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Mentoring for Euriclea research
Irene Vega
As every year, the Rey Juan Carlos University joins the largest scientific dissemination event: Madrid Science and Innovation WeekThe twenty-fourth edition of the event will be held from November 4 to 17 with the aim of highlighting the work carried out by the scientific community and bringing their daily work in laboratories and work spaces closer to society.
The URJC is participating in this edition with a wide range of activities made up of more than 170 free activities, such as workshops, exhibitions, guided tours, games, exhaust rooms, conferences and seminars. These activities aim to encourage citizen participation in the scientific process and also to give visibility to the studies and research projects carried out at the university.
The extensive activity program This edition is aimed at audiences of diverse profiles, from students of early childhood and primary education to secondary, high school and university students. However, the vast majority of activities will be accessible to a general public and it will not be necessary to have prior scientific knowledge. In addition, the scientific and social interest of the program will cover various areas of knowledge.
This event is promoted by the Community of Madrid through the Foundation for Knowledge madri+d. The participation of the URJC in the Science and Innovation Week of Madrid is coordinated by the Vice-Rectorate of Research, Innovation and Transfer, through the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+I), and has the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), dependent on the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
The Tooth Fairy is looking for helpers
During the celebration of the Science and Innovation Week, the URJC joins the 11th Ratón Pérez 2024 Tooth Collection Campaign, promoted by the National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH). On November 6, 7, 13 and 14, from 15:30 p.m. to 19:00 p.m., dental specimens can be donated in the lobby of the University Clinic of the Alcorcón Campus to form part of the Perez Mouse CollectionThese donations will allow for important comparative studies in the fields of paleoanthropology, dentistry and forensics.
The donors will receive a gift, a "Pérez Mouse assistant" diploma and tickets to visit the Pérez Mouse House-Museum in Madrid.
The CENIEH organized the first tooth collection campaign in Burgos in 2014 and since then ten campaigns have been carried out. This is a citizen science project coordinated between its Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit and the CENIEH Dental Anthropology Group, in order to solve the difficulty of obtaining deciduous teeth for research and involving society in them. .