Feeding Our Curiosity for Food and Nutrition
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Spring 2018 News from the University of Surrey for Guildford residents SURREY.AC.UK UNIVERSITYOFSURREY UNIOFSURREY Page 5 - Staff and student Page 9 - Transforming Page 11 - Sleeping rough Page 13 - Events for local volunteering dementia support for charity residents Guildford Residents’ Survey 2018 The University is calling on residents of Guildford to take part in our fourth annual residents’ survey. Since it launched in 2015, the Guildford Residents’ Survey has provided our University with valuable insight, feedback and ideas to build greater links Professor Max Lu and Professor Susan Lanham-New (inset) receive the Queen’s with our home town. Anniversary Prize from HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall Last year, more than 1,000 local residents took part, with many choosing to enter into the annual prize Feeding our curiosity for draw to win one of five £100 cash prizes. food and nutrition To complete the survey The University of Surrey has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its teaching before it ends on 31 May and research in food and nutrition. 2018, visit: surrey.ac.uk/ guildfordsurvey The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Professor Susan Lanham-New, Head of Higher and Further Education, the most the Department of Nutritional Sciences, prestigious form of national recognition commented: “I am absolutely delighted for any UK academic institution, has been that our institution has been awarded the awarded to the University of Surrey in Queen’s Anniversary Prize. recognition of its sustained excellence in the field of food and nutrition. “Nutrition is an important component of all our lives and the significance This honour is awarded every two years, of a well-balanced diet should never with the endorsement of Her Majesty be underestimated. In recent years The Queen, in acknowledgement of our researchers have identified the world-leading research and teaching by devastating long-term effects of educational institutions. The award was inadequate dietary intake to our bodies, announced at a ceremony at St James’s but have also helped prove the positive Palace in London in November. effects of good nutrition, in particular the The judging panel described the work protective role it can play in reducing the undertaken in nutritional sciences at the risk of age-related disease outcomes.” University of Surrey as exemplary. The University’s food sciences courses are This is the fourth time the University of ranked number one in the UK by both Surrey has been awarded the Queen’s The Times and The Sunday Times Good Anniversary Prize. Surrey was previously University Guide 2018 and the Complete recognised for its work in engineering for University Guide 2018, reflecting the space industry, the development of ion beams, and improving access to safe Students relaxing in Guildford outstanding teaching and an excellent Castle’s grounds student experience. drinking water and sanitation. 2 YOUR UNIVERSITY Welcome The best of Instagram On our official Instagram account we frequently share beautiful images of Guildford and our campus taken by our students and staff. Follow @uniofsurrey on Instagram to see more. 1. Welcome from Helen Bowcock OBE It is an honour to be invited to be guest editor for this edition of Your University. My association with the University of Surrey first began some years ago when I attended courses on social research methods as an external PhD student. However, my relationship with the University didn’t end there. Some years later, following my term as High Sheriff of Surrey, I served on the University’s Council and I am currently a member of the University’s Advancement Committee and a working group overseeing research on social mobility. In this edition of Your University you as listed in the ‘What’s on’ section on will be given new insights into the page 13, including performances by the many ways in which the University of phenomenal Guildford School of Acting. 2. 3. Surrey has an impact at local, national On page 10 you can also meet Surrey’s and international levels. I have chosen ‘queen of arts’, the remarkable Patricia to draw attention to some impressive Grayburn MBE DL, who this year will examples of volunteering and local have worked as Arts Administrator for engagement, to the University’s the University for 35 years. She selects innovation in the arts, and to ground- her favourite sculptures on campus and breaking research here on our doorstep. we are all invited to enjoy the public With a particular interest in philanthropy, art on display thanks to the open it seems to me that many different campus policy. opportunities are offered to donors to achieve impact through supporting Moving from the local to the global our local university, some of which stage, the number of references to are evident in this edition, as is the leading research