Sir Keith O’Nions FRS has accepted re-appointment as President & Rector of Imperial College London to 1 September 2014. The search for his successor will resume later this year.
From 1 August 2013, Dr Simon Hepworth will become Head and Director of Corporate Partnerships, reporting to the Provost. He will also oversee work on Enterprise Projects and Strategy.
Paul Docx, the Chief Executive of Imperial Consultants, will report to the Chief Financial Officer from the same date.
PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S 2013 AWARDS AND MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, PASTORAL CARE, RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION AND SUPPORTING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS AND MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
Awards for Excellence in Teaching are presented annually to members of academic staff judged to have been most outstanding in the quality, organisation and presentation of their teaching. Of the award winners up to four may be selected to receive a President & Rector’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence. One of the Medals may carry the title of Medal for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching.
President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching are conferred on the following staff:
Dr Nicholas Brooks – Department of Chemistry
Dr Matthew Fuchter – Department of Chemistry
Dr Axel Gandy – Department of Mathematics
Professor Philippa Gardner – Department of Computing
Dr Uta Griesenbach – NHLI
Dr Andrew McKinley – Department of Chemistry
Professor Karim Meeran – Department of Medicine
Dr Laura Patel – Department of Chemistry
Dr Michael Templeton – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Tamer Zaki – Department of Mechanical Engineering
President & Rector’s Medals for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence are awarded to the following staff:
Professor Jenny Higham – Faculty of Medicine
Professor John Laycock – Department of Medicine
Dr Alexander Whittaker – Department of Earth Science and Engineering
The President & Rector’s Medal for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching has not been awarded this year.
PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PASTORAL CARE
Awards for Excellence in Pastoral Care are presented annually to recognise the importance which the College places upon providing a supportive learning environment for its students as part of its academic mission. Of the award winners up to two may be selected to receive a President & Rector’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Pastoral Care.
President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Pastoral Care are conferred on the following staff for 2012:
Miss Judith Barritt – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Geoff Maitland – Department of Chemical Engineering
President & Rector’s Medals for Excellence in Pastoral Care are awarded to:
Mr Martin Holloway – Department of Bioengineering
Wardening team: Mr David Charles, Mr James Field and Miss Yujie Zhao – Linstead Hall
PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH SUPERVISION
The President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Research Supervision recognise staff who have made exceptional contributions in providing a supportive learning environment for postgraduate research students. Of the award winners up to two may be selected to receive the President & Rector’s Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision.
President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Research Supervision are conferred on the following staff:
Professor Dan Crisan – Department of Mathematics
Dr Ken MacLeod – NHLI
Professor Kim Parker – Department of Bioengineering
Dr Edward Tate – Department of Chemistry
Dr Ambrose Taylor – Department of Mechanical Engineering
A President & Rector’s Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision is awarded to:
Dr Jane Davies – NHLI
PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN SUPPORTING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
The President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience recognise the importance placed by the College on the contribution of support staff to underpinning the College’s learning environment for students. Of the award winners up to two may be selected to receive the President & Rector’s Medal for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience.
President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience are conferred on the following staff:
Dr Sharon Bolton – Registry
Ms Britta Ross – Department of Bioengineering
Mr Griffin Ryder – Faculty of Medicine
President & Rector’s Medals for Supporting the Student Experience are awarded to the following staff:
Ms Susan English – Faculty of Medicine
Mr Michael Reynolds – Campus Services
Enrol for summer term evening classes in the Centre for Co-Curricular studies
May 16, 2013by Jessica Adams
The Centre for Co-Curricular Studies is offering a programme of evening classes during the summer term. Classes are available in languages at different levels including Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese as well as modern European languages and English Conversation for non-native speakers, and arts courses in Creative Writing, and Music Technology. Courses comprise two weekday evening classes a week from 18.00 – 20.00 for five weeks starting 28 May 2013. Online enrolment started on 1 April 2013.
Professor Chris Toumazou is to be appointed as the College’s first Regius Professor of Engineering.
