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Engineering success
Royal Academy of Engineering honours Imperial staff > page 5 Teaching excellence in Engineering rewarded > page 6
Next Rector Staff Party MoD advisor, Professor Your full pull-out guide Sir Roy Anderson, to the day — from appointed next barbecue to bubbly! Imperial head PAGES 7–10 PAGE 3 in brief Graduate entry Medicine course launched
A new Imperial degree Engineering and Physical Science, said: New AHSC Intranet course that aims to turn “Seeing this course come to fruition is a really Staff from Imperial, Hammer- science graduates into fitting memorial to Professor John Lever, smith Hospitals and St Mary’s Hospital academic clinicians was who was Head of the Department can now access a joint Academic Health Science announced on 4 June. of Bioengineering until he died last year. Centre (AHSC) intranet. As well as being able to The graduate entry He was a great supporter of the scheme, view the questions and answers from the staff Medicine course will which will make a huge difference to the meetings and facilitated discussions, you can train science graduates to careers of students across the College.” contact people working on AHSC developments. A key part of the site is Talking Point, a discus- become medical doctors Around 170 graduates visited Imperial sion forum where you can share your views and over four years, rather than on 13 June for an open day to find out more ideas with 17,000 other colleagues, and make the six taken on the MBBS/BSc about the course. The Rector welcomed stu- suggestions on how to develop the AHSC. course. It aims to create the clinical dents and outlined his belief that they would • Visit: www.ahsc.org.uk/intranet researchers of tomorrow by giving become the kind of doctors we need with medical training to graduates who already strong scientific knowledge underpinning Royal visit focuses have a solid grounding in science. The their practical skills. on innovation course forms part of the wider plans to create Shiv Chopra, President of the medical HRH The Duke of York the new Academic Health Science Centre. students union, assured graduates that they visited Imperial College Candidates wishing to apply for the would be fully integrated with everything London Incubator and the course will have, or be expecting, an upper that takes place in the medical school. Institute of Bioengineering second class or first class Honours degree in The new course will take 50 graduate on 11 June, exploring a biological subject that demonstrates a sig- students each year complementing Imperial’s innovation at the College. nificant knowledge of the basic physiology undergraduate medical intake of 286 Invited by the Rector in his capacity as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and biochemistry of mammalian cells and students per year. The first students on and Investment, the Duke first met Dr Richard organs. This includes those in biochemistry the new course will start in 2008. Garraway, Manager of the Incubator, which houses and bioengineering. —Laura Gallagher, Communications up to 15 technology-based, early stage spin-out Richard Kitney, Professor of Biomedical companies. The Duke also toured the laboratory Systems Engineering, Senior Dean • For more information visit of deltaDOT, a life science company which was and Director of the Graduate School of www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/teaching spun out from College research in 2000. Following this, the Duke visited the recently refurbished Institute of Biomedical Engineering, a postgraduate research facility that draws together scientists, medics and engineers to create progress in medical World-leading Clinical diagnosis and treatment. He also visited the Hydrodynamics Laboratory in the Department of Imaging Centre opens Civil Engineering which is used to study the wave forces on sea-based structures. A unique venture between Imperial, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Medical It’s good to talk! Research Council was officially opened on The College’s most recent 13 June by the Rt Hon. Alistair Darling MP, telethon drew to a close Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. in March. Current figures The new Clinical Imaging Centre (CIC) show that gifts from over represents an investment of over £50 million The CIC was launched by (l-r) Professor Colin Blakemore, 600 alumni totalled almost and marks a pioneering collaboration between CEO of the MRC, Sir Richard Sykes, Alistair Darling MP and £85,000, bringing the Dr Moncef Slaoui, GSK. industry, academia and the public sector to amount received from campaigns in the current academic year to nearly £150,000; the most ever advance the development of new medicines. raised from a telethon in one year. Monies from the The CIC is the largest new imaging centre in Europe dedicated to the development eight-week bi-annual campaign will be directed and application of imaging techniques for clinical research. The collaboration will towards the Student Opportunities Fund, and the combine the imaging expertise and knowledge of each partner and will apply it to the Library and Beit Quad building redevelopments. development of new medicines across a broad range of diseases including cancer and neurological disorders. Gibbins appointed to The Rector said the centre was a prime example of what can be achieved when carbon committee universities, government and industry work side by side. “It enables us to translate Dr Jon Gibbins, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical our scientific advances into improving patient care as quickly as possible. Engineering, has been appointed to the new DTI By combining the expertise of leaders in imaging technology and giving Advisory Committee on Carbon Abatement Technol- them access to the very latest equipment, we can advance our ogies. The committee provides independent advice understanding of diseases that affect millions of people.” to government on matters concerning technologies The CIC building, adjacent to the for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power Hammersmith Campus, is backed by a generation and other large industrial processes using fossil fuel. Dr Gibbins has more than 10-year commitment by GSK to invest 20 years’ experience in these academic sectors. £11 million a year. • For more information: www.dti.gov.uk/files/ —Laura Gallagher, Communications file19827.pdf
reporter 27 June 2007 • Issue 179 New Rector announced
Professor Sir Roy Anderson will succeed Sir Richard Sykes in the summer of 2008 to become the 14th Rector of Imperial, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Chairman of the Court and Council, announced to the community on 21 June.
Sir Richard Sykes (left) shown here with Professor Sir Roy Anderson (right).
