the college newsletter issue no 167 | May 2006 Strand South Range spectacularly restored
ne of the most imaginative facilities will serve us well for years and creative refurbishments to come. King’s continues to invest Oof a major British university in its estate providing premises Midnight on analysis building was unveiled on Monday appropriate for one of the UK’s 24 April, with the completion of the premier universities.’ scoops prize first phase of the redevelopment of the Strand Campus. The South Range of the College’s Part of a £500 million Grade I listed building reopened strategy to transform after a two-year £40 million the College estate refurbishment project which has seen many of the original elegant features of the 1830’s building The King’s Building, designed by restored whilst providing a first-class Robert Smirke, architect of the environment for the 21st century. British Museum, was originally opened The redevelopment is part of a in 1829 alongside Somerset House, £500 million strategy to transform with which it shares a distinguished the College estate. Since 1999 more river frontage in classical style. than half of the College’s activities HRH The Princess Royal, have been relocated in high-quality Chancellor of the University of new and refurbished buildings. London, officially opened the South This makes it the most ambitious Range on 16 May. redevelopment programme recently The College is already embarking undertaken by a UK university. on the second phase of this project The South Range has undergone – a £20 million programme with an an exceptional conservation-led emphasis on staff offices together redevelopment with an emphasis on with laboratories and student work easier access and sustainability. It areas, mainly on the upper floors of includes high quality teaching, social the King’s Building and in the Strand and research space for the 7,000 Building – and is beginning to students and staff based here, as consider possibilities for the third well as facilities of value to the phase. Through this work King’s will whole College. be progressively refurbishing this Musicology student Tom Clifton wins this year’s photographic The Principal, Professor Rick campus, retaining the best of the competition with the above entry. See the full story on page 2. Trainor, says: ‘This is a remarkable old and enhancing it to provide new, transformation at the heart of the high-quality, world-class facilities. Enclosed with this issue of Strand Campus. With vision and The funding of the project has Comment is a special supplement empathy the South Range has been been assisted by capital grants illustrating the Strand restored to its former glory. These from the Higher Education Redevelopment Project. handsome and well-designed Funding Council for England.
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Midnight on analysis Chairman of scoops prize Council writes Hong Kong MoU University Challenge his year’s photographic music late into the night. than anticipated reflecting the On 22 March students battled it selected. They will now take on a competition generated an Winner Tom Cliffton received a extremely high standard. Dear Colleagues, out for a place in King’s University team of the Vice-Principals in Timpressive response with cheque for £500. ‘It is an unexpected The prize-winning photographs One of the great privileges of being Challenge team. After rounds of preparation for their possible TV more than 300 entries depicting privilege to win and I am really have been enlarged and are on Chairman of the King’s College tough questioning the team was appearance. staff and students’ excitement in excited,’ he says. display in the newly refurbished Council is to welcome distinguished Naresh Verlander their chosen field of study, teaching Judging was led by the Principal, South Range of the King’s Building guests to the College, of whom or research including field trips, Professor Rick Trainor, and the at the Strand Campus. there are a large number; this is a laboratory work and lectures. overall standard of entries was The winning entries are also source of great pride to me. The winning entry [see cover] excellent. available to view online at: Recently, for instance, I was able shows a student of musicology Six runners up [see below] were www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archives/conews. to show the American Ambassador, undertaking analysis on a piece of each awarded £100, one more prize html Robert Holmes Tuttle, and his wife, Maria, around the refurbished South Range of the King’s Building, which looks truly magnificent. n 11 May King’s signed Principal Emeritus at King’s. In the space of a fortnight in May, a major collaborative Mr Rammell was in Hong Kong other visitors to the College include Oagreement (a Memorandum to formalise UK and HK strategic the Chancellor of the University of of Understanding) with the University education collaborations. London, HRH The Princess Royal, of Hong Kong. The ceremony took Professor Hoggart comments: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the place in the presence of Higher ‘This is a very significant agreement Archbishop of Canterbury. Education Minister, Bill Rammell. and we are delighted to be working
Greg Funnell Dr John Reid talks to students Gihan Ganeshanantham Waiting for pressure Iggy Tavares Cells in culture Dr John Reid, former Secretary King’s Vice-Principal, Professor with such a prestigious and breathing of State for Defence, chose to give Keith Hoggart and University of Hong internationally renowned university. a keynote speech at King’s earlier in Kong Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lap- This formally builds on links that have the year, and we have enjoyed other Chee Tsui (pictured) signed the MoU been long established between our King’s University Challenge team. Back row (from left): Matt Walker (Computer Science), Tim recent talks by former Secretary on behalf of their organisations. Also institutions. It will encourage the Sparkes (Medicine) and Stephen Spencer [captain] (MA War Studies). Front row: David Perry [reserve] (History) and Caroline Hatwell (Maths & Philosophy of Maths). of State, Chris Smith, Nobel present was Dr Abe Lue, Assistant exchange of staff and students.’ Laureate Sir Peter Mansfield and the Advocate General of the Court of European Justice, Luís Miguel Genetic cause for cocaine addiction discovery Poiares Maduro.
Juliet RuffordBeckett on the box Michael Paleodimos Microtitre plates in Andrew Brooks Young child in traditional dress Furthermore, I recently hosted a nstitute of Psychiatry abusers and 850 ordinary people in the development of cocaine ‘This means that although immunoassays ‘think tank’ of some of this country’s scientists, led by Dr Gerome and found that cocaine abusers dependence. It makes sense repeated exposure to cocaine most influential ‘movers and IBreen, have made a new had a specific genetic variation that variation within the gene will lead to compulsive use in shakers’ at home to consider the discovery that throws light on the in DAT more frequently than the encoding DAT influences cocaine everyone, it seems some people King’s wins four AHRC awards future direction of the College. impact genes have on a person’s control subjects. People carrying dependence,’ says Dr Breen. will become addicted to the drug Such exceptional and busy reaction to cocaine. two copies of this variant were Analysis of this DAT variant more quickly than others ing’s has been successful three awards and the School of Max Saunders (Professor of English) people give their time because they Research findings were 50 per cent more likely to be revealed that an element of it was because of a genetic difference,’ in securing four Arts & Social Science & Public Policy one: and the Imperial War Museum recognise that King’s is a powerhouse published on 13 March in the online cocaine dependent. directly sensitive to cocaine. In the explains Camila Guindalini, PhD KHumanities Research Council A study of the Imperial War Museum’s of research and scholarship that can edition of PNAS, the journal of the brain it may act to reduce the level student, who performed the collaborative doctoral awards. Dr Gordon McMullan (Reader in Archive of the BBC’s Great War make a real difference to the world in American Academy of Sciences. of DAT in response to the drug. genotyping analysis. Now in their second year, English) and the Globe Theatre series which we live. The research was carried out ‘Helps our understanding This action could also make ‘I was asked to determine these awards aim to improve the The relationship between dramaturgy King’s is also home to some of at the MRC Social, Genetic and of the development of the brain more susceptible to the functional effect of this risk support, training and development and theatrical space in early modern Dr David Green (Senior Lecturer in the brightest students from this Developmental Research Centre at cocaine addiction’ cocaine’s addictive effects and variant. In our lab, we put the opportunities offered to graduate London Geography) and the Museum of country and around the globe, the Institute. might be important in influencing different versions into artificial students. Their purpose is to London who will doubtless make a real Cocaine’s action within the the initial stages of addiction. systems that we use to test promote partnerships and Dr John Pearce (Lecturer in The history and management of the difference to tomorrow’s world brain is relatively well understood. ‘This study is the first large- ‘This research helps our for functional effects and were collaboration between academic Archaeology, Classics) and the Thames between c1770 and 1900. – and that, I am sure, is a source of It strongly binds and inhibits the scale search for a genetic variant understanding of the development surprised to find that the risk researchers and non-higher British Museum great pride to everyone who works action of a protein called the influencing the risk of developing of cocaine addiction. It could version appeared to alter its effect education organisations in the The impact of metal-detected data This builds on last year’s success and studies here. Dopamine Transporter (DAT) 1. cocaine addiction or dependence. influence the design and use of in response to cocaine,’ comments cultural and creative industries. on our understanding of historic when the College won three of Baroness Rawlings In this latest study, researchers ‘The target we investigated, drugs to treat cocaine abuse in Professor John Quinn of the The School of Humanities won environments these prestigious AHRC awards. Chairman of Council examined the DNA of 700 cocaine DAT, is the single most important the future. University of Liverpool.
