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The Principal wn'tes:

Further to my letter to staff on 10February, the group et up by the

Secretary of tate for I Iealth to prepareplans for taking forward the plans

outlined in her tatement has now held

its first meeting.

The College's imention as a member

ofthisgroup(whichi chairedbySir

Tim Ches ells, Chairman of the London

Implementation Group) will be to seek

a urance that any propo ed u e of the

Guy's site for non-clinical purposes must

produce a ubstantial gain for the whole

of the 'allege in ensible time.

We are discussing what parts of the

Guy's site could be provided, on what

time-scale, and with what financial

implications. The College need

confidence about it future, confidence

about the time- cale and confidence

about the affordability of any propo al .

I will keep staff informed of option

that are brought forward. The deadline

for the group to report i June, which

should give lJ time thoroughly to

evaluate the academic, financial and

other implications of any plans.

Judge Marcus Edwards and the Pn'ncipal

held a press briefing on 10 February to

present the findings of the Judge's report

into the College's student discipline

procedures, following tne Donnellon case.

Copies ofthe Judge's report and the

College's press statement were distributed

widely in Ihe College thal day and are

available for consultation in chooloffices,

departments and libraries. A copy ofthe

report has also been made available 10 the

CVC? Task Force on student discipline,

chaired by Professor Graham Zellick.

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ews

A new item in the Sunda) Times

reported on babie born \A ith

deformitie in certain c1u ter in Britain.

ugge tion ha e been made a to the

cause, including radioacti icy.

However, Dr Kyprianos 'icoJaides,

Professor of Fetal MedICIne, KCSMD,

explained that the c1u ter could ha e

ari en by chance and that limb defects

occur naturally when a bag of nuidaround the unborn baby i torn and then

close in on a protruding arm or leg,

cutting off the blood upply.

Dr Sue /lamilton, Lecturer in Indian

Religions, was intervicwed by the Today

newspaper for a feature on the

increasing popularity of Buddhi m

among t Wc terner. he at 0 took part

in the BBC World ervice World ofFaith

programme on the hi torical religiou

background to recent di turbances in

India.

Article in the Independent highlights

research undertaken by Ms Sharon

Germ/itz, ProfmorStephen Ball. and Mr

Richard Bowe, all of the Centrefor

Educational Studies. The article

examines the problems faced by

'bottom of the league' schools and the

difficult deci ions they have to take.

An article in the Daily Telegraph covering

the heated debate over consciousnesscanvassed a number of distinguishedscientists, including Professor John

Taylor, Professor ofMathematics and

Director ofthe Centre for Neural 'e/Works.

The 'ew York Review of Books feature on

Freud was recounted in the Independent.

It discu sed the correspondence

between James Nopkins. Philosoph)'

ucturtrand Profe sor Frederiek Crew,

author of the piece and Profe or of

Engti h at the Cniver ity of California,Berkeley, regarding Freud' eduction

theory.

Mr Midzael Clarkt, Executive Director ofthe

Centre for Defence Studies, appeared on

Radio 4 's The World Tonight, discus ing

the appointment of General Sir y1ichael

Rose as Commander in Chief of

L:MPROFOR 10 130 nia. lie was al 0

quoted in a feature in the Today

new paper on the future role of the L:. '.

mthe debate 0 er the use of egg from

aborted foetu e 10 fertility treatment,

Professor David Papineau, Professor of

Phi/osophyof cience, wa interviewed by

the Independent. lie expre ed the viewthat there wa an important difference

between u ing foetal tissue and foetal

egg. L: nea e over the i ue accentuated

the general dilemma over egg donation

generally, whether from live women or

aborted foetu es.

.l.heMail on Sunday ran an article about

an army medic who is to sue the MOD

after he was told to have an abortion or

10 e her job. Legal experts are divided

on whether a pro ecution could bebro ugh t. Mr Andrew Grubb, Director ofthe

Centre ofMedical Law and Ethics, claimed

that an abortion in the e circum tance

would probably be lawful.' rguably,

you have a tronger case there for

showing the di tress caused if she had to

10 e her job over it.'

