Electrochemistry's very own Crystal Crew have taken a hand in sharing and celebrating the contributions that women make to scientific research.

Today is International Womens' Day, which campaigns for gender parity and celebrates the achievements of women in social, economic, cultural and political fields. WEIG is proud to say that the group is comprised of a roughly equal number of men and women, and is proud to be represented by such strong role models as part of the team.

For more information about the work of the Crystal Crew, check out Warwick's news article at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/chemists_celebrate_international/, and to see more about International Women's Day go to http://www.internationalwomensday.com/.

The "Diamond Team" of WEIG (those that are investigating the uses of diamond for electrochemical applications) were invited to conduct an exhibition at the Science Lates evening at the Science Museum on the 24th of June. Science Lates is an event for the general public to investigate the "next big thing" in science.

The group had a range of activities organised to teach about the properties of diamond, including:

general knowledge (a quiz based challenge);

the structure of diamond (having a try at building an atomistic model);

the thermal conductivity of diamond (trying to cut ice with different materials, including diamond);

learning about the pressure required to make diamond using HPHT (strongman, test your strength) and how doping diamond makes it conductive (connecting circuits with insulating and boron doped diamond).

Everyone had a great time, and it was clear that many people went away learning that diamond is not just a gemstone!

Thank you to all those involved!

 Members of the Warwick Electrochemistry and Interfaces group completed the Spring 10K Wolf Run together. The wolf run is a 10 k run, through rough terrain and obstacles designed to encourage teamwork and test endurance. Congratulations everyone!

Congratulations to Zoe Ayres for winning a poster prize in the #RSCAnalyticalPoster competition. The competition was based on twitter, getting global interest, with the aim of creating a poster that succinctly summarised an application of method in analytical science. The competition attracted significant interest with > 1k tweets to an audience of >300 k. Zoe's poster was based on Electrochemical x-ray fluorescence.

Congratulations to Warwick's Sarah-Jane Richards (right) from Dr Matt Gibson's group who also won a prize.