Building Opening

Dr Aderin-Pocock

Guest Speaker at The STEM Building’s Official Opening

Physicist, author and presenter, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE presents a webinar ‘Reaching for the stars - when will we make it out there?’

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n October we celebrated the opening of Habs new STEM building with a virtual event headlined by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, presenter of BBC4’s ‘The Sky at Night’.

Dr Aderin-Pocock’s list of accomplishments include partaking in the development of the ‘European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT)’ and writing her book ‘The Sky at Night’. Being able to execute these incredible projects, whilst using her dyslexia to think differently, motivated the students. She reminded us that “having crazy dreams allows you to go places that you never thought possible”.

A further passion for Dr Aderin-Pocock is diversity in science, and her lecture explored how widely physics can be applied, even in areas such as Politics. Dr Aderin-Pocock left students with the notion that it is our responsibility to fight ethnic disparity, especially within STEM, and that, “aiming high and thinking big gives us endless possibilities”.

The new STEM building contains 15 labs and a large multi-purpose space for lectures and experimental demonstrations. The facilities will increase capacity for longer term projects and more diverse activities.

The students feel incredibly privileged that we can enjoy a state-of-the-art STEM environment, in which we can work collaboratively and undertake fascinating experiments.

The STEM building, has been made possible by the bequest of former Habs student, Dr Luena Hatcher.

Mathujana Thirunavukkarasu L6 MMS