Imperial College London was granted a prestigious Regius professorship by Her Majesty the Queen as part of her 60th anniversary celebrations. Eleven other universities in the UK also received the rare privilege of using the Regius title, awarded only twice in the past century. The award is a reflection of the exceptionally high quality of teaching and research at an institution and prior to these awards, regius professorships were limited to a handful of the ancient universities of the UK and Ireland – Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Trinity College, Dublin.
Imperial College will confer the title of Regius Professor of Engineering on Professor Chris Toumazou FRS, FREng, FMedSci from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as part of the Commemoration Day Ceremony on Wednesday 23 October 2013.
Among his many achievements, Professor Toumazou developed one of the world’s first cochlear implants to enable deaf people to hear. He has also created a digital plaster, which can remotely monitor a patient’s medical vital signs in the comfort of their own home and a hand-held genetic sequencing device that can instantly analyse a patients DNA to determine if that patient can metabolise a specific type of medication.
Professor Sir Mark Walport FRS has accepted appointment as an Honorary Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Imperial College.
The appointment is for the duration of Sir Mark’s appointment as the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser.
Sir Mark Walport had been the Director of the Wellcome Trust since 2003, and before that he was Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medicine at the College, where he led a research team that focused on the immunology and genetics of rheumatic diseases. He originally studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, completing his PhD on complement receptors under the supervision of Peter Lachmann in 1986. He was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours list for services to medical research and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011. In April this year he succeeded Professor Sir John Beddington as the Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
Imperial was made aware late last week of allegations regarding the use of animals in medical research, subsequently reported in this weekend’s Sunday Times. Upon learning of the allegations the College immediately took a number of steps, including launching an independent investigation. Read more about the College’s response and the investigation.
Staff who receive queries from stakeholders other than the media are advised to point to the College’s news story and statement.
Media
Any media enquiries should be routed immediately to the College’s press office: J-P Jones, 020 7594 6704 / out of hours 07803 886248, john-paul.jones@imperial.ac.uk.
Security
Any security concerns should be raised with the relevant campus contacts.
Professor G. ‘Anand’ Anandalingam, currently the Dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, USA, has accepted appointment as Dean of Imperial College Business School, with effect from 1 August 2013. He succeeds Professor Dorothy Griffiths who was appointed in February 2012 following Professor David Begg’s retirement.
Professor Anandalingam graduated in Electrical Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1975, and subsequently completed a PhD in operations research with economics at Harvard in 1981. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory before he began his academic career at the University of Virginia in 1984 as an assistant professor. In 1987 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania and held a dual appointment as both professor of systems engineering and professor of management science at the Wharton School of Business. In 2001 Professor Anandalingam joined the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, becoming its Dean in 2008.
Professor Anandalingam was the founder of the Smith School’s Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises, and was its director from 2001-2004. As an expert in electronic markets and telecommunications networks he has consulted for a range of mature and start-up companies, has published more than 75 research papers, and served as editor of a number of academic journals, volumes and books.
The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) is the equality policy and advice body for universities in England, and has recently launched an anonymous HE sector survey to examine mental health in the workplace.
The survey is aimed at understanding how universities can:
- develop an environment that encourages staff to inform the university about mental health difficulties to receive targeted support;
- ensure that the courses, work environment, facilities, and services are accessible to students experiencing mental health difficulties.
Responses to the survey will be invaluable in helping the ECU develop materials to promote an inclusive university environment that is supportive of mental health.
Please let the ECU know your views by completing the survey here – the survey is open until 12 April.
Ethos Sports Centre will operate with the following reduced opening hours from Thursday 28 March to Tuesday 2 April.
- Thursday 28 March 09.00 – 17.00
- Friday 29 March 09.00 – 17.00
- Saturday 30 March 09.00 – 17.00
- Sunday 31 March 09.00 – 17.00
- Monday 1 April 09.00 – 17.00
- Tuesday 2 April 09.00 – 17.00
There will be no studio classes on these days.