For Sir Roy, a distinguished epidemiologist A global university and currently Chief Scientific Advisor to the On his appointment, Sir Roy spoke of The route to Rector UK Ministry of Defence, becoming Rector working with outstanding colleagues and will crown a 40-year association with the Imperial’s exceptional students to make the Professor Sir Roy Anderson is regarded as one of College which began when he was admitted most of the great opportunities that lie ahead the world’s leading authorities on the epidemi- as a zoology undergraduate in 1965 and for science, engineering and medicine in the ology and control of infectious diseases including which, as the holder of Imperial’s Chair in service of society. tropical parasitic infections, BSE and vCJD, SARS, Infectious Disease Epidemiology since 2000, “Imperial is a global university, wel- AIDS, influenza and foot and mouth. continues today. coming people from all over the world and all social and cultural backgrounds, 1968 Gained a first class degree in zoology and went on to do a PhD The announcement followed months of and bringing them together in a vibrant in parasitology, both at Imperial work by the Search Committee established and integrated community,” said Sir Roy. 1977 Following appointments at the to identify and recommend the best “Those who come here find a down-to-earth, University of Oxford and King’s successor to Sir Richard Sykes. Chaired by problem-solving environment that has an College London, he returned to Lord Kerr, the committee considered candi- extraordinary history of creating opportunity Imperial as a lecturer dates internationally and canvassed opinion for its talented people. It is a great honour to 1982 Made Imperial professor aged 35 across Imperial. The College’s be asked to lead this very special 1984–93 Head of the Department of Council approved Sir Roy’s institution.” Biology appointment on 14 June. “It is a great He added: “Sir Richard Sykes 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society Announcing the appoint- honour to be asked has done an extraordinary job 1991–2000 Governor of the Wellcome Trust ment, Lord Kerr commented for Imperial College and the 1993–2000 Linacre Chair of Zoology and to lead this very Director of the Wellcome that Sir Roy more than matched College is fitter than it has ever Centre for the Epidemiology the criteria required to lead a special institution” been. He has put the College of Infectious Disease at the world class research university. firmly on the international University of Oxford “He is Imperial through and map, reminding us always of 2000–2004 Set up and led the Department through, and I am delighted that its founding charter, to apply of Infectious Disease he has agreed to take the top our endeavours to solving the Epidemiology at Imperial job and will lead Imperial through the first world’s problems. I hope that in my time 2004–present Chief Scientific Adviser at the years of its second century,” said Lord Kerr. as Rector I will be able to do as much as Ministry of Defence. Continues to “Sir Richard Sykes will leave the College in a Sir Richard to build on all the great achieve- hold Imperial’s Chair in Infectious very strong position, and Sir Roy is an ideal ments of Imperial’s first 100 years.” Disease Epidemiology successor, with the talent and enthusiasm In his role at the MoD, Sir Roy is in charge 2006 Knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list necessary to ensure our continued success.” of a large research and technology budget and is a member of the Defence Management • For Sir Roy’s full CV visit: Board and of the Defence Council. www.imperial.ac.uk/aboutimperial/rectorelect His department of Science, Innovation and Technology is responsible for 220 civil servants in Whitehall and 3,500 scientists and engineers. ensure a successful transition, Sir Richard Current Rector Sir Richard Sykes joined said, “Imperial is a very special institution to Imperial in 2001 from GlaxoSmithKline, so many people and its future leadership is where he was Chairman, and will have placed in safe hands. Our new Rector-elect led Imperial for eight years when he retires already knows it inside out, cares about it next summer. deeply, and is well placed to help it build on Welcoming Sir Roy back to Imperial and the success of its first 100 years.” looking forward to working with him to —Abigail Smith, Communications
27 June 2007 • Issue 179 reporter www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter media mentions Collaboration key to next
—Danielle Reeves, Communications generation surgical robot
Surgical robots could soon be learning some extra skills, BBC News Online • 7 June The Independent • thanks to a new industrial collaboration at the College. 12 June A wireless future Working with Intuitive Surgical Inc., the company US researchers have successfully tested Hayfever cure held behind the pioneering da Vinci minimal access system, an experimental system to deliver power back by NHS the research team led by Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, to devices without the need for wires. A revolutionary pill for hay fever that Department of Computing, Professor Sir Ara Darzi, The setup, could transform the lives of sufferers Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology and reported in the is being denied to thousands of those Dr Daniel Elson, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will journal Science, most severely affected because of the further develop the system to made a 60W cost to the NHS, reports The Inde- improve the way the robot and light bulb glow pendent. Stephen Durham (Medicine), human surgeons interact. from a distance who led the study into the once-a-day Da Vinci was developed of two metres, pill presented at the 26th European as the first surgical system to bringing a Academy of Allergology and Clinical give surgeons the clinical and future free of cables to power electronic Immunology Congress (EAACI), told technical capabilities of open gadgets one step closer to reality. The Independent: “Reducing symptoms surgery, but allowing them to Professor Sir John Pendry (Natural and improvement in quality of life are operate through tiny incisions, Sciences), who has seen the experi- the number one priorities for hayfever making patients’ recovery time ments, told the BBC: “There is nothing sufferers.” He added: “I believe about much faster. in this that would have prevented them 10 per cent of the hay fever population, Measures to improve clin- inventing this 10 or even 20 years ago. potentially a million patients in the UK, ical performance will include But I think there is an issue of time. could benefit from this treatment.” the use of pre-operative images In the last few years we have seen an to map out critical organs that exponential growth of mobile devices the machine should avoid. that need power. The power cable is Professor Yang says: The Independent • 14 June the last wire to be cut in a wireless “It’s a real tribute to the multi- Robotic technology extends the benefits connection.” Turning a bright idea into a disciplinary approach of the of minimally invasive surgery. technology company College that a leading US-based Going from a lab to starting a hi-tech company has chosen us to be company has never been easier for the partner in developing the next generation surgical robot.” postgraduates, with plenty of advice, Professor Sir Ara Darzi, one of the first surgeons in support and funding up for grabs, the UK to use da Vinci, adds: “Da Vinci is a great step forward according