Announcements

Professor Myra McClure, Professor of Retrovirology in the Department of Medicine, has been elected to succeed Professor Nigel Gooderham as the non-clinical Dean for the Faculty of Medicine from 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2015.

Professor Richard Jardine, Professor of Geomechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been elected to succeed Professor Richard Vinter as one of the Deans for the Faculty of Engineering and the Business School from 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2015.

Professor Nigel Gooderham, Professor of Molecular Toxicology in the Department of Surgery and Cancer and formerly non-clinical Dean in the Faculty of Medicine, has been elected to succeed Professor Jeff Kramer as Senior Dean, serving in this position from 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2013.

The full list of Faculty Deans for 2012-2013 is below:

Read Election of Deans in full

Professor Tom Welton, Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, has accepted appointment as Head of the Department of Chemistry for a second term with effect from 1 August 2012.

Professor Welton joined the College in 1993 as Lloyds of London Tercentenary Fellow following appointments at the University of Exeter and the University of Sussex.  At Imperial, following a series of promotions, he became Professor in Sustainable Chemistry in 2004. He held the position of Director of Undergraduate Studies within the Department of Chemistry from 2002 to 2007 and commenced his first term as Head of Department on 1 August 2007. His research focuses on making chemicals and related industries environmentally and economically sustainable.

Professor Welton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was Ingold Lecturer of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2007. He received the 2011 Paul Walden Award from the German Science Foundation, the DFG, for fundamental ionic liquid research and in 2012 he received a Rector’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Read Head of the Department of Chemistry in full

The Design Briefing Advisory Board, established to work on the next stage of design work for Level 0 of the Sherfield Building, and including representatives from the Imperial College Union, the Holland Club, Commercial Services and the Senior Dean, has now completed its work with the architects.

A design brief for the space has been prepared, incorporating input from the Board and previous committees which have discussed the facility. The brief will be used by designers as the basis for developing the concept design for the facility.

The design brief stipulates that:

• The space should be fully redesigned to maximise its potential and ensure the best possible service to customers.
• The primary purpose of the new facility is to provide dedicated bar, catering and social spaces for postgraduate students and members of staff.
• Some of the catering facility will be used to provide evening meals to undergraduate students, to the extent possible without compromising the facility’s primary purpose.
• The look and feel of the space should be of a contemporary pub, with a warm and homely feeling that creates an environment for relaxation and conversation.

During the next stage of work designers will work with a College Project Board, which will consider all existing feedback and consult more widely where appropriate.

The tendering process, inviting bids from within the College to run the catering and bar services, will conclude in August. The College will award the tender to the provider or providers which most clearly meet the relevant criteria. They will be required to:

• Provide a quality service to meet the high expectations of staff and postgraduate students.
• Provide a modern catering service that reflects value for money for the College population.
• Operate a pub service that will offer a high quality service.
• Within the constraints of the agreed service and budget, provide good quality cuisine and service, a high standard of presentation and good variety utilising quality ingredients.
• Provide customer service that is caring, responsive and as personal in nature as circumstances permit.
• Provide an imaginative, innovative and highly professional approach to the services specified.
• Both the catering and pub services will need to cover all costs including labour, cost of sales, utilities, cleaning costs and replacement of light equipment. Should a small surplus be made, this shall be retained by the service provider.

Read Update on redevelopment of space on Level 0 of Sherfield Building in full

The Council has established an Appointing Committee to undertake the task of identifying individuals to lead the College under the new arrangements announced in April 2012.

The Committee will identify an individual to succeed Sir Keith O’Nions as President & Rector in January 2014 and an individual to serve Imperial in the new position of Provost.

The membership of the Committee is:

Chair: Baroness Manningham-Buller, Chair of the Court and Council
Members: Sir Keith O’Nions, President & Rector (for the Provost appointment)
Professor Stephen Richardson, Deputy Rector
Professor Maggie Dallman, Principal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences
Mr Iain Conn, Council member
Mr Jeremy Newsum, Council member
Dr Jean-Lou Chameau, President of Caltech
Sir John Parker, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Dr Charles Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering, US, and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sir David Wallace, Master Churchill College Cambridge
Secretary: Mr John Neilson, College Secretary and Clerk to the Court and Council

Further details of the new leadership model for the College are available here.

Read Appointing Committee – President & Rector and Provost in full