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Private View Shows and Exhibitions At Private View A series featuring artefacts in UCL’s varied museums and collections What is it? What else is in the collection? Who uses it? A silver Athenian four-drachma coin The institute’s collections consist of an estimated It is used for ‘hands-on’ teaching in Greek (tetradrachm), weighing about 17g 180,000 objects and play an important role in archaeology courses, as well as public teaching and research. Originally formed in events including National Archaeology Day How old is it? 1936 by the gift from Sir Flinders Petrie of and widening participation events for young c440–410BC his Palestinian collection, the collections have archaeologists in Camden grown greatly and include objects from around Where is it from? the world. The Classical Archaeology Collection What’s new? The coin was perhaps found in Athens. One side (6,000 objects) contains superb examples from In February 2003, the institute collections of the coin shows the head of Athena, patron of mainland Greece, but mainly from related sites received a development grant from the Arts Athens and goddess of wisdom. The other side around the Mediterranean. The material covers & Humanities Research Board to employ shows her two favourite symbols, the owl most periods, from the civilisations of Crete to someone for one year. That will result in a and the olive. The letters next to the owl are the Byzantine period, with some excellent web-based access initiative for the collections, ancient Greek letters, an abbreviation of examples of prehistoric Cypriot material which will contain details of the material held ‘of the Athenians’ by the institute on a region-by-region, What makes it special? country-by-country and site-by-site basis. Where is it now? There is decent evidence that these coins The new website will be launched in the The Classical Archaeology Collection, which were minted in large quantities: one inscription next few months forms part of the Institute of Archaeology mentions 3,000 talents of coined silver. One Collections talent equals 6,000 drachma, or 1,500 of How can I view it? these basic issue coins. It is the only one Temporary displays at 31–34 Gordon Square; How did it get there? of the type in the collection and it is a very Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm; or by appointment. It was given to the collection in the 1970s good example Contact Mr Ian Carroll (x24789; [email protected]) Shows and Exhibitions at UCL Institute of Archaeology Department of Earth Sciences Only Connect: Opening UCL’s Collections Stories from the Stores Infinite Possibilities: The Past, the Present to the World Exploring the Institute of Archaeology’s and the Future of Earth Sciences at UCL Highlighting outreach work by UCL’s museums artefacts through the themes of collecting, Drawing on UCL’s Geological Sciences Collection and collections, and the university’s widening preserving, discovering and learning – Rock Room, South Wing; 1–2pm, participation activities – 31–34 Gordon Square; Wednesdays; or by appointment – North Cloisters; until May 2004 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday Ethnographic Collection UCL People Strang Print Room Bartlett School of Architecture Gallery Fabric of Life: Materials & Culture Photographs of UCL staff, students and Work from visiting designers, artists and Examining the attitudes behind collecting alumni taken by Andy O’Connell for the writers, as well as from the Bartlett School’s artefacts at the turn of the 20th century, university’s publications own staff and students and how those attitudes have changed – Torrington Space, outside 1–19 Torrington – Wates House, 22 Gordon Street – Department of Anthropology, Foster Court; Place by appointment Grant Museum of Zoology & Hybrid: Work from the Staff of the Slade Comparative Anatomy The Galton Collection School of Fine Art A diverse natural history collection covering Featuring Sir Francis Galton’s pioneering work – Art Space, 5th Floor, Sherfield Building, the whole of the animal kingdom, including on fingerprint investigation, his studies of Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7; cases packed full of skeletons, mounted biometry and developing the field of eugenics 11am–6pm, Monday to Friday, until 23 January; animals and specimens preserved in fluid – Department of Biology, Darwin Building; or by appointment – Department of Biology, Darwin Building; by appointment 1–5pm, Wednesdays and Fridays; Strang Print Room or by appointment Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Paper Cities: Topography & Imagination Housing an estimated 80,000 objects, making in Urban Europe c1490–1780 Department of Electronic & it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian Featuring printed media depicting urban Electrical Engineering and Sudanese archaeology in the world views across Europe from the Renaissance Sir John Ambrose Fleming – DMS Watson Building; 1–5pm, Tuesday to the late 18th century On the centenary of the invention of the to Friday and 10am–1pm, Saturday; – South Cloisters; 1–5pm, Wednesday to Friday; thermionic