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Greg Funnell Pharmacogenetic spin-out Celebrating 350 years of King’s biomedical pioneers
heragenetics Limited, a years by Rob Kerwin, Professor The Gordon Anatomical Museum at Guy’s Campus pharmacogenetic diagnostics of Clinical Neuropharmacology, was the fitting location in April for the launch of a Tspin-out company from Dr Maria Arranz, Senior Lecturer, the Institute of Psychiatry, was and Dr Janet Munro, Clinical new book celebrating King’s pioneering doctors and established on 7 April. Research Psychiatrist, from the biomedical scientists. Developed with IP2IPO Group Institute of Psychiatry. plc, the intellectual property Theragenetics will develop and ontributions to which he is the first to describe and commercialisation company, and commercialise pharmacogenetic biomedicine: a continuing name the thyroid gland. KCL Enterprises, Theragenetics diagnostic tests to help guide Cstory is an illustrated history The book was written by Claire is the fifth spin-out company from and improve the treatment of introducing the most pioneering Taylor, Assistant Secretary in the King’s in the past two years. schizophrenia and other disorders. individuals who have worked or School of Medicine and Gwyn IP2IP0 has invested £390,000 for The founding academics have From left: Richard Kivel, Theragenetics Chief Executive Officer, and foundersDr Maria Arranz, studied at King’s College London Williams, Dean of the School of a 48 per cent stake in Theragenetics a successful track record of Dr Janet Munro and Professor Rob Kerwin. and the Guy’s, St Thomas’, King’s Medicine until 2004. Dr Christine Limited. The investment is part of translating their personalised antipsychotics. into a real clinical application, which College and Maudsley Hospitals Kenyon Jones, Writer in the a seed capital round of £440,000, medicine research into the Professor Kerwin says: ‘This is is every researcher’s dream. The whose medical schools are now Department of External Relations with co-investment of £50,000 from commercial setting, and have a good example of translational company has been created to build amalgamated into King’s. and author of the 2004 book King’s Kinetique Biomedical Seed Fund. also worked extensively with medicine and we are very excited up the concept of personalised For centuries their remarkable College London: In the service of Theragenetics’ underlying science major pharmaceutical companies to have established Theragenetics medicine which is very high profile at achievements have helped shape society, was a contributing writer. the well-documented input of and students for £10 (normal price has been developed over many in designing clinical studies for to develop our research findings the moment.’ almost every area of medicine, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice £20). Contact claire.taylor@kcl. including advances in the Wilkins to the discovery of the ac.uk or telephone 0207 848 6973. understanding of disease and the Their remarkable structure of DNA, Joseph Lister’s The book is on display on the Multilingual human body, the development of achievements have contributions to surgery and the ground floors of New Hunt’s House American Ambassador visits King’s drugs and surgery as well as care helped shape almost participation of Thomas Hodgkin, and the Franklin-Wilkins Building for the sick and dying. Thomas Addison and Richard Bright and will soon be exhibited at the greg funnell lives The first-known academic every area of medicine in the birth of medical science in Denmark Hill Campus. contribution from this institution Britain in the 19th century, the esearchers from the was exactly 350 years ago when ‘This is the first time the book also features the work of Did you know? Department of Byzantine & Thomas Wharton, a St Thomas’ contributions from all the some lesser-known figures, whose • In the 19th century James RModern Greek Studies are physician and anatomist, published institutions have been brought work has nonetheless shaped the Blundell, Professor of Obstetrics taking part in a major collaborative his seminal work on the glands of together in a single account,’ says world of biomedicine in which we at Guy’s, performed the first 18-month investigation into the the human body, Adenographia, in Claire Taylor, ‘as well as describing operate today.’ human-to-human blood transfusion. multilingual experience of young mark simon The book, designed by Helen • Sir Alfred Baring Garrod FRS, people from minority ethnic Senior Associates, also describes King’s Professor of Materia backgrounds in Britain. biomedical research at King’s today, Medica and Therapeutics in 1859 The Economic & Social Research which through partnerships with coined the term ‘rheumatoid Council funded study will take the Guy’s, St Thomas’ and King’s arthritis’. place in London, Birmingham and College Hospitals and the South • John Braxton Hicks, while Manchester and involve pupils at London and Maudsley NHS Trust working at Guy’s, described complementary schools serving the continues to be centred on patients and gave his name to the Bangladeshi, Chinese, Gujarati and and their treatment. contractions in pregnancy not Turkish communities. The book was published to leading to childbirth. The study will cover issues such coincide with the UK Association of • St Thomas’ ophthalmologist as social inclusion and how young Physicians annual meeting hosted Sir Harold Lloyd Nicholas Ridley people see their identities, with the by King’s at Guy’s Campus in April. FRS invented intraocular lens aim of finding whether multilingualism The Association’s membership surgery for cataracts, an is perceived as an asset. represents the UK’s elite academic operation he first performed at Dr Vally Lytra, Visiting Research clinicians. The two-day event also St Thomas’ in 1949, and which has Robert Holmes Tuttle, United States Ambassador to the Court of St James, (second from left), and his wife Maria (second from right) visited King’s new 250-seat lecture theatre as part of a guided tour of the redeveloped South Range of the King’s Building. They were accompanied by the Fellow, and Research Associate showcased leading biomedical since saved the sight of more Principal, Professor Rick Trainor, Chairman of Council, Baroness Rawlings, and Tim Leach, (Building Design Partnership) architect for the project. Dr Dilek Yagcioglu-Ali, are focussing research at King’s. than 200 million people around In his speech the Principal alluded to the College’s many links with the US which include student exchanges, formal collaborations with American on Turkish complementary schools Contributions to biomedicine: a the world. universities, scientific and cultural links (not to mention occassional concerts at King’s by the likes of Green Day!). Following their tour and the From left: Professor Gwyn Williams, Claire Taylor and Dr Christine Kenyon Jones at a drinks speech the Ambassador and his wife took part in a question and answer session with an audience of staff and students chaired by the Principal. in London. reception for the book’s launch at the Gordon Museum, Hodgkin Building. continuing story is available to staff
