COMMENTTHE COLLEGE NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO 140 | MARCH 2002 the College in 1969 with a BA (Honours) Geography

COMMENTTHE COLLEGE NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO 140 | MARCH 2002 the College in 1969 with a BA (Honours) Geography. He is now Vice-Chairman of Citigroup, the leading global financial services £4m gift for King’s company. He was formerly Chair- man and Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Brothers, and Vice- Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Sir Deryck Maughan said, ‘Va and I are proud to make this donation to the Library at King’s. I came to the College as an undergraduate because of its record of excellence in teaching and research. My education here provided the foundation for my government and business career. ‘We are delighted to be able to

largest ever gift from a graduate in the history of the College

help the College create an outstanding library, which we hope will provide the same opportuni- ties for independent discovery to future generations of students, whatever their means or background.’ The Library, a distinguished Grade II* listed building, which was formerly the Public Record Office, is a 19th century Gothic masterpiece. It was designed by Sir James Pennethorne to house the nation’s records and incorpo- rates a round reading room similar in style to that in the British Museum. ing’s is celebrating a gener- Above: The The refurbishment of this ous £4 million donation. This Maughan Library gift, the largest ever from K Right: Sir Continued on page 2 a graduate in the history of the Deryck and Lady College, has been made by Sir Maughan Deryck and Lady Maughan. Their donation is for the College’s magnificent new Library in Chancery Lane, which will be named in their honour as the Maughan Library. Sir Deryck, one of King’s most eminent alumni, graduated from

Continued from page 1 building as the Maughan Library known as the Foyle Special library, which is a tremendous is almost complete and is open Collections Library. achievement.’ for use by students. Within it The Baroness Rawlings, Chair- Sir Deryck, who was knighted are housed the College’s library man of Council, said, ‘I am last month by the Queen for collections of the Schools of thrilled with this outstanding services to British business and Humanities, Law, Physical donation which has enabled commercial interests in the USA, King’s to complete the exciting is responsible for mergers and transformation of the Public acquisitions and other corporate to provide the same oppor- Record Office. This is one of the activities at Citigroup. Prior to tunities for independent most important projects under- the creation of Citigroup, Sir discovery to future taken by the College in recent Deryck was a Vice-Chairman generations of students years, and one of the most reward- and Director of Travelers Group ing of my chairmanship. I am and Chairman and Co-Chief Sciences & Engineering and grateful to the Maughan family Executive Officer of Salomon Social Science & Public Policy. for helping us to achieve it.’ Smith Barney. From 1992 to The Library also provides 1,250 Professor Arthur Lucas, the 1997 he was Chairman and Chief networked reader places, and Principal , commented, ‘This gen- Executive Officer of Salomon purpose designed accommoda- erous donation is wonderful Brothers, a firm he joined in tion for the College’s Special news for King’s. With the help of 1983. From 1969 to 1979 he was Above: exquisite Collections and Rare Books, now Sir Deryck and Lady Maughan, detail on a Gothic a member of HM Treasury in window London. Sir Deryck and Lady Maughan Left: studying in The Maughan live in New York City. Their Library daughter, Chelsea, is a student at Stanford University. Right: Sir Deryck is knighted by The Queen

we are able to create a superb library for King’s students, and for scholars from around the world who use our collections for research. We are very grateful for their support. This gift also ensures that we have exceeded our fundraising target for the

thumbs-up. ‘I have to say that As seen on tv this is one of the best marriages between an important redun- he Maughan Library was dant building and a new use I’ve the subject of an extended come across in a very long time.’ Tfeature on BBC1 London News recently. Maxwell Below: Maxwell splendour of the Hutchinson about Maughan Library Hutchinson, television presenter, to discover the architect and former President of RIBA, marvelled at the building and its spectacular transformation of use from a 19th century storage area for the nation’s documents into a modern 21st century library and IT facility for King’s students, staff and researchers. In his closing remarks Maxwell Hutchinson gave the Library conversion a resounding

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Development Confederation, is designed to King’s leads UK on inter-professional foster the skills and attitudes required by students for inter-professional working. healthcare education To this end all undergraduate students (1,200 each year) from seven health ing’s and three other universities professions (nursing, midwifery, medicine, (Southampton, Newcastle and Sheffield dentistry, dietetics, pharmacy, physiotherapy) KHallam) have been awarded funding by admitted to the College from September the Department of Health over the next two 2002 and thereafter, will embark on a years to develop inter-professional education continuous programme of IPE, which is (IPE) for undergraduate healthcare profes- integrated with their uni-professional sionals. education programmes. Health Minister, John Hutton, announced The IPE programme has distinct stages the initiative saying ‘We said in the NHS Plan the initiative makes the patient, rather reshape care around the patient than the professional group, the starting point for education that radical reform is required in NHS education and training to reshape care around the representing progression from shared patient. Joint training across learning to joint decision-making and care- professions is key to this process ... This planning in partnership with patients, and is an important step towards reaching our much of it will take place in practice target that all health professionals should placements. Thus, the initiative makes the expect their education and training to include patient, rather than the professional group, common learning with other professions ... It the starting point for education. An evaluation will have positive and far-reaching effects on is planned that will chart the programme’s the NHS with nurses, midwives, dentists, impact and enable it to be developed in the health visitors and doctors equipped with light of evidence. new skills, roles and ways of flexible and Inter-professional Education in Healthcare For further information contact Professor responsive working.’ Committee (chaired by Professor Sir Graeme Ian Norman in the Florence Nightingale The King’s IPE initiative, which was Catto) in collaboration with other members School of Nursing & Midwifery. Email: developed by members of the College of the South-East London Workforce [email protected]

Dean for Admissions (Medicine). She is also the Chair of the Lambeth e-Learning Lambeth Education Business Partnership Advisory Board. Professor Standring said, ‘Being Foundation a founder member of Lambeth e-Learning Foundation will be ing’s is one of the founder erful learning tools. It will also an effective, high profile means members of the newly cre- act as a focal point for identifying by which King’s can strengthen ated Lambeth e-Learning and encouraging sources of pub- K its involvement with the local Foundation. The Government lic and private funding as well as community and support the launched the e-learning initiative assisting funders and schools on College’s activities in widening two years ago, which led to tax-effective and cost-effective participation.’ the creation of the National ways of providing and applying e-Learning Foundation. such funds. The aim of the Foundation Other founder members are is to ensure that Lambeth Lambeth Council, LWT, Trans- Secondary School teachers and media Gateway Ltd, Brixton students have a portable or Online Ltd, and the Council for mobile Information Communi- British Teachers. cations Technology (ICT) device Each member will appoint a Professor connected to the internet that Trustee: for King’s this will be Susan will enable them to access pow- Professor Susan Standring, Sub- Standring