valve, which made radio and or by appointment until 26 March Petrie Museum modern electronics possible, a tribute to UCL’s first Professor of Electrical Engineering For further events information and contact details – 7th Floor, Engineering Building see Events at UCL Online: www.ucl.ac.uk Galton Collection UCLNEWS Story suggestions for future issues of UCL News are welcome; the deadline for the next issue – to be published on 9 February 2004 – is 18 January 2004. For guidelines on suggesting story ideas for UCL News or the ‘News’ or ‘Events’ sections of UCL Online see ‘Your News’ at www.ucl.ac.uk/news Distribution enquiries should be made to Marianne Miles, Communications Administrator (x09721; [email protected]) UCL News is published by the Communications Team in UCL’s Development Office © UCL 2004 08UCLNEWS UCLNEWS Issue 03 Volume 01 12 January 2004 UCL pioneers 1 Cultural treasures 1 Nanotechnology 2 Mars mission 2 New journal launched 2 Campus Questionnaire 3 Virtual London 3 Information support 3 UCL Grid 4 Research images 4 Prostate treatment breakthrough 4 UCL picture club 4 People 5 In the News 6 Child health innovation 6 Moon map 6 Paranoia study 7 Political prize 7 Alumni Matter 7 Private View 8 Shows and Exhibitions 8 UCL pioneers honoured by Queen Professor Rick Battarbee Professor Dave Delpy Sir Peter Hall Professor Linda Partridge Professor Alan Thompson UCL academics’ groundbreaking work celebrated at Buckingham Palace Five members of UCL staff attended a Europe, has been awarded a major €12.5 million, Professor Partridge’s research is based in reception at Buckingham Palace in October five-year EU-funded project to study the effects UCL’s Centre for Evolutionary Genomics, where 2003 to ‘celebrate Britons who have made of climate change on the ecology of lakes and she coordinates the Wellcome Trust research a significant contribution to society’. UCL rivers across Europe. programme on functional genomic analysis of professors Rick Battarbee (Geography), During the 1980s, Professor Delpy’s ageing. She is Director of the UCL Centre Dave Delpy (Medical Physics & Bioengineering), research focused on monitoring oxygen supply for Ecology & Evolution, a Fellow of the Royal Sir Peter Hall (Bartlett School), Linda Partridge and utilisation in tissues, especially the brain, Society and was recently awarded a CBE for (Biology) and Alan Thompson (Neurology) were and he has applied the techniques of Nuclear services to evolutionary biology. honoured along with pioneers from areas as Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Near Infrared Professor Thompson has led national diverse as the arts, sports and commerce. (NIR) spectroscopy to monitoring brain function and international research into multiple sclerosis Ten Nobel Laureates were invited, including in newborn infants. These techniques are now (MS), and his work has directly improved the Professor Francis Crick (Physics 1937), used routinely and the instrumentation management of care for MS patients. He said: co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, as well manufactured commercially. “It was a surprise, but very exciting to be invited as personalities such as Sir Richard Branson, Sir Peter was Special Advisor on Strategic to the Palace. It is great that work in MS, that Bridget Riley and Sir Bob Geldof. Planning to the Secretary of State for the has a clear patient focus, is being recognised Professor Battarbee is Director of UCL’s Environment in the early 1990s, and hugely because it is very important for those affected Environmental Change Research Centre influential in the development and planning by the condition.” (ECRC), which is developing new methods of of the East Thames Corridor and the Channel understanding long-term environmental change. Tunnel Rail Link. He later became a member He, together with colleagues in the ECRC, has of the government’s Urban Task Force and been responsible for the UK government’s has received the rare accolade of the Founder’s research programme on acid rain and its impact Medal of the Geographical Society for distinction on surface waters for the last 20 years. Most in research. recently, the ECRC, along with partners across Cultural treasures online UCL’s Library Services, together with UCL’s Media Resources team, have produced an ‘internet shop window’ on to the cultural treasures housed in UCL Library Special Collections. Created with a £15,000 grant from alumni, staff and friends donating through the UCL Friends Programme, the website illustrates more than 500 objects from the collections in several different categories. The collections contain material dating from medieval times to the present day, covering a huge range of subject areas. Highlights include the C K Ogden and Graves collections of rare medieval books and manuscripts – rich in science, language and literature – Jeremy Bentham’s manuscripts and the George Orwell Archive, which includes personal documents and photographs. Mr Simon Brown, Director of Media Resources, who managed the project, said: “This project is a template for future work in a major development area.
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