the last century.
Scientists at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the University of Exeter found that at the time, the warm seas experienced around Norway benefitted the cod, similar to the conditions there today.
Most cod eaten by the UK comes from northern seas including the Barents Sea around Norway, because the stocks there at the moment are at record highs. Cod stocks were also big...
A festival which pulls science out of the lab and into the pub is coming to Exeter for the first time.
Pint of Science is a national hit, and now a local event is being organised by scientists at the University of Exeter who want to ensure some of the institution’s world-class research is publically accessible in a fun and informal environment.
Everyone is welcome to attend the evening sessions, held in some of the city’s best-loved pubs between May 18 and 20. As well as hearing first-hand about a wide range of cutting-edge research over a drink, the events will offer...
Karla-Luise Herpoldt, 26, from Newton St Cyres, near Exeter, is attending Parliament to present her science to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of SET for Britain on Monday 9 March.
Karla-Luise’s poster on her research into new ways of detecting HIV will be judged against dozens of other biologists’ research in the only national competition of its kind.
Karla-Luise, a final year PhD student at Imperial College London, was shortlisted from hundreds of applicants to appear in Parliament.
On presenting her science in Parliament, she said, “I...
The University of Exeter has received a £2 million gift from The Wolfson Foundation to support the establishment of a new Living Systems Institute, which will pioneer a new approach to treating the world’s most serious diseases.
The gift is the largest award made by The Wolfson Foundation in 2014 and constitutes the latest milestone in a long history of key contributions from the charity towards the advancement of science at Exeter.
The Living Systems Institute will bring together 200 cell and molecular biologists, mathematicians, physicists, biomedical scientists and...
Popular science communicator Dr Simon Singh, MBE visited Exeter School on Monday 10 November to give a talk for 700 school children from across Exeter and beyond.
They were fascinated to hear how physics is involved in everything from the Big Bang to The Simpsons. Dr Singh told them how developments in physics have allowed us to understand our universe, as well as develop new technologies which we all rely on, such as smartphones.
They discovered how studying the subject could lead to careers as diverse as creating Hollywood film animations or solving solutions to global...
Westgate Science Club Festival open evening - Friday 28th November 2014. For children of all ages.
Westgate Science Club - 'Making Science Cool', Welcome to our annual Science Festival. Doors open 6.30 pm to see displays and interactive equipment. 7.15 pm for general presentations by the leaders and the children themselves. A touch of' Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. In the Westgate Church Building (opposite the Picture House). Families, friends, visitors all welcome. Entry free. During the event there will be a 'Godspot', a short presentation...
The Institute of Directors has expanded its South West team with the appointment of Hannah Goodenough as head of Business Development for the region.
Hannah, who lives in Bath, will be based at the regional headquarters at the Science Park in Emerson's Green, Bristol, but will be responsible for retaining and attracting membership across the South West which has branches representing members in Bristol, Somerset, Bath and Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Dorset and Devon and Cornwall.
She brings significant expertise to the role, having headed up business development for a...