to a feature in The Inde- in enabling us to carry out minimal access surgery with pendent. Raising money to start a absolute pinpoint accuracy, but there are still improvements The Guardian • 12 June technology company is easier and less to be made. Rice the answer to risky than in the —Abigail Smith, Communications cholera vaccine days when you A strain of rice has been uncovered were expected by scientists at the University of to put your own Tokyo which carries a vaccine for house on the cholera and would be cheaper and line. However, easier to distribute than the standard even now, fund- Reporter is on injection-based vaccine. Cholera is raising is best a disease of the gut and is highly approached cau- prevalent in many of the world’s tiously. Attitudes the CASE poorest countries. Scientists at the are entirely different in the US, Tim Reporter has won a Gold Medal in this year’s Council for Advancement University of Tokyo genetically Meldrum from Tanaka Business School, and Support of Education (CASE) Circle of Excellence Awards in the modified rice to produce cholera commented to the newspaper. “We’re category for periodical publishing improvement. Out of 10 entries in that category, Reporter was the only medal winner. toxin B, a protein used to prompt missing a huge trick in the UK,” he said. The College’s newspaper, which is now in its 179th edition, was immune responses. Christoph Tang “We’re playing catch-up with the US redesigned and refocused last year by a team from the Communica- (Medicine) commented to The Guardian entrepreneurial culture, but we have an tions Division, launching in its new format in October 2006. Editor, that the vaccine was a “very appealing environment where people don’t want Alex Platt, said: “This is a real testament to the Reporter team, as well low cost technology for developing to take a big risk. In the US, there is no as the College community, who make this such a rich and fascinating countries.” stigma attached to losing seed finance.” place to report from. Please keep your news and views coming!” The awards, which recognise outstanding achievement in communications, marketing, alumni relations and fundraising, are > Sign up for Imperial news judged by professional peers and communications professionals Join our mailing lists that bring regular Imperial news, information and website alerts to all outside education. subscribers. To sign up: www.imperial.ac.uk/aboutimperial/news/newsandpremailservices • For more information about the awards visit www.case.org
www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter reporter 27 June 2007 • Issue 179 use their product. Engineering excellence award Professor Costas Pantelides Understanding the shares the PSE story balance between College for Imperial spin-out and corporate respon- Imperial Professor of Chemical Engineering sibilities is important to Professor Pantelides. Costas Pantelides is the Managing Director Reaction systems Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), one of Imperial’s first He said: “It is not enough successful spin-out companies, has won the Royal Academy of PSE. He said winning the award meant a great deal to him, having spent 20 years for academics to just write of Engineering’s MacRobert Award, worth £50,000. developing the company’s main software papers on their work if they HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh presented the product, gPROMS. He explained: “We want to see it applied in prize to the company, which provides the chemical process thought we had a good chance of being practice. It is not enough industry with mathematical modelling software, at the 2007 shortlisted, but we were not at all sure we to even meet industry half Academy Awards on 5 June. The MacRobert Award is the would win. We were up against such a well way when trying to com- UK’s most prestigious prize for innovation in engineering. developed and varied group of companies. mercialise technology. You It is awarded annually for the demonstration of engineering We were absolutely delighted at winning.” need to take on some risk, Polymer processing put effort in and convince excellence and innovation with proven industry that your idea will commercial outcomes and benefits to PSE was founded 10 years ago and work and add value.” the community. Professor Pantelides has tried to retain Spun out of Imperial in 1997 and was one of Imperial’s earlier spin-out com- his research commitments at Imperial and now part of the Imperial Innovations panies. It was initially work on new areas of research, such as portfolio, the technology commerciali- set up with a modest molecular modelling, rather than focusing sation and investment company PSE investment from the purely on areas the company is developing. is a global operation with 75 per cent five founding aca- “This is the stage in my career when I would of the company’s revenues coming demics and received really like—and can afford to take the time from exports. no outside funding. and risk—to learn something completely new,” he said. The company’s innovative soft- From left to right — The company’s The future is bright for PSE. Professor ware, gPROMS, helps process industry HRH Prince Philip, initial customers, who started to evaluate the Professors, Costas Pantelides explained that the company is companies to maximise product gPROMS software in the 18 months before Pantelides, Sandro looking forward to a period of rapid growth. Macchietto, Nilay Shay PSE was formally established, included quality, minimise production costs Following a recent investment by a major and control environmental impact and Stratos Pistikopoulos. Unilever, ICI and Mitsubishi Chemical. However, for the past five years, PSE has no investment company, PSE plans to develop through the use of high-accuracy longer relied on these industrial companies. its customer base into Korea, India and China; predictive mathematical models of their processes. Sales have grown rapidly with an increase of being already well established in Japan, The technology is based on the research of Professor two per cent every year for the past four to the US and Europe. Costas Pantelides and colleagues in the Centre for Process five years and more than 200 universities now —Charlotte Stone, Imperial Innovations Systems Engineering. —Naomi Weston, Communications
Engineers honoured at RAEng awards
In recognition of their outstanding per- with whom I have enjoyed collaborating in sonal contributions to British engineering, these exciting developments.” Professors Nigel Brandon and Chris Lord Browne of Toumazou were awarded prestigious Professor Chris Toumazou Madingley, President of the silver awards at the event. Professor Toumazou, Director and Chief Royal Academy of Scientist of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, presented silver medals to Professor Nigel Brandon Engineering (IBE), became one of the College’s Professors Chris Toumazou and Nigel Brandon. As Director of the College’s Energy Futures youngest professors at the age of 33. He has Lab and Shell Chair in Sustainable Develop- made outstanding contributions to the fields Toumazou led a major campaign to raise £26 ment in Energy, Professor Brandon is at the of low power analogue circuit design, current million to fund the creation of the IBE last year. leading edge of fuel cell technology in the UK. mode circuits and systems for radio frequency He said: “Interdisciplinary and transla- He established the first Rolls-Royce fuel and biomedical applications. tional research is all about mixing the ingredi- cell