Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Dr William MacLehose, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies

In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific tradition. Yet these achievements have been variously ignored, overlooked or occasionally overstressed. This lecture discusses the impact that scholars from the Islamic world have made in the fields of medicine, astronomy, optics, geography, mechanics and many other disciplines. What role did the Arabic world have in the history of science? And how did Baghdad, Cairo and Islamic Spain preserve and expand the scientific tradition?

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2013

Dr William MacLehose, UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies

In recent years, there has been much discussion of the influence of classical Arabic science on the Western scientific tradition. Yet these achievements have been variously ignored, overlooked or occasionally overstressed. This lecture discusses the impact that scholars from the Islamic world have made in the fields of medicine, astronomy, optics, geography, mechanics and many other disciplines. What role did the Arabic world have in the history of science? And how did Baghdad, Cairo and Islamic Spain preserve and expand the scientific tradition?

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

A new space that celebrates the microscopic members of the animal kingdom has recently opened at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology. Formerly an office, the Micrarium is a beautiful back-lit cave covered with wall-to-wall microscope slides. We went to chat to the museum’s curator, Mark Carnall, about why other natural history museums are misrepresenting the animal kingdom by missing out invertebrates and how the Micarium is righting this wrong.

Further information:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/micrarium-new-london-muse_n_2638620.html

http://news.yahoo.com/london-micrarium-aims-showcase-tiny-animals-155921789.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/londons-new-micrarium-aims-to-showcase-the-tiniest-members-of-the-animal-kingdom/2013/02/07/72a789fe-713f-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

This week, we visit a Hindu temple in Ealing, west London to hear about how a new photography project by senior citizens, and led by UCL geographer Dr Claire Dwyer and award-winning photographer Liz Hingley, has opened up spiritual understanding between faiths. ‘Faith in Suburbia: a shared photographic journey’ opens this week in Gunnersbury Park Museum in Ealing.

Further info:

Audio-slideshow: http://youtu.be/NpWK5yNLdxg

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faith-in-Suburbia/226875567445926

http://faithinsuburbia.wordpress.com

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

In the news section this week we are joined by Jack Ashby, the manager of UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology. The museum has recently launched a new permanent exhibition featuring thousands of tiny animas of microscope slides. More about the exhibition, called The Micrarium, later in the podcast.

This week, we visit a Hindu temple in Ealing, West London to hear about how a new photography project by senior citizens and led by UCL geographer, Dr Claire Dwyer. We also hear more about a new space at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology that celebrates the microscopic members of the animal kingdom.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

A new space that celebrates the microscopic members of the animal kingdom has recently opened at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology. Formerly an office, the Micrarium is a beautiful back-lit cave covered with wall-to-wall microscope slides. We went to chat to the museum’s curator, Mark Carnall, about why other natural history museums are misrepresenting the animal kingdom by missing out invertebrates and how the Micarium is righting this wrong.

Further information:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/micrarium-new-london-muse_n_2638620.html

http://news.yahoo.com/london-micrarium-aims-showcase-tiny-animals-155921789.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/londons-new-micrarium-aims-to-showcase-the-tiniest-members-of-the-animal-kingdom/2013/02/07/72a789fe-713f-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

This week, we visit a Hindu temple in Ealing, west London to hear about how a new photography project by senior citizens, and led by UCL geographer Dr Claire Dwyer and award-winning photographer Liz Hingley, has opened up spiritual understanding between faiths. ‘Faith in Suburbia: a shared photographic journey’ opens this week in Gunnersbury Park Museum in Ealing.

Further info:

Audio-slideshow: http://youtu.be/NpWK5yNLdxg

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faith-in-Suburbia/226875567445926

http://faithinsuburbia.wordpress.com

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

In the news section this week we are joined by Jack Ashby, the manager of UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology. The museum has recently launched a new permanent exhibition featuring thousands of tiny animas of microscope slides. More about the exhibition, called The Micrarium, later in the podcast.

This week, we visit a Hindu temple in Ealing, West London to hear about how a new photography project by senior citizens and led by UCL geographer, Dr Claire Dwyer. We also hear more about a new space at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology that celebrates the microscopic members of the animal kingdom.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

A new space that celebrates the microscopic members of the animal kingdom has recently opened at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology. Formerly an office, the Micrarium is a beautiful back-lit cave covered with wall-to-wall microscope slides. We went to chat to the museum’s curator, Mark Carnall, about why other natural history museums are misrepresenting the animal kingdom by missing out invertebrates and how the Micarium is righting this wrong.

Further information:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/micrarium-new-london-muse_n_2638620.html

http://news.yahoo.com/london-micrarium-aims-showcase-tiny-animals-155921789.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/londons-new-micrarium-aims-to-showcase-the-tiniest-members-of-the-animal-kingdom/2013/02/07/72a789fe-713f-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.

In the news section this week we are joined by Jack Ashby, the manager of UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology. The museum has recently launched a new permanent exhibition featuring thousands of tiny animas of microscope slides. More about the exhibition, called The Micrarium, later in the podcast.

This week, we visit a Hindu temple in Ealing, West London to hear about how a new photography project by senior citizens and led by UCL geographer, Dr Claire Dwyer. We also hear more about a new space at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology that celebrates the microscopic members of the animal kingdom.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's top universities. Across all disciplines our faculties are known for their research-intensive approaches, academic excellence and engagement with global challenges. This is the basis of our world-renowned degree programmes. Visit us at ucl.ac.uk.