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Liverpool's Place at the Heart of Cern insight LIVERPOOL’S PLACE AT THE HEART OF CERN The University’s 60-year role in the most important physics laboratory on the planet Blackboard to red carpet Making my heart bleed Cemented in history Educating Yorkshire’s Michael Steer The UK’s Information Commissioner on How the University’s expertise infl uenced adapts to life in the limelight tackling online fraud the world during WWI THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL ALUMNI MAGAZINE 2014/15 EDITION CONTENTS 04 - University news 24 - Summer in the city 36 - Volunteering Rounding up an eventful year Some familiar faces return in a Alumni Ambassador for for the University round-up of city news Beijing, Jason Han insight The Excellence In history: In touch 09 - 26 - 37 - Scholarships University life during the Following alumni from across A new programme for the First World War the decades 16 most talented students The University’s contribution Hello and welcome to your STILL to the war effort 40 - In memoriam new-look magazine! ACCELERATING 10 - Faculty news Including alumni, staff, AT 60 Tofu, Ebola treatment and 30 - Changing lives students, Friends of the I joined the University at the terrorism in the latest Faculty across the globe University and honorary beginning of the year and what a The University’s updates Online postgraduates’ impact graduates year it has been! contribution to six in Pakistan, Germany, Africa We have held events across the incredible decades 22 - Legacies and the Gulf 42 - Alumni travel guide globe and welcomed our Class of discovery at the Former English Literature Focusing on Hong Kong, of 2014 graduates to our alumni CERN laboratory lecturer, Brian Nellist’s 34 - Building a healthier home to Liverpool’s oldest network. Our London campus in Finsbury Square scholarship gift future for our children Graduate Association opened its doors in September. We will be using the Why Liverpool is the world’s space for some of our London events, so you will 23 - By appointment leading centre for research 46 - Events and reunions have the opportunity to visit in future. On page 47, Professor Janet Beer to into children’s medicine Showcasing the events hosted you can view our calendar of events for 2014/15, both become the University’s by the University to bring in the UK and internationally, but please do check fi rst female Vice-Chancellor together students and alumni our website for new additions to the programme. in 2015 We have included a short questionnaire with this magazine, which we would be grateful if you could take the time to complete. This will help us to learn more about you and inform our activity in the future. If you return the questionnaire before 31 January 2015, you will be entered into a competition to win a 28 £100 Amazon voucher. ALUMNI PROFILE: Please get in touch if you have any questions or to FROM BLACKBOARD feedback on the magazine. 06 TO RED CARPET VYING FOR Best wishes VIRTUAL SAFETY TV star and self-confessed maths geek Michael Steer Anita Irving The UK’s Information Commissioner, on life in the limelight Head of Alumni & Supporter Relations alumnus Christopher Graham (BA Hons [email protected] History 1973), on tackling online fraud P.S. Our magazine is now available online. If you would like to ‘go green’ and receive your magazine by email in 20 44 the future, please contact: [email protected] with ALUMNI PROFILE: AUTHOR, A WEIGHTY ISSUE ‘Green Magazine’ in the subject line. ROMESH GUNESEKERA Researchers from across “Ginsberg described Liverpool as ‘the a range of disciplines are centre of consciousness of the human working together to tackle Stay connected at: www.liverpool.ac.uk/alumni. universe’. I wanted to be there” increasing obesity levels www.liverpool.ac.uk/alumni 3 UNIVERSITY NEWS ENHANCING OUR GLOBAL OFFER THE GUILD PACKS A PUNCH The University’s partner organisation in Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), now o§ers more A word from the than 50 undergraduate, postgraduate Left to right: and doctoral programmes and student Sir Peter Vice-Chancellor numbers have grown to 8,000 since it Westmacott, opened in 2006. President Bill Clinton, Voted ‘Most In®uential Sino-Foreign Professor Sir his will be the last opportunity I have to write to you as Higher Education Institution in China’, Howard Newby Vice-Chancellor, prior to my retirement in January 2015. XJTLU has also celebrated the launch T Over the last six and a half years, it has been my privilege of its business school this year. The to have met so many alumni at events all over the world, as well International Business School Suzhou PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE The Liverpool Guild of Students as at graduation ceremonies in Liverpool, Suzhou, Washington is the rst business school in China to reopened its doors in September DC and the Cayman Islands. President Bill Clinton, Founder