More than 1,000 students "immersed" in the XV Science Week at the University
The students came to campus from 36 schools in Navarre, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Extremadura, Murcia and Andalusia.
PHOTO: Manuel Castells
The XV Science, Technology and Innovation Week closed at the University of Navarra with the participation of more than a thousand students of ESO and high school diploma who went to campus to "touch" Biology, Chemistry or Physics in their experimentation workshops; attend to the conferences or visit the Science Museum and the research center Applied Medicine (CIMA).
Coming from 36 schools in Navarra, Seville, Badajoz, Cordoba, Granada, Alava, La Rioja and Murcia, the students participated in daily workshops and seven conferences on human beings and the natural environment, at position by Jordi Puig; the case of an American family with blu e s kin, explained by Professor Silvia Cenoz; the project Malaria Mission, through which Dr. Carlos Chaccour delved into the latest Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology; microbes from the point of view of humor, at by Ignacio López-Goñi; ten experiments on . Carlos Chaccour delved into the latest award Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology; microbes from the perspective of humor, at position by Ignacio López-Goñi; ten experiments on Chemistry and light, shown by José Ramón Isasi; what can happen with antibiotic resistance, analyzed by Professor Carlos Gamazo; and a final session on the successes of science-fiction films analyzed by Professor David Galicia from the prism of Biology.
The program of this special week -which aims to spread interest in science among students and society in general- ended with an Open Doors and Experimentation workshop that brought together more than a hundred students from Navarra, Aragón, Murcia, Barcelona, Madrid, Álava, La Rioja and Guipúzcoa. The teenagers prepared a liquid traffic light, familiarized themselves with the microorganisms that surround us and with the closest pollutants, among other experiments designed to be informative and entertaining.
Also, the Hexagon Building hosted throughout the week the exhibition "Medicine and music through time", with fourteen exhibitors and antique instruments of the orchestra director Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, as well as books from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
