Rosalind Franklin is a Google Doodle!

The X-ray crystallographer who helped determine the Structure of DNA but who sadly died and thereby missed out on the Nobel Prize (only awarded to living scientists). Perhaps she should also be a candidate for a British bank-note, eh Bank of England?
You can read more about her in this Grllscientist blog article

European Antibiotic Awareness Day Competition 2013

Have you got an innovative approach to teaching? Would you like to share this with others?

If so, then why not take part in the e-Bug competition to support European Antibiotic Awareness Day?

To enter, send us a video recording, YouTube link or written lesson plan with photos of how you inform your students about antibiotics, to e-bug@phe.gov.uk>.

There are great prizes on offer for the winning teacher and for their school, so get your thinking caps on as the deadline for entries is July 26th.

Visit  http://www.e-bug.eu/games_home.aspx?cc=eng&ss=1&t=e-Bug%20Games for more information.

Claire

Claire Joyner

e-bug Project Assistant

Public Health England | Primary Care Unit | Microbiology Department | Gloucester Royal Hospital | Great Western Road | Gloucester | GL1 3NN

e-mail:  claire.joyner@phe.gov.uk

Tel:         0300 422 5067

www.gov.uk/phe>   Follow us on Twitter@PHE_uk

Free school places at Science Museum Live show

Free tickets for schools to Science Museum Live show

The Science Museum is offering 300 free places for schools to the brand new theatre production, The Energy Show. See bubbles set alight to create fireballs, liquid nitrogen exploding underwater and hydrogen rockets fired into the audience. It’s the perfect end-of-term trip for KS2 and KS3. Free tickets are allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis (up to 60 places per school). To book your school visit call 020 7942 4750. The show is also running across the summer holidays for a great family day out.

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Free online astronomy course

This may be of use to people with an interest in astronomy:-

In an exciting initiative, Curtin University invites you and your students to join us in our first free online study subject.

Titled Discovering the Universe through Science and Technology, the subject focuses on astronomy and will explore topics such as the evolution of the universe, the future of astronomy and the role technology plays in new discoveries.

The subject can be used as a unique teaching tool to get your students excited about science. Students will benefit from innovative features such as the use of a night sky simulation, and learn from scientists involved in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, a multibillion-dollar development that will build the most powerful radio telescope in history.

Discovering the Universe through Science and Technology will be delivered through the Open Universities Australia platform Open2Study and runs for four weeks from 1 July. Enrolments are now open.

The subject requires two to four hours of study per week, and a basic understanding of mathematics is desirable. Students who successfully complete the subject will receive a certificate of achievement they can use to demonstrate their interest in and passion for science.

To enrol or to find out further details about the subject and its modules, go here https://www.open2study.com/subjects/astronomy-discovering-the-universe-through-science-and-technology

OU/RCN competition£5000 course fees for nursing/healthcare CPD

If you're training for a career in Nursing/healthcae - hi competition may be worh entering...

Win Open University modules worth up to £5,000 to support your professional development in nursing and healthcare
http://www.open.ac.uk/platform/news-and-features/win-open-university-modules-worth-%C2%A35000-support-your-professional-development-in-n?LKCAMPAIGN=pf1306&MEDIA=pf1306stu_gen_103
Working in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing, the OU is offering an opportunity for nurses and healthcare support staff to win sponsorship for OU study up to the value of £5,000. 

Funding will enable the competition winner to study part-time towards an OU qualification in nursing or healthcare or individual modules for continuing professional development.

Who can enter?Anyone who is a registered nurse or member of healthcare support staff working in the UK can enter:

• Healthcare support workers/healthcare assistants
• Registered nurses
• Senior practitioners, healthcare leaders and managers

What's the prize?
The prize is 120 credits of fully funded undergraduate or postgraduate study with the OU in England (equivalent to one year’s full-time study) and will fund more than 120 credits of study if the winner is based in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. The winner can study their chosen course part-time, flexibly over two years – studying with the OU means you won’t have to give up your current role or take significant time out of work.

Find out full details and how to enter.  Closing date for entries is Friday 5th July 2013

Middle of Scotland Science Festival May 4th/5th 2013

If you are science lovers and in Scotland on May 5th & 6th - you may find this useful/interesting.

Middle of Scotland Science Festival

MoSSFest

Crianlarich May 4 & 5

A new science festival in Crianlarich from the British Science Association, West Scotland

Events for all ages

All events are Free!

Crianlarich Village Hall,

Sat & Sun 10am-4pm

Science Fun

Hands-on science | the Energy Show |Cosmic Way Roadshow |Sungazing

Films|Planetarium shows and much more.

Crianlarich Parish Church| Sat & Sun10-4pm

Art meets Science Exhibitions and Film

Chips with Flair | Cosmic Way exhibition | Who has STEM Cells? | Unity Principle

Film:Torque- Energy and Wind Turbines explored in Music and Dance (Sun 12.45)

Station Tea Rooms| Sat & Sun10-4pm

CTR Wilson and The Cosmic Way

Find out more about Scotland’s only Nobel Prize winner in Physics

..try some Cosmic Snacks too!

Crianlarich Hotel|Sat 5 - 10pm

An evening of entertaining Science

Star Wars IV - a new hope, a special film screening and Science of Star Wars Talk, 5pm

Fun Quiz with a Science theme, 8pm

Crianlarich Youth Hostel|Sat from 10pm

Watching the Night Sky

Stargazing with University of Glasgow Astronomers

Check the website and twitter for latest information

@mossfest       tinyurl.com/bsa-wsbranch

MoSSfest  (Middle of Scotland Science Festival)

Crianlarich

Saturday/Sunday, 4/5 May 2013

@mossfest

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http://www.gla.ac.uk/cosmicway/

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

Happy 306th Birthday Euler!

Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory.
And very prevalent in the MT365 OU course....