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regeneration technology as an alternative.’ Lobal Technologies Ltd, a newly created King’s spins This patented technology, which has been spin-out company from King’s, is developing licensed to Odontis Ltd, could play a major LAD. cademics from around the College role in dental care of the future. At the moment, the LAD prototype has are continuing to form spin-out the learning ability of an 18-month old child. Acompanies to commercialise their Brain power Professor Taylor and his team are confident it research, with help from KCL Enterprises Scientists at King’s are working on enabling could have the language abilities of six-year- Ltd and the College’s seed funds in biotech- computers to understand, speak, learn and old child by the end of next year. The system nology and IT. The two latest, described eventually, think. Emeritus Professor John works by using neural networks to mimic below, bring the King’s total to 12. Taylor of the Department of Mathematics brain function. It then learns language as and colleagues, have created a technology children do, not through rules and vocab-ular- Cutting edge called the Language Acquisition Device ies, but through association and example. With £250,000 funding from the Kinetique (LAD) which emulates especially the ‘The crucial problem about interaction Biomedical Seed Fund (a joint venture functions of the brain’s frontal lobes where with your phone or your computer is not between King’s and Queen Mary, University humans process language and emotion. It necessarily that it can recognise the words, of London) Odontis Ltd – a spin-out company may ultimately be capable of generating a but that it knows what they mean,’ Professor – has been formed to commercialise novel limited form of consciousness, as well as Taylor said, ‘We’re trying to put a brain into approaches to dental treatment. other parts involved in word and object the speaking system.’ ‘Modern techniques of tooth replacement representations. One of the more immediate areas where are still based on the idea of metal implants ‘What we are trying to do is generate the company sees the technology being in the jaw, says Professor Paul Sharpe of the characters that can understand language by used is in interactive entertainment such as Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas Dental Institute, understanding what we mean and respond video gaming. ‘But our research is aimed at developing tooth in a sensible manner,’ said Professor Taylor. Mass spectrometry facility opens new mass spectrometry He singled out for special School can apply for free access The College was awarded £27 facility, funded from the thanks Professor David Cowan to: an Inductively Coupled million for new buildings and AScience Research Invest- (Chairman) and Dr Andrew Plasma Mass Spectrometer equipment under the Hefce/ ment Fund (SRIF), has opened Kicman (Scientific Secretary) of (ICP-MS) for a rapid, sensitive SRIF Stream 1 announced in in the Franklin-Wilkins Build- the Mass Spectrometry Steering way of measuring elemental con- July last year, as reported in ing. The funding has been Committee, Kevin Hoffman of centrations of solutions, eg, iron; Comment October 2001. The used to develop shell space to the Estates Department, Nick a Liquid Chromatograph cou- mass spectrometry facility is part provide a suitable environment Sait of Ecovert, and also the help pled Mass Spectrometer/Mass of a combined bid with the for sophisticated mass spectro- received from the Finance and Spectrometer (LC-MS/MS) School of Physical Sciences & meters. Department, particularly Judith for the analysis of polar or ther- Engineering and is the first to Mass spectrometry is a vital Barber, Assistant Director of molabile compounds. come to fruition. A separate analytical technique in many Finance, and Mike Hansen, The facility can house up to collaboration with the Guy’s, chemical and biological sciences. Director of Resources. ten sophisticated instruments King’s & St Thomas’ School of The Head of the School of The Committee’s terms of and more will become available Biomedical Sciences (for the Health & Life Sciences, Prof- reference are ‘to encourage and in due course. A mass spectro- LC-MS/MS instrument) illus- essor Phil Whitfield, opened the facilitate research grant applica- metry facility website has also trates the benefits of inter- facility on 1 February. In his tions requiring the use of sophis- been set up: disciplinary collaborations. speech he said that the instru- ticated mass spectrometry equip- www.kcl.ac.uk/ms-facility. ments, already available for use, ment by members of the School the staffing and location, were a of Health & Life Sciences and Professor ‘wonderful asset to the School’. for collaborative grant applica- David Cowan and Dr Andrew He also praised the efforts of the tions with members of other Kicman cele- Mass Spectrometry Steering Schools of the College. To pro- brate the opening Committee (formed in January vide a School management struc- of the new mass spectrometry 2000) and noted that on the back ture for overseeing the operation facility of its deliberations and activity of the School mass spectrometry there have been already been facility.’ two successful Research Council Currently there are two instru- awards (JREI) for instrumentation. ments that members of the

4 | COMMENT | March 2002 Departmental focus

Spanish at King’s Spanish was first taught at King’s in 1831, which means that the Spanish & Spanish- Department is one of the oldest in the country. At present, with around 170 undergraduate students and 20 graduate students American Studies on a variety of programmes, it is one of the largest departments of Spanish & Spanish-American The Department of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies at Studies in the country. Half the King’s is celebrating gaining a 5* rating in the most recent Research teaching staff were born and brought up in Spain and Latin Assessment Exercise. America, and there is a large con- tingent of native Spanish-speak- panish (la lengua española or other Spanish-speaking coun- Below: A ers in the student body. This la lengua castellana) is one of tries is fairly uniform every- Mexican dancer makes for an environment in performing a daily Sthe world’s great languages. where, and its grammar is partic- routine in the which the culture of the Spanish now has more native ularly so. Spanish has nothing ‘Zocalo’, Mexico Spanish-speaking countries is City’s main speakers than any other language like the baffling differences of square lived and spoken as an integral in the world except Chinese. pronunciation found, for example, English has more non-native between Tennessee, Scotland, Ire- Continued on page 6 speakers than Spanish but fewer land, Yorkshire, London, South native speakers. Spanish is the Africa and Jamaica. The difference between European Spanish and most varieties of Latin-American Spanish now has more native Spanish is probably no greater speakers than any other than between British and language in the world except American English, so there are Chinese no fundamental problems of understanding. Millions of official language (but not always Spaniards watch Latin-American the only official language) of soap operas without any trouble. 21 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Language development Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Spanish is descended from the Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Latin spoken in the Iberian Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peninsular – modern Spain and Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal – around the time of Peru, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, the birth of Jesus. This spoken Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. Latin gradually broke up into Spanish is spoken by millions different dialects, some of which of people in the USA and also became independent languages all over Europe and by many (Catalan, Portuguese, Galician, people in Northern Morocco. etc). Castilian, spoken in the There is no such thing as a north of the peninsular, came to single ‘Latin-American Spanish’. be identified with the Christian Each of the 19 Spanish-speaking reconquest of Spain from the countries of Latin America has Muslims. This long battle ended its own accents and its own in 1492 when the Spanish slang and popular expressions. monarchy regained all the The difference between popular territory until then under spoken Spanish in Mexico City Muslim control. By then the and Buenos Aires is probably Castilian dialect was recognized as great as between Buenos as the language of Spain, and Aires and Madrid. Nevertheless, it was this language that the written language and the lan- Christopher Columbus and his guage used by Latin Americans men first took to the ‘New

