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Henry Edward Armstrong medal

4 May 2012

Dr Vivian Onyebuchi Ikem (MSc Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology 2005, PhD 2010) was awarded the Henry Edward Armstrong Memorial Trust medal by the Deputy Rector, Stephen Richardson, at an event on 30 March 2012.

Vivian was recognised for her PhD research developing highly porous, permeable and mechanically sound materials, via a technique called emulsion templating, for use as filters in oil wells.

Tags: Awards and Honours, Chemical Engineering, Deputy Rector
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Professional fellowships

4 May 2012

Professor Justin Stebbing (Surgery and Cancer) and Dr David Sharp (Medicine) are among eight scientists in the UK to have been awarded National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) professorial fellowships.

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Tags: Awards and Honours, Medicine, Surgery and Cancer
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Brainy proposal gets international support

4 May 2012

Dr Paul Chadderton (Bioengineering) received a Young Investigator Award from the International Human Frontier Science Program Organisation in March 2012.

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Tags: Awards and Honours, Bioengineering
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Shortlisting success for Imperial teams

19 April 2012

Staff across the College are celebrating today, following two nominations in the 2012 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.

Staff in the Library have been shortlisted for ‘Outstanding Library Team’ following a nomination by Scott Heath, ICU President. Debby Shorley, Director of Library Services, said: “We are simply thrilled about this news. We enjoy a great relationship with our students, so we are especially delighted that it was the students’ union who nominated us for this award.”

Commenting on why he nominated the team Scott said: “This year the Library’s campaigning to see a fair deal from journal publishers has provided sector-wide savings which will benefit Imperial significantly. They have also shown a desire to provide the best service possible; they were one of the first libraries to offer 24 hour access during term time and trialled longer opening hours during the Easter break.”

Scott added: “We have also seen a real dedication to helping students with the provision of high quality study guides, greater availability of information online, frequent meetings with student officers and a consistently helpful staff team. As well as this, independent research indicated that they have given out the lowest fines of any university library.”

The Department of Medicine has been shortlisted in the ‘Outstanding Departmental Administration Team’ category in which the judges will look for evidence of excellent communication and service delivery based on the needs of students, academics and central administration.

Dr Matt Lee, Departmental Manager, who co-ordinated the entry said: “I am delighted that the excellence of the administration team has been deservedly recognised by this shortlisting. Although located across six campuses, the team is unified in its focus to provide professional, high quality support to academics and students. The strength of the team has been instrumental in the outstanding Departmental performance since its formation in January 2010 and this nomination is a testament to the hard work of every individual involved.”

Now in their fourth year, the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards are designed to celebrate the sector’s leadership, management, financial and business skills. They showcase the extraordinary innovation, teamwork and commercial acumen of UK higher education institutions.

The judges will be looking for outstanding examples of best practice from the 2010-11 academic year and the winners will be announced on Thursday 21 June at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane.

— Simon Watts, Communications and Development

Tags: Awards and Honours, Students
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Wave research funding

4 April 2012

Dr Greg Pavliotis and Professors Richard Craster and Andy Parry (Mathematics) have been awarded funding of £678,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to investigate three fields of wave study in applied maths.

They aim to predict the how waves reflect off designed structured surfaces and how they change when they encounter a micro-patterned surface. They also hope to model how waves diffuse through a physical mesh.

Tags: Awards and Honours, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Mathematics
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Prince’s Gardens halls recognised

4 April 2012

Steve Howe, Director of Capital Projects and Planning, and Jane Neary, Director of Commercial Services, picked up a Civic Trust award for the new halls of residence in Prince’s Gardens at a ceremony on 2 March.

The Civic Trust recognises excellence in the built environment and its awards are given to projects which make an outstanding contribution to the appearance of the local area. The halls, which were completed in 2007 and 2009, were described by the panel as high quality, attractive, contemporary buildings which respect and respond to their surroundings.

Tags: Awards and Honours, Commercial Services
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ICT recognised for training materials

4 April 2012

Imperial is one of five institutions in a consortium that won the 2011 Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association Eduserv award for excellence in developing information security training material.

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Tags: Awards and Honours, ICT
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Pennell wins gold

4 April 2012

On 4 February Dudley Pennell, Professor of Cardiology (NHLI) and Director of the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Unit, was awarded the Society for CMR gold medal in Orlando USA.

The award recognises outstanding contribution to the field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance and to the society.

Tags: Awards and Honours, National Heart and Lung Institute
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Student achievements in the field of hydrogen energy

12 March 2012

A group of Imperial students running a student chapter of the International Association of Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), have just received an official chartership of the chapter from IAHE, as well as the outstanding student and faculty service awards.

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Tags: Awards and Honours, Chemical Engineering, Energy Futures Lab
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Zabron’s hepatology fellowship

12 March 2012

Dr Abigail Zabron (Medicine) has been awarded the Dame Sheila Sherlock Travelling Fellowship in Hepatology, administered by the Royal College of Physicians.

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Tags: Awards and Honours, Medicine
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New appointments for Wisden and Jaffe

12 March 2012

Professor Bill Wisden (Life Sciences) has been appointed to the Medical Research Council’s Neurosciences and Mental Health Board and Professor Andrew Jaffe (Physics) has been appointed as a non-core member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Science Board. (more…)

Tags: Awards and Honours, Life Sciences, Physics
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Mark Brennan prizewinners

12 March 2012

Two Imperial medical undergraduates, Matt Rinaldi and Rory Hutchinson, won the Institute of Medical Ethics’ Mark Brennan Prize, presented at its conference on 10 February at the British Medical Association.

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Tags: Awards and Honours
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Government advisor role for Smith

21 February 2012

Professor Roderick Smith, Royal Academy of Engineering Network Rail Research Professor of Railway Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), has been appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Transport.

Professor Smith will provide advice on transport issues to government ministers, ensuring that science and engineering evidence and advice is robust and relevant.

Tags: Awards and Honours, Mechanical Engineering
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Wolfson awards announced

21 February 2012

Three Imperial professors received funding between £10,000 and £30,000 from the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills in the latest round of the Royal Society’s Wolfson Research Merit Awards.

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Tags: Awards and Honours, Life Sciences, Physics
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Young Scientist Award for Weyand

21 February 2012

Dr Simone Weyand (Life Sciences) was selected to receive the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) John Kendrew Young Scientist Award 2012 earlier this month.

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Tags: Awards and Honours, Life Sciences
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