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Looking for Inspiration? Issue 221 • 1 July 2010 reporterSharing stories of Imperial’s community Reporter finds out how Imperial is supporting its first Junior Research Fellows > centre pages Careering aheadLooking for inspiration? Summer Science queen’S liSt wacky raceS Imperial Arthur Spirling Themed dinner researchers and Carol raises money take their work Propper on for student to the public their royal opportunities PAGE 3 recognition fund PAGE 8 PAGE 9 2 >> newsupdate www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter | reporter | 1 July 2010 • Issue 221 The Group visited the College in being finalised, are par- Recognised by RCUK April 2010 as part of a national ticularly singled out by programme to assess provision in the Group, which recom- institutions that receive over mends that they should £1 million annually from RCUK for be shared with other uni- edItoR’s CoRneR the career development and trans- versities. The guidelines ferable skills training of PhD stu- will be disseminated at today dents and postdocs. Imperial via Heads of 29 Family Its report praises Imperial’s two Department shortly. Emily, Graduate Schools and its Postdoc Professor Mary Ritter, affair Development Centre (PDC) for help- Pro Rector (International birthday ing research postgraduates and Affairs) commented: postdocs to develop well-rounded “It’s great to have inde- Happy Last week streams of skills, for example, enabling them pendent confirmation eager and anxious-to- to communicate and present their that we are leading the impress sixth formers imperial’s training and development programmes work efficiently, and for alerting way in this area, both visited the College for for researchers in the early stages of their careers them to future career opportunities. at national and, indeed, Imperial’s annual science are amongst the best in the UK, according to a The PDC’s good practice guidelines international level”. and engineering under- report by the RCUK’s Research Careers and diversity for postdoc support and develop- —abiGail smith, graduate open day. Keen Group which the College received in June. ment in departments, currently CommUniCations to gain insight into the first impressions we offer to prospective students I sat alongside them at the introduction given by new powerhouse for the Department of Phys- ics as they were wowed heart and lung healthcare by videos of explosions used to illustrate shock The College has come physics and by Dr Mark together with Imperial Richards’ sound wave College Healthcare NHS experiments in which he Trust and Royal Brompton remixed Rihanna’s pop and Harefield NHS Founda- song Umbrella to a reggae tion Trust in a new agree- beat. I was touched to ment, signed this month, see so many equally to undertake joint research captivated parents, dili- studies and explore clinician-led integration of services into joint gently taking notes and working units and programmes. probing current undergrad- The alliance will bring together more than 460 cardiac and tho- uates in the question and racic surgeons, consultants, cardiologists, professors and research- answer session. Seeing ers. Together, they will exploit the critical mass of expertise and them reminded me how patients to deliver world-leading improvements in clinical care, reporter online integral parents are to sup- education and research activities relating to heart and lung health, is now live, giving you porting our students, even for example, through enrolling patients from the two Trusts in large- though many of us only scale joint research studies. access to stories of see them at open day and Professor Stephen Smith, “this collaboration Imperial’s community from graduation – the bookends Principal of the Faculty of Med- is crucial in breaking your desktop. Join the of the student experience. icine at Imperial and Chief down the artificial conversation by adding your Emily Ross, EditoR Executive of Imperial College organisational barriers Healthcare NHS Trust, said: “Our comments on the latest among acute specialist shared vision is to lead and be Notification care providers” news – whether you’ve got As Reporter went to press, we competitive on a global scale in learnt that Brian Flowers, one cardiovascular and respiratory an opinion, a related story of Imperial’s longest-serving healthcare. This collaboration is crucial in breaking down the artifi- or a grumble to share. Rectors, died at the age of 85. See page 3 for more details. cial organisational barriers among acute specialist care providers.” The collaboration will form part of an extension of the Academic Health Science Centre, the partnership formed in 2007 between the Reporter is published every three weeks during term time College and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which will see in print and online. The next the creation of a new system of associates from the tertiary and pri- shape the content of publication day is 29 July. mary healthcare sectors. Known as the Academic Health Science Contact Emily Ross: your newspaper at: System, its aim will be to explore new patterns of care, and achieve [email protected] www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter +44 (0)20 7594 6715 greater advances in healthcare delivery and outcomes. —laura GallaGher, CommUniCations 3 www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter | reporter | 1 July 2010 • Issue 221 >> newsupdate Royal society Magnificent seven summer exhibition 2010 staff honoured a giant pelvis, a wooden hut covered in layers of paper and College celebrates two new knights, two CBEs, two OBEs and an MBE a CSI-style chemical investiga- tion are some of the innovative seven members of staff, including three methods imperial academics from imperial’s business school, have been are employing to explain their recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours research to the public at the list published on 12 June 2010. Royal society summer science Exhibition this month. Knighthoods go to Professor Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute), an expert on Researchers from the Department Mr Alister Hart (Surgery and Cancer) autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid of Surgery and Cancer are exhib- with the giant pelvis at the Royal arthritis, and Professor John Beddington (Life iting a model of a human pelvis Society Summer Science Exhibition. Sciences), currently chief scientific advisor to and hip replacement eight times the government. the average size, to help them In the Business School, Professor David describe the work they are doing using a high-intensity X-ray beam Gann, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneur- to examine why some hip replacements fail. They are exhibiting ship, and Professor Carol Propper, Head of with Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science Healthcare Management, are appointed CBE, facility, where they carry out some of this X-ray research. while Professor Dot Griffiths, Deputy Principal In another unique exhibit, created by researchers from of the School, is appointed OBE. Imperial’s Department of Medicine and the University of Addis Elsewhere in the College, Dr Maha Ababa in Ethiopia, layers of paper encase a hut, resembling human Barakat, co-founder of the Imperial College skin. Visitors are encouraged to rip away parts of the paper ‘skin’, London Diabetes Centre in Abu Dhabi is to illustrate the damage that the debilitating tropical disease appointed OBE, while Arthur Spirling, leishmaniasis can do to a person’s face and body. The researchers Director of ICT, is appointed an MBE. Congrat- are exploring potential ways to treat the disease by investigating ulating all those recognised, Rector Sir Keith how it can suppress the immune system. O’Nions said: Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering “Such honours are a mark of distinction and Chemical Technology are also on hand at the exhibition to and a sign of the high esteem in which these demonstrate the power of a chemical photography technique, seven people are held. For one institution to which allows researchers to understand the chemical composition have so many members of staff recognised is L–R from top: of different materials. Visitors can take part in live experiments to a great achievement and my congratulations Professors Marc see what traces of chemicals can be found on their fingerprints. go to them all.” Feldmann, John —Lucy GoodChild, Colin smith and laura GallaGher, CommUniCations Honours lists are published twice a year Beddington, David Gann, Carol Propper, The Royal Society Summer Exhibition runs until 4 July at London’s Southbank at New Year and in mid-June on the date of the Dot Griffiths, Dr Centre. To watch videos about the Imperial researchers involved see: Queen’s official birthday. Maha Barakat and Chemical photography • www3.imperial.ac.uk/news/chemicalphotography —abiGail smith, CommUniCations Mr Arthur Spirling. Hip replacements • www3.imperial.ac.uk/news/hipreplacements Leishmaniasis research • www3.imperial.ac.uk/news/leishmaniasis imperial remembers Engineering students Faculties focus on the former Rector change the world very best in teaching Amazing, Brian Flowers, who served A group of students from the Depart- Last month two ceremonies I loved the fake as Imperial’s Rector for ment of Electrical and Electronic Engi- were held at Imperial to 12 years from 1973, died neering have won the top prize in the honour staff with teaching in brief operation with on 25 June aged 85. He is IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Com- or teaching-related roles survived by his wife, Mary. petition with their project to provide an for their commitment to all the blood. Paying tribute, Lord Oxburgh, who led Imperial electricity system to rural Rwandan com- education and support- It taught me from 1993–2000, said: “Brian Flowers was a giant munities. The e.quinox project, already ing students over the past among Rectors – as well as consolidating the operating in a Rwandan village, uses year. To read the full story a lot about engineering and physical sciences at Imperial as renewable energy, such as solar power, of the Faculty of Natural being a doctor prosperity returned after the lean years following to charge portable batteries in a central Sciences Teaching Awards the Second World War, he recommended and fore- kiosk.
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