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How can community engagement projects empower STEM students?

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This includes traffic, construction and agriculture.” While teaching an Earth science class, I saw the opportunity to link my research with what I was teaching my students. A micrometre is a thousand times smaller than a millimetre, so these particles can be inhaled by a person without them noticing.

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Shining a light on the role of trace metals in neurodegenerative diseases

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After initially studying physics, I was based in an Earth Sciences department at a university for some time, studying how bacteria use metals to form magnetic materials on a very small scale. I see physics as being very powerful because it overlaps with many other areas of science, from astronomy to Earth sciences to medicine.

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