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widely published textual and critical scholar, she is the first woman fully Anglo-Saxon Futures Preterm births increase New Arden Hamlet Naresh Verlander to edit Hamlet. She is also a General ing’s Professor Ann published in 1603, 1605 and 1623. Editor of the Arden Shakespeare octors from King’s have Thompson is one of Previous editors have produced Third Series, continuing a tradition expressed concern over Kthe editors of a new a ‘conflated’ text, selecting words of editing Shakespeare at King’s. Dthe apparent increase in groundbreaking Arden edition of or phrases from two or more of The Arden Shakespeare edition preterm births. In an editorial to Hamlet, launched on 19 April at these early texts to construct their is published in two volumes: the accompany a Danish study, which Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in own version of the play. first gives readers the Second were both published in the British London. Ann Thompson and her fellow Quarto text of 1604-05; a full, Medical Journal, Professor Andrew The editors also gave the Sam editor, Neil Taylor of Roehampton illustrated introduction to the play’s Shennan and Dr Susan Bewley say Wanamaker Fellowship lecture University, break the mould with historical, cultural and performance this trend could have a considerable about their edition. Sam West, who an edition that prints in full all contexts, and an appendix of the impact on society. has played and directed Hamlet, three early texts, editing each text additional passages found only in From left: Professors Haruko Momma (New York University), Kathleen Davis (Princeton University), The research from Denmark and his mother, actress Prunella separately and allowing readers the 1623 text. Patricia Dailey (Columbia University) and Clare Lees (King’s). looked at more than 600,000 births Scales, read extracts from the new to experience these very different The second volume contains n March the Department the Department of English at King’s, between 1995 and 2004 and showed say this has worrying long-term edition and other actor Hamlets versions of Hamlet known to the First Quarto text of 1603 and of English hosted a two-day who organised the workshop, a 22 per cent increase in premature implications for health services, attended the launch. Shakespeare’s contemporaries. the First Folio text of 1623. Its The launch was covered by The Iinternational workshop, Anglo- comments: ‘The event was a births. Even among low risk women teachers, parents and children This is the third Arden of Hamlet Ann Thompson is Professor of introduction contains the fullest Times and Professor Thompson was Saxon Futures, consisting of great success and I look forward aged 20-40 the increase in early and that countries need to ensure and the first to edit separately the English and Head of the School available stage history of the First interviewed for Radio 3 about the lectures, round tables and panel to building on this important delivery was 51 per cent. The they have mechanisms in place to three different texts of the play of Humanities. A respected and Quarto text. new Hamlet. discussions on recent work in international network in the future.’ study also showed that assisted detect such trends and assess their Anglo-Saxon Studies. Professor Stacy Klein, Rutgers conceptions, multiple pregnancies, impact. This was the first international University, adds: ‘It’s such a rare and elective deliveries increased They write that the possible meeting of the Anglo-Saxon Studies and wonderful thing to come during this time and were also reasons for the findings from Breakthrough in carbohydrate research Colloquium of Princeton, Columbia, together with international associated with early birth. Denmark are numerous and not New York and Rutgers universities. colleagues to talk about where our According to Professor Shennan easy to explain but they may include team in the ‘soluble fibre’, are a key part of molecular weight and particle size. King’s co-sponsored the event field has been and where we might and Dr Bewley, who are based at smoking, social class or extremes Pharmaceutical and a healthy diet and are found in Dr Peter Ellis and his colleagues, which attracted Anglo-Saxonists be going. This kind of cross-Atlantic St Thomas’ Hospital, comprehensive of maternal weight and age. AN utritional Sciences seaweeds, citrus fruits, apples and Professor Simon Ross-Murphy and (postgraduates and staff) from all dialogue is sure to greatly benefit data has not yet been collated This was reported in The Times, Research Divisions has designed oats. However, the complex way Dr Qi Wang, developed a method over the UK. both Anglo-Saxon Studies and also but the pattern is likely in similar The Independent, Daily Mail and The a new method incorporating a in which they hydrate has never of estimating the rate at which Professor Clare Lees, Head of the field of literary studies at large.’ countries, such as Britain. They Telegraph. mathematical model to uncover been clear. guar gum particles of different the secrets of water-soluble This research focused on guar sizes dissolve. ‘This technique has carbohydrate polymers. This gum, which comes from the Indian real implications for the design of MP monitors air quality could help in the design of foods to cluster bean plant. The gum, pharmaceutical tablets because combat serious health problems which is a very fine powder of the you have a good idea of how long Guar beans en bradshaw MP, We need to move faster and take such as diabetes and could have crushed plant seeds, is often used it will take for a drug to be research. It could help in designing Parliamentary Secretary, further measures to move us an impact on commercial products in scientific studies because its absorbed in the body,’ explains foods to improve blood glucose BDepartment for Environment, closer to meeting our objectives. from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics. hydratability – or ability to soak up Professor Ross-Murphy. control in diabetics and lower Food and Rural Affairs, visited a ‘Pollutants from our cars, These biopolymers, which are water and form molecular solutions Dr Ellis adds: ‘This work will be a cholesterol levels in people at risk London Air Quality Network (LAQN) ships and industrial plants are referred to by nutritionists as – can be altered by changing its tremendous boost for dietary fibre of heart disease.’ monitoring site on 5 April. The still having a marked effect on LAQN is run by King’s Environmental our health, reducing the average disrupted thinking and behaviour. method for scanning chemicals Research Group and funded by life expectancy in the UK by eight Schizophrenia hope It can be devastating for sufferers in the brains of living patients local authorities across London. months. This can’t continue. and their carers alike. which may lead to new treatment His visit formed part of the The measures outlined in this Neurochemical imaging The research is led by Professor It is as common as diabetes in and diagnostic approaches in the launch of the Government’s review would – if implemented researchers at the Institute of Lyn Pilowsky, Professor of the UK affecting one per cent of the disorder. This is work in progress consultation document on new – be a significant step forward in Gary Fuller of the Environmental Research Group (right) explains to Ben Bradshaw MP how Psychiatry have developed a brain Neurochemical Imaging, (Centre for population and it can often strike and we desperately need more measures to bring about further improving public health and our measurements of PM10 and NO2 are made at a London Air Quality Network monitoring site. scan method showing a chemical Psychosis), working in collaboration young people at the height of an funding to develop and extend reductions in ambient air pollution. environment.’ emissions from small combustion London and the surrounding area. abnormality in a critical part of the with the Institute of Nuclear individual’s potential. this very exciting development,’ Mr Bradshaw said: ‘Although The Government is proposing a plants and shipping. It is Europe’s largest regional air brain that could herald an early Medicine, University College London. ‘What this intriguing finding comments Professor Pilowsky. our air is cleaner in overall terms package of measures including new The LAQN is managed from an quality monitoring network and method of diagnosis for Schizophrenia is one of the most means is that, for the first time, This research was reported on than at any time since the industrial tighter European vehicle emissions operations centre in the Franklin- forms an essential resource to schizophrenia. serious mental disorders, involving we may have a non-invasive BBC News Online. revolution, air pollution is not standards, incentives for cleaner Wilkins Building. It consists of quantify the impact of air quality declining as quickly as expected. vehicles and further reductions in more than 100 monitoring sites in management initiatives in London.