Profmor Ridzard Ooery, Profmor of

Modern Ilistory, appeared on Channel 4's

Secret Ilistory programme talking about

the Dambusters' raid. He also featured

in the Oldie magazine in an article trying

to determine the validity of a booklet

originally published 1940 entitled I was

/litler's Maid.

Professor David /look, lit. d ofSpanish

and Spanish-American Studies. wal>

interviewed on The John Dunn

Programme on Radio 2to answer an

enquir about Moori h pain submitted

by a listener.King's expertise i tretching world­

wide and we have recei ed cutting

from a couple of over ea new papers:

Professor Ted Grant, Head of Plrysics,

appeared in one of the Canadian

qualities about the buzzing some people

hear in their ears which could be caused

by microwaves from radar

establishments. DrClive Page, Reader in

Pharmacology, appeared in the ikkei, a

Japane e paper.

III

hemi try Teacher'

Con erence

Cl d 7i In Ing. e

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(le ture

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Computer me - l/. 's

l!'lZ. Should y;;e /

compulersP

enCl, simul. lion nd

supercompu/erJ (illu trated

lectures)

25 \1arch Howengineeringhdps

medicalprogress and

relz bi/itolion (a erie of

hort tal , demon tratlon

and tours)

25 \!larch Compul and mod

Ion ages (exhibitIOn and

demonstration)

25 & 26 \1arch RadIO days (interaCt! e

dl pia s, exhibit and

pre entatlons).\!lathematl s Teacher'

Conference

BIology do) at the

Randall Institute

(demon tratlons, talks,

display, Interactive

exhibits)

2 \!larch

21 \1arch

he Colle e'W 11 be celebrating

set- (the fir t _ 'a lonal Wee

o cienee. En meenng and

1 echnology, rom 1 to _7 . larch), 'WIth

manye en open to the public. The

v.eek I upported b the 0 fice of

ience and Technology and I being

organi ed by the Briti h.'\ ociation for

the Ad aneement of lence. It.; aim i

to bring" ,E and T" to the public

through a nationwide programme of un,

popular events, and at Ica t 00

organi ation natIOnwide Will be

partICipating,

ome of the King' event require

prc-regi. tration. For further detail

contact Anne Roblnson on ext 26

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Apolo le to Dr. ndre'W Wal er 'Who

appeared In thl tlon la month: the

'Faith and Rea on' column appear m

the In tp I not the limitS

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Sono/i Pontiyo piclured here wi/h her

brother, Suni/

onall Pandya. the eIght year old

dau hter 0 'alml Pandya, a

member 0 our Pay roll ICe, hit

the headline recentl 'When he became

the younge t candidate to pa a G I:-exam, onali t a GC E m Computer

tudie 'WIth her brother unil, who i

eleven, and both were ucce ful. onali

will appear in the next edition of the

Cuiness Book ofRecords. under a newl

created category for the you nge t

ucce ful GC E candidate.

,\fter the children had 0 much fun

uSing their father' computer their ather

arranged pnvate tuitIOn for them and

their parent could hardly believe It

when. after a fc", months, the tutor

wanted to enter them or the G I..exam, vIr Pandya mamtam that, onali

I Ju,>t a normal glrl-' he ,>tlll love

play109 with dolls and Lego and

watchmg her Ideo of Jungle Book o..erand over.'

seven days plus exploringscience,engineering

and technologytrom 18 March

The chool of Life, Ba ic \1edical

and Hcalth lence i organising events

entitled Whodunnil Corner (about pollen

and fibre analy e ; Tackle pollution

rwithout gettingyour hands dirty and Allyou

won/ to knorg; OboUI tropica/ diseases: date .

time and venues till to be finali cd

when Comm t went to pre .

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0, not the AutomobileA sociation or even

Alcoholics non mous but

academic audit. The College has

received the draft report from theHEQC uditor for comment. Thigives u the opportunity to tell you howwe shaped up under scrutiny.