when talking to people from World’. RICHARD HILL

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Continued from page 5 part of the life of the Depart- our graduate students, whose ment. In their year abroad, stu- inter-disciplinary work has dents go not only to Spain but pioneered a series of innovative also, through exchanges, to approaches to the particular Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and demands of researching Spanish/ some go to Peru, Cuba, Ven- American cultural expressions. ezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. We shall also be developing our in-house publications, the KCL Departmental excellence Hispanic Series and Difusión/ During the 1990s the King’s Diffusion, so that these become Department consolidated its recognised publication venues strength in four key areas: for scholars in the field. We shall Medieval and Golden Age continue to organise conferences Studies, Modern Peninsular and seminars that are the focus Studies, Latin American Studies for experimental work in literary and Descriptive Linguistics. and cultural studies. In this con- These have underpinned both research and teaching, and the the Department is one of the intellectual coherence of this oldest in the country basis has meant that consistently high ratings have been achieved in peer-assessed reviews. Dr text, our work in visual and per- Catherine Boyle, Head of the forming arts, film and cultural Department, describes the 5* history looks set to blossom in RICHARD HILL gained in the last RAE exercise the next few years. We value most about teaching in the Above: Ancient as ‘a welcome and inspiring greatly the role we can play in all humanities is the truly transfor- Mayan ruins in the forests of the recognition of the research of these areas in the equally excit- mational role the study of litera- Yucatán Península each individual member of the ing developments in the School ture and culture, married to the Department’. of Humanities.’ experience of study in a foreign She explains that the new rat- Graduates from the Depart- country, can have on the individ- ing (the Department previously ment go into all sorts of employ- ual student. Each year I am had a 5) was gained as the ment, ranging from the tradit- reminded of this by students Department went through a ional humanities vocations of proud of how they have grown period of great change. ‘We now teaching and research, to law, over the four years of study and look forward to building on this accounting, publishing and the how their degree has shaped success in a number of key media. Many of the Department’s their thinking and their views of ways,’ she says. ‘We’re looking at postgraduates are in key academic the world. I hope that, in the cur- means of disseminating our posts in the UK, Europe and rent environment, we can man- research more widely, particularly the USA. Catherine Boyle com- age to maintain this role in all its (though not exclusively) that of ments, ‘What I, personally, value richness in the future.’

an insight into two centuries of was rebuilt. Somerset life at the palace, its architecture This exhibition is one of a and its association with the number of permanent displays Thames. around the city outside the House: new The exhibition tells the story Museum of London which of the palace from when it was aim to bring the Museum’s exhibition first built by the Duke of core collections to Londoners Somerset in the 16th century across the city. It is support- xcavations at Somerset until it was gradually demol- ed by the Headley Trust. House in 1999 unearthed ished to make way for the Efascinating remains of the present building during the Tudor and Stuart palace that last quarter of the 18th cen- once stood on the site. The Old tury. Objects on display Left: Stucco mask excavated Palace Exhibition opens at include Tudor tile fragments, from the court- Somerset House on 28 March. Stuart tableware, carved mould- yard of Somerset House, now on Curated and designed by the ings and digital images showing display in The Old Museum of London, it will give the palace as it was before it Palace Exhibition

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nurses in country parishes. She asked whether ‘lying-in beds’ could be set apart in King’s for the training of midwives, who The foundation of would ‘be in all respects under the rules and belonging to the Society of St John’s House’. Training commences modern nursing In January 1862 the Nightingale School for Midwives accordingly Mary Jones and 19th century nursing at King’s College opened, with the Nightingale Fund bearing the whole cost of Hospital. The previous edition of Comment reviewed Florence Nightingale’s equipping and maintaining a establishment of nursing training at St Thomas’. This article describes the ten-bedded ‘lying-in’ ward at King’s. This School admitted much less well-known developments in nursing and midwifery training around ten trainee midwives a which took place simultaneously at King’s College Hospital. yearfor six years, but in 1867 a severe and prolonged outbreak of puerperal fever brought the venture to an end. Mary Jones and many of the sisters left King’s in 1868 to form a separate In 1854 KCH invited Florence foundation at St Thomas’ by sisterhood, but St John’s House lthough the very first Nightingale, then superintend- three years. Florence Nightingale lecture delivered at ent of a home for gentlewomen indeed frequently turned to the new King’s College The urgent need for Parish A in Harley Street, to take charge Mary Jones for advice and London seems to have nurses in country parishes of the nursing at King’s. Legend information, addressing her as been on a medical topic maintains that she accepted but ‘my dearest friend’. (at 0.800 on Monday 10 October subsequently trained and emp- 1831), the first King’s College Differing objectives loyed several hundred nurses in Hospital in Portugal Street did King’s College Hospital Nursing Florence Nightingale wanted to hospitals and other institutions. not open until 1840. Within a School predated Florence use the Nightingale Fund to In 1919 the Nightingale School few years, the medical professors Nightingale’s own foundation extend the work of St John’s, but and the training school of St had become concerned about at St Thomas’ by three years the rules of the House required John’s merged, and were at first the standards of nursing there all probationers and nurses to be called the Nursing Association and they app-roached the communicants of the Church of of St John and St Thomas. Bishop of London about the England. Florence Nightingale However, the two institutions problem. As a result, in July the expedition to Scutari pre- thought this would be an unde- rapidly integrated and became 1848, the Church of England vented her from taking up the sirable limitation, and no religious known again as the Nightingale founded its first nursing sister- post. Her dealings with King’s, requirements were introduced School. In 1993 the Nightingale hood, the Sisterhood of St John however, did bring her into at St Thomas’. The two schools School of Nursing of St Thomas’ the Evangelist, commonly known contact with Sister Mary Jones, also had differing objectives. St and Guy’s Hospital, and Nor- as St John’s House. who had been appointed Lady Thomas’ existed to train training manby College (the nursing and Superintendent to St John’s matrons while St John’s trained paramedical school of King’s House the year before, and the the existing type of nurse. College Hospital) combined to two women soon became close However, pupils of the Night- form the Nightingale Institute friends and professional allies. ingale frequently spent a period of King’s College London. In In 1856 the entire catering as Associate Sisters of St John’s 1998 the Department of Nursing and nursing operations of and some Sisters entered as Studies at King’s and the King’s College Hospital were Lady Probationers at St Thomas’. Nightingale Institute were amal- ‘contracted out’ to St John’s House In May 1860 Florence gamated, becoming the Florence in return for a payment of £800 Nightingale wrote to William Nightingale Division of Nursing a year. St John’s provided 18 Bowman, Dean of KCH, that & Midwifery, and in 1999 the nurses and probationers with Sister Mary ‘wished to have a Division became a free-standing sisters to supervise them. In 1857 class of midwives’. Nightingale School of the College under the training started at King’s and was particularly keen to support same name. A nurse wearing the character- so the King’s College Hos- the training of midwives because istic St John’s uniform: late 19th pital Nursing School predated of the urgent need for Parish century Christine Kenyon Jones Florence Nightingale’s own

