21 February 2012
Research that has led to the invention of an ‘event cloak’ was judged to be one of the top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 by Physics World magazine in December.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Physics
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25 January 2012
The Careers Advisory Service (CAS) has received the national Matrix Standard certificate in recognition of the careers guidance services it offers to students and alumni of the College.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Careers Advisory Service
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25 January 2012
Dr Mohamed Shamji (NHLI) won an award for his abstract at the World Allergy Congress held in Cancún, Mexico in December 2011.
Tags: Awards and Honours, National Heart and Lung Institute
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24 January 2012
An obesity researcher and a mathematician from Imperial have been awarded knighthoods, and an Imperial chemist has received a CBE, in the 2012 New Year Honours.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Rector
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20 January 2012
Professor Neil Alford, Head of the Department of Materials and Deputy Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, has become a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Department of Materials, Engineering
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20 January 2012
Fifth year medical students Mervyn Chong, Anthony Fung and Bob Yang, who undertook intercalated BSc projects under the supervision of Dr Daqing Ma, Senior Lecturer (Surgery and Cancer), presented their data at the annual meeting of the Anaesthetic Research Society held at the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) on 28 November 2011.
Mervyn was awarded first place in the RCoA President’s Prize for best undergraduate research project, while Anthony and Bob were both awarded second place.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Surgery and Cancer
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20 January 2012
The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) at Imperial has been rated as one of the top two charities globally for achieving impact with donations by an independent charity evaluator. The American-based non-profit organisation GiveWell rigorously examined hundreds of charities worldwide to identify which have the most impact for each dollar they receive. The Against Malaria Foundation and the SCI were found to be the two charities that allow donors to accomplish as much good as possible with their money.
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17 January 2012
Professor Roderick Smith, currently Royal Academy of Engineering Network Rail Research Professor of Railway Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Transport.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Mechanical Engineering
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28 November 2011
Professor William Cookson, Professor of Genomic Medicine, and Professor Miriam Moffatt, Professor of Human Genetics, (both NHLI), have been awarded a Joint Senior Investigator Award by the Wellcome Trust.
Tags: Awards and Honours, National Heart and Lung Institute
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28 November 2011
Dr Sunday Popo-Ola (Civil and Environmental Engineering) received the Howard Medal at an Institution of Civil Engineers awards ceremony held on 24 October.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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15 November 2011
Professor Michael Bell, Professor of Transport Operations (Civil and Environmental Engineering), was honoured by the Italian Society of Transportation Scholars (SIDT) at their annual conference in Venice on 7 October.
He was invited to be an Emeritus Member of SIDT. Professor Bell has contributed to a wide range of research projects focussed on developing transport networks, including evaluating the impact of congestion charging in London and working on a Swiss national travel model of Toronto.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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15 November 2011
Professors Nick Franks and Michael Stumpf (both Life Sciences) were elected Fellows of the Society of Biology, the UK’s professional body for biosciences, on 19 September.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Life Sciences
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15 November 2011
Professor David Holden, Chair of the Microbiology Section in the Department of Medicine, is among 46 renowned life scientists, whose excellence in research has been acknowledged by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) this month.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Department of Medicine
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17 October 2011
Professor Geoffrey Smith (Medicine) has been elected to membership of the Leopoldina, the German national academy of sciences.
The Leopoldina, the world’s oldest academy of natural sciences, has around 1,400 members who are chosen on the basis of academic excellence. Professor Smith’s research focuses on the interactions between viruses and the host cell and immune system.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Medicine
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17 October 2011
The Educational Technology Unit at Imperial College Business School recently won the 2011 Sloan-C Effective Practice Award for the second year in succession.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Business School
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