{"id":9698,"date":"2019-10-17T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=9698"},"modified":"2019-10-17T12:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:41:40","slug":"music-and-science-meet-in-the-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2019\/10\/17\/music-and-science-meet-in-the-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and science meet in the laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before , but music and science came together in a highly unusual way earlier today, when a set of bagpipes were introduced into the environment of the science laboratory here at the University.<\/p>\n

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First-year Scholar, Eloise, rehearsing in Colyer-Fergusson Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Be not alarmed, Gentle Reader: there was no experiment being performed on either instrument or player, who in this instance was second-year Music Performance Scholar and Biochemistry student, Eloise Jack<\/strong>. In her capacity as a student of Biosciences at Kent also involved in extra-curricular music-making, Eloise neatly brings together the elements of both academic study and extra-curricular enhancement of the student experience – by day, she can be found working in the laboratory or in the lecture-theatre; at weekends and during the vacations, she is busy wielding her bagpipes either around the campus or as part of the piping-community somewhere (you can read more about Eloise’s experience over the summer at the National Piping Centre on the blog here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"Representing two aspects of university life coming together, Eloise will be the focus of a feature in next month’s University magazine, and this morning’s photoshoot drew her away from the concert-hall and into the scientific enviroment. We’re looking forward to reading the feature next month.<\/p>\n

\"\"My thanks to colleagues in the School of Biosciences, Professor Dan Lloyd<\/strong> and Ian Brown<\/strong>, for opening up various venues in the Stacey Building to help with this morning’s shoot.<\/p>\n