laboratory in 1992 and was co-inventor Professor Toumazou holds the Winston ents to create novel and disruptive platform of the Rolls-Royce integrated planar solid Wong Chair in Biomedical Circuits at Imperial technologies.” oxide fuel cell. and has successfully published over 320 After joining Imperial in 1998, Professor research papers in the field of radio fre- Mario Iobbi Brandon also co-invented a novel metal- quency and low power electronics. Toumaz Mario Iobbi, an Imperial Bioengineering PhD supported solid oxide fuel cell, which was Technology was formed in 2001, initially as a student, was formally presented with the ERA spun out from the College in 2001 to form silicon radio chip company making very low Foundation Award worth £40,000. He won Ceres Power. After roles as CEO and then power devices for mobile phones. In 2004 it for his idea and business plan for a saturation CTO, he is now Chief Scientist of the company. spun out its radio division to Taiwan in a new driven oxygen therapy device, which will help He said: “I would like to thank all my company called Future Waves to concentrate sufferers of breathing-related conditions. colleagues in industry and at the College on ultra-low power medical devices. Professor —Naomi Weston, Communications
27 June 2007 • Issue 179 reporter www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter Awards and Burkino Faso honours honours tropical disease initiative
Knight appointed The contribution of Imperial’s Schistosomiasis Chair of Science Board Control Initiative (SCI) to the health of people Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS, Prin- in Burkina Faso was recognised by the coun- cipal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences try’s Ministry of Health on 12 April. has been appointed to the board of The Honourable Alain Yoda, the Minister the Science and Technology Facilities of Health of Burkina Faso, presented members Professor Alan Fenwick after receiving the Chevalier of the Council’s (STFC) Science Board. The STFC of the SCI with the Chevalier of the Ordre Ordre National at a ceremony in Tenkodogu, Burkina Faso. is the newest of the UK’s seven national funding National at a ceremony in Tenkodogu, in the councils. Chair, Sir Peter, and seven other newly appointed board members, will be responsible for presence of the Governor of the Province and and intestinal helminth control programme, and providing advice to the Council and the executive over 2,000 dignitaries and guests. the way in which the SCI has encouraged the on all aspects of STFC’s science and technology The SCI, which is led by Professor Alan establishment of integrated control of Neglected programme. He said: “It is an exciting time to be Fenwick from the Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases (NTDs) at a national level. appointed and I look forward to the challenges that Disease Epidemiology, assists countries in sub- At the ceremony, Professor Fenwick lie ahead in managing and balancing the needs of Saharan Africa to control the parasitic disease paid tribute to the dedication of the Burkina the science communities to ensure that the UK is schistosomiasis and intestinal worm infections. Faso team. well positioned on the global research stage.” Mr Yoda presented the Chevalier medal Professor Fenwick stressed that control and ribbon to Professor Alan Fenwick, of NTDs is in the hands of the Burkina Faso Queen’s Birthday Mr Howard Thompson, Dr Albis Gabrielli, Ministry of Health and that the SCI is ready to Honours Dr Bertrand Sellin and Mme Elisabeth Sellin. assist in any way requested. Professor Georgina Mace, The awards recognise the assistance given by —Laura Gallagher, Communications Director of the College’s the SCI in implementing the schistosomiasis NERC Centre for Population Biology, has been awarded a CBE for services to envi- ronmental science in the Queen’s Birthday Honours Teaching excellence in engineering list. Professor Mace’s research includes managing the environment, and negotiating the impact that celebrated with new awards human development has on the natural world. In addition, Melville Guest from the College’s Office of An inaugural ceremony for new Teaching Alumni and Development received an OBE for his Excellence in Engineering Education awards, services to Britain’s relations with Asia. worth £10,000 each, was held on 15 June by the Faculty of Engineering’s EnVision 2010 project. Medicine student to rub shoulders Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Principal of with Nobel laureates the Faculty of Engineering, said: “The awards Medicine undergraduate Tharsi Sarvananthan is one were given in recognition of individuals or small of over 560 students from across the world selected teams who are renowned for the excellence of to attend the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in their teaching and have enhanced the quality And the winners are...(clockwise from top) Lindau, Germany, from 1–6 July 2007. The meeting is of the engineering student learning experience. Professor Cosgrove, Professor Field, Rebecca an opportunity for some of the ’future leading lights Naessens, Dr Popo-Ola and Alison Ahearn. I thank them for their continued commitment to of science’ to participate in a top science meeting developing the engineers of tomorrow.” alongside Nobel laureates. The Faculty of Medicine nominated Tharsi to attend the meeting, which is dedicated to holders of the Nobel Prize in • Dr Antony Field, Depart- • Professor John Cosgrove, • Alison Ahearn, Dr Sunday physiology or medicine, for winning the 2006 ment of Computing, an Department of Earth Science Popo-Ola and Rebecca Evelyn de Rothschild Prize for the best BSc project. enthusiastic and dedicated and Engineering has a long Naessens, Department of member of his Department, and distinguished record of Civil Engineering, are a European honour for Professor is passionate about creating achievement and service to team who work with external Nizar Touzi, of Tanaka Business School, has the best environment for stu- the education of structural partners to run the innova- been awarded the annual prize for best young dents to learn and fulfil their geologists. He continues to tive Constructionarium field researcher of the year by the Europlace potential. He is an innovative inspire, enthuse and generate course, which immerses stu- Institute of Finance. The Institute is user of novel teaching tools skills and knowledge through dents in a construction micro- based in Paris and its mission is to and other universities have outstanding teaching. cosm. The project enables foster exchange between researchers adopted the project and Students report that ‘his hands-on student learning and finance professionals. The award recognises Professor Touzi’s work assessment proce- patience and dedication have through construction work on financial mathematics, applied dures he devel- not waned; he always gives in a realistic environment. to the financial markets, derivatives, oped. inspirational lectures and has Such personal development optimal portfolio management, and the evalua- a talent for explaining motivates students and helps tion and control of risk. even the most complex them academically. geological formations.’ —Alexandra Platt, Communications
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100 years • 1 big bash
The Centenary Staff Party Party Centenary Staff Wed 11 July • 14.00–20.00 • South Kensington Campus
As part of the Centenary celebrations Imperial College London staff are invited to the Centenary staff party.