on pages 8 and 9 is University’s role as an anchor institution striking. They include a new discovery in Surrey. that could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer and an award for On page 5 you can read about the innovation in dementia care. Surrey has 4. combined efforts of staff and students also won a grant from the British Heart to support a range of local causes, Foundation to explore how stem with an invitation to any local charity or cells could heal damage caused by community group to apply for volunteer heart attacks. help. Additionally, on page 11 you can 1. Surrey alumni read about how on a freezing cold The University of Surrey has a deep and 2. Jack Jordan night in March a group of students slept growing commitment to working with 3. Tom Watson 4. Timothy Schwarz rough on the University’s piazza to its local community to deliver social, 5. Linford Miles raise funds for the local YMCA. Having economic and environmental value. I been persuaded to do this same sleep hope you enjoy reading about the many out several years ago, I have some ways in which they achieve this, in this appreciation of just how uncomfortable spring edition. this experience really is. For further information on how the There are some very good examples University is working in partnership with in this edition of how the University is a its home town, please visit surrey.ac.uk/ hub of art and culture and is renowned in-the-community, follow for its outstanding music and performing @UniofSurreyCPE on Twitter or arts. There are increasing opportunities email our Public Engagement team: for local residents to attend events, [email protected] 5. SURREY.AC.UK 3 Community news World’s first quantum biology training centre comes to Guildford Surrey has been awarded £1 million from the prestigious Leverhulme Trust to establish the world’s first doctoral training Centre for Quantum Biology. The Centre will be headed Professor Johnjoe McFadden, by Professors Johnjoe Director of the Centre for McFadden and Jim Al- Quantum Biology at the Khalili, who will train a new University of Surrey, said: generation of scientists “Quantum biology may lead with the skills needed to new approaches to solar to study and exploit the energy, new drugs or new quantum foundations diagnostics, and may even hold of life. the key to building revolutionary Up to seven PhD students quantum computers that could Professor Lord Martin Rees speaks at the 2018 Adams Sweeting Lecture series will be recruited by the far out-perform even the most Centre each year for the advanced computers of today. next three years. They will engage in a three-year “To progress, quantum Astronomer Royal launches prestigious interdisciplinary training biology needs scientists who and research programme, can operate across different Adams Sweeting Lecture series and work on projects disciplines, which is what we from photosynthesis to hope to achieve within our This February, the University welcomed world-renowned cosmologist and nanotechnology. new Centre.” Astronomer Royal, Professor Lord Martin Rees, and Surrey’s Chancellor, The Duke of Kent, to launch an exciting new lecture series. The Adams Sweeting such as biotech, clean Lecture in Frontier Science energy, AI and space, while and Technology is the safeguarding ourselves University’s flagship lecture against the new risks that series, established in they pose.” honour of distinguished Did you know? Surrey alumnus, Professor Sponsored by Investec, Alf Adams – inventor of the the evening was attended Professor Alf Adams strained-layer quantum-well by 400 guests and also was awarded the laser used in DVD players featured a panel discussion 2017 Guildford and barcode scanners – with Lord Rees, Professor Roll of Honour for and Professor Sir Martin Adams, Professor Sir his exceptional Sweeting OBE, the Sweeting and University contributions to founder of Surrey Satellite of Surrey Professor, scientific innovation, Technology Ltd and the Julie Yeomans. technological Surrey Space Centre. Professor Max Lu, President application and University land included in and Vice-Chancellor of the excellence in higher In his speech, ‘Will University of Surrey, said: education. technology save us or submission Local Plan will it be our downfall?’, “We were immensely proud Lord Rees warned that to welcome one of the Land belonging to the University has been included in humanity should be wary country’s most influential Guildford Borough Council’s submission Local Plan. of the consequences thinkers and an icon in the that technological astrophysics field to our The document, which Farnham Road to the A31, in advancements – such as University. Lord Rees has proposes a number addition to improved public artificial intelligence (AI), the gift of great humour in of potential sites to transport, cycle paths and biotechnology and space tandem with enormous and accommodate new homes exploration - will have on valuable insight; it was a walkable routes.