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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTSUSTAINABLE BUILDING – the for FUTURE Medical School, Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, St Mary’S Hospital Medical School and Wye College IMPERIAL Issue 21 Summer 2002 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE FORMER POP STAR MAKING MUSIC IN THE CITY BO’S VOYAGE PLUS IMPERIAL NEWS FROM NEAR AND FAR matters Alumni magazine of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and the former Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Royal Post-graduate Medical School, St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and Wye College. Issue 21 Summer 2002 In this issue ... Regular features 1 Rector's introduction 2 Editorial by Rod Rhys Jones 37 Letters News 3 New appointments 4 News from Imperial 8 Alumni and development news The DNA helix, part of a display 10 News from the faculties depicting the history of medicine 27 Student news_students have a ball at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, is a critical structure 28 International news in the emerging field of tissue engineering and regenerative 32 Association news medicine. Read about the story behind Professor Julia Polak’s research on page 16. Alumni Focus 26 Reunions_alumni meet up 35 Catch up Features 12 Soul boy makes money market sing 14 The changing face of energy 16 21st century medicine_ spotlight on tissue engineering 18 Sustainable development 20 Portillo and the politics of music 22 Spotlight on enterprise 24 A Challenging final IMPERIALmatters DESIGNED AND PRODUCED FOR THE OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT BY IMPERIAL COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS ADVISORY BOARD LIZ CARR, LYNDA DAVIES, ALISON HILLER, TANYA REED, ROD RHYS JONES PUBLISHER ROD RHYS JONES MANAGING EDITOR ALISON HILLER FEATURES EDITOR TANYA REED ASSISTANT EDITORS PENNY COOMBE, LIZ GREGSON PRINT PROLITHO LTD DISTRIBUTION MERCURY INTERNATIONAL LTD © IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2002. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Rector’s introduction SINCE I LAST WROTE TO YOU, WE HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN A specific problems have been addressed. For instance, by 2005, project to strengthen the Imperial College brand globally. This grants from the research councils will cover the indirect, as well as initiative is embedded in the Strategic Plan, and its success is key the direct, costs of each project they support, meaning that to the College’s future development. A strong brand will help us universities will no longer have to subsidise such research. to gain the recognition we deserve; allow us to continue to recruit The money, provided through the Office of Science and the best students and staff; and stimulate philanthropic and Technology (part of the DTI), and the DfES, will amount to an research funding. Not least, we hope that the branding project extra £1.25 billion a year. This will include a dedicated capital will help to promote internal cohesion and understanding. funding stream for university laboratories worth £500 million a The first phase of the project, involving consultation and year by 2005-06. research amongst our key audiences, has been completed. The Although extra spending won’t immediately solve all the exercise produced a set of brand attributes and recommendations problems, these are solid foundations on which further initiatives for our brand identity which the Executive Committee has will build. It is clear that visits to universities by Treasury officials endorsed. We are now finalising the design of our visual identity to find out how they are run have had a positive effect and led to and planning its implementation and launch in January 2003. a settlement based on facts, not fiction. Imperial has a great opportunity through this project to achieve It is important to realise that to compete internationally, we a profile and a global reputation to match our achievements and need cash injections to start levelling the playing field. We must realise our potential. I am sure you will agree with me that it is pay competitive salaries comparable to other sectors in order to something of which we can be proud. attract and retain the best staff in science. The comprehensive spending review, just announced by the UK One of the first results from the branding research is the name Government, and which will provide a 10 per cent funding increase change of this magazine. As you see, it is now ‘Imperial Matters’, for science over the next three years, is good news. This is not reflecting the importance of our name for our many audiences, of only because of the generous settlement, but also because whom alumni are key. I do hope you enjoy this latest issue. Mission_Imperial College embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering and medicine, with particular regard to their application in industry and healthcare. We will foster interdisciplinary working within the College and collaborate widely externally. IMPERIALMATTERS_SUMMER 