This detailed, detachable programme is the ultimate guide to all the exciting events, food and drink options, and musical selections.
Throughout 2007, Imperial College London is This international reputation is a tribute to all the celebrating 100 years of living science to mark the people who have worked and studied here over the Centenary of the signing of its founding charter on past 100 years, and its future will depend on the 8 July 1907. Since its formation from the merger of the dedicated and talented staff who continue to make Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College Imperial their home. and the Royal School of Mines, Imperial has grown to become a globally renowned centre of excellence for This party is not just a celebration of the past but also science, technology and medicine. a thank you to the people who make the College what it is and who have contributed so much to its current outstanding success.
> Register in advance and receive: • FREE food and drink entitlement at the party • FREE coach from your campus to the party • Entry in a prize draw for an Xbox 360tm and games
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Eligibility: Entry to the Centenary staff party is for Imperial College London staff members only. A valid staff ID card will be required as proof for entry. For further terms and conditions please see the website.
www.imperial.ac.uk/Centenary/staffparty 27 June 2007 • Issue 179 reporter www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter Party Menu Dalby Court Queen’s Lawn Prince’s gardens Chocolate feast Afternoon tea Barbecue 2 tokens 6 tokens 4 tokens Fairtrade chocolate fountain served Traditional English tea selection. Enjoy a full selection from the grill, with a choice of delicious, jumbo • Cucumber and smoked salmon served with salad and a choice of sweet skewers. sandwiches sauces – ketchup, English mustard, • Strawberry and marshmallow • Victorian style cakes chilli or sweet honey mustard. • Mixed fruit — Scones, cream and • Jumbo beef burger in a bap raspberry jam • Jumbo hot dog Sweet delights — Lemon curd tartlets • Vegetarian fritters with 2 tokens — Bakewell tarts houmous • Cornetto ice cream — Eccles cakes • Lemon pepper chicken pittas • Strawberries and cream — Mini chocolate éclairs • Lemon barley water Picnic blankets Drinks bar FREE 2 tokens Barbecue Relax on a picnic blanket on • Connoisseurs coffee cart 4 tokens the lawn while listening to • Champagne and Pimm’s bar Enjoy a full selection from the grill, the musical performances. served with salad and a choice of Enjoy our complementary sauces – ketchup, English mustard, • Tortilla chips chilli or sweet honey mustard. • Crudités and dips • Jumbo beef burger in a bap • Jumbo hot dog • Vegetarian fritters with Queen’s lawn and houmous Prince’s gardens How to buy additional • Lemon pepper chicken pittas Beverages food and drink tokens Asian Wok Stop Soft drinks — 1 token All food and drink at the party runs on a 4 tokens • Coca-Cola (half pint) token system. Staff who pre-register will Hokkien noodles stir-fried with • Lemonade (half pint) receive four drink and six food tokens. Chinese style vegetables. All served • Springbourne still/ in a noodle box with chopsticks. sparkling water Purchase additional tokens, available Top with a choice of sauces – satay, • Caribbean fruit punch now, from the Senior Common Room, sweet chilli or soy. Junior Common Room, and Tanaka café; Alcoholic drinks — 2 tokens • Vegetarian or on the day from the main entrance • Beck’s lager • Chicken and 58 Prince’s Gate. Tokens are sold on • San Miguel lager yellow wrist bands of ten tokens; each Sweet delights • Centenary wine (red or white) token has a value of £0.50. Token wrist • Sparkling wine by the glass bands will cost £5.00 on the 11 July, and 2 tokens • Pimm’s with all the trimmings • Candy floss £4.50 in advance. • Popcorn Alcoholic drinks — 3 tokens Please note: Catering outlets at the party will only • Toffee apples • Centenary 100 ale accept these tokens as payment, and will not accept cash or debit/credit cards. Tokens may only be used • Sapporo lager at the Centenary Staff Party and are non returnable. • Cobra lager
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Prince’s Gardens • Live music through our Century The gardens will host a covered performance stage which will showcase live music from throughout Imperial’s Century. A new music act will commence on the hour every hour between 14.00 and 19.00. Enjoy the barbecue and bar in the gardens with picnic blankets and Party Centenary Staff gazebos while listening to music by:
14.00 Charleston Chasers • The Charleston Chasers continue to Queen’s Lawn • An Edwardian experience delight audiences everywhere with their vibrant show The Queen’s Lawn marquee, decorated in the style of the Edwardian ‘The Roaring ‘20s’. Famed for their boundless energy, era, provides a relaxing location to be served a traditional afternoon infectious enthusiasm and masterful musicianship, the tea as you listen to a five-piece brass band. Charleston Chasers hot nostalgia show is performed with pizzazz and sung with sizzle. Surrounding the Queen’s Lawn will be a free Edwardian fête with old fashioned fair stalls, roving artists, stilt walkers, a skittle alley, 15.00 Elvis tribute act • Wearing a 1971 replica black costume seaside boards and a carousel. — designed by Elvis’ own costume and wardrobe designer — this Elvis tribute act will wow you with his A food cart, stocked with toffee apples, popcorn and candy floss imitation of the King! will be available to tempt your taste buds. Afternoon tea, a bar, barbecue and ‘wok stop’ will also be available on the lawn. 16.00 Rubber Soul • With an enthusiasm for classic soul, this band has developed their style through their various experiences of classical and popular music. Their set will start with Dalby Court • Putter around rock and roll and move on to Motown. Transformed into a laid back ‘Sunday afternoon style’ zone with golf putting, Edwardian croquet and bowls. Live jazz will be music 17.00 The Fab Beatles • Praise has come from all quarters for this to your ears, and the sparkling wine and Pimm’s bar will keep you startlingly accurate representation of the famous four. refreshed. Ice cream and strawberries and cream, as well as a chocolate fountain will be on hand to help you keep your cool! 18.00 The Class of ‘87 • Class of ‘87 are bringing you the biggest, fattest, coolest tracks of the decade; so flick back that fringe, Golf Challenge: Try your hand at the Golf Challenge friendly slip on the ray bans, strap that big fat 80s mobile to your back competition encompassing putting, chipping and Nintendo Wii. and come check out the Class of ‘87 — the unrivalled live tribute to the 80s! First scores on each area will be recorded throughout the day, with your final score calculated as the running total 19.00 Fake That • The original tribute to the best selling boy band in for all three areas. The top six point winners will be the UK ever! announced during the week of 18 July.
