2 FRIDAY 06 JUN Editors: Nida Mahmud, Maciej Matuszewski, Aamna Mohdin, NEWS Aemun Reza, Kunal Wagle [email protected] ... continued from page 1 – Low Carbon Entrepreneur 2014 meet the changing expectations of RCSU provides UROP Bursary consumers. Meanwhile, Dr. Michele Serri for student from lower income (Materials) and Physics PhD student from Imperial were also in backgrounds the shortlist. heir idea, Light-Fi, “integrates the lighting infrastructure the news that I had been awarded the to the intranet within an oice to fully Nida Mahmud RCSU UROP bursary. Without it, my automate the lighting environment. News Editor summer project may not have been he automation will be able to turn able to go ahead. Bursaries such as of lights when all colleagues have left these go a very long way in ensuring the oice for the night, thereby saving he RCSU UROP bursary has been nobody is denied a valuable research energy.” awarded to an undergraduate student opportunity purely on inancial Another Imperial group, the Energy from the Department of Chemistry. grounds and therefore allow the Defenders formulated their idea his is a new initiative where the recipient to gain essential research due to a desire to “inspire the next funding will be from the RCSU experience without having to worry generation, the way in which the road for students from lower income about how living costs are going to safety hedgehog did, but for reducing backgrounds. be met. I strongly recommend to carbon emissions”. he team is formed Plabon Saha commented: “We also anybody taking part in a summer of 3rd year Aeronautical engineers understand that one bursary might project worried about the inancial JOE LETTS / FELIX Emma Dixon, Madeleine Alexander, not make a huge diference but this side apply for a UROP bursary - it James Winield and Dominic Jacobson receiving the award from Boris Johnson Oliver Bauer, Ravina Bains and 3rd is seen as a symbolic gesture that really does help!” year Mechanical engineers Jonathan we hope will encourage the faculty RCSU President Plabon Saha an exploration of the legal barriers Kirsty Kenney and Harold Craston Crawford, Mo Alemohammed, Ewan to look into this issue and increase said, ““UROP represents a great to entry to the energy markets. By (SolarBox) from LSE who plan to turn Armstrong. funding. We also hope that some opportunity for students to explore a acquiring a large amount of electricity unused telephone boxes in London hey started the idea at the start of provision can be set up for students career in research. It plays a vital role from lots of individual suppliers into public phone charging outlets the year and are hoping to continue from lower income backgrounds to in encouraging students into scientiic the team should be able to play a powered by solar panels. after graduation. Hoping to market undertake UROP placements. In the careers and I believe more should substantial role in the electricity Blocks, created by Imperial students the concept to children, parents, future, it was decided that the RCSU be done to encourage students into market. Omer El Fakir, Serge Vasylechko, teachers and government, the team will look towards pitching the idea of science careers. I hope the steps the he team plans to develop their web Alireza Tahmaseb Zadeh, Karl are “a system of services developed an UROP Bursary to our sponsors and RCSU has taken this year is the start presence and liaise with the Greater Taylor, Hakeem Javaid and Andrey around a brand, the Energy Defenders”. hopefully replicate the BP awards that of a new push towards encouraging London Authority and the Mayor’s Antyufeev, was also shortlisted for the he brand will “create interest in currently exist in Engineering.” more UROP opportunities and oice in the coming months, with a award. he team devised the concept energy saving, through activity days, he student receiving the funding increase funding for this programme. hope to begin in the new year. of a modular smartwatch (as reviewed interactive apps, engaging websites... said: “I was delighted when I received I am glad I played a role in this.”” £5000 of the £20,000 prize went to by Felix in March) that can evolve to and an animated cartoon series”. Topping Out the Halls at North Acton Philip Kent Benjamin Fernando Reporters ir Keith O’Nions, President and Rector of Imperial College, conducted the topping out ceremony of the College’s new North SActon halls this past hursday in an event attended by College staf, representatives from Imperial College Union, and staf from Berkeley First; the irm building the hall. From the top loor of one of the skyscrapers, Sir Keith performed the ceremonial planting of a Yew tree, preceded PHILIP KENT by a brief speech hinting that this is the irst of many undergraduate accommodation projects. he “One Victoria Road” project, which until recently had been marketed as W3, involves the construction of four towers