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Together on the Frontline of the Ght with MS PLUGGED IN Life as a blogging professor // SPLASH : Water polo and London 2012 Voyages of particle discovery ➺ KEEPING UP WITH MASCOT RIVALRIES ➺ A grand passion for aviation THE MAGA ZINE OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON Winter 2012–13 brains trust Together on the frontline of the ght with MS WELCOME | winter 2012–13 FROM THE ➜ inside issue 38 PRESIDENT & RECTOR Sta • Editor-in-Chief: Tom Miller (Biology 1995) • Creative Director: Beth Elzer Hungry for experiences that stretch them and nourish them, • Editor-at-Large and Features Imperial students go well beyond the nerd Editor: Natasha Martineau (MSc Science Communication 1994) • News Editor: Simon Watts • Managing Editors: Pamela Our 2012–13 University Agar, Saskia Daniel Challenge team jokingly referred • Sub Editor and Distribution: to the reputation of Imperial Saskia Daniel students as nerds who can x 32 Behind the scenes • Designers: Abby Lloyd-Pack, a computer but can’t appreciate BODY OF KNOWLEDGE Beth Elzer a good novel. ey went on The virtual cadaver that’s • Contributors: Elizabeth Atkin, to thrash the competition transforming anatomy training Olivia Davenport, Caroline Davis, in their rst match – their John-Paul Jones, Simon Levey, countless winning responses to 34 Going public Kerry Noble, Emily Ross-Joannou, arts and humanities questions I PROFESS Colin Smith, Elizabeth Swi, giving them the edge. Structural biologist Stephen Katie Weeks, Sam Wong (MSc Curry on life as a blogging Science Communication 2009) I’ve watched Imperial students STUDENT EXPLORERS professor tussle on the sports pitch and Over the summer members of The magazine for Imperial’s sing enchantingly in the Royal Imperial College Caving Club 37 Travel friends, supporters and alumni, Albert Hall and am continually helped discover Slovenia’s President & 18 Feature CERN COURIER including former students of in awe of their wide-ranging longest cave system. Rector’s welcome A MATTER OF COURSE How globetrotting helped Imperial College London, the talents. Each October when The multidisciplinary MSc physicist Jim Virdee change former Charing Cross and West- I welcome the new cohort to Inbox that combines technology, our understanding of how minster Medical School, Royal campus, I urge them to try We’ve had an excellent response, Beyond their formal studies, Imperial Editorial, letters and business and policy to the universe works Postgraduate Medical School, the many doors open to them with undergraduates from College Union plays a vital role in feeding contributors produce a new generation St Mary’s Hospital Medical at Imperial. ey slip easily all departments taking the the broader interests of our students. Each of energy-savvy graduates 38 Special Event School and Wye College. between new discoveries and course. One option synthesises year they lay on a feast of opportunities to In brief IMPERIAL FESTIVAL & REUNION Imperial College Union’s expertise from across Imperial, sample new experiences. Just last summer, Spotlight on recent events 22 Feature Get a taste of what’s to come Published twice a year by the enticing oer to join, for with researchers sharing how members of the Caving Club became and discoveries SAVING BRAINS at Imperial Festival 2013 and Communications and Develop- NIT example, the ranks of kickboxing they are solving problems the rst to tread the oor of the longest U New treatments to protect Alumni Reunion, as we look ment Division. imperialmagazine barbershop quartet singers. relating to climate change, cave in Slovenia as they delved deep into 14 Product pipeline nerve cells from degeneration back at photos from last year’s @imperial.ac.uk global health, energy and water its underground passages. e College also REDUCE, REUSE, REINVENT and help patients with celebrations Matching the rst-week supplies. ey ignite discussions caters for the musical and sporting talents HOTOGRAPHIC HOTOGRAPHIC OORE FROST OORE P What Imperial researchers progressive multiple sclerosis Subscriptions M enthusiasm of our students among students who wrestle of students, providing facilities and practical are doing to make our 40 Good reception If you would like to subscribe HE is both a privilege and a with the issues, considering support that have helped orchestras to win lifestyles more sustainable 26 Feature Alumni, friends, supporters to Imperial magazine please DGE,T challenge for those who shape points of philosophy and policy national prizes and athletes to become GENERATIONS OF LEARNING and sta at College events email imperialmagazine@ UTTRI their experiences. We need to that they would not normally Olympians (see page 15). 