As you well know changing patternwithin the Liniver ity of London have

refocu ed much of the responsibility forthe monitoring and asse ment of

academic standards in the Colleges.This proce s is a continuing one with

the responsibility for the awarding of

degree likely to be delegated from thestart of the 1995-96 academic year. The

College therefore is very much in atransitional phase and the visit of the

audit team was particularly pertinent inthat it would offer a commentary on theintroduction of policies and proceduresthus far.

External vi itation are by their verynature labour intensive. The auditors, if

they are to do their job properI ,requireacces to va t quantities of information/documentation and these auditorscertainly were no exception. The

Academic Standards section of theRegistrar's Department co-ordinated thevisit and collated the documentation

which proceeded it. Including suchitems as prospectuses, video and all

manner of minutes of meeting ( uch a

those for departmental staff/studentcommittees) a total of 84 documentwere produced/gathered and thencopied - 16 times! Organi ing theirdelivery was a task in itself. To theircredit the auditors had clear! read whathad been provided and then a ked for

more!The audit visit itself lasted for three

day. During that period the auditor

looked at a wide cross-section of the

College community. Apart from eeing

the Principal and other senior officerthe timetable included meetings withrepresentatives of the CollegeCommittee, the Standing Committee,the Teaching and Re earch trategyCommittees, the Academic AuditReview Group, the Course Approval

and Review Sub-committee, theStaffing Policy Committee, theAcademic Staff Committee and the

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EqualOpportunitie Forum. taffatalllevel were een including tho e onprobation, a were undergraduate and

po tgraduate tudents in both formaland informal setting. The number and

variety of the meeting atte ts to the

thoroughne of the audit proce s.

What then of the outcome? The draft

report is highl complimentary of theCollege' effort, indeed the College icommended for:

the recent establishment of theprinciple of College-wide quality

assurance arrangements and thecommitment with which theimplications of thi are being

pursued,

the e tablishment of a Teach ing

Strategy Committee reporting to

the Academic Board' tandingCommittee to compliment the

Research trategy Committee,

the clarity of procedures forprogramme and course approval asset out in the Cour e Approval andReview ub-commiuee :"otes ofGuidance,

the u e of external experts and the

quality of the documentationprepared for the "Peer review"process,

the work undertaken by theAcademic Audit Review Group in

conducting audit trail and

publishing summary reportshighlighting good practice andmaking recommendation forimprovement,

the 'buddy' and 'parenting'cheme of tudent induction and

support in the School of Law and:vledicine and Dentistry

provision for research training for

postgrad uates and for research

upervi ors especially in the Schools

of Education and :vledicine and

Denti try,

the work of the PersonnelDepartment overall and particularlythe staff development and appraisal

mechanisms,

the e tabli hment of an EqualOpportunitie Forum and the

intention to monitor taffrecruitment data in thi re pect

the acce ibilit of taff to tuden

and the commitment of teacher

and tutor to engendering learningat the highe t level.

uch commen are very welcome. Thereport al 0 contains a erie ofsuggestion for the College to con ideron how it might improve mattersfurther. The e will be evaluated by thevariou committees concerned andfurther proposals will be put before the

tanding ommittee for it

con ideration.The College can be well pleased with

the auditors' reaction to it efforts andwe extend our thanks to all those whowere involved in the vi it. I hou Id like

to pay particular thank to KateQuantrell and Loui e ~adal for thework they did both in preparing for andduring the visit.

Professor Robert I (illChairman, Academic Audit Review

Group

Ccncr.1 Rc carch l'lInt!

Applications for re earch grants are

invited from member of the niversity

(other than present undergraduatetudents and tho e registered for a

taught Ma ter's degree) who areengaged on specific projects of originalresearch, to a i t with the provision of

expen e ari ing from project eg pecialmaterial, apparatus and travel cost.The clo ing date for application for thesummer term i Monday 11 pril.

The clo ing date for applications forPostgraduate tudentship for the 1994­

95 session is ue day I March

Forms of application and further

particular may be obtained from the

ecretary to the Central Research Fundand cholarship Committee, Room 21a,

enate House, Ma let treet, LondonWCI E 7H U. Telephone 071-636 8000(Research Grants extension 3147) and( tudentsh ips extension 3042).

