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Graduates' Review from 2016 Alumni and Supporters Magazine SPRING 2016 GRADUATES’ REVIEW A YEAR AT LEICESTER ROYAL ALUMNA GRADUATES THE ALL NEW ‘LEICESTER WEEKEND’ UNIVERSITY WELCOMES HOME Sir David Attenborough EDITORIAL Editor’s Welcome he past twelve months have been every bit as exciting as you might Timagine here at the University of Leicester. With the launch of our new Strategic Plan, the ongoing success of our Centre for Medicine Appeal and the Guest commencement of a spectacular feat of engineering to replace the glass roof on the listed Engineering Building, it would Editor be difficult to select a highlight! Once again, the Development and s a University of Leicester graduate myself, I am delighted to welcome you to Alumni Relations team is delighted the latest edition of our alumni magazine, Graduates’ Review. I have very fond to be able to share our latest news Amemories of my time as a student at Leicester, especially as my three-year and successes with the University of degree course was only the start of my relationship with the city. A year after I left, I Leicester Alumni Family. As has become was back as a reporter at the BBC local radio station, and I worked there in a number the tradition now, we have, once again, of different roles until 1991. So for me, Leicester is not just my university city but the invited a fellow alumnus to act as guest place I got my first full-time job too. editor and offer a personal introduction It is a pleasure to be asked to follow in Julie Etchingham’s footsteps to become the to this years’ Graduates’ Review. I second guest editor of Graduates’ Review and I read, with great interest, about the hope you will enjoy reading this special many exciting developments, past present and future, taking place at our university. preview of your latest alumni magazine It is clear to see from a ‘Year at Leicester’ on page 4 that 2015 was a busy year, from Leicester graduate and BBC News with a huge breadth of activity taking place on and off campus. I was particularly Presenter, Julian Worricker. interested in the reference to the ITV programme ‘Code of a Killer’ because I Many thanks for your continued remember interviewing Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys about his discovery of DNA support and ongoing engagement with fingerprinting when that criminal investigation was at its height. your University. If you return to Leicester Leicester’s involvement in a variety of wide-ranging research projects, just a few of during the next 12 months and visit the which are put ‘in the spotlight’ on page 14, is clearly something for us graduates to University, we should be very pleased to be proud of. The innovative and unique technologies developed by the University’s hear from you. We would also be thrilled Space Research Centre, featured on page 6, are not only ground-breaking but really were you able to join us at one of our spark the imagination...and I’m an English graduate! events in the coming year. It was fascinating to learn more about the life of a Student Union President from Very best wishes, both Rachel and Jane in their interview on page 10, and I enjoyed reading about the changes and challenges faced in this role across different eras. But perhaps Chris Shaw the real highlight of this issue for me is the story on page 12 of the Attenborough (BA Combined Studies, 1979, family’s long history with the University and Sir David’s recent visit to Leicester. If MA Modern English and American you’ve worked at the BBC for thirty years then Sir David’s name is hugely revered. Literature, 1981) And of course, as an English student, tutorials for me meant the fourteenth floor of the Attenborough Tower. Assistant Director of Development When reading the magazine, it seems that there is much to be proud of as a and Alumni Relations member of the University of Leicester alumni community and I hope that you will enjoy reading this issue as much as I have. Julian Worricker (BA English, 1984) BBC News Presenter On the cover Sir David Attenborough during his visit to the University in January 2016 – see page 12. 2 GRADUATES’ REVIEW · SPRING 2016 CONTENTS Contents 6 University News Leicester in Toronto and New York 3 A Year at Leicester 4 Space at Leicester 6 Milestone Anniversaries 8 Features Then and Now: 10 Women presidents in an age of austerity University welcomes home 12 10 Sir David Attenborough Spotlight on our world-leading research 14 20 Fundraising News 16 Alumni News Love at Leicester 18 A trip down memory lane 19 Royal Alumna Graduates 20 Your Alumni Association: 21 Stay in touch, get involved Alumni Events 22 12 Leicester in Toronto and New York n October 2015, members of the involved in the HeForShe campaign and Development and Alumni Relations to develop partnership opportunities ITeam made the trip ‘across the pond’ linked to Museum Studies and the for a jam-packed visit to the United College of Medicine. The University was