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Among the first VIP visitors We are excited to be using a Fingerprints hide lifestyle clues to the new facilities were the new plated banqueting system Archbishop of Canterbury, who for meal preparation which is ingerprints could soon Monitoring, the work on getting more period of days, as do the saturated Catering had tea in the Large Somerset Room also used by major hotels and help police narrow down their from fingerprints started by looking and unsaturated fatty acids left during his visit on 8 May, and conference venues.’ Flist of suspects by giving clues at the chemical components of prints behind by human touch. This makes The College’s in-house Catering team is taking full HRH The Princess Royal, when Meanwhile the Terrazza in the about the lifestyle of whoever left and how they change over time. it harder for traditional techniques advantage of the new facilities in the South Range of she opened the South Range on Macadam Building remains open the prints at the scene of a crime. to reveal prints. the Strand’s King’s Building, which opened on 24 April. 16 May. from 10.00 to 14.00 in term-time. Research at King’s is uncovering Exploiting this knowledge of how the ways fingerprints are changed Fingerprints are changed these organic compounds break fter many years of River Room: a swish new private Corporate hospitality Other campuses by age, smoking, drug use and even by age, smoking and down, Dr Jickell’s group is now working under quite function room with a magnificent ‘Now that the major building The in-house team also runs the some personal grooming products. drug use working on ways to get good quality ‘Adifficult conditions, view of the Thames, available for programme is complete, we can catering and hospitality services The work also promises to help evidence from relatively old prints. the team is now able to offer a wide range of catered events. offer a great variety of corporate at the Maughan Library, at obtain good quality copies of prints The research has also shown exciting new refreshment services The menus in the new areas hospitality such as receptions, Club 552 in the Waterloo Bridge that have gone unnoticed for days Dr Jickells said: ‘There are a lot how fingerprints can be used of all kinds at the Strand,’ explains take account of preferences buffets and formal dinners in Wing of the Franklin-Wilkins or weeks. Related work aims to find of lipids in fingerprints and there to give clues about the person Terry Hope, Catering Services expressed in staff surveys and the new facilities and in our Building, at the Refectory and prints on guns and bomb fragments are many possibilities for that.’ that left a print. Dr Jickells said excrete the metabolised products Manager. ‘It’s also really great to national market research for more traditional venues such as the the Postgraduate Medical that are often among the most One such lipid, squalene, which that adults, children and the of the chemical they use. have a new kitchen, especially healthy eating and ‘grab-and-go’ Great Hall and Council Room,’ Centre in the Weston Education difficult to recover. is a precursor to cholesterol, is elderly lay down different sorts of This story was reported on as we now have direct links by options: food freshly prepared on Terry Hope points out. Centre at Denmark Hill, and at Led by Dr Sue Jickells, Lecturer heavily present in fingerprints. organic compounds in their prints. BBC News Online. Dr Jickells was lift with all the new facilities. the premises which is then boxed ‘For instance, you could have the Buttery at the James Clerk in Forensic Science and Drug Squalene breaks down over a Furthermore, drug users typically also interviewed for MBC. Most of the catering staff have or portioned so that customers can 200 people in the new lecture Maxwell Building. been brushing up on their choose for themselves without theatre who could break out into Catering at other parts of qualifications or gaining new having to stand in a queue. a range of smaller teaching rooms, the College is provided by PCs for schools Funding boost for ones through training.’ ‘There will be regular user and also go on to a buffet, drinks contractors, including Ecovert surveys,’ Terry Hope says, ‘and reception or a sit-down lunch or in the main part of the Franklin- ver the past year The Manager, comments: ‘The School nanomedicine Chapters we’ll be listening to what our dinner in the Great Hall which is Wilkins Building and in New Florence Nightingale School normally sells end-of-life PCs to Entry to the new social and customers want from day one.’ next door to it. Hunt’s House, and Sodexho for Oof Nursing & Midwifery has staff and students but there are dining areas at the Strand is on The Catering team uses local ‘The new social facilities will the rest of Guy’s. donated around 30 used PCs to always some leftover and I thought the same level as the Chapel. On suppliers where possible, and will also be available for functions For full details of catering Computer Aid International which it would be a good idea to donate one side of the corridor is Chapters, continue to supply Fairtrade teas, requiring catering, especially services at King’s see ships refurbished PCs to schools these to a worthy cause. a multi-choice servery so named coffees and confectionary. in the vacations and evenings. www.kcl.ac.uk/catering and community organisations in ‘It’s heart-warming to see how because this area used to be a greg funnell more than 90 developing countries. much good an old PC can do to a library. Here staff and students Paul Mackie, School IT Systems classroom in the developing world.’ can enjoy a wide range of options from traditional meals to salads, paninis, pizzas, stir-fry, baked Nobel Laureate lecture at Guy’s potatoes, sandwiches and freshly- greg funnell baked baguettes. The gallery area of Chapters Fluorescence technologies for sensing glucose in cells of diabetic patients. provides comfortable seating ohn Pickup, Professor of including glucose sensing and and wireless connections for data Diabetes and Metabolism at the development of a nanoscale services. On the other side of JKing’s, in collaboration with the ‘artificial pancreas’. the corridor are the Large and University of Strathclyde, has been Nanometrology is the emerging Small Somerset Rooms, serving awarded a £4.3 million grant from science and technology of barista-style fresh-ground coffee the Engineering & Physical Sciences measurement at the nanoscale, and snacks. Research Council’s Science and in other words at the size of Beyond these is a Common Room Innovation Awards scheme. individual molecules or very for staff and research students The consortium will develop small particles. It is widely which it is hoped will become a a multidisciplinary centre of anticipated that its application focal point for meeting, an nanometrology to build UK capacity in medicine (nanomedicine) will opportunity which has been long
On 17 March Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Mansfield FRS (above) talked about his pioneering in this field. At King’s researchers lead to a revolution in diagnostics, missed. It is planned to operate an achievements in magnetic resonance imaging at a major lecture as part of the School of will focus on applications in therapeutics and the understanding informal bar service here. Biomedical & Health Sciences’ Image your Heart event for National Science Week. Members of the Catering team ready for the lunchtime rush at Chapters in the South Range. Back row from left: Floyd Thompson, Vince Gibson, diabetes and related disorders, of human disease. Beyond this again is the Don Jayasinghe, Jim Kemp and Mark Williams. Front row from left: Peter Durant, Shirley Saggers, Jenny Shepherd, Kathy Cook and Terry Hope.
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Awards awarded the AW Campbell Award Appointments Management. A social psychologist, Academic-In-Residence for the best work by a researcher in Long service recognised she specialises in the study of social Wolfson Research Merit Award the first five years following the dominic turner Government panelist groups, group interaction, attitude completion of a PhD. His work formation and change, belief Dr David Begley, from the focuses on understanding how systems and risk communication. Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, visual areas of the brain develop The panel gives the College the has been appointed as the first and function. opportunity to increase influence King’s Academic-in-Residence at Dr Bourne comments: ‘All on Government thinking on issues GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the UK’s previous recipients of the award such as nuclear power, public largest research-based are now eminent researchers in the transport, climate change, health pharmaceutical company. neuroscience field. These people and democracy. He will share his extensive are very distinguished, so it’s very Additionally, information provided expertise in nutrient and drug flattering to be considered in such to the Commission will enable it transport in the brain with esteemed company.’ to carry out its new watchdog GSK scientists in research and function, which involves monitoring development, who are working on advise King’s on what industry the Government’s performance the discovery of new treatments requires from universities. on sustainable development and for conditions affecting the brain. Dr Begley will also identify areas On 24 April King’s staff who have Leonée Ormond, second left, and informing policies. The Academic-in-Residence of King’s research and expertise Dr Brooke Rogers (centre) Avshalom Caspi, Professor of completed 25 and 40 years’ Professor Sir Michael Rutter, will provide input into ongoing that could provide collaborative Personality Development, Institute service were recognised at the right) were present to receive Last month Dr Brooke Rogers was Professor Sir Francis Jacobs QC research projects at GSK and opportunities. of Psychiatry, has been awarded a annual Long Service Awards their awards. appointed to the new UK Sustainable Earlier this year the Centre of prestigious Royal Society Wolfson hosted by the Principal, The Principal and Vice-Principals Development Panel by the Sustainable European Law hosted a reception to Research Merit Award for further Professor Rick Trainor, in the Sir Lawrence Freedman and Development Commission, the celebrate the return of Professor recently he was Advocate General of the Institute of Materials, research into genetics and stress. Great Hall. Professor Keith Hoggart read Government’s advisor on this subject. Sir Francis Jacobs as a Visiting in the Court of European Justice. Minerals & Mining. Fellowships The award money amounts to Off the 44 staff with 25 years’ citations commending the The panel is made up of around Professor to the School of Law. The Before this he held various posts, are ‘a prestigious grade for those £40,000 a year for five years and service 