2002 1 editorial THE VALUE OF BRINGING IMPERIAL COLLEGE REMAINS UNCHANGED IN THE IMAGINATION TOGETHER RESEARCH IN SCIENCE, of most alumni, caught in the aspic of memory: those lectures attended, tutors visited, clubs joined, bars visited, friends made ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE and the unending pile of course work. Returning after many years IS BEARING FRUIT AFTER MANY I can see much new but much remains the same. Buildings are much the same; the students are dressed as casually as ever they YEARS OF COLLABORATION. were; Hyde Park is as green and as welcoming as I remember; and the Union bar still has its pewter pots in rows behind the bar. We need alumni to invest their time, energy, knowledge and But underneath this apparent changeless exterior, huge changes resources. Alumni in North America take it for granted that their have taken place. And more are to come. alma mater will need their support and most give it willingly. Jeff During the last 10 years the College has doubled in size, and now Auld, a Canadian alumnus, writes about the attitudes of his has one of the largest medical schools in Europe. The Rector, Sir colleagues in a US bank is in his letter on page 37. Loyd Moore, Richard Sykes, has restructured the College into four major faculties: writing from Canada, urges Imperial College to get serious about Engineering; Life Sciences; Medicine and Physical Sciences. The fundraising. It is possible in the UK. Oxford raised £350 million in integrated teaching of management underpins all studies at Imperial, its last fundraising drive, for example. and helps to create a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Many alumni in the UK are not used to being asked to support The value of bringing together research in science, engineering their College. Those of my generation received free state education, and medicine is bearing fruit after many years of collaboration. and many believe that education should be paid for by the state: Perhaps one of the most exciting aspects of my job has been my an educated work force benefits all society. involvement with these new research areas. In biomedicine, The government is pressing universities to educate 50 per cent Professor Dick Kitney’s team are able to visualise a three dimen- of all school leavers whilst reducing funding – 40 per cent per sional image of a patient’s knee to enable doctors to replace worn head in the last decade. This is a key problem for Imperial whilst areas of cartilage. Professor Guang-Zhong Yang is part of the team we try to maintain our international standing. The funding shortfall that has created Da Vinci – a surgical robot. Professor Larry Hench has resulted in buildings, laboratories and libraries in need of has developed substrats onto which cells can be placed to grow refurbishment. All 148 British universities are funded equally for new tissues. It is these technologies and many others that have teaching and basic academic infrastructure – and all of them must inspired Nikko and the Fleming Family and Partners to invest charge the same undergraduate fees of £1,100 a year. around £20 million in some of our spin-out companies. It is a fast Fortunately there are alumni that are helping. Dr Gary Tanaka, moving and exciting environment. (Mathematics PhD 1969) has donated £27 million for the The old constituent college and teaching hospital structure is construction of the new Business School (IC Matters issue 19, passing into history. The new intake of students identify with Spring 2001). The Lee family of Hong Kong – Dr Richard Lee (Chem Imperial College. Eng 1960; PhD 1964); his sons Dr Delman Lee (Electrical and As one miner put it to me: “When someone in the mining Electronic Engineering PhD 1988); and Dr Derek Lee, Royal Society industry asks me where I went to college I would tell him RSM, but Research Fellow in Condensed Matter Theory, Department of if it were some other business person I would say Imperial.” Physics – have donated £2 million to endow a scholarship for I believe that there are three underlying emotions alumni have postgraduate research. This will form the cornerstone of the newly about their university. created Imperial College Scholarship Fund (page 7). Few of our The first is recapturing the emotions of youth associated with alumni are in such a position to give so generously but many are new freedoms, new experiences and new friends, new discoveries using the Imperial College Beneficial Card which has accrued and new knowledge they experienced as students. They relive £100,000 since 1993 to help students in difficulties. A new card those times through meeting old friends, visiting the lecture has recently been launched, see page 8. rooms and bars of memories. A number of organisations have also come forward with The second is reflected pleasure at the success of Imperial. substantial offers of help in the last few months. The Grocers’ The College is quoted daily in news stories connected with our core Company has donated a scholarship for the best engineering business.
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