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BONS Christmas conference

Stockholm December 11, 2018

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We had the traditional Christmas conference with the Selander group. this year's topic was on the doctoral degree objectives that are difficult to practice on a daily basis, e.g. outreach activities.

BO group: Berit, Marcus, Gabriella, Ester, Erika, Guru, Peter
NS group: Nicklas, Marie, Zhiyao, Finn

Program

13.15 Enter the Swedish Parliament (safety check)
13.30 Nobel prize laureates lecture (study the art of communicating with the society)
16.00 Conference at Hasselbacken
19.00 Swedish Christmas table at Solliden, Skansen
21.30 Bowling
Part 1: At the Swedish Parliament

The Nobel Laureates Frances Arnold (Chemistry) and Tasuku Honjo (Medicine) were invited to the Swedish Parliament by the organization Rifo, official program can be found here.

Text and photos from the Parliament can be found here.

The BONS groups participated in the event, below is the BO group gathered in the hallway of the Parliament.

Frances Arnold and Tasuku Honjo gave their views on what politicians should think about in funding science & technology research.
We could even take a group photo with Frances Arnold, although a few of the group members were cut off in the spnntaneous photography event.

Part 2: Conference at Hasselbacken

Tasks to prepare & present (in groups)

  1. A journalist at Dagens Nyheter asks you to explain what type of research we do at the Department, and why tax money should be spent on this. Explain so that a non specialist can understand.
  2. You are sent to a high school class (9th grade) to motivate them to study chemistry / natural science at the ”gymnasium”. What would you do?
  3. How can chemists help saving the world (climate change, environmental problems etc)?
  4. Which are the most important ethical questions for chemists to tackle? Explain to a non-chemist audience.
  5. Analyze the presentations from the Nobel laureates Arnold and Honjo – how did they choose to convey their message?

 

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