Activities
Plan and share activities for IYC 2011
Want to submit your own activity or comment?
In order to do so you need to be part of the IYC network. Please log in or sign up now.
Join the IYC Network
In this section, your ideas for IYC2011 can start to become reality. Here, you can submit activities for consideration and, after a short review, they will be listed below and any related events will populate the IYC calendar. Activities listed here have a clearly defined theme and describe how, when, and where they will take place.
If you are not quite ready to submit a plan, keep working at it and come back soon. And remember, you can always browse and search this forum to find out what others are planning and even add your own comments to the discussion.
"Camillo Cavour e la chimica dei fertilizzanti"
Marina Zuccoli | added on Mar 18, 2011 | Italy
Bibliographic exhibition about the activity of the Italian minister of Agriculture Camillo Cavour (1810-1861) in the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification. Cavour was the first to import guano from Peru and to establish a firm for the production of chemical fertilizers in Italy, in 1847.
Me Too Drugs: R&D Innovations or Imitations?
Tanya Fogg | added on Mar 17, 2011 | United States
A “me too” drug is similar in chemical structure or has the same mechanism of action as the protype. According to the 2004 FDA report, only about one-third of the drug license application approvals over the preceding eight years were considered as ‘new’.
Celebration in Dibrugarh, India
Rahul Kar | added on Mar 17, 2011 | India
Our activities would include popular talks, science quiz competition, essay writing competition, poster presentation and laboratory visit for school children.
UNESCO Contest of Writings Works and Drawings of the World Science Day for Peace and Development
Fernanda Velloso | added on Mar 16, 2011 | Brazil
Target to high school students, the competition has two categories: Drawings and Writings Works. This initiative is promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in collaboration with institutions in the areas of education and science.
Biological Chemistry workshop: Protein Folding, Misfolding and Design
Eduardo Barzana | added on Mar 16, 2011 | Mexico
The main objectives of this workshop are: to generate a forum for a multidisciplinary discussion on protein folding, misfolding and design; to use this forum to introduce graduate students and young researchers to these research topics; to promote the interactions between senior and young researchers.