SPS Student Vassilia Spathis recently attended the SEPnet/GRADnet Summer School Training Conference, where she and her team won the Real Life Consultancy Challenge. Vassilia explains … Read more
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SPS Provides Insight Into Life at Kent
This month, the School of Physical Sciences hosted 60 A-level students from across the UK for Forensic Science and Chemistry Headstart courses for a week. … Read more
Water on Mars!
Figure 1: The Planum Australe region of Mars where the Radar investigations were undertaken. (From Smith et al., 2001) The recent publication in Science from … Read more
The Blood Moon Rises
Tonight the longest Lunar Eclipse of the 21st Century will occur being visible for 1 hour and 43 minutes. As the moon passes through the … Read more
Forensic Science Society celebrates double success at the Kent Union Activity Awards
The Forensic Science Society has scooped both the Academic Forum and Outstanding Committee of the Year Awards. Robert Green, OBE, JP, Director of Undergraduate Studies … Read more
Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz shortlisted for experiment with the international space station
Dr Wozniakiewicz is developing a project for a new type of dust particle collector that would sit outside the space station and collect orbital debris. … Read more
SPS celebrates International Women’s Day with lecture on Noether’s theorem
Two weeks ago, in celebration of International Women’s Day and 100 years since the theorem was proposed, the School’s Physics Society (Physoc) hosted a lecture … Read more
Dr Chris Serpell secures £65k funding for collaborative project with BioSciences to fight challenging diseases
Working alongside Prof. Michelle Garrett at the School of Biosciences, I will be laying the groundwork for a very different way to tackle difficult diseases … Read more
Working to increase the number of women in leadership in Higher Education
Last week, on International Women’s Day, Dr Vicky Mason attended an Aurora event in London about Women in leadership. In our latest blog post, she … Read more
Kent’s Applied Optics Group hosts Image Guided Therapies Network Meeting
Last month, Prof Adrian Podoleanu and other members of the Applied Optics Group (AOG) hosted around 50 participants in Darwin Conference Centre for an Image Guided … Read more