Actl It \\Ithin the European C nlOn on

e tabli hlng the Framework 4 Research

and Development Programme i gearing

up rapidly. The total budget ha now

been agreed at 12 billton ecu~ for 1 4-

""Ith a further one billion ecus In

re erve for a mid term asse ment. \110 t

o the money will go to funding research

programmes and network, with Itfe

~clences and the environment featuring

more trangly than In the past.

Ilowe er, 750 million ecus will be made

available for training and mobility grants

and 420 million ecus to promotion 0 co­

operation acro and outside of Europe.

Over 70 King' people attended a

recent [~uropean eminar hy '1Im Willl

from the Brussel office of the CK

Re earch Council and ha e regi tered

their interest with KCL Enterprl es. If

you have not yet done so, pleasc contact

your School Liaison Officer for KCL

Enterprises or Sara Kell on 071-872

3321. We now have the European

Union working guidelines for most

programme under Framework 4.

\ hil t the e guideline have et to he

flnalt ed and ratified. they proVide a

good picture of the area which will gain

funding.

Whil t the call for re ar h proposal

are till ome wa off (estimate range

from. eptember to December), ""hen

the do come it will be in a ru hand

with very little time to respond. 0 nowIS the time to be identifying and talking

to potential partners acros the

European Cnion and preparing the

groundwork for future projects. Abo let

u know how we can help.

La\\' Fair 94

\i1ary 13a1dwin

Carcers Adviser

King'S Law Fair auraeted more

exhibitOrs and student than

ever thl ear. Around 1,200

students attcndcd thc Fair, "" hi h wa

or 'anized by the areer dVI ory

rvice and took place on 1January

and 1 Fehruary. Over 40 firm of

oltcitor were repre entcd, togcther

with thc ollcge of Law, thc I.aw

ommi Ion, thc Crown Pro ecutlon

crvice, the Government Legal. rvicc,

the European taffing l;nit of the

abinet Office and the Inns of Court

and General ounci! of the Bar.

ExhibitOrs commented on the quality of

students they poke to and the Great

Ilall venue. tudent, too, appreciated

the chance to speak to potential

employers on an informal basi . "I he

legal profe ion continue to be a

popular destination for King's tudents

from both law and non-law discipline.

1n 1992, 6 fir t degree grad uate from

King' tOok olicitOrs/barn ter final, of

"" horn 44 were law graduates and 22

were non-lawyer. There wcre al 0 five

King's po tgraduate tak ing the e

exam, four of whom had studlcd for the

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ResunriI f

~alcolm 'ims

DirectOr, KCL Enterprise

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D r Roger Williamson has been

appointed Director of the

Council for Arms Control,

ba ed at lhe entre for Defencetudie . lie was previoul Director of

the Life and Peace In titute, L pp ala,

weden and Executi e ecretar, for

Peace and II uman Right of the British

Council ofChurche .

He has publi hed widely on topic

including: the arm tradc; nuclear

deterrence and non-proliferation; lhe

ethic of war and peace; the role of

religion in armed conflict; and human

rights.

The Council for Arms ontrolpromotes research on arm control and

disarmament issues. It wa formed in

19 1 by a group of academics, former

diplomat, ch urch leader, militarypecialist and politician from all major

parties.

c\\ Dm::ctorofCouncil tl)r\rm (;ontrol

he Centre ha won the

Threlford \1emorial Cup: theIn titute of Lingui ts award

for the be t performing ollege in theMay 1993 examination. The cup will

be pre enled to the Centre at lhe

In titute' AG\1 in March.

The Language and Communication

Cenlre wa onc of 380 centres eligible

for the prize.

Lm~ul L '""

Com m11 tllc.l[IO!1 Centr e

Trudi Darby

chool Administrative Offi er,

Ilumanltie,

excellence. 'I heir feedback wa very

appreCiative of the I1 istor, teach 109 at

ing' ,of the upport for tudents from

tudent ervlce and the chaplaincy, and

of the breadth of ed ucation offered b

the opportunity to take the AKC. It

included the comment that Kmg'

I1 i tory Department wa the leadmg

centre of excellence for the teaching

particularly of Imperial and

Common\\ealth hi tory - v.hich we all

knew an way! Congratulation to

Andrew Porter, to the lecturing taff,

and to the ecretanes Brenda Turner

and \1iranda later who prepared the

paperwork.

