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Imperial College Symphony Orchestra I m Imperial/48 THE MAGAZINE FOR THE IMPERIAL LIQUID COMMUNITY SUMMER 2020 £7.95 ASSET WHERE SOLD WHY DETECTING WATER ON JUPITER’S pe MOONS COULD HOLD THE KEY TO LIFE r i a l / 4 8 Discover South Kensington Brings you news, online events, tours and courses, and competitions from extraordinary museums, arts and science organisations around South Kensington. To find out more, visitwww.discoversouthken.com and sign up for our newsletter. I COVID-19 Response Fund m 01 SUPPORT CONTENTS pe r THE GLOBAL i a l FIGHT. / 4 8 12 18 Publisher Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ Regulars Features www.imperial.ac.uk Editorial enquiries As the world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic, 03 LETTERS 12 NEXT STOP: JUPITER [email protected] As Imperial’s magnetometer team starts +44 (0)20 7594 7443 Imperial College London is continuing to play 04 FROM THE PRESIDENT www.imperial.ac.uk/imperialmagazine work on JUICE, the ESA’s mission to An update from Professor Alice Gast. Jupiter’s icy moons, we explore the Alumni enquiries a leading role in the global effort to respond [email protected] 06 NEW ENTERPRISE science behind magnetic fields and +44 (0)20 7594 6138 to the outbreak. 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ISSUE 48 - SUMMER 2020 Email: [email protected] • Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9330 Thank you. 03 Letters WRITE TO US Email: [email protected] Letters: Michael Booth, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ @imperialcollege, #OurImperial fb.com/alumni.imperialcollegelondon Please mark your letter ‘For publication’. DIGEST Letters may be edited for length. Tree fellows Newsroom camaraderie — — Arian Arjomandi Rad’s My Imperial As an ex-editor of Felix, I was naturally story (Imperial 47) reminded me of the interested in your article (Imperial 47) days when a society with more than ten celebrating its 70th anniversary. members got a grant from the Student Several of the issues highlighted in Union for an amount matching the the article chimed with me, but none sum of all membership fees. A group of more than the camaraderie of the us formed the I.C. 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Honesty, supported Coronavirus particles PANDEMIC Imperial researchers continue to be performance ventilators, as well as . own COVID-19 Response Fund (www.antibioticresearch.org.uk), by peer group experimentation, can at the heart of the global response to rapid-result coronavirus tests; data The coronaviruses, provides rapid support to projects where even senior citizens such as be trusted. Groupthink still awaits shown here through Imperial leads the coronavirus pandemic. scientists, AI researchers and health a coloured scanning with the potential to make a major myself can still play a useful role! justification one way or the other. Throughout the crisis they have economists are among the many electron micrograph impact in the fight against the virus. on coronavirus been playing key roles: epidemiologists Imperial researchers redeploying (SEM), take their name According to Professor Nick Keir Hartley Sean Galbally from their crown are informing global policy makers; their expertise to fight the pandemic; (corona) of surface Jennings, Vice-Provost (Research (Life Sciences 1979) (Mechanical Engineering 1962) response immunologists are trialling a and a multidisciplinary team has proteins (green) and Enterprise): “The impact of — COVID-19 vaccine and developing set out key regulations for safely that are used to attach Imperial’s COVID-19 work can be and penetrate their LIBRARY SCIENCE PHOTO potential new therapies to tackle the designing and building new host cells. seen in labs, newspapers and hospitals disease; virologists and respiratory innovations to tackle COVID-19. across the country, and the support > Keep up with the latest news from the College as it happens, and share your specialists are analysing the virus and As well as receiving more than £40m of our alumni, friends and donors thoughts and news on our Imperial alumni Facebook page and LinkedIn group. how it affects patients; biomedical worth of support to help fast-track the will greatly enhance our efforts.” facebook.com/alumni.imperialcollegelondon ABOVE PHOTO: PHOTO: ABOVE engineers have developed high- development of a vaccine, Imperial’s MIKE LEMANSKI RIGHT: ABOVE ILLUSTRATION > www.imperial.ac.uk/covid-news www.linkedin.com/groups/87488 ISSUE 48 - SUMMER 2020 05 FROM THE PRESIDENT / PROFESSOR ALICE GAST WINNERS Challenge accepted Towards a — Imperial College London has been crowned this year’s champions of the better world BBC quiz show University Challenge, only the third Imperial team to win since 1996. The team, led by captain Caleb Rich and made up of members Brandon Blackwell, Richard Brooks and Conor McMeel, beat Corpus Christi, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ast November, China than originally thought, that Jazz improvisation, like any lasting Cambridge by 275 points to 105 in when we were human-to-human transmission was improvisation, does not arise from the final.
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