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International Centre for Life
18 January 2016
The International Centre for Life Chief Executive, Linda Conlon, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List.
The recognition is for her services to Science and Science Education in North East England.
Linda said: “This is a delightful and unexpected accolade and I am incredibly proud to receive this honour not only for me, but for the Centre for Life and everyone involved with its success.”
International Centre for Life
11 December 2015
The FMA is a professional development award that recognises and encourages an advanced level of professional contribution, development and achievement by people in any area of museum work, including science centres.
International Centre for Life
13 November 2015
The chief executive of Newcastle’s International Centre for Life (Life), Linda Conlon, has been elected to a top role with the global body representing science centres and museums.
Linda becomes the first woman from Europe (and only the second European in its 42 year history) to be elected Chair of the Association of Science and Technology Centres, (ASTC).
International Centre for Life
17 June 2015
One of the largest biomedical research charities in the world, the Wellcome Trust, has pledged £650k towards a new exhibition exploring the brain at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre. The exhibition will open in 2016 and will tell the story of the brain and how it works, revealing some of its secrets and exploring the techniques scientists use to study it.
International Centre for Life
28 November 2014
The world-famous 2-day event will return to Newcastle’s Life Science Centre on 25 & 26 April 2015 and everyone – from roboteers and engineers to crafters, hackers and garden shed inventors – is invited to take part.
Maker Faire is a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the world-wide Maker movement.
International Centre for Life
29 October 2014
Life Science Centre is delighted to announce that BODY WORLDS Vital, the world famous exhibition of plastinated bodies has been extended at the Centre until 4 January! BODY WORLDS Vital is an awe-inspiring journey through the human body, celebrating its complexity, beauty and potential. The exhibition brings together a collection of real human bodies, specimens, organs and body slices which have been willed by donors and preserved through Plastination, a ground-breaking method for specimen preservation invented by Dr. Gunther von Hagens.
International Centre for Life
24 September 2014
Life Science Centre is delighted to announce that BODY WORLDS Vital, the world famous exhibition of plastinated bodies has been extended at the Centre until 30 November! BODY WORLDS Vital is an awe-inspiring journey through the human body, celebrating its complexity, beauty and potential. The exhibition brings together a collection of real human bodies, specimens, organs and body slices which have been willed by donors and preserved through Plastination, a ground-breaking method for specimen preservation invented by Dr. Gunther von Hagens.