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Question Time: The Foreign Minister comes Secretary takes questions after to King’s his lecture. Lawrence oreign Secretary, Jack Straw, Freedman, Professor of War spoke on Arms control: chang- Studies and Head Fing contexts and new challenges of the School of at the Centre for Defence Social Science & Public Policy Studies at King’s on 6 February. chaired the event. In a wide-ranging speech on the past and future of arms control, Mr Straw stressed the commitment of the United Kingdom to the principles of multilateralism and international law in the approach to arms control. At a time when, he acknowledged, the US seems less interested in a multilateral approach to control, this state- ment of principle on the UK’s stance was an important marker for the future. During questions after the lecture, the Foreign Secretary made it clear that present US attitudes set the tone for other nations to live with, however he emphasised that the UK had a that the whole enterprise was no said, there was no alternative very good record on arms control longer relevant to world peace but to keep trying and working and that the sceptics were sim- and security. for more arms control. He ply wrong when they claimed

Pension scheme The scheme provides generous retirement and death benefits, some of which are tax- celebrates 25 years free. On retirement members receive a pension of 1/80th of salary for each year of service, plus a lump sum of three times the pen- AUL, the Superannuation sion. For members who die whilst working Arrangements of the University of for King’s there is a lump sum of four times London, which has over 9,300 mem- S salary and good pensions for dependants. bers across the University and 1,300 at Contributions of 5 per cent of pay are made King’s is regarded as one of the best by members, and if you join you pay lower schemes in the UK. tax and National Insurance contributions. In this landmark 25th anniversary year, Recent stock market problems have not Saul has won two prestigious awards: one caused difficulties for SAUL. for Investment Strategy and the other for Employees of King’s who can join SAUL Trustee Excellence. Both were won in the are mainly non-academic staff. This includes face of strong competition from other UK all part-time employees (possibly even if pension schemes. regular hours are not worked). If you cannot It is the role of the Trustees of SAUL to join one of the other schemes offered by ensure the scheme is well managed and King’s you may still be able to join SAUL. financially secure. Two members of King’s To learn more about the benefits or for staff are SAUL trustees, Mike Hansen, information about joining, contact Dick Director of Resources and Bill Causon, Bywaters in the Payroll Office, ext 3067. Assistant Site Services Manager at the Denmark Hill Campus. Mrs Penny Green FPMI Mike Hansen, Director of Resources and SAUL trustee Chief Executive, SAUL Trustee Company

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As such, it belonged to the Plus the programme of Hall news theological part of King’s which developing the remaining was technically separate from accommodation continues with n order to support the exten- 1908 to 1980. The hostel was a commitment to good quality sive academic development home to some Deans, as well housing and value for money. Iprogramme the College plans as to many ordinands who went Forthcoming schemes include: to sell Wellington Hall in on to serve both the Church of September 2002, along with a England and the wider Anglican • phased improvements at small section of the south side communion (including some 40 King’s College Hall, focusing of the Hampstead Campus. bishops still alive). When King’s on redecorations and shower Over the years, countless stopped training ordinands, the replacement groups of students have College bought Vincent Square • redesign of the entrance received a characteristically and the proceeds became what foyer at Wolfson House to warm welcome at Wellington is now the KCL Theological Trust. improve security Hall. Traditionally a very sociable • upgrading of fire precautions hall, Wellington is well known New developments across older stock King’s College Hall for its student parties and On the positive side, there are • repair of the roof of Bay charity events. several new developments in House at Hampstead Historically it began life as the overall residential portfolio, Campus to permit develop- Vincent Square and was paid for with an increase in the propor- ment of vacant space. by money raised by public tion of ensuite rooms and a appeal in the Church of England. narrower fee range for students.

ity Mr Mami said. Penalties Chief Justice of should be concerned not just Kazakhstan visits with punishment but also with the prevention of offences. At he keynote speaker at a sem- present 50 per cent of those sen- inar on alternatives to prison tenced were punished with a Tin East and Central Europe prison sentence, which was very and Central Asia, held at King’s high. There was a need to on 8 February, was Mr Kayrat make the penalty system more Mami, Chairman of the Supreme humane and at the same time to Court of Kazakhstan. The semi- improve prison conditions. The nar was organised by the intention was to be severe with International Centre for Prison serious crime but humane with Studies (ICPS) as part of its proj- first time offenders, with women ect on alternatives to prison in and with those under age. the countries of the former Mr Mami was accompanied Soviet Union. by Senator Ms Fedotova who Mr Mami, who is the highest is introducing alternatives to law officer in Kazakhstan, out- prison in Kazakhstan. She lined the new legal develop- explained that three pilot pro- ments that were part of the projects will be set up, on comm- cess of democratisation follow- unity service, the reform of the ing independence. Steps were criminal inspection system (a being taken to secure the inde- type of probation service) and pendence of the judiciary, pro- special alternatives for women. A tect the rights of the citizen competition is being launched against unjust actions by the and advertised through the media, Netherlands and the Chargé Mr Kayrat state, consider the establishment asking members of the public and d’Affaires from the Kazakh Mami, Chairman of the Supreme of special courts to hear cases voluntary organisations to submit Embassy, Kairat Abdrakhmanov. Court of against children and juveniles, ideas on how these pilot projects The event was filmed for Kazakhstan and possibly introduce jury trials should be run. Kazakhstan television by the in the most serious cases The seminar brought together ITAR-TASS news agency. especially those where the death experts on alternative sentencing penalty could be imposed. from Russia, Slovenia, Romania, Vivien Stern Sentencing reform was a prior- Latvia, Czech Republic and the Senior Research Fellow, ICPS

