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Imperial Matters Issue 27 staying connected ISSUE 27 WINTER 2006_WHITEHALL AND SCIENCE_ SOUTHSIDE REMEMBERED_ALUMNI SERVICES EXPLAINED_PLUS ALL THE NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE AND YOUR ASSOCIATION IMPERIALmatters Alumni magazine of Imperial College London including the former Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and Wye College. ISSUE 27 WINTER 2006 in this issue ... 10 12 14 15 18 20 26 REGULAR FEATURES ASSOCIATION 1 editorial by Sir Richard Sykes 22 alumni group news 2 letters 25 international group news 26 alumni focus NEWS 29 books 3 Imperial news 30 obituaries 4 faculty news 33 honours FEATURES 10 one hundred years on…_the background behind some of Imperial’s oldest traditions 12 farewell to Southside_alumni share their memories as a new chapter begins for the student halls 14 a trip to remember_a St Mary’s alumnus recounts his voyage across the Channel 15 the science behind the policy makers_the Imperial academics who advise our political decision makers 18 alumni in government_former students who inhabit the halls of government 20 50, not out_two Imperial academics celebrate 50 years at the College IMPERIALmatters DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY IMPERIAL COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT EDITOR LIZ GREGSON EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ZOË PERKINS MANAGING EDITOR SASKIA DANIEL FEATURES EDITOR ALEX PLATT DESIGN JEFF EDEN PRINT PROLITHO LTD DISTRIBUTION MERCURY INTERNATIONAL LTD building the connection IS PRODUCED BY THE OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT IMPERIAL MATTERS IS PUBLISHED TWICE A YEAR. THE NEXT ISSUE WILL BE PUBLISHED IN JULY 2006 AND THE COPY DEADLINE IS FRIDAY 19 MAY 2006 ADDRESS FOR MAGAZINE ENQUIRIES: LIZ GREGSON, OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS, LONDON SW7 2AZ [email protected] 2006 FRONT COVER: DIGITAL VISION © IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, .ALLRIGHTS RESERVED. ISSUE 27 WINTER 2006 regular features 1 editorial by Sir Richard Sykes 2 letters – your opinions and views, covering Health and Safety and the Student Opportunities Fund. Submit a letter for the next edition of Imperial Matters by emailing: [email protected]. editorial DEAR ALUMNUS within our news pages (pages 3–9), you can read about some of I am delighted to introduce the latest edition of your alumni the recent successes of our talented staff and students. In 2005, magazine, Imperial Matters. we continued to top the university league tables, and were As I write, we are one year from the 2007 Centenary of Imperial thrilled to read recently that more students from Singapore are College’s foundation. Moving towards this significant landmark in studying here than at any other university in the UK. our history, it is important that we not only look forward to future Elsewhere, our academics continued to win global recognition plans for our continued advancement, but also look back in for their world class research and you can also read about how the celebration of a century of notable and numerous achievements College has been involved in global issues such as avian flu, HIV by our staff, students and alumni. testing in the developing world and the future of energy supply. The future and the past are both themes that run through this Enclosed with this issue is a copy of building the connection, issue, no more so than in our feature on Southside on page 12, our fundraising newsletter. I thank you all for the support that which looks at the College’s plans for redeveloping the halls for you give to College initiatives such as the Student Opportunities today’s students, as well as talking to some of its former Fund, which over the past three academic years has made a huge residents about their memories of their time there. difference to many students who would not otherwise has been We also explore some of the traditions and heritage of the able to study at our world class institution. College, as we take a closer look at some of the items that reside I enjoyed meeting some of you in the autumn at our annual in the College Archives (pages 10–11). donor event for the Fund, and I look forward to seeing more of The main theme for this issue is science and the government. you return to the College during 2006. On page 15, we interview three of Imperial’s distinguished academics who are also Chief Scientists to UK government departments, and have the crucial role of advising our politicians on scientific matters. We also talk to some members of the alumni community about the impact that they are having on political decision-making around the world. Last year was yet another eventful year at the College and JAN CHLEBIK IMPERIALMATTERS_WINTER 2006 1 letters Putting safety first Paving the way for Dr James Charles