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In my infinite wisdom, I’ve ended up booking myself to visit Oxford three separate times during my travels. Thus I decided to really take my time here. Starting off we began our visit with a guided tour of Oxford’s History of Science Museum and given an in-depth lesson on astrolabes. Photo 1: Astrolabe Esoteric in … Read more
As I chose my specialist lectures and other events months ago it can be hard to remember what I signed up for. Meeting up with my lecture group I learned that the first topic of the day would be a familiar one for me, particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Thankfully my current … Read more
We began our day, once again, on the bus, this time we were headed to the Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Though we travelled through the countryside, given the nature of modern science I assumed we were just travelling to another city centre. You can imagine my surprise when the bus dropped us off in the … Read more
Hello everyone and welcome to LIYSF day 5! After the long day trips and early mornings of the last couple of days it was nice to have our first event at 9:30 this morning; Who doesn’t love to wake up and start the day with a particle physics lecture? Being the first time I could … Read more
Finally, today is the day! Scoffing down breakfast I ran across town because today is the day! I waited anxiously because todays the day! Today is the day I visit Stonehenge! Unfortunately, Stonehenge is a bit of a drive from Kensington. Thus I tried my best to distract myself on the drive by reading here, … Read more
Thankfully, today was a calmer day. Opening with Professor Dame Molly Stevens’ principal lecture on her work developing biomatter for various medical applications. From the plethora of examples, some of my favourites included growing bones for transplant surgeries and a vaccine that provided both the initial dose and its booster after a pre-set time delay. … Read more
Waking up bright and early again, unfortunately, I was able to grab some wall adapters and finally felt like I was starting to settle in. With my phone charged and my body somewhat rested I was ready for our trip to London’s National Physical Laboratory, or NPL for short. Throughout all 300+ laboratories located at … Read more
Hello everyone, welcome to UFV’s 2024 LIYSF blog series written by yours truly, Connor Goodvin! Though I arrived in London yesterday, the opening ceremony events started today at 11:00 BST or 3 am in BC. This opening ceremony, in which I had the honour to bear Canada’s flag, was in no way the beginning of … Read more
A new partnership has launched between two of Canada’s leading agri-food research universities – the University of the Fraser Valley and the University of Guelph. Together, they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at advancing new pathways for sustainable innovation within Canada’s $140 billion food and agriculture industry. The agreement names long-time collaborators Dr. … Read more
Super Science Club is an after-school program for elementary students that UFV offers in collaboration with Science World. The goal of this program is to inspire children to be inquisitive about the world around them and to develop a long-term interest in science and technology. Science World provides paid training and UFV student facilitators use … Read more