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SfE at Cheltenham Science Festival

10 Apr 2012


The Society is pleased to announce we are running two public events at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival this year. The first event will see bone experts Neil Gittoes and Juliet Compston talk about what bones are made of, how they grow and mend, what goes wrong in osteoporosis and why rickets is back on the rise. 'Bones' will take place at 12:00-13:00, Friday 15 June. Click on the link below for further details and to book tickets.

Bones

Our second event 'Evolution out of Africa' will take place at 17:00-18:00, Saturday 16 June. For this event, our speakers - Angela Clow, Mark Thomas and Jonathan Rees - will look at how humans coped with the effects of migration including how we evolved to cope with shorter days and less intense sunlight as we migrated away from the equator and nearer the poles. Follow the link below for more details and to book tickets. We look forward to seeing you all in Cheltenham.

Evolution out of Africa

We are also pleased to be sponsoring an interactive event in the Discovery Zone at the festival following the award of a SfE Public Engagement Grant to the Centre for Integrative Mammalian Physiology and Pharmacology at Imperial College London, UK. On Sunday 17 June, from 10:00-17:00, students and faculty from Imperial College London will be joined by science-based artist Dr Lizzie Burns to ask the question 'How are your hormones?'