15 Campus life How lecturers are keeping up around the world imperial.ac.uk both stimulate their interests touch on in their studies. OLYMPIC ODYSSEY with new technologies and and equip them for their next An alumnus was recently overheard saying PhD student and Olympic student expectations 42 Alter ego Online step beyond Imperial. A new With a focus on science, that she hoped her son would grow up to water polo player Adam UP IN THE AIR www.imperial.ac.uk/ programme named Imperial engineering, medicine and be a nerd like her. Imperial students and DON; £MSACOT¤ DAVE G DAVE DON; £MSACOT¤ HOMPSON ; £SLOVENIA CAVE¤ JARVIST JARVIST CAVE¤ £SLOVENIA ; HOMPSON Scholeeld on his London 30 Picture this Physics technician Martin imperialmagazine T Horizons aims to do just that. business, Imperial is distinct graduates may well enjoy the stereotype, but ON 2012 experience MASCOT SHOWDOWN Pettier pilots us through L among UK universities. But the reality is innitely more colourful. AYTON AYTON An enthusiast’s guide to his passion for aviation Opinions, beliefs and viewpoints L OLLEGE OLLEGE specialisation does not equate 16 Careering ahead the long rivalries within expressed by authors in Imperial C to narrowness in vision. Indeed, Best wishes, LIGHTWORK the College magazine do not necessarily ORIZONS¤ 43 Obituaries H through our research institutes, Meet alumnus Afonso reflect those of the College. MPERIAL we are well placed to pull Salcedo who creates 44 In memoriam STFC/I together multidisciplinary teams animated worlds unbound No part of Imperial magazine who are able to tackle the inter- by conventional 46 Alumni dispatches may be reproduced in any form £ FINN©KELCEY, E related challenges facing society NGUS; £CERN¤ £CERN¤ NGUS; optical laws without permission. A from dierent standpoints and 47 Calendar armed with dierent knowledge ©Imperial College London 2013 HOMAS IMPERIAL HORIZONS and insights. Imperial Horizons SIR KEITH O’NIONS FRS is President & Rector of ON THE FRONT COVER A new programme should prepare graduates to Imperial College London. He is a geologist who has worked Researchers Dr Paolo Muraro and FESTIVAL¤ T FESTIVAL¤ PRESIDENT & RECTOR¤ MIK designed to broaden at Oxford, Cambridge and Columbia Universities, and has Professor Richard Reynolds; patients make their own valuable contri- Tajinder Dhoot and Clive Challis; and students’ education butions as good communicators served the UK government as Chief Scientic Advisor to MS clinical trials director Dr Richard and enhance their and team players with a rm the Ministry of Defence, and as former Director-General Nicholas. Photography by Thomas AngusAngus professional impact. of the Research Councils. HOTOGRAPHY: £ HOTOGRAPHY: grasp of the bigger picture. PHOTOGRAPHY: £ PHOTOGRAPHY: P | IMPERIAL | WINTER «¬®«¯®° WINTER «¬®«¯®° | IMPERIAL | | INBOX INBOX | SUBTERRANEAN STORIES old drawings in the Illustrated London News In the Spring 2012 issue, we asked for your of earlier days. I guess today they would be tales of the tunnels that run beneath the worth a fortune, but the few we each kept South Kensington Campus. vanished over the years as moving took its toll on possessions. I was resident in Tizard Hall in the ‘60s and We could get to the RSM and, I think, one of our oddball actions was to visit the almost to the basement of the Royal Albert tunnels. In those days, Southside had vertical Hall, and certainly down to the Science shas linking all the oors together to provide Museum. e one easy exit was Southside, FROM THE EDITOR vertical service ducts. One night we went up to which we always came back, once to the sha to see if we could get out onto the be confronted by one of the wardens and roof of Southside but had to ‘freeze’ outside guests who had come down a level too far. Spoilt for choice Doc Cameron’s toilet (which backed onto Diplomatically, they saw nothing. the sha) while one of his children was sick. Imperial, so rich in discoveries, innovations Downwards took us to a service NICK FERN and the pursuit of learning can make choosing corridor running under the pavement and (Mining and Mineral Technology 1965, PhD 1968) what to write about in these pages an almost through a door to a sub-vertical sha that overwhelming task. linked Southside to the main boiler room We accessed the tunnel system from the Every academic is attempting something in Mech Eng. Our route took us towards Imperial Institute, then home to the exami- original in their research and, being Imperial, Civils and then to the old basement of the nation laboratories and also to a basement this oen goes hand-in-hand with solving a real Imperial Institute. Part of the Institute was cafe referred to as ‘Dirty Dicks’, in the hope life problem or addressing a societal challenge, the INBOX still standing and supporting the Queen’s of gaining entrance to the Queen’s Tower. such as the hunt for new treatments for multiple Tower. en up a magnicent old staircase One of our earlier discoveries was the sclerosis described on page 22. to a small room at the base of the tower to a possibility of gaining access to the Royal Students are signing up for exciting new door giving access to a spiral staircase going College of Science (RCS) via a route under- courses like the MSc in Sustainable Energy BRIEF UPDATE PENICILLIN THE MIRACLE up the tower.
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