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In brief Middle East

Efraim Karsh, Professor of Mediterranean Studies, has recently given several high-level talks and briefings on the continuing Middle East conflict. These include an invited audience for the Council of Christian and Jews; a briefing to the Conference of American Jewish Presidents (the representative body of Jewish organisations in the United States) on their visit to London and an invited guests of the South Asia Forum Student elections

Scientists at work and play: Professor M R C Greenwood, Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz with The annual KCLSU elections for Dr Goery Delacôte, Executive Director of the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and King’s Principal, Professor Arthur Lucas,at the executive, including the five the launch of the Centre for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) in February. The Centre, which aims to improve science teaching and learning, is a collaboration between the three institutions. The launch took place in February at the Exploratorium, which sabbatical posts, and the SRC utilises an astounding array of installations to engage children in science activities that are both fun and educational. take place in early March. This year sees a new executive structure for the Union. Results and Gay Group). ing of Oxford last October. will be announced in the next Lord Lester (Liberal Demo- It was launched at the House edition of Comment. Law book crat) spoke about his Civil Part- of Commons’ ultra-modern Port- nerships Bill, a private member’s he Centre of European Law cullis House on 9 January. Over bill he had introduced in the Sam West held a very successful inter- 50 people attended including House of Lords earlier that day. national conference on Legal Stonewall’s Angela Mason OBE, T Robert Wintemute said, ‘I One of Britain’s best young recognition of same-sex partnerships Richard Hart and Jane Parker hope the book will prove helpful actors was spotted at Professor in July 1999. Following on from from Hart Publishing, Britain’s to parliamentarians and judges Ann Thompson’s inagural that a 47-contributor, 790-page pre-eminent human rights law- when dealing with the question lecture Infinite jest: the comedy book of the same name, edited yer, Lord Anthony Lester of of equality for same-sex couples of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by Robert Wintemute, Reader Herne Hill QC, Lord Justice in Britain.’ on 11 February. Sam West is in Law, with honorary co-editor Stephen Sedley of the Court of currently playing Hamlet in the Mads Andenas, former Director Appeal, a number of MPs from Dr Robert Wintemute RSC’s production at The of the Centre of European Law, both sides of the house, and Reader in Law Barbican. was published by Hart Publish- Martin Bowley QC (Bar Lesbian Alanis Morissette Torrigiano as the breaker of Letter to the Editor One of the world’s biggest- Michelangelo’s nose rather selling female singers played a than as the maker of one-off gig at Tutu’s last month. Sir, Henry VII’s tomb in Her first two albums sold over Westminster Abbey? Is it a sign of our violent 40 million copies and she is times that your front page Yours very truly, about to release her third, caption ‘King’s has lent Under Rug Swept. Tutu’s is a Professor one of its finest works of popular venue for record Robert Weale art to Tate Britain’ (Comment companies to showcase their Visiting Senior February 2002) is set top acts. Research Fellow, to remind us of Pietro ACIOG

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City Hospital

he daily hour-long pro- and includes live broadcasts gramme starring patients from Accident & Emergency and Tand staff of Guy’s and St maternity. The stories of some Thomas’ Hospitals is well under- of the 2,000 patients and staff way on BBC1. Introduced by will be featured. A number of Matthew Kelly, Kate Humble and the College’s medical and dental Akhtar Khan, it follows the trials students, plus staff, have also 2 lock offices even when they are and triumphs of life at the Trust appeared. Computer security only vacated for a few moments

3 remove all personal laptops Matthew Kelly Following a number of thefts of and new friends from College premises at computer equipment in recent weekends and out-of-hours weeks, departments are asked to review their local security 4 report any suspicious behav- arrangements for such equip- iour immediately to security ment. To assist the local Site 5 bring your ID with you and Services teams on each cam- sign in if you are entering the pus, all staff are asked to: College out-of-hours, as this 1 secure any equipment within helps ensure that unauthorised their department with a recomm- individuals are not allowed on to ended security device and to College premises ensure that there is a record of If you would like details of the serial numbers in the depart- recommended suppliers of mental inventory security devices, please contact your local Site Services offices.

striking blue-green set was split Anastasios Samaras, a Greek half as good as this year’s Bacchae, The Bacchae to depict, on one side, the wild drama student at RADA, set a there’ll be dancing in the aisles mountain landscape, on the fine standard as Dionysus and for sure. Greek Play 2002 review other the demure and sophisti- the rest of the cast seemed to With a devil-may-care young fer- cated architecture of the city. benefit by his example. The men Ali Redford tility God as protagonist, a cross Between the two was the skene were all strong, particularly Public Relations dressing King, and a Queen who – a muslin draped upper stage George Papaioannou – a tragi- gets entranced to the extent that reserved for deus ex macchina comic Pentheus, as well as Daniel she ‘accidentally’ beheads her intervention and hazy tableaux. Hadas as a rich voiced Teiresias, son – The Bacchae is not an easy But this was not a typically a sympathetic Cadmus (Edward tragedy for any company to traditional production. Indeed it Yong) and two clear and expres- tackle. According to producer was refreshingly untraditional, sive messengers (Chris Batchelder Ismene Lada Richards, King’s without being archly ‘modern’. and Dean Abrahams). The cho- productions of this play have also A combination of simple cos- rus had its expected weak links had the reputation of being tumes (muted cotton shift and and director Annie Phillips, cursed. So, as a non-speaker or Indian pyjamas for the men, excellent as Pentheus’ tragic even reader of Ancient Greek, it black open sleeved leotards and mother, Agave, was confusingly was with some trepidation that I burgundy silk wraps for the indistinguishable from the other ventured over to Guy’s Green- women), a haunting score, clear bacchic revellers in the penulti- wood Theatre on a windy after- programme notes and several mate scenes. noon in February. key moments delivered in Next year is the 50th anni- On arrival, my fears were imm- English rather than Greek versary of King’s Greek play ediately allayed by the theatre ensured that an uninitiated audi- and submissions of potential itself – a good, functional, mod- ence would err on-side. plays are being invited by ern building with vibrant orange It was the performances, how- Executive Producer, Ismene Lada walls! Victoria McGuinness’s ever, that really won them over. Richards. If it turns out to be