wrote in Issue 26 of Imperial Matters about the future generations ‘ludicrous nannying’ of today’s safety regulations. As someone who May I congratulate you on the establishment of the has spent virtually his entire career in health and safety, my Student Opportunities Fund. Many students struggle experience is that the law is rarely the problem, EU directives not financially – these days even more than a few excepted! Misunderstanding and misapplication are far more common. decades ago – I am sure we all wish we could have Guidance and opinion are often taken to be rigid law or mandatory used some of the money to which we now have access for supporting legal interpretation, and second-hand stories and rumours merely add those early student days. to the confusion. Take a look at www.hse.gov.uk/press/record.htm If we, who know what a degree from Imperial will mean to these and www.hse.gov.uk/riskdebate/index.htm. talented and dedicated prospective students, cannot find a way to Whilst my co-workers in the business and I are not blameless (we contribute in some small way, then it is a sad reflection on us. sometimes get it wrong and we naturally tend to err on the side of I continue to be proud of being an alumnus of Imperial College. I safety), our job is to help people produce sensible, workable have just retired but throughout my career I have been so aware of the solutions that allow them to get on with the job, but also protect quality of the tuition I received, not only in connection with the work I their health and safety. Risk management, rather than risk have had the privilege of tackling, but also through the respect elimination. We also have the advantage, if that’s the correct term, of accorded immediately one mentions Imperial. I feel it really prepared first-hand experience of the effects of getting it wrong. Having to me for a very rewarding career. My son who attended Imperial more interview the colleagues and relatives of a deceased worker tends to recently tells the same story. concentrate the mind on what is important, as does reading the statistics showing how often it is still happening elsewhere. TONY COOK (Electrical Engineering 1963, MSc 1965) If you need more convincing, I’m sure Imperial College’s Safety Department will be happy to help! DEREK PRATT (Chemical Engineering 1971) 2 IMPERIALMATTERS_WINTER 2006 ISSUE 27 WINTER 2006 news 3 Imperial news – catch up with the latest news from the College, including new plans for the Wye campus. 4 faculty news – keep up-to-date with the latest news from each of the faculties. You can find out about some of the most recent research projects, including new insights into the cause of the world's largest mass extinction at the end of the Permian period and the findings of NASA’s flyby of Enceladus, one of Saturn's 34 known moons. Imperial news World class scientific Imperial flies high in research centre planned world rankings for Wye Imperial College London was placed 13th in the world and fifth in Europe in the 2005 World University Rankings, published by The Times Higher Education Supplement in October, and are largely based on an international poll of academics, students and recruiters. Imperial was placed first in Europe and fifth in the world for technology. The College was also placed third in Europe and tenth in the world for science and fourth in Europe and sixth in the world for biomedicine. Further a field, figures published in The Straits Times, Singapore, in January 2006 seem to suggest that Imperial is the new jewel in the crown for Singaporean university students in Britain. The statistics show that 276 Singaporeans were enrolled at the College in the 2003/2004 academic year, more than double the 110 studying at Oxford and well above the 195 at Cambridge as well, a marked change from years past. Loh Wei Jie, medical student at Imperial and former secretary of the IAN MACAULEY United Kingdom Singapore Students’ Council, attributed Imperial’s Wye is to become the home of a new £1 billion, world class science growing popularity to its rise in Britain’s league tables, namely those research and manufacturing facility. The facility will create 12,500 high- produced by The Sunday Times and The Times Higher Education quality job opportunities, bringing prosperity and sustainable Supplement, which in 2005 rated Imperial above Cambridge as the regeneration to Ashford, and acting as a major economic driver for best university in Britain for technology. Kent and the south east. Rector of Imperial College London, Sir Richard Sykes, said: “We have a fantastic opportunity to explore some of the most exciting problems in science, engineering and medicine today. One such Imperial as One opportunity is to explore the potential for non-food crops in clean and affordable bio-fuels and bio-based products.
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