Internships & visits
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Teaching and learning experience at Yonsei University
The following blog is contributed by Dan Davies of the '14 cohort. At Easter time this year, in order to finally break out of the annual habit of stuffing my face with inadvisably large quantities of chocolate, I travelled to...
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Durham Rietveld Refinement & Powder Diffraction School 2016
This post was contributed by Oli Weber This week I left the relatively safe confines of Bath behind to traverse the country diagonally up to Durham, a well-travelled route since Medieval times, when pilgrims would visit the shrine of St. Cuthbert...
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Science by the Sea: APS Meeting 2016 and Visiting Duke University
The following blog is written by Suzy Wallace. This year the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting was held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA from the 14th to 18th of March. I was fortunate enough to attend a tutorial day before the conference and...
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A Chemical Engineer on a Project Management internship at Wessex Water
PhD student, Jon Chouler, went on a three-month internship with Wessex Water in Bath. We asked him how he got on. First of all, how did you find this internship? One word: Persistence! In the process of finding a placement, I made sure to...
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Three Month Placement at Northwestern University and Pacifichem in Hawaii
This post is contributed by Rob Chapman. At the end of August 2015, I had the opportunity to go and spend three months working for Professor Karl Scheidt at Northwestern University, just north of Chicago. Whilst in the group I was...
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WildWise Residential: teepee tents, deer skinning, Predator and Mafia.
As a team-building activity each year, the first year CSCT students go on a residential course that challenges their understanding of the natural world, and the nature of the balance that humans have with it. This year, cohort ’15 spent a few days exploring these...
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MOFs with Curtin University in Australia
Our third year CSCT student Jessica Bristow undertook a six week internship at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Here’s what she had to say about her experience: Developing computational methods to resolve structural and materials properties of MOFs (Metal-Organic Frameworks)...
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Biomaterials with University of São Paulo in Brazil
Our third year CSCT student Marcus Johns undertook a three month internship at University of São Paulo, one of our partners in Brazil. Here’s what he had to say about his experience: Improving the bio-functionality of cellulose in order to use...
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Green Catalysis with the National University of Singapore
First year CSCT student Michael Joyes visited the Lab of Green Catalysis group at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as part of the Global Collaboration Scheme. The aim was to produce metal-Graphene catalysts for use in the conversion of carbon dioxide...
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CSCT Cohort '14 visit the Eden Project
From the 4th-7th November 2014, the '14 CSCT cohort ventured down to Cornwall to embark on a team building residential at the Eden Project. Student Florence Jeffrey recalls the experience. Day 1 Setting off from Bath on a very wet...