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colleague Professor Michael varieties of apples now contain Lawrence Freedman, Head Vive la loi! Shayer. It also formed an item 50 per cent more sugar than tra- of the School of Social Science on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. ditional varieties and only pro- & Public Policy, in his column in Eva Steiner, Lecturer in vide trivial amounts of vitamins. the Independent. Professor French Law, took part in a dis- Various interpretations of this Freedman also recently reviewed cussion on BBC Radio 4’s Law in Mind blowing appeared on GMTV, in The a book on the role of Whitehall Action programme, about Sunday Times, Daily Mail and in during the Cold War for the whether English law should have A startling colour image of the Mo Mowlam’s column in the Evening Standard. a general right to privacy similar brain of Dr Robert Howard Sunday Mirror. to that in France. (also seen in this year’s College Report) and the comments of Older mothers Re-assessing his colleague Dr Derek Positive Jones featured in a Guardian encouragement The trend for older childbearing assessment news story about the ground- has increased the probability of breaking work of the Down’s syndrome, according to Reader in Criminology & Criminal A new matriculation diploma for Neuroimaging Department at the Andrew Shennan, Senior Justice in the School of Law, Dr 19-year olds was discussed by Institute of Psychiatry. Lecturer in Gynaecology and Ben Bowling, suggested to Assistant Principal, Professor Fetal Medicine, in The Times. the Financial Times that offering Dylan Wiliam, on BBC Radio The likelihood of having a disaffected youth alternative 4’s World at One. Professor Jazzed up Down’s baby is one in 100 ways of getting on in life through Wiliam’s comments were then among women aged 40, and Music student Paddy Milner community programmes and a widely quoted in the national rises to one in 20 by 45. appeared on BBC Radio 4’s stake in the future was more broadsheet and tabloid press. Loose Ends in an edition featur- likely to reduce urban and subur- ing Dame Judi Dench, ban crime than increased prison Hard-hitting report Local links among others. He performed on sentences. piano with his trio the title track Professor Kevin Gournay As Chair of the Bankside Open from his acclaimed debut album and his team at the Institute of Spaces Trust, Justin Dillon of 21st Century Boogie. Birthrights? Psychiatry have urged the NHS the Department of Education & to train staff to deal with violent An extract of a lecture on the Professional Studies was inter- and potentially violent patients, ethical options genetic engineer- viewed for BBC Radio 4’s Moving goal posts in a new UKCC report on the ing offers potential parents by Changing Places, about the work recognition, prevention and The benefits or otherwise of Professor Jonathan of some of Southwark’s commu- therapeutic management of business speak were up for Glover, Director of the Centre nity environmental projects. violence in mental health care, discussion on BBC Radio 4’s for Medical Law & Ethics, to a as reported in the Nursing Times. Shoptalk, with Tony Thorne, British Institute of Human Rights He should be so Head of the Language Centre, meeting at King’s, was featured in explaining the various reasons the Independent’s Podium column. Bad buzz lucky behind the use of jargon. Around 2,000 Britons each year Diminutive Kylie Minogue Sick soldiers contract malaria, according to has the substantial brain of style Bad apples Dr Larry Goodyear of the guru Will Baker behind her. Dr Edgar Jones’ research, Pharmacy Department in the The recent revival in Ms Professor Tom Sanders, carried out by the Department Daily Mail. Symptoms are very Minogue’s pop fortunes was Head of Department of Nutrition of Psychological Medicine flu-like but, if left untreated, can attributed to the King’s theology & Dietetics, in a debate organ- and Institute of Psychiatry, prove fatal unless prescribed alumnus by The Times. ised by Food Foundation at the demonstrating that the symp- pills are taken daily. London Business School, criti- toms displayed by Gulf War Teaching thinking cised the School Fruit Scheme Syndrome sufferers were not which is costing £52 million and confined to soldiers who had Fat chance involves giving each child bet- served in the Gulf, was widely The publication of a new pack of ween four and six years old a reported in the national press. Expert to the Daily Express’s materials for Year 1 children piece of fruit every day as a snack. Slim.Fast Challenge, Dr Tony called Let’s think by Professor His comments that dental Leeds, Lecturer in Nutrition, Philip Adey of the Centre for advice for children advocated New world order has been overseeing the weight Advancement of Thinking Skills avoiding consuming acidic and loss of an entire family from (with Anne Robertson and Grady ‘Will the cry of terrorism be sugary foods such as apples Livingstone, West Lothian. Grenville), was the springboard used, as communism was, by between meals struck a raw for an article in The Sunday repressive regimes to suppress nerve with the media. He also Ali Redford Times on teaching children how dissent?’ was one of the commented that modern Public Relations to think, with comments by his questions posed by Professor

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More students than ever take felt that Honorary Life Member- on part-time work just to survive Marching on Student honours ship would be a means of and for many it is the choice showing the students apprecia- round 300 King’s students between the shift at the super- very year KCLSU awards tion for the work of a former turned out for the NUS market or the lecture. people who have given King’s student. National Demonstration The Government is currently A exemplary service to either Also awarded by the students against student hardship on 20 reviewing the student support E the Union or have benefited the are Laurels, which are given for February. In total there were arrangements in the light of sur- students in some way. This year, exceptional service to the over 10,000 students from all veys undertaken during the 2001 King’s students (through the students of the College. This corners of the UK. General Election, which showed SRC) are honouring two distin- year King’s staff who have been The Demonstration started that the abolition of grants and guished King’s alumni with awarded Laurels include the outside the University of London the introduction of fees were Honorary Life Membership. The Dean of King’s College, The and went to Trafalgar Square via the Government’s most unpopu- Right Reverend Desmond Tutu Revd Dr Richard Burridge and the Houses of Parliament. It was lar policy amongst the general and the impressionist Rory the Chaplain, Revd Tim Ditchfield. well supported by the trade public. Bremner have received this Both were honoured for their unions, with the AUT, Unison, Both the NUS and KCLSU award for their achievements in pastoral work in the College over NATFHE and the TUC all are hopeful that the review life since leaving King’s. the last few years and for bring- speaking in support of the NUS will be beneficial for students Desmond Tutu receives his ing together people of all faiths. at the after march rally. Politicians especially, as from September, award for his life’s work fighting who attended included Ken England will be the only area of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s. Chris Piper Livingstone, Mayor of London, the UK where students cannot Indeed this is not the first time President, KCLSU and David Rendell MP, Liberal apply for a grant. In Northern Desmond Tutu has been hon- Democrat HE spokesperson. Ireland and Scotland, they have oured by the KCLSU. In 1992 Students’ concerns are the also abolished tuition fees, a the main night-club in the Union huge levels of hardship suffered power that the Welsh Assembly was named Desmond Tutu Hall since the abolition of the grant does not possess. or ‘Tutu’s’ in his honour and in and the introduction of tuition However, there is still a long 1996 a large bust of him was fees. The average debt for a stu- way to go, particularly as the erected, with the support of the dent upon graduation is some Government is considering put- Development Trust, in the venue. £12,000 and this rises to £30,000 ting commercial rates of interest Rory Bremner receives his for students on longer courses on student loans, which will be award for his distinguished such as dentistry and medicine. disastrous for those students who service in the world of public This is a doubling of the debt enter the low paid professions entertainment. Bremner’s experienced by students leaving such as teaching and nursing. political satire and impressions in 1998. Good Honorary Life being much loved by the Chris Piper impression: Member of students of the College, it was Rory Bremner, KCLSU President, KCLSU