31 were able to attend nominees on their service. Each 1,000 people experienced in fields Principal opened the proceedings including a period as Director of with an established and enhanced Professor Caspi explains how this the event and of the six with 40 person received a cut-glass vital for a more sustainable society, followed by a short address by the the Centre of European Law at reputation in materials, minerals will be spent: ‘Our goal is to better years’ service three (Mr Clive bowl, a certificate signed by the including doctors, scientists, Rt Hon Lord Bingham. King’s and Professor of European and mining technology’. understand why some people are Daws, pictured left, Professor Principal and a cheque. teachers, public sector workers and Francis Jacobs QC recently Law at the University of London. He vulnerable to stress whereas others business people. retired from the European Court was made a member of the Privy Sir Ian Gainsford FKC do not succumb to the ill effects of Dr Rogers is a Research of Justice following a distinguished Council in 2005. exposure to a stressful life. Part Nurse commended 2006 Awards. Laura performs Times Higher/King’s Awards Fellow at King’s Centre for Risk career in the legal profession. Most of the answer may lie in genetic Laura Doig, who undertook part-time endoscopic ultrasounds enabling As reported in March’s Comment Fellowships differences between people. Some study at the Florence Nightingale patients who are suspected to have now is the time to put entries Three members of staff in the are more genetically resistant School of Nursing & Midwifery to cancer to be seen within a week of forward for the Times Higher and Diabetes UK Chair Division of Engineering have than others. We are trying to achieve her degree and is now a referral for an endoscopy. King’s Awards. recently been elected Institute identify the stretches of DNA that nurse endoscopy specialist at Guy’s For full details and entry criteria Professor Simon Howell has been Fellows. Professor Lakmal contribute to resilience.’ and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Credit Management prize for the Times Higher awards visit elected Chair of the Board of Seneviratne and Dr Jian Dai are This research builds on Professor Trust, was recently commended at Last year Anthony Gould from the www.thes.co.uk/awards/2006 Trustees of Diabetes UK which has now Fellows of the Institute of Caspi’s team’s findings published the prestigious Nursing Standard Finance Department studied for the Their deadline is 30 June. 180,000 members. Mechanical Engineers. Sir Ian Gainsford, right, and John Smith, in Science in 2003 which showed full Institute of Credit Management The King’s Awards are for: He is Professor of Endocrine Fellowships recognise ‘exceptional President of Royal College of Surgeons of that differences in the serotonin (ICM) diploma qualification and • Research project of the year Physiology and Guy’s Campus engineering achievements and Edinburgh. transporter gene contributed to completed the certificate level. • young researcher of the year Dean. He has been a trustee of contributions to the engineering Sir Ian Gainsford FKC recently whether or not people became Anthony recently won the Moore • young academic author of the the charity since 1999 and has profession’ and are awarded to received an Honorary FRCS from depressed after experiencing Stephens Corporate Recovery year. extensive experience in the field ‘members who have demonstrated the Royal College of Surgeons of stressful life events. Prize for the highest mark in the of diabetes-related research. significant individual responsibility, Edinburgh. Sir Ian is a former King’s country in the Legal Proceedings & Bids must make their case in 500 ‘I am delighted and honoured sustained achievement and student (Dentistry, KCHMS, 1955) Top neuroscience accolade Insolvency module, diploma level. words and should be submitted by to have been elected Chair of exceptional professionalism during and Dean of King’s College Hospital King’s pharmacology PhD graduate He will receive his award and 30 May to Victoria Richardson, an organisation which works to their careers’. Medical & Dental School. James Bourne has been named certificate at the Institute Annual Vice-Principal’s Office, James Clerk improve the lives of two million ‘I hope my experience will allow Professor Seneviratne has also The Royal College of Surgeons Australia’s top young neuroscientist Dinner on 13 October. Maxwell Building, Waterloo Campus. people with diabetes in the me to guide Diabetes UK in its been awarded Fellowship of the of Edinburgh is dedicated to the at a meeting of the Australian The ICM is the largest The winners of these awards will UK, their families and friends,’ important work and am looking Institute of Electrical & Electronics maintenance and promotion of Neuroscience Society. Dr Bourne, professional credit management automatically be entered into the comments Professor Howell. forward to the challenge ahead.’ Engineers. the highest standards of surgical Laura Doig (left) is commended at the Nursing now at Monash University, was Standard 2006 Awards. organisation in Europe. Times Higher competition. Dr Mike Clode is now a Fellow practice.
10 | COMMENT | May 2006 May 2006 | COMMENT | 11 King’s people Flashback
Greg Funnell Dental taskforce an NHS consultant in paediatric dentistry for nearly 15 years it is a Colgate-Palmolive celebrated its great privilege to help shape services 200th anniversary with a breakfast for children on a larger scale. King’s A tale of two statues at the New York Stock Exchange. is a world leader in dental education Greg Funnell Greg Funnell Professor Raman Bedi, director and this will attract overseas funding ho are the subjects of of the global child dental health and students,’ says Professor Bedi. the two marble statues taskforce at King’s, was invited as Win the entrance hall at Colgate’s special guest. Together Stephen Fry visits the Strand? Who sculpted them, with Ian Cook, Colgate’s chief and when? And how did they executive, they announced that the Acclaimed author, actor and come to King’s? These questions King’s taskforce was to be their gift broadcaster Stephen Fry recently were explored by Michael Trapp, to children worldwide. They then visited an exhibition at the Institute of Professor of Greek Literature and rang the bell to commence the Psychiatry’s gallery. Thought, in his inaugural lecture. day’s trading. Insanity in focus: psychiatric in the earliest days of photography Psychological Treatments Research The lady with the lyre and ‘Improving the oral health of patients captured by the camera and camera studies of patients in a at the IoP, about depression and the far-away look is Sappho, children worldwide has been a 150 years ago and today displayed psychiatric hospital in Cuba today. bipolar disorders. He is currently the seventh-sixth century BC longstanding professional and compelling photographs of psychiatric Stephen was then interviewed by filming a documentary for BBC2 lyric poetess from Mytilene on personal commitment. Having been patients at Bethlem Royal Hospital Jan Scott (pictured), Professor of about manic depression. Lesbos. The bearded gentleman is Sophocles, the fifth century BC Athenian tragic poet. OBITUARIES Sophocles, the fifth century BC Athenian poet. Sappho is an original Paul Emanuel Polani FKC FRS Officer in an internment camp on work on cerebral palsy was Elizabeth Corbett composition, the creation of the front hall of The Poplars for many 1914-2006 the Isle of Man. supported by the Spastics Society, Austrian-born sculptor Ferdinand years before 1923, proclaiming the When released, he came to which founded the Paediatric iz Corbett, ISS information Seeboeck (1864-1952): on the cultivated taste of their owners. London, and a week’s temporary Research Unit, with Polani as its specialist for the School back of her plinth is his signature, And although Sophocles might cover for a colleague at the Evelina first Director, in 1960. Lof Physical Sciences & and the place and date of carving: not have been a perfect symbol Children’s Hospital led to a lifelong He developed the Unit, the Engineering, joined King’s in a Rome, 1893. for Ludwig’s professional talent, Sappho, the seventh-sixth century BC lyric poetess from Mytilene on Lesbos. association with Guy’s Hospital, first of its kind in Britain, into an temporary capacity in September Sophocles is a copy of the so- Sappho – the ‘Tenth Muse’, as clinician, teacher, researcher internationally recognised model 2005, and was looking forward called ‘Lateran Sophocles’ (now The company Ludwig founded the British Academy. and a much-exploited emblem and geneticist. for service provision. to working with the ISS Research in the Vatican Museum), itself became one of the components In London, the Monds lived at of feminine literary cultivation In 1959, when the number The Unit had an integrated & Learning Liaison team on a a Roman-period marble copy of ICI, brought into being by The Poplars, a palatial mansion – worked very nicely for Frida. of human chromosomes was approach to medical genetics, permanent basis when she fell ill of a fourth century BC Greek his son Alfred Mond, first Baron in St John’s Wood; but from the shown to be 46, with an extra recognising the importance both earlier this year. bronze original. It was sculpted by Melchett, in 1926. Their hard- late 1880s onwards they began Why King’s? chromosome present in Klinefelter of fundamental research and of She had been shortlisted for the Constantin Dausch (1841-1908), won success established the to spend winters in Italy. Their But why, finally, did Frida choose and Down syndromes, Polani NHS support for new service permanent position representing a German who like Seeboeck had family socially and financially, base was the Palazzo Zuccari, King’s? The answer is that she demonstrated that Turner applications in laboratory and the School and was looking forward a studio in the artists’ quarter in enabling them to become near the top of the Spanish Steps. didn’t. The credit belongs to her syndrome females lacked a clinical genetics. to engaging the staff and students Rome, near the Spanish Steps, generous and imaginative patrons Here the Monds gathered a circle executors, her sons Alfred and chromosome, and also that it He was an inspirational leader. in a number of initiatives. something over a century ago. of science and the arts. of scientists, writers and artists, Robert. But they in turn were was possible for individuals to be While continuing his own work, Her gentle, caring nature and both eminent and struggling, one acting under advice from another ‘mosaics’, with two differing sets of he directed that of colleagues conscientious, no nonsense The Monds Patronage of whom was the then twenty- of Frida’s one-time protégés, aul Polani, the first chromosomes. with lively interest and discussion, attitude to her work will be missed. Both Sappho and Sophocles The bequest to King’s is a small something