, Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary Alumni e-Newsletter Issue 25, July 2010

College news

The Principal meets alumni during Far East visits; Success for Physics; Linguistics and Law in the annual university rankings; ApaTech achieves top prize in business impact awards; School of Medicine and Dentistry initiates new collaboration between health and higher education; Opening of Barts Cancer Centre; Retroscreen Virology becomes early tenants of Queen Mary’s Biosciences Innovation Centre in Whitechapel; Graduate Attributes Statement launched; New Masters programme gives graduates the ‘Obama factor’; Leverhulme Artists in Residence

Research news

Sea-creatures' sex protein provides new insight into diabetes; Vuvuzela noise filtered by QM scientists; Cockroaches talk about food; School of Business and Management: e-BaM - first edition; Department of Geography: eDoG - Issue 3

Dr Paul Curzon

Staff success

Dr Paul Curzon appointed National Teaching Fellow; Professor Susan Dilly appointed as a professional Board Member of the Human Tissue Authority (HTA); Dr Rui Yang appointed as a Newton International Fellow; Professor Jane Wills appears on Sky TV show Rattansi and Ridley

Alumni giving

Malcolm Jenkins Scholar receives Gold Medal: Nike Goodluck; Queen Mary and Westfield Alumni Bursary: Tina Karia; Queen Mary and Westfield Student Achievement Award 2010: Craig Ferriman; Making a gift; Gifts from former students in the United States; Leaving a gift to Queen Mary, University of London in your Will

Career development opportunities

Queen Mary gains extra support for young alumni; Do you have an internship opportunity for a Queen Mary graduate?; Are you a Queen Mary graduate looking for an internship?; QUEDOS courses; GP Refresher Course 2010; Capacity building Scholarships for Queen Mary International Students; Campus Visit Day; Postgraduate Open Evening; Working for Queen Mary; 2012 Olympics

Student news

Celebrating Summer Graduation 2010; Claudio Raimondi receives Emerging Investigators Poster Prize at the Breast Cancer Campaign research conference 2010; RAG success; Queen Mary students interviewed by BBC News; Matteo Pasquinelli interviewed by Liberation; BL Student News; CUB and QMessenger

Alumni news

Mrs Leatile Dambe

Kia Abdullah (Computer Science, 2003); Leatile Dambe (LLM Banking and Finance Law, 2001); Dr Stephen Deuchar CBE (Westfield, PhD History of Art, 1986); Pauline Levis (History, 1976); Ed Mlavsky (Chemistry, 1950; PhD 1953); Luiz Montanheiro (MSc Economics, 1980); Anand Ramlogan (Laws, 1994); Barbara Soetan (Politics, 2008); Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP (European Studies (German), 1980)