Prizes: to include golf gloves and golf balls.
To take part: Register your name and email details with the Sport Imperial golfing chaps located on Dalby court through out the day.
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New TB test Unlocking offers quicker how and easier mosquitoes diagnosis spread Researchers from Imperial and disease Northwick Park Hospital NHS Trust have found that a new quick and simple test for diagnosing Imperial researchers have led the TB is just as effective as existing three-day methods, in research first group of scientists in the world to published on 1 June in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. study the newly-sequenced genome of the The new test involves taking Hospital NHS Trust, was one mosquito that spreads deadly yellow and dengue three sputum samples from of the authors of the research. fevers to humans. a patient over the course of He said: “This is a simple The team, from the College’s Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, one day, saving them from the method of collecting bacteria have identified the genes that make up the Aedes aegypti mosquito’s invasive procedures from individuals with immune system, and published their findings inScience on 22 June. and stay in hospital the early stages of These genes are important because the scientists believe they may play We can start required in other TB who are unable a key role in how dangerous viruses like yellow and dengue fever are testing methods. treatment to cough sputum transmitted to people. In the future it may be Patients use a neb- sooner and get samples. By doing all possible to affect the activity of the genes uliser to inhale salty patients home the tests in one day, and therefore help the mosquitoes fight off water, or hypertonic we can start treat- the viruses more effectively, preventing sooner… saline, for 20 minutes ment sooner and get transmission to humans. which enables them patients home sooner. Dr George Christophides, senior author to produce sputum samples Previously we relied on bron- on the paper, explains: “Our study has from deep inside the lungs. choscopy or gastric washings, revealed the genetic ‘landscape’ made by These are then analysed for which were uncomfortable parts of this mosquito’s newly-sequenced traces of mycobacterium tuber- for the patient and required genome which are involved with immunity. culosis, the bacterium which a longer stay in hospital. The By working to understand as much as causes most cases of TB. patient breathing nebulised possible about these genes, and the way Dr Robert Davidson, from hypertonic saline feels little or they interact with specific pathogens, we the Division of Medicine at no unpleasant sensation, and it hope to gain a more complete understanding of the Imperial and the Department is a very cheap test.” mechanisms by which a pathogen either survives inside the insect body, of Infection and Tropical —Laura Gallagher, or is killed by the insect’s defences.” Medicine at Northwick Park Communications —Danielle Reeves, Communications
disease, who smoke and provide advice and not routinely offering cessation advice during More smokers support to help them quit smoking. About consultations, in spite of evidence showing one quarter of GP income is currently derived that it improves quit rates, because some through meeting quality targets in the treat- found it too time-consuming, considered it quit with a little ment of such chronic diseases. to be ineffectual, or felt that they lacked the Christopher Millett from the Department appropriate skills. help from their GP of Primary Care and Social Medicine is one of The researchers’ findings suggest that the authors of the study published on 4 June the new incentive scheme is likely to be a A new study by Imperial researchers has shown in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. key contributor to changes in help offered that smokers in South London have been getting He said: “Financial incentives introduced in to smokers. However, they caution that more support for quitting and that their numbers UK primary care appear to have increased some of the improvements seen may have have reduced, since the introduction of cessation advice being given by primary care occurred without the introduction of financial performance-related incentives for UK general staff and reduced the percentage of people incentives. —Laura Gallagher, Communications practitioners (GPs). with diabetes who smoke.” “Improvements were generally greatest •For more information. www.ash.org.uk “Pay for performance” incentives, which in the groups with the poorest performance judge practices against 146 quality indicators before these incentives were introduced and as part of the new GP contract introduced among ethnic minorities—populations that in 2004 mean that GPs are paid more if they often receive lower quality care. Supporting succeed in meeting performance targets set people with diabetes to quit smoking is very by the government. important because they are at an increased Several of these quality indicators risk of developing cardiovascular disease,” encourage GPs to identify people with a he added. chronic disease, such as diabetes or heart Previous studies had shown that GPs were
27 June 2007 • Issue 179 reporter www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter 11 archive corner Put your heads together The College is pleased to announce the appointment of new Heads for the Departments of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engi- A right royal neering, Chemistry and the Division of Investigative Science.