Ferdinand Seeboeck, Professor Sir Israel Gollancz, Prince Philip Professor of He followed this by showing that and kept up a constant stream Even though she had only been arrived at the Strand in 1923, as part of a much larger story of whom they had helped to who by 1923 was Secretary of the PPaediatric Research and a chromosome translocations, often of writing and lecturing, in at King’s a short time she had part of a larger bequest from the patronage and benefaction which establish in Rome. British Academy and Professor of Fellow of King’s College since 1998, familial, could also cause Down many different fields, to the end forged many relationships and estate of Frida Mond (c1847-1923). also embraces the Institution of It was in Rome, therefore, that English at King’s. died on 18 February 2006. syndrome. He was elected a Fellow of his life. endeared herself to staff across She and her husband, industrial Mechanical Engineers’ Ludwig the Monds must have acquired It was he who saw, with a flash He qualified as a doctor in Italy of the Royal Society in 1973, largely He will be much missed by the College. chemist Ludwig Mond (1839- Mond Prize, the Mond Bequest both statues. Sappho was a direct of inspiration, that the statues but was unable to work there for this work. all who had the good fortune to A tree will be planted in her 1909), provide the link with of Old Master paintings to the commission but we don’t know would look equally fine at King’s. when the fascists came to power, Many years of intensely know him. memory in the garden at the Rome, Dausch and Seeboeck. National Gallery, and how long she and Sophocles spent So what we should celebrate and moved to England in 1939. productive work on chromosome Maughan Library. The Monds married in the Shakespeare and in the Palazzo Zuccari before is the combination of Frida’s and He served as a ship’s surgeon disorders, pregnancy wastage, Professor Ellen Solomon, Research Cassel, Germany, in 1866 but Warton Lectures at being moved to London. Ludwig’s taste, the generosity of during World War II, before and genetic or developmental Dean & Head of Division of Genetics Gary Horrocks, ISS Research & almost immediately moved to Correspondence bearing on Frida’s executors, and the benign becoming Resident Medical abnormalities followed. Polani’s & Development Learning Liaison Manager Bust of Frida Mond, now England in pursuit of Ludwig’s in the Department of the bequest to King’s makes it opportunism of Sir Israel. scientific and business career. Management at King’s. clear that they had been in the Michael Trapp
12 | COMMENT | May 2006 May 2006 | COMMENT | 13 News News
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Pa PhOtOs/Pa/emPiCs product which enables users to view ing’s institUte Of do for you? hat dOes the COLLege’s the student record database via the gerontology, in collaboration web portal, myKCL, have internet,’ explains Brian salter, Kwith Keele University, held an ad yOU POsed the ‘i’m looking forward to university Wto off er? academic Registrar. international workshop at the Royal above question of lower lectures now.’ the portal has gone from the Registry and management society as part of the economic & hsixth-form students from even the unconverted were strength to strength since its launch information systems teams are social Research Council’s social Cardinal vaughan memorial moved to generosity, one in December 2003 off ering students, continuously developing myKCL’s science Week. school, West London before remarking: ‘all very interesting, academics and administrative functionality and there are plans to speakers from the UK, france they had attended a talk by despite not agreeing with many staff access to a wide range open it up to potential applicants and and finland presented on how dr Robert mills of King’s things said…’ of information and services. it alumni. Regular users will have seen baby boomers, the group of people department of english, you may Widening Participation Co- provides a level of transparency numerous new functions in recent born immediately after World well have received a dusty answer. ordinator debbie andrews, who not seen before, the ability to view months, the latest being an online War ii epitomised by the likes of however, asked after his organised the event, comments records in relation to the individual module selection system. this has The Rolling Stones, are aff ecting explanation and guided work on on the high degree of student student, programme and module been developed in consultation with population patterns across europe. extracts from Turn of the Screw, engagement dr mills commanded and is a mode of communication staff to off er a unifi ed selection the event was attended by a-level students mark and Rebecca during his talk: ‘i believe getting accessible from any web-enabled PC system College wide. students can if you’ve not used the system area contact the academic Registrar. representatives from central told Widening Participation student school students to work like this via the King’s home page. now elect and view their module recently why not take a look? If you Contact the sits/myKCL project government, non-governmental ambassadors: ‘i really enjoyed is much more useful on all kinds ‘Universities are expected to take selections, while academics and haven’t used myKCL contact your manager Ruth Cawthorne at organisations, business and The Rolling Stones looking at how psychoanalytic of levels than allowing them to be full advantage of web-based administrators can interactively view School offi ce to obtain access rights. mykcl-feedback@kcl.ac.uk with any academia. the aim was to bring the relationship between younger theory can fi t into literature,’ and passive visitors to the university.’ technologies and King’s is ahead of and manage these selections. if you are in a central administrative feedback. social science research to a and older generations. wider audience and examine the simon Biggs, director of the implications on a number of fronts. institute of gerontology, comments: Alumni Weekend 2006 Students assist psychiatrists Australian Studies symposium Perceptions of boomers varied ‘the workshop was a great CamiLLa saUndeRs widely: from a demographic time success, not only in highlighting he aLUmni OffiCe has n 25 maRCh siXth-fORm n 19 aPRiL a symPOsiUm discussion. speakers highlighted bomb to a social and business the importance of social research unveiled its plans for alumni students from south on the Future of Westminster both the enduring nature of opportunity. discussion centred on to issues of the day, but also in tWeekend 2006 – the most OLondon schools assisted OTraditions organised by the Westminster system and the eff ects of population ageing on exploring the diversity of values exciting event of the alumni leading scientists at the institute the menzies Centre for australian diff erences in its evolution in topics such as, pensions, product and attitudes towards a generation calendar. taking place from of Psychiatry (ioP), with tests to studies was held at australia australia, Canada, ireland, new design, changing attitudes to old that ‘hoped to die before it grew 9-11 June, the weekend promises assess possible treatment for house. the Principal welcomed zealand and the UK. age, balancing work with other old’ and are now reaching later life an enjoyable programme of Alzheimer’s disease using fruit fl ies. guests, including frances adamson, the deputy high Commissioner demands on life, and the eff ects on themselves.’ debate, lectures, entertainment the students were taking part deputy high Commissioner for chaired the closing session and said and attractions for former staff in the third annual alzheimer’s australia, for lunch and lively the event had been very successful. and students. disease Research Open day King’s will be welcoming back organised by the ioP and Annual Fund alumni from all colleges and alzheimer’s Research trust in this students carry out tests using fruit flies to Foxy visitor to Guy’s Campus assess possible treatment for alzheimer’s. disciplines and their families the hundredth year since alois Kate KiRWan the development and alumni the student community last and friends too. Last year more Alzheimer fi rst presented his to see examples of the latest Offi ce welcomed over 220 guests year, including new computer than 800 guests attended but with scientifi c fi ndings identifying the research in laboratories, brain on 13 march for the annual equipment for the student an impressive programme of disease and its symptoms. scanning and carers studies by Principal’s concert and reception newspaper ROAR and teaching activities on and off campus, the interested south Londoners scientists working hard to reduce in the great hall at the strand. aids for the dental institute. hope is that this year’s turnout will joined members of the local the impact of this disease. this event enabled the Principal talented musicians from the be even higher. family-oriented touch to what Women’s institute, southwark ‘as many as 700,000 people in to express his gratitude, on department of music entertained highlights include a live promises to be a stimulating and Carers and alzheimer’s’ charities the UK now suff er from diff erent behalf of the College, for the the audience to much acclaim with broadcast of Radio 4’s Any fun-fi lled weekend. to attend this event and learn more forms of dementia and it costs the commitment and generosity pieces ranging from schubert to Questions? from the greenwood All staff are invited to attend and about ongoing work into the causes economy around £14 billion a year shown by alumni, staff and friends Charlie Parker. theatre and a black-tie ball at the encouraged to participate in any or of alzheimer’s, possible cures and – as much as treatment costs for to the annual fund. the concert was followed by Waldorf hotel. strawberries and all of the events. the eff ects on suff erers and carers. heart disease, cancer and strokes Professor trainor also took a reception which gave donors cream by the river and amphibious for more information or a copy Commenting on the day’s events, combined. so ongoing research this young vixen was seen in the middle of the day enjoying the spring sunshine and examining the opportunity to highlight some the chance to meet students who ‘duck tours’ from the strand of the programme please contact Professor simon Lovestone, Old is crucial and funding remains an the evelina Children’s memorial. ‘foxes are often seen on campus here at night or early of the projects supported within have benefi ted from the Fund. Campus to events and exhibitions Rosie Roberts on ext 4430 or age Psychiatry, says: ‘the day was essential component to ensure this morning but to see one at noon next to a busy pathway is unusual,’ comments Kate Kirwan, Manager, Photography and Digital Imaging Unit, who caught the visitor on fi lm. at the imperial War museum, add a alumoff [email protected] an opportunity for our 150 visitors work continues.’