near North Acton tube station in Ealing. Once opened to students, it will feature space for 650 residents, along with a gym, study and tutorial rooms, and social areas. he project is currently on schedule and is expected to open in October 2015; pricing is yet to be announced. his is College’s third project with Berkeley First, with the two GradPad projects in Fulham (Orient House) and Battersea being the other two. BEN FERNANDO BEN FERNANDO PHILIP KENT 4 FRIDAY 06 JUN Editors: Nida Mahmud, Maciej Matuszewski, Aamna Mohdin, NEWS Aemun Reza, Kunal Wagle [email protected] Imperial Innovations in bid to raise College improves in Centre for Doctoral Guardian League Training Festival of £150 million via investment Tables Science next week According to the press release from Imperial Kunal Wagle Innovations, nearly 90% of shareholders have mperial College have moved up four places News Editor already agreed to the additional placing. hey to 5th in the latest Guardian University Nida Mahmud have also agreed to the placing being “non-pre- League Table. he college overtook News Editor emptive”, meaning that new investors can buy the Universities such as Surrey, London mperial Innovations, a company based at shares. he company says that the minimum price School of Economics, University College Imperial College, is planning to issue new for each share will be £4. he current price on the ILondon and Durham. he Guardian’s league he annual Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) shares on the stock market in a bid to raise AIM market is 442.50 - a rise of 6% the day after the table is based on numerous factors, including Festival of Science will be happening on Friday 13th up to £150 million. he irm, which is listed news was announced. Student to staf ratio, average spending per June 2014 in the SAF lecture theatres. It is a chance on the AIM stock market (a sub market of the Martin Knight, the Chairman of Imperial student, average grades required for attendance for CDT students to come together to organise and ILondon Stock Exchange), intends to use the money Innovations, said, “he Board believes that and graduate prospects. he College’s graduate present a showcase of current science and scientiic to fund future investments in ledgling companies. strengthening the Group’s balance sheet through prospects were ranked highest in the country, issues to the Imperial College London research Innovations has close ties with Imperial College the Placing would greatly enhance its ability to but the College’s average student satisfaction community. London, Oxford, Cambridge and UCL, and has attract high quality investment opportunities. It was lower than those of its closest rivals. he he 2014 festival focuses on the theme of “Science arrangements in place with these universities that would also improve the Group’s ability to support College’s “average entry tarif”, which is a ranking and the Media”. Featuring speakers from a number allows it to invest in ledgling companies as they portfolio companies from inception until their full that the Guardian gives based on a university’s of disciplines and positions within the scientiic start out. development, as illustrated by the recent successful average minimum exam grades for entry was world, we hope to bring you a range of perspectives Some of these ventures can prove very successful IPO of Circassia Pharmaceuticals. ranked as third in the country, behind Oxford on working with the media and engaging the public – for example, earlier this year Circassia, a maker of “We have identiied opportunities to increase and Cambridge. as a scientist. pet allergy treatments, made over £200 million at the capital deployed in a number of our leading his new league table is the latest in a string of he day is also an opportunity for the four the stock market. Innovations, who currently own portfolio companies, which, in aggregate, are tables that suggest that Cambridge has not only CDTs to communicate with each other and gain 14% of the company, raised over £80 million from seeking to raise over £100 million from investors consolidated, but is now increasing the gap between a more detailed understanding of the work that the venture. over the next twelve months. it and the chasing pack. Cambridge registered irst, is carried out in each ield. his year we will have Imperial Innovations intends to split the money “It is gratifying that our core shareholders with Oxford second and St Andrew’s third. Bath presentations of the achievements and aspirations that is raised between investing in companies have evidenced their support for this proposed jumped from seventh to fourth, whilst Surrey of the outgoing cohorts of each CDT, this being the that it already owns a share in, and for investing fundraising by giving irrevocable undertakings to (sixth), Warwick (ninth) and Lancaster (tenth) all graduation year of the irst cohort for many CDTs.