Women's Squash has mirrored their male recently completed a staging of The KCL counterparts and again hope to be in Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard. Indeed, Well played the top eight female teams in the country look out around College for at least five next session; KCL Men's Tennis is also in the productions by such groups as the Gilbert & s the Lent term draws to an end, the same position. Sullivan Society and the Dance Society, Students' Union maintains its high In University of London competitions, whose production last year played to sell out Atempo of activity from musical pro- KCL Men's Hockey team have been crowned crowds. ductions on the stage to national success in champions of the Premier League, narrowly Away from the stage other societies are the sporting arena. The sporting develop- beating their GKT opponents to the title. becoming more and more successful each ments have been mirrored by improvement The GKT Ladies Rugby football club had an academic year. Salsa is one of the most pop- to facilities: the netball courts at the Honor impressive win over UCL, notching up a ular with some 400 members. Additionally Oak Sportsground have been relaid, while whopping score of 113-0, putting them on the activities of various societies, for exam- preliminary meetings have been held the way to the final of the UL Cup. ple, the Sikh, Jewish and Debating, increase between College and the Union to begin the The standard of sport at King’s is steadily in size and frequency, contributing to the long task of constructing an artificial playing improving confirming that academic and extremely healthy and diverse life that char- surface at one of the four sportsgrounds. extra-curricular success can be achieved acterises KCLSU. KCL Men's Squash remains on course to together. win in their British Universities Sports King's Musical Theatre Society is staging a Alex Siddell Association (BUSA) league and to gain pro- production of Grease in the Greenwood VP Sports and Societies, KCLSU motion to the Premier Division, placing them Theatre at the Guy's Campus between the in the top eight teams in the country. GKT 13 and 15 March, while King's Players have

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mental website and the charac- a mandarin’s mandarin. When John Taylor 1941-2002 Rt Hon Sir Frank Cooper, teristically affable yet practical boots leaked in the Falklands he Lecturer in the Department of Departmental newsletters Sud- GCB, CB, CMG, PC, FKC called it ‘inexcusable’. French Ouest and L’Est Républicain. In retirement, as well as taking 1922-2002 Always keen to broaden his on several commercial director- ohn Taylor, who died in teaching, he had recently devel- ships, Frank Cooper became a January, had been a member career civil servant, following oped courses, heavily subscribed member of King’s College of the French Department war service as a Spitfire pilot: J as always, in critical theory and London Council (1981-1989), for over 40 years. He arrived at he was downed and escaped, the analysis and interpretation of A Chairman of the Delegacy of King’s as an undergraduate in Sir Frank Cooper, earned himself narrative. King’s College Medical and 1961 and, after a successful year a reputation as a skilled negotia- His genial presence and Dental School (1983-1989), and as an Assistant in a French tor. In the 1950s he led some patient practicality will be long after some years as a trustee, school, obtained an outstanding 109 meetings with Archbishop remembered; one of his last Chairman of the Trustees of the First, extracting astonishingly Makarios to achieve a settlement duties was to supervise the Liddell Hart Centre for Military high marks from the notoriously over British bases in Cyprus. In examination process and chair an Archives, a post he held from parsimonious federal examiners. 1973, faced with the introduction entire day of gruelling meetings 1987 until his death. He was He then took up a post as of direct rule in Northern with his customary unflappability elected a Fellow of King’s in Lecteur at the Ecole Normale Ireland, he rapidly established a and wit. The College has lost a 1987. Supérieure, and spent two years Northern Ireland Office and a good and faithful servant; for the In these capacities King’s in Paris working towards an climate of business that allowed Department, as a colleague, learnt to value Frank Cooper’s MPhil, on the political thought him to jump in a taxi and pay a mentor, and friend, he is, simply, breadth of experience, his ability and activities of Jean-Paul surprise visit to Gerry Fitt’s irreplaceable. to cut to the chase, a trenchant Sartre. The relationship between home when negotiations got par- sense of humour, and the gen- Sartre’s thought and his literary ticularly tough. A ceasefire was Michael Heath erosity, with which he gave his output, and the rivalry between achieved in 1975. As Permanent Department of French time and support. His papers Sartre and Albert Camus, Under Secretary at MOD, in the systematically organised and remained the central themes of six years leading up to the donated to the Centre during John’s research and teaching John Townsend Falklands War, it was Frank his lifetime, remain his abiding after his return to King’s as Fellow and Chairman of Cooper who implemented the legacy to the College. Assistant Lecturer in 1967. Chelsea College Council savage manpower review that Devoted also to the novelists of would ensure effective support Patricia Methven the 19th century, he inspired ohn Townsend served on for a fighting force more than Director of Archive Services generations of students to the governing body of 8,000 miles away. embark upon the intimidating Chelsea College from 1955 His management style has J tomes of Emile Zola and his con- to 1972 and for all but five of been variously described as ‘buc- temporaries. those years he was its Chairman. caneering’ and ‘administration John became an important During his involvement with by outrage’. His approach to the Sir Frank Guthrie , then part of that formidable team the College it went through a Select Committees was similarly Cooper (right) Chief of Defence pictured with Staff, at the 2001 of modernists who established particularly demanding period explained as pugnacious, forth- General Sir Liddell Hart the University of London’s that embraced the transition right and cunning. He was never Charles Lecture. reputation in the field for inno- from polytechnic to university vative research and enlightened status. teaching. In 1973 at a ceremony at John was among the first to Chelsea Town Hall, he was pre- recognise the potential of IT. sented as one of the first Single-handedly he guided his Honorary Fellows of Chelsea faltering colleagues towards a College. modicum of competence. Mod- estly, John claimed to know only Memorial Service six things about computers; The Memorial Service of miraculously, one of the six Professor Albinia de la Mare, invariably produced a solution to former Professor of Palaeography the most intractable problem. at King’s, will be held in the He revolutionised the Depart- College Chapel on 28 May. Time ment’s language teaching by to be confirmed. developing a mercifully user- friendly CALL programme, and fostered the innovative degree in French with Applied Compu ting. He pioneered the Depart-

