Queen Mary Alumni e-Newsletter Issue 29, January 2011
College news
HRH Prince Edward
The Principal, Professor Simon Gaskell, appears on Newsnight; New Year's Honours: Former Principal, Professor Sir Adrian Smith FRS; Professor Andrew Hussey; HRH Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex visit the Centre of the Cell; Guardian Public Service Award for School widening participation scheme; Queen Mary wins good food award
Research news
A pill a day could keep heart attacks and strokes at bay; Earliest Holocaust films discovered in Russian Archive; Major research project into Peace Process launched; The good, the bad and the ugly terms of Cloud Computing; Brendan Curran on cloned animals and food safety
Staff news
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh
Peter Cameron, Professor of Mathematics interviewed on the Maths Careers website; Dr Steve Cummins awarded £770,000 for MEAD project; Professor Trisha Greenhalgh awarded George Abercrombie Medal; Winners of Drapers' Awards 2010 announced; Dr Michael Proulx interviewed for the Sound of Science in November; Dr Prakash Shah lectures on 'Muslim Women and Marriage in Trans-jurisdictional Contexts'
Alumni giving
How your gift has been used; Making a gift; Gifts from overseas; Leaving a gift to Queen Mary, University of London in your Will
Student news
Celebrating Winter Graduation 2010; Queen Mary wins Inter-Varsity mooting competition; Research student, Han Zhang, receives R H Craven award by the IMMM
Volunteering at Queen Mary
Do you work in Science or the media? Queen Mary Careers run careers events to help current students at networking events; See the successful speed-meet in the School of Mathematical Sciences; STEMNET Ambassadors wanted
Alumni news
Julie Pinborough
Professor Finbar Cotter (q Medicine, 1978) featured in The Times’ list of Britain’s top doctors; Dr Robert East (LLM Tax and Corporate Law, 2003) joins CSB Group and Zammit and Associates Advocates; Julie Pinborough (English and History, 1998; Laws, 2003) receives Drapers' Award
Forthcoming alumni events
Click here for information about other College events, including 14 inaugural lectures and the Queen Mary Olympics lecture on 15 March.
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