Category: College Announcements

The Julia Higgins Medal and Awards

The College has established the Julia Higgins Medal and Awards to recognise individuals and departments that have made a significant contribution to the support of academic women at the College, selected by a subcommittee of the Academic Opportunities Committee.

The 2013 Julia Higgins Medal has been awarded to Professor Lesley Cohen, Head of Solid State Physics in the Department of Physics, and this was celebrated at the May 2013 Postgraduate Degree Awards ceremony.

The 2013 Julia Higgins Certificates have been awarded to the NHLI and the Department of Chemistry.

The Medal and Awards are named in honour of Professor Dame Julia Higgins FRS, FREng, Professor of Polymer Science, now a Senior Research Investigator in Chemical Engineering, and previously Dean of the City and Guilds College and Principal of the Faculty of Engineering.

Call for Nominations for the 2013 Awards

Nominations are now invited for the 2013 Awards. Nominations should recognise those who have made an outstanding contribution to the creation of a ‘level playing field’ for women academics over an extended period of time.

A nomination form is available at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/equality/staffnetworksandcommittees/aoc/juliahiggins

Please send completed nomination forms to Professor Dot Griffiths, Chair of the Academic Opportunities Committee (d.griffiths@imperial.ac.uk), by Monday 30 September 2013.

Election of College Consuls

Professor Peter Lindstedt, Professor of Thermofluids in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been elected to succeed Professor Morris Sloman as one of the Consuls for the Faculty of Engineering and the Business School from 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2016.

Professor Desmond Johnston, Chair of Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine, has been elected to succeed Professor Simon Taylor-Robinson as the Clinical Consul for the Faculty of Medicine from 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2016.

Professor Andrew Parry, Professor of Statistical Physics in the Department of Mathematics, has been elected to succeed Professor Robin Leatherbarrow as one of the Consuls for the Faculty of Natural Sciences from 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2016.

Professor Nigel Gooderham, Professor of Molecular Toxicology in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, and the current Senior Consul, has been elected to continue for a further year from 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2014.

The full list of Consuls for 2013- 2014 is below:

Senior Consul – Professor Nigel Gooderham

Faculty of Engineering and Business School – Professor Peter Lindstedt

Faculty of Engineering and Business School – Professor Richard Jardine

Faculty of Medicine (non-clinical) – Professor Myra McClure

Faculty of Medicine (clinical) – Professor Desmond Johnston

Faculty of Natural Sciences – Professor Andrew Parry

Faculty of Natural Sciences – Professor Richard Thompson

Director of Library Services

Mrs Chris Banks has accepted appointment as Director of Library Services with effect from 1 September 2013.  Until that date, Ms Susan Howard and Ms Frances Boyle will continue in post as Acting Co-Directors.

In her role as Director of Library Services, Mrs Banks will have overall responsibility for the strategic direction and operational management of the College’s libraries. She will report to the Associate Provost (Institutional Affairs).

Mrs Banks joins the College from the University of Aberdeen where she has been University Librarian and Director, Library, Special Collections and Museums since 2007.  Prior to joining Aberdeen, she held various posts at the British Library.

President & Rector’s 2013 awards and medals

PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S 2013 AWARDS AND MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, PASTORAL CARE, RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION AND SUPPORTING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS AND MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

Awards for Excellence in Teaching are presented annually to members of academic staff judged to have been most outstanding in the quality, organisation and presentation of their teaching. Of the award winners up to four may be selected to receive a President & Rector’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence. One of the Medals may carry the title of Medal for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching.

 

President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching are conferred on the following staff:

Dr Nicholas Brooks – Department of Chemistry

Dr Matthew Fuchter – Department of Chemistry

Dr Axel Gandy – Department of Mathematics

Professor Philippa Gardner – Department of Computing

Dr Uta Griesenbach – NHLI

Dr Andrew McKinley – Department of Chemistry

Professor Karim Meeran – Department of Medicine

Dr Laura Patel – Department of Chemistry

Dr Michael Templeton – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr Tamer Zaki – Department of Mechanical Engineering

 

President & Rector’s Medals for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence are awarded to the following staff:

Professor Jenny Higham – Faculty of Medicine

Professor John Laycock – Department of Medicine

Dr Alexander Whittaker – Department of Earth Science and Engineering

 

The President & Rector’s Medal for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching has not been awarded this year.

 

PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PASTORAL CARE

Awards for Excellence in Pastoral Care are presented annually to recognise the importance which the College places upon providing a supportive learning environment for its students as part of its academic mission. Of the award winners up to two may be selected to receive a President & Rector’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Pastoral Care.

