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Top Indigenous science students go to university to tackle climate change
Issue 130 - 31 May 2007
Sydney
INTERNATIONAL
Issue 130, May 31, 2007: WITH the world currently in 'eco-crisis' four of Australia's top Indigenous science students will travel to the University of Sydney in July to explore environmental science and global warming as part of the 34th Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS): ecoscience.
Indigenous science students are encouraged to attend the ISS as part of its Indigenous Scholars Program.
The program is designed to encourage Indigenous students to participate in the ISS, which aims to encourage participants to pursue careers in science and related areas.
As the leaders of tomorrow ISS2007: ecoscience will help ISS scholars understand the environmental challenges of the future as well as their impact.
The Year 11 and 12 Indigenous Science Scholars will join 136 other talented students from all over Australia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the UK and the USA to be taught by leading research scientists from across the world.
The ISS also challenges students with hands-on experiments and activities. ISS2007: ecoscience will feature experiments, research lab tours and talks by leading scientists including the University of Sydney's Julius Sumner Miller Fellow, renowned media science guru Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.
In the 1960s and 70s the International Science School lectures were televised to an estimated audience of approximately 100,000.
In 2007 the entire ISS ecoscience lecture series will be podcast so that science enthusiasts globally will be able to tune in to watch the latest in science research.
The ISS is a free science education program run by the Science Foundation for Physics and created by Professor Harry Messel in 1962.
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