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Issue 231 • 24 March 2011 Reportersharing Stories of Imperial’S Community News Makers Issue 231 • 24 March 2011 reporterSharing stories of Imperial’s community News makers Felix Editor Kadhim Shubber on the award-winning newspaper and the 135 students who make it happen > Centre pages plastic steering science from electronics engineering scratch Imperial ranked Professor Why does a in top three Jeff Magee rainforest have for materials on becoming greater capacity science Faculty Principal than a desert? PAGE 3 PAGE 10 PAGE 11 2 >> newsupdate www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter | reporter | 24 March 2011 • Issue 231 Duke of York witnesses healthcare innovations editor’s C orner His Royal Highness The Duke of industry, commerce and health- York (pictured far right) visited care has been central to its mis- Imperial on 2 March to learn about sion since its foundation in 1907. The Duke of York with Lord Ara Darzi and Professor Guang- Big picture the College’s pioneering health- Speaking at the end of his Zhong Yang in the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery. care innovations in the UK and tour, the Duke said: “Imperial has internationally. He heard about gripped the problem of being able natural disasters are the College’s international partner- to deliver its output internationally for International Trade and Investment, that emotive subjects. Since ships, visited early-stage compa- in a way that many other universi- what you do is utterly brilliant.” the massive earthquake nies in the Imperial Incubator and ties have not been able to achieve. The Duke was also given a tour of the shook Japan on 11 March, learnt about developing robotic It’s not just about education, it’s Incubator which houses 17 early-stage technol- the frightening scenes of technologies to enhance surgery. about allowing people to innovate, ogy companies spun out of the College. Each devastation in the news Welcoming the Duke of and to expand their minds to do receives support from Imperial Innovations, the have led to outpourings York, Rector Sir Keith O’Nions, the things that I’ve seen going on company that commercialises technologies and of sympathy at the tragic explained that the univer- here. I would just like to say, as discoveries emanating from the College. loss of life and admiration sity’s application of its work to the UK’s Special Representative —simon Watts, CommUniCations and dEvElopmEnt for the emergency workers who are offering practical support in the face of such adversity. Searching for a better understanding imperial College Union of the forces behind the catastrophe, as well as refurbishment their repercussions, I, like many, have been hooked the Rector and senior staff on the internet, reading joined trustees and members a combination of formal of the Council and Executive and informal reports. And, of imperial College Union from the other side of the (iCU) on 8 march to celebrate Expand your media machine, a number the completion of the latest of Imperial academics are phase of work to refurbish horizons offering the public insight the Union building. into everything from the The Department of Humanities structure of buildings The transformation of the in Tokyo to the human Union’s main facilities in is offering summer evening impact of radiation on Beit Quad on the South classes in languages including FiveSixEight bar, named after the number of the Japanese population. Kensington Campus began in millilitres in a pint. The bar has a concrete Japanese, Arabic, During a time of intense 2008. The work has resulted façade, and has been designed so that HD Russian, Mandarin uncertainty the opinions in more space for student TV can be projected on to it. Chinese and English of experts here are playing club and society activities, conversation for ­­ a valuable role in helping and refurbished gym facilities to provide clarity about a on the third floor. The area the Union enhance the student non-native speakers. situation on the other side previously used by the Stu- experience at Imperial. Short arts courses in of the world. Our thoughts dent Activities Centre in the Describing the impact the refur- Creative Writing and are with all those who have east basement has been con- bishment has had on the work Music Technology are also family and friends in Japan. verted into meeting rooms of Imperial College Union, Alex offered. Enrolment starts Emily Ross, EditoR and club storage space. And Kendall, ICU President, said: “The 28 March 2011. in the refurbishment’s most Union has, after several years, Reporter is published every three weeks during term time recent phase, which began finally got to a stage where we can in print and online.The next in March 2010, the nightclub put ongoing refurbishments aside Visit: www.imperial. publication day is 14 April. and bar were renovated and and see what else needs to be done ac.uk/humanities/ Contact Emily Ross: renamed Metric and FiveSix­ to improve the services we offer. As [email protected] eveningclasses Eight respectively. for the refurbishments, the changes Cover image: Kadhim shubber The cost of the final to the Student Activity Centre were by Felix photographer miles phase of development was hugely important; Imperial has the Robertson, an undergraduate in £2.6 million, two-thirds highest participation in clubs and the department of mechanical Engineering. funded by Imperial College societies in the UK and we need to Union and a third by a gift provide the best facilities for stu- from the College to help dents to run their clubs.” 