More than 1,000 students at the University of Navarra Science Weeks
Students from high school diploma attended lectures, guided tours and conference experimentation on Chemistry forensics or aspirin manufacturing.
More than 1,000 students from high school diplomafrom 27 schools in Navarra, the Basque Country, Aragon and Catalonia have participated in the activities organized by the University of Navarra on the occasion of the 2009 Science Weeks.
For nine days, the students attended an informative lecture series on topics such as nanoparticles that carry drugs, the role of Proteomics in the advancement of Biomedicine, the existence of life on Mars or biodiversity "on a small scale" in the city.
They also made guided visits to research center Applied Medicine (CIMA ) and to the Museum of Science School , where three exhibits on old books of scientific subject , 50 years of history of the School and an itinerant exhibition on zebra mussels are on display. For its part, the new scientific theater activity, at position by a group of the academic center, brought together 250 high school students at the Casa de la Juventud.
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| In the Experimentation conference the students had a first contact with the research developed in the areas of Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry , Pharmacy and Nutrition. |
| Photo: Manuel Castells |
Finally, in the Experimentation conference the students had a first contact with the research developed in the areas of Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry , Pharmacy and Nutrition. More than 150 students from high school diploma carried out practices such as Chemistry forensic for beginners, the observation of the biodiversity of a river or the manufacture of an aspirin.