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614 Aston Autumn Issue9 10/4/02 3:48 Pm Page 1 614 Aston Autumn issue9 10/4/02 3:48 pm Page 1 SPRING 2002 ISSUE 9 Aston University Gifts An exciting range of Aston University branded gifts is available from the Alumni Relations Office. apexAston University Alumni Magazine The wrong Item description Quantity Unit price (£) Total (£) Cufflinks 15.00 way round Tie 10.00 Scarf 15.00 Desk-clock 15.00 To order your Aston University gifts, please Key-ring 4.00 Join John Davie complete the order form below and return Mug 3.00 it to: Alumni Relations Office, Aston Parker Rollerball 3.00 aboard Logica University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, Umbrella 15.00 B4 7ET, UK. All prices include postage and Lapel Badge 1.00 packing. Waterman fountain & ballpoint pen set 30.00 Aston Through the Lens 6.00 Payment can be made by credit card or Baseball cap 7.00 cheque made payable to Aston University Visit the new Bookmark 1.00 in sterling and drawn on a bank in England. All orders must be accompanied web site by full payment. Refunds will only be given if the goods are faulty. Please allow Order total: 28 days from receipt of order. @ Aston Title Name Address Postcode Country Where are Telephone Email Tick as appropriate they now? ❏ I enclose a cheque in pounds sterling drawn on a bank in England for £ ❏ I wish to pay by MasterCard/Visa/Switch/Access/Delta/Solo. Please charge to my account. Card number Expiry date Name on card Cardholder’s signature Issue number 32 614 Aston Autumn issue9 10/4/02 3:49 pm Page 2 Contents Sarah Pymm Alumni Relations Officer his, the ninth edition of Apex, really is taking us Employment opportunities go online 4 T to the four corners of the earth. Not only are we Be part of it 4 sailing around the world the wrong way, but we’re trekking along the Inca Trail, building and Alumni networks 4 renovating a hospital in Kraljevica and investigating On the trail of the Inca 5 ground water resources in one of the driest places in the world, the Kalahari Desert. Through the Changing rooms – changing lives 6 experiences of our alumni we can get some sort of an Caroline Hidson idea of the hardship and challenge faced in adverse The great thirst 7 Alumni Relations Assistant conditions and the sheer joy and elation of fulfilling The wrong way round 8 a lifelong dream. Roundup 11 How to contact the Alumni Relations Office But, if you prefer to navigate around the world from your Visit our web site 12 armchair, visit our new web site at www.aston.ac.uk/alumni. www.aston.ac.uk/alumni A transformation has taken place with a completely new Bookshelf 14 [email protected] look. Have a sneak preview on page 12. Tel +44 (0)121 359 3611 What’s in a name? 14 Fax +44 (0)121 359 4664 The web site is well worth a visit and makes keeping in touch Alumni Relations Office Graduate Update Form 15 so much easier. You can join international e-groups across Aston University Birmingham the world, update your details with the on-line update form Business heads to Aston University 19 B4 7ET and catch up on the latest reunions and events as well as the UK latest groundbreaking research in your former School or Bio-scientists pursue advances in epilepsy diagnosis 20 Department. Back issues of Apex are there as well! Catch up Aston students in five day sprint to design a racing car 20 Special thanks go to everyone who with what’s been happening since you were last in touch contributed to this issue of Apex. Apex with your fellow alumni. (By the way, if you’ve ever Scientists get their teeth into new heart research 21 is published twice a year for alumni of wondered about the title of this magazine, turn to page 14 Aston University. Letters, photographs where all is explained.) Hope for millions of IBS sufferers 21 and news are very welcome but we reserve the right to edit any At this time of year, a new group of readers joins the Apex Young Asian women and their attitudes to language study 22 contributions. Please address all audience. A very warm welcome to the Class of 2002. You correspondence to the Alumni Languages duo make innovation their business 22 Relations Officer. The opinions are joining a global community of Aston graduates. The Alumni Relations Office is always keen to hear your news. If expressed in Apex are those of the Millennium volunteers 23 contributors and do not necessarily you want to share with others something of how your career reflect those of the Alumni Relations is developing, exotic places you've travelled to or interesting Einstein’s goes up in smoke 23 Office or Aston University. projects