14 | COMMENT | Junemay 2006 2005 may 2006 | COMMENT | 15 News Research
New prospectus Medieval Latin comedy Vitamins and pregnancy X-ray optics get smart
naResh veRLandeR eseaRCh fROm King’s has King’s department of Physics is time, to realise and capitalise more than 15,500 copies sent to found that taking vitamin part of a consortium which has upon this potential. schools and colleges worldwide. Rsupplements C and e during been awarded a £3.1 million grant Professor alan michette is there have been a number of pregnancy does not guard against to develop advanced x-ray optics leading the team at King’s, which improvements including a new pre-eclampsia and may in fact be capable of approaching the includes dr graeme morrison, design with clearer headings, harmful in high doses. fundamental physical limit. dr Keith Powell and dr slawka a new section Introducing Professor Lucilla Poston, and the four-year research Pfauntsch. King’s, expanded campus and her team from the division of programme, smart X-Ray Professor michette says: international students’ pages and Reproductive health, studied Optics, has been funded by the ‘We’re delighted to be part of this a striking cover showing the view 2,400 pregnant women, who were UK Research Councils’ Basic consortium. an enhanced ability from tutu’s. considered to be at risk of pre- technology scheme and involves to manipulate and focus x-ray the prospectus was designed eclampsia, from 25 UK hospitals. Pre-eclampsia aff ects two to the collaboration of eight research beams will open the door to many by esterson associates. the Aulularia cast (from left): Martin Booth, Marigold Wace, Jenny Walsh, Richard Cassidy, Benjamin they found that the incidence three per cent of all pregnancies, departments across the UK. areas of research and application, Wild, Michael Clasby, Anne Robbins, Margaret Coombe, Stuart Morgan and Dr Jacqueline Glomski. Staff can order boxes of the of pre-eclampsia hardly diff ered and in the worst cases causes fi ts, X-rays were discovered, from studies of the causes of prospectus online by visiting ReCentLy Revived vitalis of Blois, was staged in the between the group given high doses strokes, kidney or liver damage and by chance, 110 years ago, and cancer and its treatment, to the www.kcl.ac.uk/staff /prosporders. Latin play was performed Chapel, strand Campus on 24 of vitamins C and e every day, and even death. mothers who develop were very quickly put to use investigation of new materials and html. Copies are also available at a by ma and Phd students march. a second group taking placebos. the condition tend to have too but their full capabilities remain biological specimens in vivo, as he neW UndeRgRadUate receptions. Please email from the advanced Latin course Aulularia follows a classical plot, however, the risk of an underweight many free radicals in their blood unexplored. This project off ers well as astronomical observations Prospectus for entry 2007 [email protected] with in the department of history. while at the same time satirising birth was four per cent higher in the and placenta. the research was the chance, probably for the fi rst of the deep universe.’ thas been published and any feedback. Aulularia (The Pot of Gold) by the medieval philosophical schools. group taking the supplements. published in The Lancet.
Law conference open 24 hours a day, seven days a formed the south Bank Cultural Women and serial killers News in brief On 10 march King’s Centre of week around the examination Quarter consortium. in march the Pollution team commended european Law held its annual one- period this year: maughan Library consortium won a £1.8 million emPiCs/aP day conference. the event provided (24 april to 2 June) and new treasury grant for a project which ROfessOR BRian hURWitz, PaneL fROm the heaLth which the entry of the oldest and Fairtrade status academics, practitioners and civil hunt’s house (24 april to 16 July). aims to give every young person d’Oyly Carte Professor Eff ects Institute (HEI) in the most polluting vehicles is restricted. servants with a review of recent In addition, from 31 May staff (about 80,000) in the boroughs of Pof medicine and the arts, aUsa visited King’s to review Both studies are funded by the King’s has been awarded fairtrade developments in european and students will be able to Lambeth and southwark the together with writer, broadcaster, two studies led by Professor frank HEI, an independent, non-profi t University status after achieving lawmaking. the keynote address borrow books from the institute opportunity to experience and take and fi lm-maker, Carole Hayman, Kelly, director of the environmental organisation which provides high fi ve goals: forming a committee to was given by advocate general of Psychiatry’s library. two PaWs part in cultural activities over the has been awarded an arts/science Research group (eRg). quality, impartial science about the oversee the process, stocking a Luís miguel Poiares maduro, machines will also be installed next three years. fellowship from the arts & Staff in ERG, Lung Biology health eff ects of air pollution. selection of fairtrade products, european Court of Justice. there this summer. humanities Research Council for and Pharmaceutical sciences, following the review, dr serving fairtrade products during Childcare vouchers a project entitled Women & Serial are examining the air quality Jane Warren, hei’s director of meetings, the creation of a Chris Smith lecture Research Integrity Killers – A Video Installation. and health benefi ts of eff orts to Science, praised the eff orts and fairtrade policy, and raising the King’s is off ering a new childcare the project will investigate decrease traffi c in London. One professionalism of the King’s profi le of Fairtrade on campus. Chris smith, former secretary of Professor sir ian Kennedy, former voucher scheme enabling staff women’s direct or indirect study is comparing air pollutant team and their collaborators at state for Culture, media & sport, head of King’s school of Law, to make savings on the cost of involvement in serial killing through concentrations and particle toxicity st george’s and the London school Chinese delegation and now the Rt hon Lord smith of and an expert on medical ethics their childcare. a series of in-depth interviews. a Rosemary West before and after the introduction of of hygiene & tropical medicine. finsbury, delivered the humanities and health policy, has been the scheme works by video installation will be created these people will be recorded the congestion charging scheme. Professor Kelly thanked the hei the largest and most senior prison Research Centre’s Joint Lecture appointed as Chairman of the new employees sacrifi cing some of that will explore the responses and on video discussing issues such another study is assessing the for their foresight and generosity in delegation to leave China and come 2006 Culture & Politics on 20 march UK Panel for Research integrity. their gross income for childcare reactions of people close to such as: the basis of their association impact of designating greater supporting this work with funding of to the West, comprising provincial at the strand. Lord smith explored the panel will tackle medical credit (vouchers) with imagine serial killers. (accessory, partner, mother, London as a Low emission zone in $800,000 over the last 18 months. prison chiefs and prison governors, the relationship between politics research malpractice. Co-operative Childcare. as this Carole hayman, who is perhaps friend, family of victim, legal visited King’s in march. the trip and culture through the ages. sacrifi ce is from gross income best known for her Radio 4 hit representative, other professionals was part of a study tour and £1.8m for culture individuals pay less income tax and series Ladies of Letters, explains: involved in the cases); their insights training programme organised Flexible facilities national insurance contributions. ‘the aim is to meet the public’s and misgivings, gains and losses by the British Council and King’s Last year King’s and other cultural for further information visit interest in women’s association with from surrogate fame, infamy, international Centre for Prison two of the College’s information organisations such as the tate www.kcl.ac.uk/about/structure/ such killings by talking to people, saleable story; and how friends and studies. services Centres and libraries are modern and the south Bank Centre, admin/pertra/childcare.html who wittingly or unwittingly, have relatives have reacted to knowledge become involved. ’ of their association.