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Death of College donor charitable causes in the areas of medical research, the arts and education. The Weston Education anadian-born Garry Weston, Centre at the Denmark Hill one of British industry’s best Campus was created thanks to a known names as well as C £1 million donation, and the most Chairman of The Garfield Weston recent gift from the Foundation, Foundation, which has long been also for £1 million, was towards associated with King’s, has died. the Maughan Library. In recog- Credited for being the inven- nition of this donation, the room tor of the Wagon Wheel, Mr formerly known as the Rolls Weston served on the board of Room has been renamed the ABF for 51 years. He joined in Weston Room. 1947, becoming Chairman and Chief Executive in 1967, a position he held for 33 years. He Left: The Below: turned the sprawling bakery Weston Garry Weston empire (whose principal product Education Centre (1927-2002) was sliced, wrapped bread) created by his father, into a coher- ent billion pound multinational food group. He focused on its Allison and Kingsmill bread and Ryvita and Twinings teas. ABF’s most successful acquisition, British Sugar, was led by Mr Weston in 1990. The Weston family also own Fortnum & Mason and Mr Weston was appointed a director in 1951 and Chairman in 1978. The Garfield Weston Found- ation donates many millions to

to write a 5,000-word dissert- Law score ation and take exams at the end of May.’ said Iffy. He already has ollege authorities aren’t a degree in economics, but this concerned about this qualification should help his Cattacker at King’s as he career when he steps off the only strikes on the football pitch. pitch. Dubbed the Professor of ‘Working in sports administra- Priestfield by team mates, tion is something that may Gillingham striker Iffy Onuora appeal to me when I pack up spends his spare time studying playing, although I must stress for a postgraduate certificate in that’s a few years off yet.’ In the sports law at King’s. meantime Gillingham fans look The course covers how sport forward to his appearances on and law interact both in the UK the pitch. The last time he and EU. Topics include the scored was against Coventry history and development of City with a stylish 40 yard drive sports law, sport and litigation, that has taken his tally to eight competition law, image and goals this season. broadcasting rights, players’ con- tracts and ethical aspects of sports law. Iffy Onuora (dark blue) ‘I just have to organise my sees off an time properly for study as I have opponent

March 2002 | COMMENT | 15 News

The Principal reported that the King’s granted experience of watching her work stem cell licence Principal unveiled was fascinating, and that seeing portraits and part-finished images cademics at King’s have remarkable portrait of the Checkley, College Secretary, Mr of others in her studio during been granted one of the Principal, Professor Arthur Bill Slade and QEC Principal, sittings last summer helped him first two UK licences to Lucas, was unveiled in the Professor Kenneth Denbigh. learn quite a lot about her! A A produce human embryonic stem presence of the artist, June Her skill has been attributed cell lines. This is the first time Mendoza, at a reception which to her ability to reveal something scientists have been allowed to also celebrated the knighthood of the character and personality work on developing embryonic for Vice-Principal Professor Sir of her subjects. The background stem cells for research as all Graeme Catto. of her portraits is often signifi- previous embryo work has been The portrait shows the cant, and for the Principal an aer- The Principal, for fertility treatment or other Principal seated, wearing his ial map of his home city, Professor medical therapy. PhD robes from Ohio State Melbourne, with Port Philip Arthur Lucas, with artist, June The licence was approved by University. It will hang in the Bay, was chosen. Mendoza the Human Fertilisation and Committee Room (alongside Embryology Authority (HFEA) on pictures of previous principals 1 March and comes only days dating back to the 19th century). after a House of Lords report June Mendoza is widely agreed that embryonic stem cell regarded as one of the most research of this kind could go notable and successful portrait ahead. This makes King’s, painters of the day. Her commis- together with the Centre for sions have included members of Genome Research in Edinburgh, the royal family, prime ministers, one of only two places in the sports personalities and famous world legally permitted to per- musicians. Former staff she form such pioneering work. has portrayed include King’s The licence is granted to three Principal, Professor John Beynon, College researchers: Dr Stephen Vice-Principal and former Prin- Minger, Dr Susan Pickering and cipal of UMDS, Sir Cyril Professor Peter Braude, who Chantler, Dean of the Institute also works for the Guy’s and St of Psychiatry, Professor Stuart Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust. Commenting on the HFEA’s Campus addresses. The text is decision, Dr Minger, a neurobiol- Profile interspersed with images of What’s on at King’s ogist in the Guy’s, King’s & St King’s and London. Thomas’ School of Biomedical The Public Relations Office is The brochure is an ideal Enclosed with Comment is Sciences said, ‘This is a very about to publish Profile 2002- publication to give anyone who What’s on, a diary of events exciting day for science in the 2003: a useful, pocket-sized needs quick access to inform- open to the public. Over 90 UK. The HFEA decision is a fan- booklet that gives a clear snap- ation about King’s, for example, lectures, seminars and colloquia tastic step forward for research shot of King’s today. The new staff, visitors, external are listed. in this country and the hope is information contained includes bodies, etc. that the results of this research the College history, facts and Copies of Profile 2002-2003 Events at King’s can also be will one day be applied to treat- figures on student numbers and will be available at College found at www.kcl.ac.uk/ ing human diseases such as dia- the financial position, research receptions and from the Public phpnews/wmview.php?ArtCat=3 betes and Parkinson’s Disease, and teaching statistics, details Relations office, ext 3202 or as well as looking at the causes of senior College staff and email [email protected]. of infertility and miscarriage. ‘It has taken a lot of hard work by the team to get this far. Now the real challenge has begun and we’re going to start work on increasing our knowl- edge of embryo development straight away.’

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