of the Clinton Foundation and 42nd following a £14 million refurbishment. Next summer will see the graduation of the rst cohort of UK President of the United States, received an honorary degree at a special Improvements include a cinema students paying £9,000 tuition fees. Many of these students will ceremony held at the British Embassy in Washington DC. room, a new-look Stanley theatre, and have beneted directly from the support of alumni, through President Clinton, who left o¦ce after eight years with the highest one of the biggest performance venues generous scholarships and bursaries, to those who have taken approval rating of any President since the Second World War, was in the city. part in our successful mentoring programme. honoured with a Doctor of Laws for his signicant contributions to The courtyard has also been Despite concerns within the higher education sector that improving global health care and protecting the environment, as well as retted with new lighting, heating and increased fees would be a deterrent, I am delighted that the strengthening education and international economies. furniture, and a food servery. This recruitment of students to Liverpool has been excellent, and The ceremony was hosted by the British Ambassador to the United major overhaul means that the Guild is we have also seen record numbers of potential students at our States, Sir Peter Westmacott; he said: “It is a privilege to welcome once again the largest students’ union 2014 Open Days. President Clinton and the University of Liverpool, especially on such a building in the country. The £600 million investment we have made to enhance the momentous occasion. student experience, including building award-winning student “This honorary degree from a British university re®ects the depth, accommodation, improving our libraries and refurbishing the breadth and longevity of the unique ties between the United States and £62 MILLION INVESTED IN STUDENT ACCOMMODATION Guild of Students, makes our campus a major showpiece of the United Kingdom – links that have long been especially strong in which you will be very proud. higher education.” As a leading Russell Group institution, we are proud to In order to provide a world-class attract the brightest students to our University and I am student experience, the University pleased that our new Excellence Scholarships, launching in continues to invest in accommodation, 2015/16, will help to support the next generation of academic with a £62 million investment in talent. You can read more about this on page 9. LONDON CAMPUS NOW OPEN student accommodation at Crown Over the last year, accomplishments have included have a Thomson Reuters Financial Lab Place in the heart of the campus. establishing our London campus; rising in the QS World on site, o§ering students practice in employers, professional institutes and The student village, which opened University rankings; the launch of our Hong Kong Foundation – dealing with equities, bonds and other policy makers, and to o§er graduates in September, includes 1,259 en-suite a critical milestone in our international alumni and fundraising nancial products, while providing a and professionals the opportunity to bedrooms and features a sustainable activity; the opening of the International Business School signicant tool for research enhance their capability in one of the and ener°y e¦cient design. Suzhou at our partner university in China, XJTLU; and more and analytics. world’s most dynamic and inspiring Work also commenced in March recently, the awarding of an honorary degree to President Bill University of Liverpool alumni The University of Liverpool in London cities. on a £7 million refurbishment of Clinton in Washington DC. are an important part of the XJTLU o¦cially opened in September 2014, The University of Liverpool in student accommodation in Melville It is di¦cult as an outgoing Vice-Chancellor to pinpoint one family and those interested in o§ering a suite of vocationally focused London campus is situated at 33 Grove. The scheme involves the achievement I am most proud of, but spending time meeting continuing their studies in China will postgraduate programmes delivered Finsbury Square, right in the heart of total refurbishment of 338 student our alumni and supporters has denitely been a highlight. I automatically be eligible for a 20% in premium facilities. London’s professional and business apartments, with completion of the would like to thank every one of you who has supported the reduction in tuition fees. The range of programmes on o§er communities. rst phase in September. The whole University by o§ering your time and generous donations; your is designed to build on the University’s development will be completed by support really does make a di§erence. Read more at: www.liverpool.ac.uk/xjtlu. existing links with London-based Read more at: www.liverpool.ac.uk/london.
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