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Students make strides on human whipworm genome
Students complete over 8,500 annotations of the genome of the human whipworm, Trichuris trichiura.
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Students given the chance to study the stars at home
IRIS and STFC launch a project to boost the research skills of secondary students while learning from home.
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IRIS cancels conferences
Due to the progression of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, we must cancel our conferences this spring.
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Empowering more girls into research careers
Lauren Charters on how an IRIS project shaped her career aspirations and helped her get into university.
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Jo Foster on how to help your students shine at science
Catherine Lough, Tes staff writer, talks to Dr Jo Foster, IRIS director, on teaching STEM to students.
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UCL Professor Michael Reiss joins IRIS board of trustees
UCL’s Professor of Science Education joins our board of trustees.
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Higgs Hunters wins University of Oxford Award
IRIS celebrated at the Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards.
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IRIS appoints STEM educator Jo Foster as new director
Director of the Nexus STEM Programme, Cornwall School of Maths & Science appointed IRIS Director.
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Lampton physics technician wins Gratnells award
Lampton School technician wins Gratnells Science Technician of the Year Award.
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Tes features IRIS student research on mental health
IRIS students research on nature and mental health featured in the leading education publication.
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IRIS awarded Garfield Weston Grant for glacier research
The Garfield Weston Foundation grant will enable IRIS continue to run school hubs ran by a teacher scientist for a year.
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MELT – a polar ice caps project for schools
IRIS and the UK Space Agency launch school research projects investigating the rate of polar ice cap melting.
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It’s Minecraft: teens create replica of CERN
UK teenagers made interactive museum of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in Minecraft.
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IRIS students contribute to tropical disease research
IRIS students stand to become world experts through their participation in Genome Decoders, a research project launched in partnership with Wellcome Genome Campus.
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Transport for London- Bring big data into classrooms
Our new project looks at how TFL uses data to improve millions of people’s journey every day.
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NASA to launch TimPix space radiation project in the U.S.
IRIS is working with NASA to get American students involved in the TimPixproject.
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IRIS students break new ground in science
UK scientists breaking new ground in science and not one of them has so much as a university degree.
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Students research radiation levels in the world’s oceans
Students from a school in Canterbury look to analyse radiation levels in oceans near nuclear reactors in real time.
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Using NASA data to analyse radiation exposure in space
High school students use NASA data to analyse astronaut radiation exposure in space.
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Academics and scientists launch the Institute for Research in Schools
Charity set to change STEM education by empowering young people to join the scientific community.