2015_11_05_CIE_semanas_ciencia

The programming of the Science, Innovation and Technology Week 2015 has begun at the University of Navarra. An event that will take place from November 5 to 14 and is now in its fifteenth edition issue with the same original goal : to disseminate and raise awareness of science among young people and the Navarrese society in general.

To this end, the academic center has designed a set of daily activities that will include various workshops to "touch" the Chemistry, Biology and Physics through experiments aimed at students visiting the School of Sciences; and the visit to research center Applied Medicine and the Science Museum of the University of Navarra.

In addition, each day there will be a lecture on the auditorium of Hexagon Building on topics of knowledge dissemination, such as the relationship of man with the earth, at position by Professor Jordi Puig; the case of a family in the U.S. whose members had blue skin, explained by Professor Silvia Cenoz; the Malaria Mission, which aims to achieve a vaccine against this disease thanks to crowdfunding. whose members had blue skin color, explained by Biochemistry professorSilvia Cenoz; the project Malaria Mission, which aims to achieve a vaccine against this disease thanks to crowdfunding; a talk on science and humor in the field of microbes, given by Full Professor Ignacio López-Goñi; a lecture on the resistance that we are developing against antibiotics and that could mean the death of ten million people a year if nothing is done; and a session on biofilms or great successes of science fiction seen from Biology.

One of these conferences will also include a macro-experiment called chemical planetarium, in which a hundred students will participate to simulate how the perception of the color of the sun in the sky is generated using a simple glass. This large-scale experiment will take place on Wednesday 11, at 12:30 pm, at auditorium of Hexagon Building within the lecture "Chemistry that illuminates", which is part of the events organized on the occasion of the International Year of Light.

Exhibitions and conference for experimentation

On Saturday, November 14, the School of Sciences will celebrate the workshop of Experimentation: a day in which students will be able to know the internship part of the Degrees of Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry or Environmental Sciences through a multitude of experiments on the mechanisms of chemical reactions, the synthesis of medicines, the handling of the microscope, the observation of animal and plant biodiversity, etc.

Finally, the School of Medicine, the Library Services and the project 'Emotional culture and identity' of the Institute for Culture and Society -financed by Zurich Insurance- have prepared the exhibition 'Medicine and music through time', located in the hall of the Hexagon Building and open to the public from November 5 to 30. 

Although the academic center has brought forward the inauguration of the Science Week, this event will officially begin on Monday the 9th at place del Castillo, with the coordination of the Friends of Science Club and the participation of the Pamplona Planetarium, the Public University of Navarra and the Government of Navarra.