16 | COMMENT | Junemay 2006 2005 Junemay 20062005 | COMMENT | 17 In the news Student news
Palliative care ETA ceasefire All in the mind Civil war? Online election three hospitals (Guy’s, King’s Student shines at International Awards College and St Thomas’) against Irene Higginson, Professor of The ceasefire called by the It is more than 30 years since The dispute over whether Iraq ore than 1,900 students those of the rest of the College. The Palliative Care, was featured in a Basque separatist group ETA LSD was banned for clinical use is in the grip of a civil war has voted in KCLSU’s recent final score was 18-9 to the Guy’s, Joanne Li Shen Ooi, a King’s BBC2 programme on palliative care. was the subject of interviews for but there is a resurgence in the surfaced again. Sir Lawrence Melections – almost 10 per King’s College and St Thomas’ teams. second-year medical student from A study by the programme revealed Dr Peter Neumann, Director of the study of psychedelia. Guests, Freedman, Professor of War cent above the average reported in Malaysia, has been named winner that cancer patients get better Centre for Defence Studies, on including Dr John Marsden, Senior Studies and Vice-Principal this year’s Association of Managers UoL prizes of the London region and one of care than those dying of heart CNN International and CNN Lecturer in Addiction Studies (Research), examined the in Students’ Unions survey. only 12 finalists in the British disease. A feature in The Times Europe. He also appeared on at the Institute of Psychiatry, historical precedents and why ‘This was the first time the Council’s International Student preceded the broadcast. Professor BBC News 24 discussing the Iraq discussed research into these the argument matters so much in election was conducted online hD student Nils Kurbis ‘Shine’ Awards 2006. These Higginson was also interviewed by War three years on. He was also substances on Radio 4 and the an essay on BBC News Online. and under the new system of was awarded the Jacobsen awards recognise international the BBC World Service about interviewed on BBC4 about the controversy surrounding their governance,’ comments Matt Pusey, PEssay Prize in Philosophy for students who are truly making the palliative care around the world. US offensive in Iraq. potential use. Divestment KCLSU President. ‘We are thrilled his essay Negation: A Problem for most of their time in the UK. More that everything went so smoothly.’ the Proof-Theoretic Justification of than 2,000 students from 125 Music maestro Reading Byron Omega-3 Professor Efraim Karsh and Four full-time sabbatical officers/ Deduction. This annual £500 prize countries entered this year. Dr Rory Miller of the Department trustees and four student trustees is open to all University of London Joanne was presented with a Joanne Li Shen Ooi meets Prime Minister John Deathridge, King Edward A day conference, Reading Byron, by Following the latest Omega-3 of Mediterranean Studies wrote an were elected. All positions take students and staff. trophy, a certificate and £2,000 by Tony Blair at a high-profile reception at Professor of Music, reviewed Dr Christine Kenyon Jones, Research study which found that it may not article in The New Republic on the office on 1 August. Congratulations also to Daniel Mishal Husain of BBC Breakfast 10 Downing Street. Daniel Barenboim’s Reith Fellow in the Department of English, have the beneficial properties it divestment campaign against Israel Owen Thomas (BA History, 2005) News at a prestigious prize-giving named as a finalist,’ says Joanne. Lectures with Anne Karpf, and and the Byron Society, was reported was once thought, Tom Sanders, in the UK. Professor Karsh was also President: Daryn McCombe who has won the highly competitive ceremony at BAFTA at the end of ‘I am thoroughly enjoying my time Melvyn Bragg’s latest book for in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. Professor of Nutrition & Dietetics, interviewed by UPI on Iran’s nuclear VP Communications: Ed Drummond Derby-Bryce prize in History for April. The Rt Hon Lord Kinnock, in London at King’s and plan to Night Waves on Radio 3. He also was interviewed on BBC Radio News. capability while Dr Miller gave an VP Participation & Development: achieving the best History first in Chair of the British Council, hosted continue taking advantage of all discussed the comic roles in opera Role of women He said a much bigger study was interview on Hamas to the Koydo Adam Farley the University of London in 2005. the ceremony. the fantastic opportunities on for women with Dame Felicity needed but there was good evidence News Agency. VP Representation: Jo Williams ‘I am thrilled and honoured to be offer to me.’ Lott on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. A Prospect magazine article by that large amounts of oily fish do Trustees: Matt Pusey, Seph Gillin, Mooting success Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths have an anti-inflammatory effect. School of Illumination Nicholas Jones, Rajesh ‘Josh’ Joshi Drugs trials Professor of Public Sector He was also interviewed by ABC in the world – Sophie Weber was Hamed Fathinejad also won Management, argued that a new radio in Australia. Dr Peter Adamson, an expert on Macadam Cup fter winning the UK placed fourth and Wesley Pang 34th the best oralist of the day and Professor Ragnar Lofstedt, breed of elite women has ancient and medieval philosophy rounds of the Jessup (out of 1500 oralists). Overall the the team achieved the highest Director of the King’s Centre for emerged as part of a bifurcation of Global terrorism in the Department of Philosophy, N a r esh AInternational Law Mooting team came 36th in this, the world’s mark in Europe for their written Risk Management, discussed the the female labour market and is appeared on Radio 3’s School of V e rl ande r Competition a triumphant largest mooting competition. submissions. recent drugs trials at Northwick fundamentally changing society. Michael Clarke, Professor Illumination programme discussing King’s team of five law students Another King’s team – Steven Success in the regional round in Park Hospital in a column for The She also discussed the role of of Defence Studies, was the history of philosophy in Islam. participated in the world rounds in Katevatis, Hamed Fathinejad and Lithuania ensured their place in the Independent. He says the hospital women in a phone-in on Victoria interviewed on Sky News about Washington last month. Emmanuel Saurat – achieved finals in Geneva where they argued could have started by saying they Derbyshire’s programme on Al-Qaeda and the threat of GM crops Each of the 101 teams submitted success by winning the national on behalf of the UK. The team took were sorry for what happened. Radio Five Live. This story was global terror. He also discussed two 12,000-word memorials. King’s round of the prestigious ELSA World third place in the world and Hamed reported in The Observer, Daily the prosecution of the London Dr Michael Antoniou, Reader of was ranked 12th. Additionally, two Trade Law International Moot Fathinejad was crowned Best Spotless minds Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times bombers on BBC Radio News. Medical & Molecular Genetics, took King’s oralists finished in the top 100 Court Competition. Oralist in the preliminary rounds. and Personnel Today. part in a BBC World Service GM food Professor Paul Salkovskis of the Witch child discussion following an accusation Halls do battle on the football pitch Institute of Psychiatry discussed Gulf War Syndrome by Friends of the Earth that the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A BBC2 documentary followed European Commission licensed GM chris sharpe in an article in The Independent. The final judgement on Gulf War Dr Richard Hoskins, Visiting Senior crops that had not been tested One staff and ten student teams He was also quoted in the Daily Syndrome, dismissing it as a Research Fellow in the Sociology properly. competed for the crown of Inter- Express about David Beckham’s recognisable disease, was delivered of Religion in the Department of Residence five-a-side football repetitive behaviour. by scientists from the Royal Theology & Religious Studies, as round 250 students in champions at the Ferndale Sports Society. Simon Wessely, Director of he investigated the increase of a eight teams representing Centre, Brixton. Most halls were White teeth the King’s Centre for Military Health recent disturbing crime in which See www.kcl.ac.uk/headlines for Afive different sports battled represented and in an exciting Research, and co-editor of the young African children in the UK are the latest media coverage or any it out at the College’s Berrylands final5-Alive from Great Dover An Evening Standard article about journal documenting these research being abused, and even murdered, of the Campus noticeboards. sportsground, New Malden for the Street Apartments triumphed tooth-whitening treatments quotes findings, said there was little value by parents and relatives in the Comment is keen to know of any Macadam Cup. 3-2 over Maynard Boyz from Dr David Bartlett, Reader in in conducting further research into belief that they are possessed by staff featured in the media, call The Macadam Cup is a Hampstead Campus. 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