Queen Mary Alumni e-Newsletter Issue 30, February 2011
College news
PhD students at Queen Mary and Goldsmiths to benefit from Doctoral Training Centre; New Centre for Studies of Home; New Internet project set to improve home broadband services around the globe
Research news
Professor J Cuzick
Gene test may cut the need for prostate cancer surgery; 10,000 Hepatitis C patients could hold the key to better treatment; Queen Mary awarded £4.7m to improve cancer survival rates; Funding of up to £9m for independent living research; Screening adults for hypothyroidism could give 100,000 "a new lease of life"; Answers to black hole evolution beyond the horizon?, School of Law Newsletter
Staff news
Professor Sir N Wright
Professor Sir Nicholas Wright admitted as Fellow of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial; Professor John Oxford receives honorary doctorate from Kingston University; Dr Ishani Chandrasekara to initiate 'Internally Displaced Women's Collective' in northern Sri Lanka; Professor Donald Sassoon selected for the Comité d’Orientation Scientifique de la Maison de l'histoire de France; Dr Duncan Matthews appointed to the IPO Trade and Development Expert Advisory Group; Drapers' Prize for innovative teaching: Dr Hazel Screen and Dr Hasan Shaheed; Dr Peter O'Hearn co-awarded £1,000 for joint 2001 paper BI as an Assertion Language for Mutable Data Structures
Student news
LLM student Gauthier Cruysmans wins 2010 John Avery Jones Thesis Prize; Physiological Society Awards for SEMS Primary Cilia research team: Angus Wann and Clare Davis; Barts and The London students celebrate tenth anniversary of RADIUS, their annual charity fashion and dance show; BL Student News
Volunteering at Queen Mary
'Meet the Alumni' night
Opportunities for you
Postgraduate Open Evening; 40 PhD studentships to a total value of £2m
Alumni news
Commander Decam and grand daughter
Samata Angel Abudulai (Economics, Finance and Management, 2004); Commander David Dacam OBE (MSci Mathematics, 2003); Bekeme Masade (MSc International Human Resource Management, 2007); Dr Satesh Narayana Namasivayam (MEng 2002; PhD 2006)
Alumni remembered
Professor Robert E W Jansson (PhD Chemistry, 1962); Former staff: John Gross
Forthcoming events
Alumni Events: Click here to see what is on offer.
College Events: Click here to book your place on forthcoming inaugural and public lectures. You can also download the Queen Mary Events Spring brochures [ISSUU]
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