Queen Mary Alumni e-Newsletter Issue 32, May 2011
College news
Lord Hennessy and Lord Mandelson
School of Medicine and Dentistry is ranked in the top ten in the UK; Queen Mary, University of London announces its proposed new fee level of £9,000; Lord Mandelson unveils monument to former Prime Minister Clement Attlee; Queen Mary captures Olympic spirit on High Street 2012; Public health specialists embarking on Olympic study of East End regeneration; Mathematical Sciences building work nearly finished; Successful employability bid for the School of Economics and Finance
Research news
A safer treatment could be realised for millions suffering from parasite infection; Call to tax junk food ingredients to halt obesity; Kepler listens to an orchestra of Solar-type stars; Centre for Digital Music brings cutting edge technologies to creative industries via the European DigiBIC network
Staff news
Professor Ursula Martin
Professor Ursula Martin honoured at science awards; Dr Tina Chowdhury awarded grant to improve learning in a virtual tissue engineering laboratory; Your steering wheel is dirtier than a public toilet seat by Dr Ron Cutler
Alumni giving
Stephen Price
How your gift has been used
Making a gift; Gifts from overseas
Leaving a gift in your Will
London Hospital Dental School Centenary 2011
A pride of presidents; Dental students represent Barts and The London at the European Dental Students Association meeting; Dates for your diary
Student news
LLM Moot Team
RAGs to RICHES success for Barts and the London students; Queen Mary students are among London’s top student journalists; PhD student Lewis Tunnicliffe wins the James S Walker Award; Queen Mary LLM students are top UK team in International Moot Court competition
Opportunities for you
Why work for Queen Mary?
Alumni news
Vassilis Foukas
Santa Meyer-Nandi
Santa Meyer-Nandi (LLM International Development 2010) co-founder of FindingSustania; Renganaden Sooppramanien (Law 1974; LLM 1975) is Lead Counsel at the World Bank in Washington DC; Professor Norman Williams (q. Barts,1970) has been elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons
Staff remembered
Professor Leslie Collier
Events Review
Taipei Reunion, 19 April 2011
Forthcoming events
Thursday 26 May 2011 - Renaissance Lecture
2011 Far East events - Friday 24 June - Singapore; Saturday 25 June - Kuala Lumpur; Sunday 26 June - Shanghai; Tuesday 28 June - Beijing; Saturday 2 July - Hong Kong;
Saturday 2 July 2011 - Barts and The London Science Festival
Tuesday 5 July - celebration of the 400th anniversary of The Charterhouse
College Events: Click here to book your place for forthcoming inaugural and public lectures. You can also download the spring edition of the Queen Mary Events Leaflet [ISSUU]
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