&taee

Dcpartmcnt o! I Ii tor\

he Department was asses ed

by an IIEFCE team on 17-19

Jan uary, and was found to be

providing 'Excellent' education for its

students.

History i one of the di ciplines which

ha been undergoing the IIEFCE

exercise to assess the quality ofeducation. The department completed a

elf-as e sment in \1a and included a

claim to be providing excellent

education. This claim was originally

turned down but, after an appeal by the

College, the Funding Council agreed toend a team to visit the department.

The lead As essor made a preliminary

visit before Christmas, at which the

particular problems of evaluating federal

teaching were discu sed and the College

was given a list of supplementary

information to be provided; this, whenassembled, almost filled the I lead of

chool's room, which was taken over a

the Assessors' baseroom.

After two and a half days with the

Ili tory Department, the As essor had

no hesitation in upholding the claim to

Debbie Bebbinglon receiving her diplomafrom Professor lenifer Wilson Barnell

Dip Ill", in" 'ur in.g

epa t

Cent e

The first ceremony for the graduating

students from the Diploma in Higher

Education in :--: ursing cour e was held at

Dulwich College on Friday 26

ovember.

The ceremony, which wa the fir t to

be held ince the college' integration

into King' , was opened b Profe or Jill

\1acleod Clark, Director of thc

~ightingale In titute. Profe sor

\1acleod Clark pointed out that the e

were pioneer graduates who represented

some of the fir t Project 2000 studentsin the UK and who were indeed the fir t

Project 2000 students in the outh East

Thames region and expre sed pride in

the high tandard of nursing education

programme and in the student whohad achieved the standard set.

After an introduction by Brian altcr,

Academic Regi trar for King's, Profe or

Jenifer Wilson Barnett, I lead of

Division of~ursing and Midwifery,

spoke and said in her address that the

reform of nurse education had been

almost a revolution. It had been

nece sary to change the per pective of

nursing and every opportunity had to be

taken to reflect on the real contributionit could make. She said that the

education hat he gradua e had

undergone had given them the wisdom

and understanding to influence health.

The Profe sor aw medical care a only

one mall factor in influencing the

health of the nation and had every

confidence that the graduate could

meet the challenge of change. She then

made the presentations to 162

graduating nurses congratulating each of

them personally.

P

Dr Vanessa Davies snowing Professor LoverIne Lan age and Communicalions Cenlredisploy aline Ilumanilies Researcn FtJlr

HU111anitieResearch Fair

Professor John La\er,

Chairman-de ignate of the

H umanitie Research Board of

the British Academy, was gue t of

honour at the Re eareh Fair ,taged by

the School of Humanities in the Great

Ilall on 10 February.

The Fair took the form of stalb

di playing the research work being

carried out in all the major di Ipline" in

the choo!' It wa the first eve m of It,

kind ever to be held in the l. K. and wa,

Imended to raise the profile of re,earch

III art -based subjects and, equall ,to

give members of the public the

opportunity to ee how the _ hool

spend the tax-payer 'money. 'ome

exhibitor di pia cd ho\\ Illformatlon

technology can be u ed to manipulate

large data ets, including i ual image;

other offered the work of the library­

based cholar and emiced v"ltors to stop

and di cu their ideas.

Profe or Laver ta ed for three hours

and spoke to all of the exh ibltor . lieremarked that the fair wa enjo able,

informative and impre ive, and he

hoped other institution wou Id follow

the King's example.

The Report

he 1994 King' Reporr was

published earlier this month.

Thi i the second of our

magazine-style annual publications

giving what we imend to be a lively,

attracti e and above all readable accoum

of a cro - e tion of the College' work,

both in tea hing and in re earch.

We hope that colleagues will not only

fi nd it of interest them elve but will

al 0 pa." It on to a wide range of their

contact outside King' , in order 10 help

publicise the College.

