Wednesday 16 March 2011

Are you a geek? It's National Science week...woooo!


It is very hard to stop global warming or to have a chat with a deaf person. How do you listen to someone who can’t speak?

Today Professor Anne Glover and Dr Annalu Waller will speak about the role of science as a global and personal problem solver, in events coordinated by the National Science and Engineering Week.

The NSEW is the UK’s annual celebration of discovery and invention overseen by the British Science Association. In Aberdeen the festival is hosted by the BSA’s Aberdeen Branch and the University of Aberdeen.

BSA’s local chairman, Dr Ken Skeldon said: “We try to bring people of all ages and interests face to face with some of the science that’s happening in the area, some of it cutting edge.”

Professor Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland, will discuss the value of science for Scotland and its role in addressing global problems this afternoon in the Macaulay Land Use Institute.

Dr Annalu Waller from the University of Dundee will discuss how barriers of communication, such as deafness, can be overcome. The event is tonight at Waterstones on Union Bridge.

Tom Horner, Regional Program’s assistant from the BSA office in London, told that last year the NSEW hosted around 4,000 events and reached about two million visitors.

He said: “The Big Bang Fair in London marked the start of the NSEW and our schedule tries to build things up during the week to create a bit of a buzz.”

The NSEW will end on March 21st.

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