States and Canada to further develop hosted by UN Women in New York to our international alumni relations activity discuss our leading role in HeForShe while in these two countries. Accompanied by development meetings took place with President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Waterloo, Carnegie Mellon and Stony Paul Boyle CBE, the DARO team hosted Brook Universities as well as with New two high profile alumni networking York’s Bank Street College of Education. events in Toronto and New York and met Alumni attending the two networking a number of alumni in these two cities as events were able to hear Professor well as in Washington DC and Princeton. Boyle speak about the University’s new The theme of the visit was alumni Strategic Plan and our exciting future engagement and practical support for the ahead. Special thanks must go to Toronto University’s philanthropic efforts in North based graduate Allan Bonner, who kindly America. Feedback about the University’s hosted the Toronto networking event at proposals to establish alumni groups his home in the city, where alumni were and charitable foundations in the two joined by Kevin McGurgan, the British Consul General in Toronto, and the British countries was exceptionally positive. So Council’s Salman Cheema. much so, that DARO will return to the United States and Canada in June 2016 ■ If you are based in Canada or the United to continue the conversations. States and would be interested in finding The visit also gave Professor Boyle the out more about our plans please contact Alumni networking in Toronto opportunity to meet with key partners us – [email protected] GRADUATES’ REVIEW · SPRING 2016 3 UNIVERSITY NEWS January May PhD Student Eugenie de President and Vice- Silva, who started her Chancellor, Professor Paul postgraduate studies at Boyle CBE, announced that Leicester aged just 15, the University had joined became the youngest the UN Women’s HeForShe person to graduate from solidarity movement as an Harvard University. IMPACT 10x10x10 champion committed to achieving gender equality within and beyond the University. March A ceremony took place on campus to mark the A Year at departure of the mortal remains of King Richard III, who was found and Leicester identified by leading researchers at the University. 2015 was another exciting year for the University. Here, we highlight just a April few of the most interesting events. ITV aired ‘Code of a Killer’– a gripping two- part drama, set on the University’s central campus, retelling the story of a dramatic criminal investigation involving one of the University’s greatest discoveries: DNA fingerprinting by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys. February Construction started on the New Gallery at the Attenborough Arts Centre which was funded by donations from over 1000 of the University’s benefactors, including many alumni. A groundbreaking ceremony, led by Professor Paul Boyle CBE and Michael Attenborough CBE, marked the occasion. 4 GRADUATES’ REVIEW · SPRING 2016 UNIVERSITY NEWS August November Daniel Hurst, a local The eighth annual University of Leicester cancer survivor, Leicester Literary Festival took did a sponsored skydive place exploring the magic of to raise money to support Wonderland, the mystery of the Ernest and Helen Scott Jack the Ripper and the genius Haematological Research of James Joyce. The discussion Institute based at the with Linton Kwesi Johnson and University of Leicester. Caryl Phillips (pictured) was a Daniel is pictured here with particular highlight. Professor Martin Dyer, who June leads the Institute. Former Universities and Science Minister, the October Rt. Hon. David Willetts, delivered the inaugural The new Unit for Diversity, event in the Chancellor’s Inclusion and Community Distinguished Lecture Engagement (DICE) which Series entitled, ‘The future is part of the Department of of the UK Science and Sociology was launched with a Innovation System’. lecture by Lord Herman Ouseley. September Professor Kamlesh Khunti, Professor Paul Boyle Professor of Primary Care launched the University’s new Diabetes and Vascular strategic plan following a July Medicine, was ranked as comprehensive consultation one of the most influential programme involving staff, UoL Racing, a team of GPs in the UK by Pulse’s students, alumni and external more than 30 students, Power 50 list. stakeholders and unveiled the built their very own electric University’s new logo. car and competed at the annual Formula Student competition. December President and Vice- Chancellor, Professor Paul Boyle and Professor Melanie Davies from the University of Leicester’s Department of Health Sciences were awarded CBEs in the New Year’s Honours List. GRADUATES’ REVIEW · SPRING 2016 5 UNIVERSITY NEWS Space at Leicester From lobster-inspired technology to the launch of a National Space Park – exciting developments are taking place in Leicester’s Space Research Centre.
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