We ha cued the Commenl mailing

list to end the Reporr out within the

ollege. but we have a ked those who

dl tribute it In departments etc if,

III tead of automaticall pa ing one

copy to ea h member of taff. they

""ould ask staff to hare copies in an

appropriate way. Thi will enable ome

copie to be kept in the department,

unit or office and provided, for example,

with research funding applications, to

vi itor coming to the College, and to

anyone likely to be interested in the

ollege' work. We would be most

gratefUl if head of department could

encourage thl to be done.

Limited numbers of further copies of

the Reporl are available from this Office

(ext 3202). We have alread distributed

It widely within the Govemment,

Parliament, Civil Service, pre sand

broadca ting media. re,earch council.

funding council, indu try, busine and

commerce, local borough council, and to

many people connected with the

College.

I hope ou will enjo reading the

econd edition of the Reporr, and look

forward to having your commen

Chri tine Ken on Jones

Director of Public Relation

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Professor Conrad Russell

Profe sor Rus ell has been e1ccted lO a

ir Hen!)' avile Fellow hip at \1erlOn

College Oxford for the year 1 94-1 5.

Davld Ball

Deputy College. creta!)

\lelanle Gardner 073

Press nd In/ami /Ion Officer

he ta Ing 0 the Pre and

PublicatIOn 0 lee Will be

temporarily chan ed between

February and \ugu to cover hri tine

Jamle on' maternity leave.

The tr cture 0 the Office will be

follow: ex

Chrr tine Kenyon Jone 3072

D,rector of PubJu &1otlons

Iona Lee 074

ACllng Public /tOns O/fre

Karen Fletchcr 3202

Temporaf) Press and PubJzc tlOns ASSIStant

Pr<..: nd Public caffch ngc

helley immon 071

Pr, Hand Pu III:atwnr AHlStant

O ur new bankers, the allonal

We tmlnster Bank plc, 5t\ldwych Branch, have

indicated that they will be happy to

di cu s any aspe ts relating to mortgage

facilities, In ludlng competitive rates and

offers with any member of staff. whether

or not there i a banking relationship

With that member of staff.

If interested please contact:

\1 r James Rodea

Accredited \10rtgage Advi er

:"ational Westmin ter Bank plc

1 el: 071-242 6294. ext 222

Dr Colin Sinnoli at h,s leaving party heldat the beginning 0/ February to mark his

retirement from the post 0/ Director 0/the

Thameslde C mpus Project After nine

years with the Coliege Dr Sinnoli wili not be

leaving King's, since he has enrolled/or a

part-time PhD in the Department 0/ WarStudies. Dr SinnOli is pictured with BillS1ode, the College Secretary.

Le r from E cl n (onrad

Dear Eve!)one

I am wfIlin to than the Ph)' iolo ~

Department for giving me uch a

wonder ul part and 'scnd-o r v. hen Iretired rom King' .

It wa lovely to ee 0 many riend a

the party on 14 January and I hould

like to thank everyonc v..ho contrrbuted

so generou I~ to the cheque I received.

I Y.ould al 0 like to thank Profes orPeter \1c..aughton and 'v1lchael

Bradbury for their excellent peeche

and the nice things they aid about me.

I hould al 0 like to say how much Iappreciated all the help I received from

e eryone in Phy lology over the year

and to say how I con Idered them my

frrend a well a colleagues.

I enjoyed my working life at Kmg'

very much Indeed, and after over 2 years

I knoY. that I shall mls ou all very

much. I Iowever. re t a sured that I hall

come in to see you from lime to time.I'm looking forward to enjoying my

retirement and to my trrp to Canada and

the Rockie In J unc.

Once again very many thank to you

all for everything.

(Everyn was the/omur f)epartmental

Secretary in the PhYSIology Department)

e\\ard

Staff

Professor Anthony DaviesProfe or Davie from the Department

of Electronic and Elec(f1cal En Ineerrng

ha been elected a Fellow of the

In titute of Electrical and Electronic

Engineer. He has been elec ed for hi

'contribullon to the theo!) and analy i

of active network '.

