Podcast: building skills, benevolent business and public engagement
Students get their hands on real construction projects and Imperial researchers take part in a public science exhibition at the Royal Society.
The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on Imperial's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service, with contributors from the Communications and Public Affairs Division.
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- News: cannabis and Twitter - New research on how cannabis influences dopamine production in the brain and a program that predicts which tweeters are human.
- “A massive field trip with a difference” - Civil engineering students visit a 14-acre outdoor classroom to build 4-storey steel structures, bridges and underground shafts.
- Good business - MBA student Mike Follett summarises his award-winning essay on how businesses can be a force for social good at the same time as maximising profits.
- Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2013 - Imperial researchers tell visitors about the unsung role of sugars in fertilisation, the Planck satellite’s view of the early universe, and how bacteria make decisions without having a brain.
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