Public Awareness and Understanding of Science

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Editorial September 2009

The Power of Science By Professor William Reville, UCC


College of Science Engineering and Food Science (SEFS)

Annual Graduate Newsletter & Report 2009

Keeping you in touch with developments in Science, Engineering and Food Science at UCC.

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Public Lecture Series 2009. More >>>

See the recently added content for Scientific Quotations, Science and Humour and Quizzes/ Puzzles

Films of Recent UCC Faculty of Science Public Lectures. See below

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Contacts: Users of this site are invited to contact the Editor with letters on current scientific issues, comments on the site, suggestions for improvements, and so on.

Editor: Professor William Reville, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Tel: +353 (0)21 4904127, +353 (0)21 4904369, Fax: +353 (0)21 4904452, e-mail: w.reville@ucc.ie

Films of Recent UCC Faculty of Science Public Lectures:

Autism; Biochemistry of Health and Mood; Brittle Bones; Cancer; Climate Change; Eugenics and Nazis; Gaia; Health Effects of Ionising Radiation; Mathematics and Economics; Mental Illness; Nuclear Power; Peak Oil; Poisonous Animals; Renewable Energy; Science and Religion (John Polkinghorne). Plus UCC Finalists in Postgraduate Student Public Presentation Competition (2007).

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Number of visitors to site since 12th June 2005

Bald Eagle (US Fish and Wildlife Service), Malvaceaepollens (Micromondi Exhibition, Science Museum, Trieste)


About this site

Two large sections of this site – Understanding the Natural World and The UCC Public Lectures – explain some of the wonderful knowledge science has discovered about how the natural world works, the place of humans in the world, and the science-based technology on which modern civilisation runs.

We have a rich legacy of science in Ireland that remains largely unappreciated by the general public and another large section of the site contains biographies of famous Irish scientists. There are also sections on Science in the News, Scientific Quotations, Science and Humour, Quizzes and Puzzles, and, Careers and Courses in Science and Technology.

This site is designed like a magazine, with an Editorial Page and Letters to the Editor Page. The Editor, William Reville writes the weekly Science Today column in The Irish Times, and many of these columns have been reproduced as articles on this site.
 
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