3 www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter | reporter | 24 March 2011 • Issue 231 >> newsupdate Imperial ranked in world top imperial College three for materials science Lectureships imperial is one of the the search for the brightest top three institutions in talent to the imperial College the world for materials lectureships scheme is nearing science research, completion, following a recruit- according to a global ment drive launched in novem- review of the most ber 2010. the scheme, which prominent researchers seeks to appoint a significant in the field. number of non-clinical lecturers The Lectureships will provide teaching across the faculties, and assis- and research opportunities for early- career academics. The review lists the tant professors to the Business 100 researchers, and school, attracted more than their institutions, who 750 applications of outstanding where the Faculty is going in achieved the highest international quality. Following future it depends on the staff A flexible plastic LED device, which could be used to provide citation impact scores energy-efficient, low-cost lighting in computer displays. the interview process, offers we recruit today.” for research papers have been made for positions Professor Michele Dougherty published since January across all faculties, and the (Physics) was appointed under 2000. Scientists from Imperial’s scientists are for Plastic Electronics, College hopes the new lecturers the parent scheme of the new the Centre for Plastic working across physics, Professor Donal Bradley will be in post by Imperial College Electronics at Imperial chemistry and materials (Physics). autumn 2011. “at imperial we’re Lectureships in are the first, second, science on areas includ- “I would like to investing in the 1999. Today she fourth and sixth most ing realistic solutions for congratulate our four col- Rector Sir Keith brightest and best is the Principal prominent materials solar power generation, leagues whose research O’Nions chaired to gain long term Investigator for an scientists in the UK, new low-energy com- has been celebrated in the panel that rewards” international team according to the scale. puter displays, solid- this influential listing,” made the final working on the Cas- The list has been state lighting, pervasive said Professor Maggie decisions. Speak- sini spacecraft’s compiled by publishing electronics, imaging Dallman, Principal of ing about the rationale behind magnetometer, currently orbiting giant Thomson Reuters and sensing arrays, and the Faculty of Natural the scheme, Sir Keith said: Saturn. Speaking of her experi- in celebration of the photonics. Sciences, which hosts “These may be uncertain times ences on the scheme as a boost 2011 International Year The four staff the Centre along with for universities on the whole, earlier in her career, she said: of Chemistry and was members ranked by partners in the Faculty but at Imperial we’re invest- “Besides having the peace of reported in Times Thomson-Reuters were, of Engineering. “Plastic ing in the brightest and best at mind, I found having the security Higher Education on in list order: Professor electronics and materials this ‘counter-cyclical’ point to of the lectureship was a huge 24 February 2010. Jenny Nelson (Physics); science are areas where gain long term rewards.” help in attracting funds for my Plastic electron- Professor Iain McCulloch Imperial truly excels, and Professor Jeff Magee, research work.” ics is a rapidly growing (Chemistry); Co-director this is an outstanding Principal of the Faculty of Teaching remains an field of research with of the Centre for Plastic recognition of some of Engineering, was highly important part of her role: “It the potential to bring Electronics, Professor our interdisciplinary and impressed with the quality accounts for about a third of my significant develop- James Durrant (Chemis- cross-faculty science.” of applications: “We have an activities, and I still very much ments in energy, environ- try); along with the other —simon LevEy, CommUniCations astounding set of really excel- enjoy it. Fundamentally I think
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