Science Contest First for Jamie

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Posted on 01 April 2011

Dr Jamie Pringle, Engineering and Environmental Geosciences, has won £500 in a reality TV-style competition for scientists. He shared joint first place in his category in the online science outreach event, I'm a Scientist, Get me out of Here!.

Jamie answered more than 300 set questions in the Forensics Science zone, and had 17 30-minute live chat sessions with students during the two-week event.

The award-winning project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, saw teenagers from Years 9 to 13 posing questions online to scientists across the UK. They voted for the scientist they thought deserved the prize and those with the fewest votes were evicted until only the winners remained.

Jamie plans to put the prize money towards his continuing research into finding the graves of murder victims.

Jamie's funded research results will be uploaded onto the Fresh Science website, so schools and students can view and analyse the results. The next I'm a Scientist, Get me out of Here! event is scheduled for June. More information here.

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