19 March 2012
I am with one of the Rector’s Ambassadors, Kavita Aggarwal (Medicine), who joined me for a student recruitment fair in Cyprus. I met a lot of students with seven A-levels who were worried that they didn’t have enough work experience to study at Imperial!
Tags: International Office, Medicine, Meet the Reader, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music
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9 March 2012
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband visited the College on Tuesday 6 March to tour the Past, Present, and Future exhibition and to talk to students from the Innovation Design Engineering course.
The winning student team (pictured with Mr Miliband) have designed a paralympic training device that fits to the arm and vibrates when the athlete has adopted the optimum arm position for the sport. The team has been awarded a £1,000 prize, plus £5,000 to develop their invention further.
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9 March 2012
To celebrate more than 30 years of the Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) course, a collaboration between Imperial and the Royal College of Art, Imperial students and alumni are showcasing their technologies to the public at an exhibition in the Main Entrance until 9 March.
Tags: Mechanical Engineering, Royal College of Art
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23 September 2011
In Reporter 232, published in April, Dr Dan Emmerson (Chemistry) reported on an event which saw staff and students from Imperial and the Royal College of Art team up to create science and engineering-inspired artwork harnessing the scientific and creative talent of both institutions. You can see the project’s results in an exhibition called Artifact in the Blyth Gallery, Level 5 Sherfield Building, until 29 September.
Tags: Blyth Gallery, Chemistry, Royal College of Art
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1 July 2011
Dr Kate Mandeville, who trained as a doctor at Imperial, is now a registrar in public health and undertaking a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has been working with Imperial Innovations to commercialise her invention that could revolutionise how doctors take fluid from around the brain.
Tags: Imperial Innovations, Inventor's corner, Royal College of Art
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28 April 2011
On 21 February, postdoctoral research associate Dr Dan Emmerson (Chemistry) attended a ‘speed dating’ event organised by Artifact, a collaboration between Imperial and the Royal College of Art (RCA). The event in the Union Concert Hall was attended by postgraduate students and staff from Imperial and the RCA, all hoping to work on collaborative projects that would be showcased at an art exhibition at Imperial’s Blyth Gallery this summer. Dan reports on his experiences:
The event began with some interesting talks from scientists and artists involved in successful collaborations, such as Dr David Dexter (Medicine), a neuroscientist studying Parkinson’s disease. He is involved in a project to encourage people to donate their brains to scientific research and had invited a photographer to watch a brain dissection.
The real excitement of the day for me was the ‘speed dating’ which aimed to establish partnerships between artists and scientists. I met artists whose specialities range from painting and animation to interactive design. It was interesting to think about different approaches taken by scientists and artists to their work. For instance, artists are trained to be very self- critical, while scientists often rely on their peers for critiques of their work.
At the end of the evening we scored our ‘dates’ out of 10 and eagerly awaited the name of our chosen partners. I was partnered with Colin Henderson, who is studying screenprinting at RCA. We have submitted a proposal for a project with a general theme of visualising the invisible , and will explore the way in which the language of chemistry helps us to visualise and understand the microscopic world of atoms and molecules. We plan to start working on the project in the next month.”
Tags: Chemistry, Royal College of Art
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