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March 31st, 2017 To: H.E. Réka Szemerkényi, Ambassador of Hungary to the United States of America Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Capacities, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary László Palkovics, Minister of State for Education, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary Dear Ambassador Szemerkényi, Minister Balog, and Minister Palkovics, We are writing to express our dismay about the proposed legislation that would effectively end a 25-year history of scientific excellence in Budapest. As an international body of psychologists, neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists, we can tell you that our colleagues at Central European University are among the most respected in the world. Their intellectual legacy has had a global impact. We believe any city should count itself fortunate to have such a renowned center of academic excellence in its midst. The proposed legislation will make it effectively impossible for CEU to continue to occupy its current position as one of the foremost scientific institutions internationally. We respectfully ask that you preserve CEU’s ability to act as a center of leadership and innovation in Hungary and the world by withdrawing this legislation. [This letter is closed now, accepting no more signatures] Sincerely, 1. Laura Schulz, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 2. Rebecca Saxe, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 3. John E. Richards, Carolina Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina. 4. Michael Tomasello, Duke University, Durham, NC, and Max Planck for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. 5. Philippe G. Schyns, Professor of Visual Cognition, Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, university of Glasgow, UK 6. -
CURRICULUM VITAE Daniel Mark
CURRICULUM VITAE Daniel Mark Wolpert FMedSci FRS Professor of Neuroscience Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, Email [email protected] New York, United States Homepage www.wolpertlab.org Education 1985 Medical Sciences BA University of Cambridge 1988 Clinical Medicine BM BCh University of Oxford 1992 Physiology D. Phil University of Oxford Professional History 1988-89 Medical House Officer, Oxford 1989-92 Medical Research Council Training Fellow Physiology, University of Oxford (Supervisor: John Stein/Chris Miall) 1992-95 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Brain & Cognitive Science McDonnell-Pew Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Supervisor: Michael Jordan) 1995-99 Lecturer in Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology University College London 1999-02 Reader in Motor Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London 1999-05 Co-director, Institute of Movement Neuroscience 2002-05 Professor of Motor Neuroscience Vice-Chair, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience & Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, University College London 2005-08 Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UCL 2005-18 Professor of Engineering (1875), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 2005-18 Professorial Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge 2012-18 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator 2013-18 Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professor 2018- Director or Research, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge 2018- Professor of -
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Genetics Society News
JANUARY 2012 | ISSUE 66 GENETICS SOCIETY NEWS In this issue The Genetics Society News is edited • The Mather Award 2011 by David Hosken and items for future • Meetings issues can be sent to the editor, by email to [email protected]. • Society Changes The Newsletter is published twice a • Summer Student and Travel Reports year, with copy dates of 1st June and 26th November. A Tilia cordata tree, the subject of a fieldwork grant. See page 40 A WORD FROM THE EDITOR A word from the editor Welcome to issue 66. pretty unforgiving in this regard. Take time out and you are out of e have an issue full of the game, forever. I use to think Winteresting reports of various this was about falling behind in Society meetings and Society funded the publish-or-perish race, but am activity, and I thank all those who no longer sure this is the whole continue to contribute these articles. picture. I think it may also have Since the last issue the HE upheaval something to do with science continues and student applications chauvinism - you clearly do not to Universities are down at present. take the work seriously enough if But rather than focus on this part you have taken time out to raise a of Academia, I would like to instead family, and science is of course a focus on a science career issue that serious and most noble cause. disproportionately impacts women. The fact that career trajectories are A science career is fantastic in many never backward - you cannot be ways and pretty tough in some demoted - probably does not help others. -
Trustees' Report and Financial Statements 2015-2016
TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 1 Trustees’ report and financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2016 2 TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Trustees Executive Director The Trustees of the Society are the Dr Julie Maxton members of its Council, who are elected Statutory Auditor by and from the Fellowship. Council is Deloitte LLP chaired by the President of the Society. Abbots House During 2015/16, the members of Council Abbey Street were as follows: Reading President RG1 3BD Sir Paul Nurse* Bankers Sir Venki Ramakrishnan** The Royal Bank of Scotland Treasurer 1 Princes Street Professor Anthony Cheetham London EC2R 8BP Physical Secretary Professor Alexander Halliday Investment Managers Rathbone Brothers PLC Foreign Secretary 1 Curzon Street Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE London Biological Secretary W1J 5FB Sir John Skehel Internal Auditors Members of Council PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Sir John Beddington CMG* Cornwall Court Professor Andrea Brand 19 Cornwall Street Sir Keith Burnett** Birmingham Professor Michael Cates B3 2DT Dame Athene Donald DBE* Professor George Efstathiou** Professor Brian Foster** Professor Carlos Frenk* Registered Charity Number 207043 Professor Uta Frith DBE Registered address Professor Joanna Haigh 6 – 9 Carlton House Terrace Dame Wendy Hall DBE London SW1Y 5AG Dr Hermann Hauser Dame Frances Kirwan DBE* royalsociety.org Professor Ottoline Leyser CBE* Professor Angela McLean Dame Georgina Mace CBE Professor Roger Owen* Dame Nancy Rothwell DBE Professor Stephen Sparks CBE Professor Ian Stewart Dame Janet Thornton DBE Professor Cheryll Tickle** Dr Richard Treisman** Professor Simon White** * Until 30 November 2015 ** From 30 November 2015 Cover image Tadpoles overhead by Bert Willaert, Belgium. TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 3 Contents President’s foreword ............................................... -
Review 2013 the Royal Society of Edinburgh
cover:review2012 24/05/2013 15:04 Page 1 The Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society ofEdinburgh Review 2013 Review 2013 Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited, Dorchester, DT1 1HD ISSN 1476-4342 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH REVIEW OF THE SESSION 2011-2012 PUBLISHED BY THE RSE SCOTLAND FOUNDATION ISSN 1476-4342 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ Telephone : 0131 240 5000 Fax : 0131 240 5024 email : [email protected] Scottish Charity No SC000470 Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited, Dorchester, DT1 1HD THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH REVIEW OF THE SESSION 2011-2012 PUBLISHED BY THE RSE SCOTLAND FOUNDATION ISSN 1476-4342 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ Telephone : 0131 240 5000 Fax : 0131 240 5024 email : [email protected] Scottish Charity No SC000470 Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited, Dorchester, DT1 1HD CONTENTS ACTIVITIES – SESSION 2011-2012 Proceedings of the Ordinary Meetings .............................. 3 Proceedings of the Statutory General Meeting ................. 5 Prize Lectures .................................................................. 41 Lectures ........................................................................... 51 Conferences, Workshops, Symposia, Seminars and Discussion Forums ......................................................... 133 Publications ................................................................... 151 Policy Advice ................................................................. -
Noreen Elizabeth Murray, (Née Parker) CBE, FRS, FRSE Noreen
Noreen Elizabeth Murray, (née Parker) CBE, FRS, FRSE Noreen Murray was recognised internationally as being one of Britain's most distinguished and highly respected molecular geneticists. In the early 1970s, together with her husband Ken and colleague Bill Brammar, she led the development of recombinant DNA technology, or genetic engineering, as it is commonly called. This was a seismic event, ultimately affecting all areas of biology and making possible much of modern biotechnology. Their pioneering work put the UK at the head of this revolution in research, and the technology and tools that they developed have had lasting impact. image supplied by Jean Beggs Noreen was born Noreen Elizabeth Parker in Read, near Burnley in Lancashire. She enjoyed a rural upbringing, initially in the village of Read and, from the age of five, in Bolton-le-Sands, on the edge of Morecombe Bay, where her father, John Parker, was headmaster of the local school. The family spent much of their time outdoors, playing tennis, cycling, swimming or rowing on Lake Windermere or on the canal at the bottom of their garden. Their home in Read was close to the cricket ground, and Noreen particularly remembered watching Learie Constantine, the much- admired West Indian cricketer. Noreen said that as a child she was a little tomboy, and she loved climbing trees. She also liked to help her father with gardening, and she had her own section of their garden, which was the beginning of a life-long love of plants. Her father was a strong disciplinarian and she and her older brother had a strict but loving upbringing.