you're involved in, then contact us straightaway. Don’t forget to complete your Graduate Update Form in the Where are they now? 24 centre pull-out section and keep in touch with Aston. Aston Science Park – more than just a space for business 29 And, regular readers, do keep us up to date with your stories as well! Reunions and events 30 Editor Sarah Pymm Aston alumni gifts 32 Reporter Caroline Hidson Happy reading! Designed and produced by NB Group Sarah 2 3 614 Aston Autumn issue9 10/4/02 3:49 pm Page 4 Employment opportunities On the trail of the Inca With both a first degree (BSc 1989 Business and French) and postgraduate MBA (1992), go online Mark Mear has enjoyed a successful business career which has taken him from Endsleigh through Aon and on to Saga. Currently Head of Sales, he is responsible for the sales An exciting new database which gives Aston students and recent graduates easier access to job development strategy of Saga Services, providing goods and services to the over 50s. Some vacancies, vacation work and gap year opportunities is now under way in the Careers Service. readers may remember him from his days on the pitch as a regular first team player and Vice-Chairman of the Hockey Club with more than one or two matches under his belt. ommissioned by Project Manager from work placements of six to twelve Logging on will be easy and users will But did this track record prepare him for the challenge of the Inca Trail? C Lara Cartwright and developed by weeks over the summer vacation be able to receive email alerts of job period. opportunities the moment they Steve Goodman from Aston’s own e responded to an NSPCC advert for a warm-up week, onto our backs and heading upwards all the time. We saw Management Information Systems, the Phase two, Graduate Vacancies Online, become available." W some sightseeing, a chance to walk the Inca Trail to nobody at all in seven days, not a person, not a building, not database is proving to be popular with will be up and running in June when If you graduated up to three years ago, Macchu Picchu and then seven days in barely chartered a light in the distance. The only way out was by helicopter or the 400 students who have already immediate graduate vacancies will be you are eligible to take advantage territory at heights of up to 18,000 feet in the Ocengate an arduous two-day horse ride. registered as regular users. Mountains. available to registered users. Phase of this online service which can be The hardest time was waking up in a tent at 3.30am with real Phase one of the project, Vacation Work three, Vacancies Online, will be accessed at The first week was indeed a warm up, but not in the icicles forming on my forehead, seeing the temperature Online, which went live in early March, launched in September when students www.careers.aston.ac.uk/livevacancies traditional sense of the words! We had to acclimatise to the gauge at minus 11 and knowing I still had two hours before gives Aston students and recent and recent graduates will be able to altitude, flying in from Lima in a small plane to the famous The Careers Service would like to hear dawn lying on sloping ground, feeling like my body would graduates access to vacation work access all types of vacancies online from anyone interested in advertising town of Cusco. Altitude is quite a shock to the system – never warm up. When we crossed the highest passes, the opportunities, gap year information, through one database. graduate vacancies or who can offer shortness of breath, dizziness, sickness and feeling like flights headaches were like nothing I’ve ever experienced. A lack of of stairs are coated with treacle as the body struggles to cope insight courses and placements through Stewart Comfort, Head of Schools vacation work or summer placements to oxygen driving a thumping in both temples is like your worst Aston students. Please contact Claire with a marked drop in oxygen levels. the West Midlands Summer Placement Liaison and Careers, said: "We are hangovers rolled into one. I’m sure I wasn’t always a pleasant Neail ([email protected]) for graduate walking companion or tent partner. I'm not exactly the most Programme. This programme is run in delighted to be able to offer this We completed short treks before a long hard climb up never- vacancies or Sally Ann Turner patient of individuals and fight pretty hard for things I want conjunction with local companies and innovative, user-friendly service to our ([email protected]) for vacation ending large steps cut into the ground, along the Inca Trail to reach Macchu Picchu.
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