Science Honours Academy

Activities

Masterclass – Pitching your Research

The second SHA masterclass of this academic year is coming up! The subject is: Pitching your Research. You will learn how to present your research clearly, quickly and attractively.

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Pubquiz

On Monday the 15th of May, the pubquiz committee organises another quiz! The quiz will start at 17:30, but you are already welcome at 17:00 in the Science café, where a nice free drink will be waiting for you 🙂

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Laser Game Battle

The second event organised by the excursion committee is a Laser Game Battle! They arranged a special student package with 2 games and a free drink. It will be a thrilling and exciting competition. Will you accept the challenge to survive in the battlefield with your brothers and sisters in arms? Are you brave enough to…

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Interfacultary Symposium: Regenerative Medicine

The interfacultary symposium of March 29th was organised with a very intriguing topic to everyone who is at least a little bit interested in medicinal research: “Regenerative medicine”. But firstly, even though we have all heard about regenerative medicine and the promises that it makes either from our professors, the news, maybe a friend; do…

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Twister Borrel

This months borrel will be all about everyones favorite game: Twister!

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Koningsdag Borrel

On the 27th of April there are festivals all around the Netherlands to celebrate “Koningsdag”. Of course the SHA can’t miss out, so a Koningsdagborrel will take place on May 1st!

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SHA Information Meeting

This evening is organised for first year students with interest in the honours programme. The evening will start with some general information about what honours is, about Decartes and about the interdisciplinary component of the SHA. After a short break, the disciplines will split up to allow the honours coordinators of each discipline to inform…

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National trip – PRA Health Science

PRA Health Sciences is specialized in doing clinical research in humans. The doctors and researchers at PRA study the effects and possible side effects of new or improved drugs.

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Symposium – Light

The SHA symposium on the 9th of February started at 18:15 with drinks and walk-in. After a short introduction the speakers were announced; first on was dr. Dries van Oosten, who gave a lecture on nanophotonics and the nature of light. He spoke about how light is constructed as both waves and particles. While the…

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1st Interdisciplinary Project Presentations

An interdisciplinary approach strives to broaden perspectives, to find new insights and to solve problems of a certain subject through the collaboration between different disciplines. It’s based upon the theory of synergy; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. In this project students with different disciplines are thrown together to approach the…

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