In The Press
Students Spend Summer in the Lab
From The Bath Chronicle Thu 23 Sep, 2010
Two Bath sixth-formers spent their summer holidays in the lab rather than at the beach as part of a project for talented young scientists. Katie Costello and Eilis Higgins, both students at the Royal High School, were among the winners of this year's Nuffield Science Bursaries. it meant that they spent their summer break working on research projects at Bristol University, alongside postgraduate students and academic staff. Katie worked in the physics department, helping to design an experiment that can be used to detect a particle called muon, which is similar to an electron but 1,800 times heavier. She is planning a career in engineering so the work constructing a complicated series of copper coils to create a magnetic field was up her street. One of the more exciting aspects of her placement was a visit to the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Eilis worked at the Bristol Royal Infirmary researching into the causes of coronary heart disease. She said: "It has been a great experience to work alongside professional scientists. I've learned a great deal about how real research is carried out."
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