 

President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Pastoral Care are conferred on the following staff for 2012:

Miss Judith Barritt – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Geoff Maitland – Department of Chemical Engineering

 

President & Rector’s Medals for Excellence in Pastoral Care are awarded to:

Mr Martin Holloway – Department of Bioengineering

Wardening team: Mr David Charles, Mr James Field and Miss Yujie Zhao – Linstead Hall

 

PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH SUPERVISION

The President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Research Supervision recognise staff who have made exceptional contributions in providing a supportive learning environment for postgraduate research students. Of the award winners up to two may be selected to receive the President & Rector’s Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision.

 

President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Research Supervision are conferred on the following staff:

Professor Dan Crisan – Department of Mathematics

Dr Ken MacLeod – NHLI

Professor Kim Parker – Department of Bioengineering

Dr Edward Tate – Department of Chemistry

Dr Ambrose Taylor – Department of Mechanical Engineering

 

A President & Rector’s Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision is awarded to:

Dr Jane Davies – NHLI

 

PRESIDENT & RECTOR’S AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN SUPPORTING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

The President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience recognise the importance placed by the College on the contribution of support staff to underpinning the College’s learning environment for students. Of the award winners up to two may be selected to receive the President & Rector’s Medal for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience.

 

President & Rector’s Awards for Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience are conferred on the following staff:

Dr Sharon Bolton – Registry

Ms Britta Ross – Department of Bioengineering

Mr Griffin Ryder – Faculty of Medicine

 

President & Rector’s Medals for Supporting the Student Experience are awarded to the following staff:

Ms Susan English – Faculty of Medicine

Mr Michael Reynolds – Campus Services

Regius Professor of Engineering

Professor Chris Toumazou is to be appointed as the College’s first Regius Professor of Engineering.

Imperial College London was granted a prestigious Regius professorship by Her Majesty the Queen as part of her 60th anniversary celebrations. Eleven other universities in the UK also received the rare privilege of using the Regius title, awarded only twice in the past century.  The award is a reflection of the exceptionally high quality of teaching and research at an institution and prior to these awards, regius professorships were limited to a handful of the ancient universities of the UK and Ireland – Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Trinity College, Dublin.

Imperial College will confer the title of Regius Professor of Engineering on Professor Chris Toumazou FRS, FREng, FMedSci from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as part of the Commemoration Day Ceremony on Wednesday 23 October 2013.

Among his many achievements, Professor Toumazou developed one of the world’s first cochlear implants to enable deaf people to hear. He has also created a digital plaster, which can remotely monitor a patient’s medical vital signs in the comfort of their own home and a hand-held genetic sequencing device that can instantly analyse a patients DNA to determine if that patient can metabolise a specific type of medication.

Honorary Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Professor Sir Mark Walport FRS has accepted appointment as an Honorary Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Imperial College.

The appointment is for the duration of Sir Mark’s appointment as the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser.

Sir Mark Walport had been the Director of the Wellcome Trust since 2003, and before that he was Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Medicine at the College, where he led a research team that focused on the immunology and genetics of rheumatic diseases.  He originally studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, completing his PhD on complement receptors under the supervision of Peter Lachmann in 1986.  He was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours list for services to medical research and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011.  In April this year he succeeded Professor Sir John Beddington as the Government Chief Scientific Adviser.

Investigation into animal research allegations

Imperial was made aware late last week of allegations regarding the use of animals in medical research, subsequently reported in this weekend’s Sunday Times. Upon learning of the allegations the College immediately took a number of steps, including launching an independent investigation. Read more about the College’s response and the investigation.

Staff who receive queries from stakeholders other than the media are advised to point to the College’s news story and statement.

Media
Any media enquiries should be routed immediately to the College’s press office: J-P Jones, 020 7594 6704 / out of hours 07803 886248, john-paul.jones@imperial.ac.uk.

Security
Any security concerns should be raised with the relevant campus contacts.

 

Dean of Imperial College Business School

Professor G. ‘Anand’ Anandalingam, currently the Dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, USA, has accepted appointment as Dean of Imperial College Business School, with effect from 1 August 2013. He succeeds Professor Dorothy Griffiths who was appointed in February 2012 following Professor David Begg’s retirement.

Professor Anandalingam graduated in Electrical Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1975, and subsequently completed a PhD in operations research with economics at Harvard in 1981.  He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory before he began his academic career at the University of Virginia in 1984 as an assistant professor. In 1987 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania and held a dual appointment as both professor of systems engineering and professor of management science at the Wharton School of Business. In 2001 Professor Anandalingam joined the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, becoming its Dean in 2008.

Professor Anandalingam was the founder of the Smith School’s Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises, and was its director from 2001-2004. As an expert in electronic markets and telecommunications networks he has consulted for a range of mature and start-up companies, has published more than 75 research papers, and served as editor of a number of academic journals, volumes and books.