• Professor Ross Ethier will join the College heritage on 1 August as Head of the Department of Bioengineering. He is currently Director of the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Imperial has a royal heritage to be proud of—dating back to 1845 when He will succeed Professor Chris Hankin, Prince Albert was associated with the Royal College of Chemistry and the who has been Acting Head of Department Royal School of Mines. Since then, members of the royal family have been since the death of Professor John Lever. regular visitors to Imperial’s campuses, often marking special occasions: • Professor Tony Kinloch FCGI, FREng, FRS will become Head of the Department • Edward VII laid the foundation stone for the new Imperial College of Science and of Mechanical Engineering on 1 October. Technology—including the RSM and Goldsmiths’ Extension—in 1909. He is Chair of the Mechanics of Materials research group in Mechanical Engineering. • George V opened Hammersmith’s Royal Postgraduate Medical School as a He will succeed Professor Nick Cumpsty School of London University in 1935. FREng. • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother laid the foundation stone for the new St Mary’s • Professor Thomas Welton, currently Hospital Medical School in 1931 and the hospital’s new wing, now named after her, Professor of Sustainable Chemistry and in 1983. As Chancellor of the University of London, The Queen Mother also opened Director of Undergraduate Studies in the the Reynolds Building, housing Department of Chemistry, will become the medical school at Charing Head of the Department on 1 August. Cross Campus, in 1976. In 1958, Professor Welton will succeed Professor she attended Wye’s Commemora- Richard Templer. tion Day, arriving by royal train • Professor Martin Wilkins will become and being formally introduced to Head of the Division of Investigative Science on 1 August. Archimedes, the College tortoise. He is currently Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Head of the Experimental Medicine and Toxicology • Since becoming Chancellor of the University of London, the Section in the Division of Medicine. He will succeed Princess Royal, Princess Professor Steve Bloom FMedSci. Anne, has attended many landmark events at Imperial’s campuses, including opening the new NHLI building at Royal visitors Royal Brompton Campus over the years in 1988. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, joins • Prince Philip has also celebrations for the been a regular visitor, 5oth anniversary of the making a private visit to South Kensington College Charter in 1957. in 1953 and, with the Queen, in 1969. While visiting on one occasion, she commented • The Queen is Imperial’s Visitor, meaning that she is the “Whenever I meet final arbiter in any unresolved situation. She has visited our undergraduates, on many occasions throughout her reign, including with their enthusiasm, opening the Sir Alexander Fleming Building for the dedication and initiative, I am Imperial College School of Medicine in 1998. A more completely reassured stressful event than some, with a door coming off its about the future.” hinges, a faulty lift and a coffee spill to deal with whilst the entourage was on its way! Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, for new web design • On her last visit to the College on 24 June 2004, on a private visit to Green light the Queen, accompanied by Prince Andrew, opened the Imperial College’s College Main Entrance and the Tanaka Business School. South Kensington The Web Management Board has recently signed off the design On 9 July 2007, Her Majesty will sign our Royal Visitors campus in 1953. for the new College website due to be launched in autumn 2007. Book again when she joins us to commemorate our The Board was presented with proposed designs for the home Centenary year. page (pictured above), the secondary level page for research and a departmental page. To view these and for full details of — Anne Barrett, Archives and Corporate Records the Web Redesign and Information Architecture Project visit: www.imperial.ac.uk/webredesign. —Caroline Davis, Communications
12 www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter reporter 27 June 2007 • Issue 179 Trend of Academic Time 60 tion of time spent on research up from 59 per cent in 2001, Teaching by academics at the College and the team would like to A TOAST 50 Research has steadily increased since thank all those who took part. 40 Prof. Acts 1991 and now occupies the Data from TOAST is used to academic 30 Admin. majority of a typical academrcentage of time - to inform the costs behind Pe ic’s time. The proportion20 of the College’s research activity staff time spent on teaching has for Full Economic Costing 10 declined by a similar amount (fEC) and also feeds into our 0 and, perhaps contrary to understanding5 of the costs of Imperial academics are expectation, the typical 1990 teaching.199 2000 2005 2010 spending more time under- academic spends taking research and less time broadly the same teaching than they were in amount of their Academic Time 1991, according to the find- time on adminis- 13.9% ■ Research 52.8% ■ ings of this year’s TOAST tration as in 52.8% Teaching 18.0% survey. 2001 but less 15.3% ■ Prof. Acts 15.3% ■ Admin. 13.9% The Original Academic than they did Staff Time (TOAST) survey in 1991. 18.0% was first carried out in 1991 All profes- and then repeated in 2001. sors, readers, It is an analysis of how senior lecturers and lecturers It is now a requirement to academic staff spend their in academic departments and carry out TOAST every three time, used to establish the divisions were asked to take years, so the next survey will costs of research, teaching, part in the survey. Each was take place 2008–09. and ‘other’ activities under- assigned a three week period —Jamie Collier, Strategy and taken at the College. during which they recorded Planning Data from the latest how they spent their time in survey, carried out during 30-minute slots according to • For more information the 2005–06 academic year, 21 categories. email Jamie Collier at: has now been fully analysed This year saw an impres- [email protected]. and shows that the propor- sive 72 per cent response rate,
