The Cockcroft Institute

Outreach

November 22, 2017

Marie Curie Celebrations join institutions across Europe

7th November was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie Skłodowska Curie. In order to celebrate her life and achievements, as well as the EU funding program that bears her name, researchers from the Cockcroft Institute organised a simultaneous event…
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November 1, 2017

Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Marie Skłodowska-Curie

The QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, and its international partners are going to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Marie Skłodowska–Curie, an outstanding researcher and woman inspiring generations of scientists. Since 1996, the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions…
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October 16, 2017

Cockcroft 120 Challenge

Earlier in the year we announced the Cockcroft 120 Challenge – a science communication competition to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft. We asked schools to conduct their own high voltage experiment and to create a…
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September 22, 2017

Erasmus students visit Daresbury Laboratory

A delegation of 40 sixth-form international students and teachers visited Daresbury Laboratory on Tuesday 19th September. The children were participating in an Erasmus project titled “Moving forward in Hi Tech” organised between schools in Turkey, Spain, UK, Italy and Holland.…
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September 18, 2017

CI at INTERACT Symposium

[caption id="attachment_4925" align="alignleft" width="169"] Dr Chris Edmonds at INTERACT 2017.[/caption] QUASAR Group members Dr Chris Edmonds and Dr Ricardo Torres, of the Cockcroft Institute and University of Liverpool, went to Birmingham on 14th September to participate in the INTERACT Symposium. INTERACT…
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September 1, 2017

Putting accelerators in the hands of students

How using multimedia can explain reality in physical science outreach Using multimedia to engage students in accelerator science is one of the methods that the Cockcroft Institute has used to make the subject exciting and accessible to young people. The…
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April 4, 2017

Accelerator Outreach kicks up a Notch

Last Saturday was a hot day for our QUASAR Group’s effort to promote accelerator science among the public and attract youngsters to this exciting field of science and technology. [caption id="attachment_4762" align="aligncenter" width="517"] Prof Carsten Welsch and Lina Hoummi at…
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