news & events
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12/04/2012NASA TV will broadcast the final round of the Famelab Astrobiology science communication competition on Monday April 16.
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02/04/2012Olimpio Ritota, a high school teacher, who fascinated the judges by using a “Cartesian devil” to illustrate Archimede’s principle of density and Pascal’s law of fluid-pressure, and Maria Grazia Filippone, a doctoral student in genetics and molecular medicine, who spoke about the effects of sun radiation on unprotected skin. Both contestants have won a place at Italy’s FameLab national final which will take place in Perugia on 4 May.
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02/04/2012Ramy Kotb, a Faculty of Engineering student-Alexandria University, won first place in Famelab Egypt.
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02/04/2012This year FameLab is also in Italy. Four cities, for the first time, will host the local heats: Bologna, Naples, Perugia and Trento.
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27/03/2012A physicist from the University of Oxford was named as the UK winner of FameLab 2012, the international competition to find the top new science communicator for the 21st century.
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13/01/2012FameLab UK names the 10 finalists who will compete at the UK Grand Final, to be held at the Royal Institution of March 21st, 2012.
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12/12/2011A plant scientist from Durham University has won the North West regional heat of FameLab UK 2012, the competition to find the new voices of science communication. Mags Pullen had just three minutes to pitch a complex scientific idea to the panel of judges, which included writer and comedian Timandra Harkness, Manchester Science Festival Director, Natalie Ireland and Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustics at the University of Salford, broadcaster and previous FameLab finalist.
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01/12/2011A researcher from Bayswater in London has won the London Heat of FameLab UK 2012, a national competition to find new voices of science communication, which took place at King’s College London yesterday.
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24/11/2011A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology student rose to victory in the third FameLab science communication competition held in Hong Kong, defeating six other finalists to represent Hong Kong at the international finals in the UK next year.
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22/11/2011A Chemical Physicist from the University of Glasgow has won the Scotland Heat of FameLab UK 2012, the competition to find the new voices of science communication.
