Queen Mary Alumni e-Newsletter Issue 28, November 2010
College news
NGOs receive support under the “BIG SOCIETY”; Queen Mary achieves 1st place for international student satisfaction; New Master in Global Business, A new farmers' market arrived at Queen Mary
Research news
New discovery offers hope for the prevention of prostate cancer; HPV vaccine could cut cervical screening to twice in a lifetime; Mobile phones could be the key to better STI diagnosis; There is a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and childhood asthma
Staff news
Amanda Vickery to join Queen Mary; Success for Barts and The London doctors at BMA Medical Book Awards 2010; Farah Ahmed, is joint winner of the Rank Prize Fund Symposium on High Resolution X-ray Imaging; Scientists Asa Barber and Fang Huang’s work was discussed in the New Scientist online magazine; Jenny Cheshire Professor of Linguistics and colleagues have been awarded £870,000 for comparative linguistic research project; Dr Chris Faulkes research on naked molerats was featured in the New Scientist magazine; Professor Rodney Reznek from the Institute of Cancer has been awarded The Gold Medal; Vice Principal Professor Evelyn Welch has secured €1M from Hera for her latest project; A major new textbook on the biology of termites, edited by Professor of Zoology David Bignell has been published
Alumni giving
Impact of your giving; Gifts from overseas; Leaving a gift to Queen Mary, University of London in your Will
Student news
Attention all 2010 graduates; Whales get sunburn: Laura Martinez-Levasseur; Golden Skirts: Catherine Seierstad; Decreasing funding impact on medical students: Mark Toynbee
Volunteering at Queen Mary
Careers Ambassadors wanted: Geography alumni, English alumni, Alumni working in politics, History alumni, Marketing or PR professionals; Maths’ graduate booklet; You and Queen Mary
Alumni news
Michele Bignami (Intellectual Property, 1988); Professor Margaret Bird (Zoology, 1969); David Clutterbuck (Westfield, English, 1968); Socrates Lazaridis (Econometrics, 1984); Josh Stanton (Geography with Business Management, 2009); J Ann Tickner (Westfield, History, 1959); Cynthia Chisom Umezulike (Intellectual Property Law, 2010)
Former staff news
Professor Adrian Smith FRS; Joining the Queen Mary Former Staff Association
Alumni remembered
Peter Dawson (Mechanical Engineering, 1951)
Forthcoming events
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