In To Bat — Guest post from Oliver Gordon
September 16, 2017
Oliver (Oli) Gordon, a third year — soon to be fourth year — MSci Physics student has very recently completed a ten week summer intern project in the Nottingham Nanoscience group. The internship, as Oli recounts below, has spanned a rather wider range of topics than he first expected… Before starting, I feel it good …
Student Research: Summer internship at Diamond Light Source
July 24, 2017
A guest post from 3rd-year undergraduate Chloe Gowling, who won a prestigious paid summer internship at the Diamond Light Source at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. (For a glimpse into the inner workings of this vast facility, see Prof Moriarty’s video tour “Anatomy of a Physics Experiment” on Sixty Symbols.) This …
Building on a solid foundation
June 29, 2017
The video below is a fantastic insight into the tenacious mindset that’s required to be a physicist. For anyone interested in studying physics (at any level), it’s a must-see. It was uploaded a few days ago by Hannah Coleman, who has recently (very) successfully completed a Foundation Year here at Nottingham and will be joining …