Soapbox Science 2017
Soapbox Science, a unique science outreach program started in the U.K. in 2011 was launched in North America on May 13, 2017 during Science Rendezvous at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto.
We had so much fun that we ran it again at Harbourfront Centre, during Word on the Street (external link) on September 24, 2017.
What better way to bring science to the streets than at a street festival all about literacy? Hosted along the waterfront at Harbourfront Centre, Word on the Street brought together the finest talent in Canadian Literature. We teamed up with the Ontario Science Centre to bring Soapbox Science to Toronto again. This time, Canadian scientists added their voices to the amazing line-up of speakers & authors.
Our stupendous Soapbox Scientists discussed everything from how your eye develops to galactic star formations.
Soapbox Speakers
Professor, Biology Department
York University
How do I know if that plant is poisonous?
Associate Professor
University of Guelph
How to become a good Microbe Manager
Scientific Associate
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Building "Cancer Avatars" to quickly discover effective treatments
PhD Student
University of Toronto
How do we see this beautiful world?
Medical Physicist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Radiotherapy Medical Physicist? Who is that?
PhD Student
The Hospital For Sick Children & University of Toronto
Why aren’t cancer treatments “one-size fits all?
Professor
Ryerson University
Together - let's make the Great Lakes great again!
Medical Physicist
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval
High energy photons to treat cancer
PhD Candidate, Water and Energy Research Lab,
University of Toronto
Water Treatment using Solar Power for Remote Communities who Lack Access to Clean Drinking Water
Researcher Programmer, Astronomy & Space Sciences
Ontario Science Centre
The Galactic Star Formation Rate Problem
PhD Student
York University
Honey Bees and Pesticides in the Field
PhD Student
University of Toronto & Royal Ontario Museum
Solving purr-plexing mysteries of the sabre-toothed cats
Chemistry Professor
Cape Breton University
Reaping the Unsown Benefits of BioChar
Research Associate
University of Windsor
Fishing Our Way to New Cancer Treatments
Communications and Development Officer
The Fields Institute, University of Toronto
Using Jello to regenerate the injured spinal cord
Ph.D Candidate
University of Toronto, Mississauga
The world's most abundant entity, the bacteriophage, and how it kills bad bacteria in your body, food and more!
PhD Candidate, Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
How stem cells build & rebuild brains
PhD Candidate
University of Toronto
How can medicine fix mistakes in our genes?
Soapbox Science at Word on the Street
Gallery
Soapbox Science at Science Rendezvous - May 13, 2017
Soapbox Science at Word on the Street - September 24, 2017