He explained: “It’s a bit like rubbing your the talks given in the final were excellent. hands together. The microwaves make the The competition has been an immense amount Recipe for water molecules in things jig about and rub of fun, and I’ve made loads of new friends together and so they heat up.” through it.” Nicholas, who got through There are so many NESTA FameLab is the success to the final of the competition everyday things brainchild of the Cheltenham at a London regional heat held Science Festival and NESTA— in April, was also chosen as that you can find in the National Endowment Microwave demo the audience’s favourite per- the house that are for Science Technology and former in a ballot taken at the the Arts. lands FameLab win final, attended by more than awesome. —Naomi Weston, Communications 250 people. On accepting his prizes Nicholas said that he thought NESTA • To see his winning pitch visit www.s19stream Physics student Nicholas Harrigan is this FameLab was a brilliant idea. He said: “I like server.co.uk/famelab/fl07_final_nh_winner.mov year’s winner of the third annual NESTA sharing things FameLab competition, wowing the judges that make with his demonstration on the science of me go ‘wow microwaves on 9 June at the Cheltenham that’s so cool’. Science Festival. There are so many everyday Demonstrating how Nicholas, Imperial’s first winner of the things that you microwaves work has won student competition, is a postgraduate student in can find in the Nicholas Harrigan quantum information. He won the £2,000 house that are this year’s NESTA prize at the national event which aims to awesome.” Famelab competition. discover the new voices of UK science and He added: engineering. “Winning the Wearing a full chef’s outfit, Nicholas competition has demonstrated to the judges how microwaves been a fantastic work and how they create heat in food. surprise, all of
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Imperial opened its doors to host a teddy bear’s picnic for over 100 children and their parents as part of Exhibition Road Family Party Day on 17 June. The event celebrated the many special anniversaries taking place in the area in 2007 — the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art are 150 years old, the Royal College of Music is 125 and Imperial is 100. The following week on 21 June, the College again participated with its neigh- bours in the annual Exhibition Road Music The Rector joins students celebrating the Centenary at the ball. Day. Of the 86 concerts and perform- ances that took place throughout the day, Imperial’s staff and students gave the most of any institution. —Naomi Weston, Communications Having a Centenary ball • For full a account of both events visit: www.imperial.ac.uk/news
Over 2,500 students and staff danced the contestants, Ben Mills and Eton Road night away at the Imperial Centenary Ball at performing in the College’s Great Hall, a South Kensington Campus on 16 June. funfair and fireworks on the Queen’s Lawn Organiser Jon Matthews, and a casino in the Beit Quad. Imperial College Union The night was all A dinner for 500 people was Deputy President for Finance held in a giant marquee on the and Services, said: “It was a about celebrating Queen’s Lawn, followed by complete sell-out. The biggest our success and speeches by the Rector challenge of organising the and Imperial Fellow ball was the scale of the event; looking forward Trevor Phillips, chair of the we started planning it a year Commission for Equality ago. Saturday night was all to the future. and Human Rights. about celebrating our success Many of the students and looking forward to the future. It’s an stayed up until the early hours of Sunday honour to be have been here at the time of morning for the traditional survivors’ the Centenary.” photograph by the Queen’s Tower. Highlights of the night included X-Factor —Naomi Weston, Communications
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14 www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter reporter 27 June 2007 • Issue 179 30 years Celebrating Dr David Norminton • Medical Officer, Occupational Health • Paul Hine’s role at Impe- rial includes writing programs long 20 years and supporting administrative systems in ICT. He joined with service Mr Raymond Carney • Electrician, Estates a background in insurance Mr Paul Hine • Web Technology Specialist, ICT after completing a computing course. He said: Mr Stephen Wilkinson • Head Horticultural Technician, Estates “Imperial gave me a chance when a lot of private companies wouldn’t because I didn’t have a degree. It’s quite ironic that I work for one of the best universities in the world now!” With the Staff featured will be celebrating anniversaries during the period of 15 June–14 July. Centenary fast approaching Paul reflects: “It’s Data is supplied by HR and is correct at the time of going to press. strange to think I’ve been at the organisation for 20 per cent of its 100 year history.”
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4 July 14.30–19.30 11 July 14.00–17.00 GSEPS Research Students Research Bio-Systems Symposium Engineering: Poster and research publication advances and competitions, keynote speech by challenges in Dr Molly Stevens (Department of protein structure Materials), prizegiving and drinks prediction, signal reception transduction networks, and Imperial Fun Fact • Pete Sampras has won Great Hall and Clore Lecture Theatre, Wimbledon seven times. Martina Navrátilová has won it Huxley Building proteomics Professor Christodoulos Floudas, nine times. That’s nothing compared to Professor Bernard Department of Chemical Engineering, Neal, former Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, 7 July 09.30–17.30 Princeton University who has won the All England Club’s other sporting Faculty of Engineering, Systems Engineering championship — croquet — 37 times, regularly beating Salam +50 Seminar Series opponents half his age. Talk marking the CPDE Seminar Room, Top Floor, 50th anniversary Roderick Hill Building of the arrival at Imperial of the Holiday properties near Pembrokeshire Coast: late Nobel laureate 20 July 14.00–19.30 Professor Abdus Salam Panoramic views overlooking the Preseli Hills and Fishguard Bay. Local cliff walks and nearby NT beaches. Lecture Theatre 1, GSLSM Summer Research Each with two bathrooms, log fires and good heating. Sir Alexander Fleming Building Symposium Farmhouse: disabled friendly, 4 bedrooms. Cottage: three bedrooms. Please telephone Isobel Cox on 01923 856114 q Registration in advance: Poster competition and talk by science for more details. [email protected] journalist Dr Simon Singh Sir Alexander Fleming Building To place a classified Reporter includes a regular classifieds section. Please submit no more than 50 words to q For information: [email protected] classifieds 8 July 09.00–17.00 the Editor, Alexandra Platt, by email at [email protected] for a chance for your advertisement to appear. The Editor Succeeding in Europe reserves the right to edit advertisements as necessary. IDEA League Summer School for • All events are at the South Kensington researchers in science and technology Campus unless otherwise stated. South Kensington Campus and Easthamstead Park q Registration in advance: Interested in swimming? Help make a splash. [email protected] Urgent project: Swimming Helper Project ID: 1875 Organisation: Pimlico Puffins Time: Mondays 20.00-21.30 Location: SW1 Take note (nearest tube Victoria) All change for libraries Give blood • 18 July Volunteers are needed to help with a very friendly and relaxed swimming
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