Schools : July in Review : Women in science & Youth Skills Day ! Yes ! Day of Friendship !

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Back from my summer break, Yes! Summer break, lovely time and traditions, remember? Here I am. Well, Summer finally arrived at the end of the month, here in the north of Portugal! First weeks of August were a bit foggy. 

We had the Perseids meteor shower and after that, weather has changed. Last two weeks, Summer time is back. And my holidays. Beautiful time!

Well, no more sandcastles! It's time to the review of the most popular posts of July.

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July. Yes, I forgot it. Not so strange, right? The long lockdown. Difficult time to all of us.  Schools closed for months, no students, no colleagues. 

We were sad. My usual readers will forget me, I'm sure. We all suffered.  

Teachers and students.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Schools : Women in science : Nettie Stevens broke gender barriers ?

International Day of Friendship : Sharing the human spirit through friendship !

World Youth Skills Day : Skills for a Resilient Youth : resources

Science : Rosalind Franklin Centenary : Image Competition & Essay Competition

Some of you are back to school in August and first days of September. Here in Portugal, schools are well prepared to receive students next week, to avoid Covid-19. All the rules are accomplished. 

It's crucial students come back to face-to-face classes. But we must be rigorous with their health security and ours, of course. Following the rules, social distance inside school and classes, masks entering at schools and during lessons, avowing big groups, everything will be all right

Have a safe and good school year in a very different time!

G-Souto

11.09.2020

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Science : Rosalind Franklin Centenary : Image Competition & Essay Competition

Rosalind Franklin [1920-2020]

This year, to mark 100 years since the birth of Rosalind Franklin The Rosalind Franklin Institute is looking back and celebrating on the life and work of this amazing scientist. The Rosalind Franklin Institute will be highlighting how many current discoveries and inventions would not have been possible without Rosalind Franklin’s work. 

Mys usual readers know that I published an article about Rosalind Franklin on her 93rd birthday the 25th July 2013.

The Franklin Family

via BBC

Scientist Rosalind Franklin would have been "totally amazed" that 100 years after her birth she is being commemorated, according to her sister.

She is best known for her pioneering work which guided James Crick and Francis Watson to unlock DNA's secrets.

But far more of her short career was spent unravelling the molecular structures of coal and viruses. 

Jenifer Glynn, 90, her sister, said she would have been pleased if her career "encourages girls into science".

Rosalind Franklin

https://images.nationalgeographic.com/

"I think she would be totally amazed at the fact that 100 years after her birth there's such commemorations," 

Jenifer Glynn

Mrs Glynn said before her "sadly early death" aged 37 in 1958, she worked across biology, chemistry and physics, with a "focus on research that mattered to society."

Rosalind Franklin Papers 1951-1954

https://wellcomelibrary.org/

"She would have also been amazed at the idea she has become a feminist icon - it was not in her mind at all.

"She was aware that it was harder for women, but wasn't trying to blaze a trail, although nothing would have pleased her more than the fact that perhaps it encourages girls into science."

Mrs Glynn said before her "sadly early death" aged 37 in 1958, she worked across biology, chemistry and physics, with a "focus on research that mattered to society".

Newnham College and the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, which holds her scientific papers, are marking the Centenary of her birth this 25 July 2020.

Rosalind Franklin 100 Image Competition

https://www.rfi.ac.uk/franklin-100-news/

• Rosalind Franklin 100 Image & Essay Competitions:

This year marks the Centenary of Rosalind Franklin’s birth. It's an exciting time for the institute named in her honour. 

As the institute prepares to open the new building, a four storey on the Harwell Campus which will house a world-unique technologies.

The Rosalind Franklin Institute was looking for images from member institutions to celebrate both its namesake and the interdisciplinary work she has inspired. 

• Images in three categories: fact, experience, and experiment

The Rosalind Franklin Centenary Image Competition was open on 14th April and will close on 25th July, with the winner being announced in September 2020.

Rosalind Franklin 100 Essay Competition

https://www.rfi.ac.uk/franklin-100-news/

At the same time an essay competition for undergraduate scientists at member institutions was running as well for passionate about exploring the intersection between physical and life sciences. 

• The Rosalind Franklin Centenary Essay Competition was open on 14th April and will close on 25th July, with the winner being announced in September 2020.
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Rosalind Frank

Visionary scientist

Illustration by Jody Hewgill for TIME

Time Magazine, 1953

https://time.com/

In 1953, Time published an article about Rosalind Franklin on the cover included in the well known project 100 Women of the Year.

 In 1953, Watson, who had been investigating the structure of DNA as well, was shown the image and immediately knew its significance. 

"The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race,” he wrote in his 1968 book, The Double Helix. “The black cross of reflections which dominated the picture could only arise from a helical structure.”

As we know, at age 37, Franklin died of cancer (1958). Only now is she being appreciated. 

"In my cancer advocacy work, I’ve met female scientists who are welcomed and respected by their male colleagues. I’m sorry Rosalind Franklin wasn’t. But from now on, whenever you hear the names of the two men who discovered DNA, make it a troika: Franklin, Watson and Crick - in that order."

Katie Couric, Time, 1953

Rosalind Franklin Centenary 

https://www.rfi.ac.uk/

Well, we will be back in September with the names of the winners of the two competitions: Rosalind Franklin image competition and Rosalind Franklin essay competition.

"I think she would be totally amazed at the fact that 100 years after her birth there's such commemorations," 

Jenifer Glynn

Note: Jenifer Glynn is the sister of Rosalind Franklin

G-Souto 

23.07.2020

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