Election to Fellow of the IEEE i a

prestigiou honour. bestowed upon a

very limited n umber of member who

ha e made outstanding contribution to

the art and science of electrical and

electronic engineering and related

di ciplines. In 1994, onl 24 new

Fellow were elected from a worldwide

IEEE member hipof oyer 300.000.

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24 Marchset1 Lecture and SeminarRoom B22, Cornwall House, 7.00019.00Science and thinking: the brain, themind and learning sCienceMartin Mon and Peter Gill

7 MarchProfessional Development Evening.

an introduction to professionalcourses offered by CES

Cor wall ouse Annexe, 7.30 to20.30. Con ac Dr argare Cox on07 -872 3 25 or u he de ails

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I...du non tudic Room 102, onol Building, StrandCampus, 700PalaeoenVJronments In the Kathmanduvalfey, epalAdam Cu is, 109's

1 & 2 MarchKing's College Opera Society

ew ea rePurcell's Dido & Aeneas

Call 07 -836 5454 e 2029 or de ails

2 MarchInstitute of Advanced MusicalStudies ColloquiumRoom G01, Department of Music,Strand Campus, 17.00 0 18.30

Tenors and basses in the VenetianOspedale

ichael Talbot , University ofLiverpool

Ij Tent23 FebruaryInstitute of Advanced MusicalStudies ColloquiumRoom G01, Departmen of USIC,S rand Campus, 17.00 0 18.30Fif eenth-century organ music and itsperformance practice

imberly Marshall, Royal Academy 0USIC

23 February

Centre for Philosophical StudiesLectureRoom 1B06, Strand Campus, 17.15PhIlosophy and artificial intelligence:Simulating real experience: turningFaraday's intelligence into artificialintelligenceDr David Goodong, University 0 Ba h

24 FebruaryDepartment of Music Concert

Room G01, S rand Campus, 13.05to include music by Brahms. aryWong, violin; viola player and pianis tobe announced

28 FebruaryCentre for Hellenic Studies andByzantine & Modern Greek StudiesSeminarRoom B6, ClaSSICS Departmen ,S rand Campus, 17.00

Embassies and missions, dignified andeffIcient: the middle Byzantine period

Jona han Shepard, Cambridge

1 March

Department of Geography Seminar

3 MarchAnnual Lecture from theDepartment of War StudiesRoom 2B08, Strand Campus, 17.00British power and European stability:the historical record

Dr Zara Steiner, ew Hall, Cambridge

3 March

Centre for American StudiesSeminarRoom 27C, Strand Campus, 16.15

Cultural PolitIcs in mid-twentiethcentury AmericaDr Douglas Tallack, University of

ottingham

3 MarchDepartment of Music Concert

Room G01, Strand Campus, 13.05to include music by Mozart. Hea herHunter and Eleanor Meynell,sopranos; Giles Whi e, baritone

3 MarchCentre for Hellenic Studies with theGreek Archaeological CommitteeUK Lecture

ew Theatre, S rand Campus, 18.00The Trojan Cycle in East GreekIconographyDr Anna A Lemos, University of Athens

4 MarchTheology ConferenceGreat Hall, S rand Campus

A con erence in honour 0 the RevRichard Coggins and Professor Leslie

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7 MarchCentre for Hellenic Studies &Byzantine & Modern Greek StudieslectureReo B6, ClassIcs Oepa men',S rand Ca pUS, 17 00Theodertc In Cons an mople Romanand Go hlc rela IOns m he la e I hcenturyP 0 essor Jud, e fin P'lnce 0

7 MarchDepartment of Music ConcertRoom GO S rand Ca puS 3 05o nclude 'T1USIC bV a d and

S os a ov cIng's Co ege Orc es a and C ara

L ,pia 0

8 MarchDepartment of Geography SeminarRoom 102, or 01 Building, S randCampus, 700Modellmg vegetation-erosIOncompetl IOn on abandoned land m SESpam

JoV Obando, King's

8 MarchDepartment of Music Concert

Room GO ,S rand Campus, 305Concer 0 be given bV he Twen le h­Cen ry or shoo

9 to 12 MarchDepartment of Classics presents:King's College Greek Play 1994Aeschy/us' Agamemnon. per ormed ,nhe onglna Greeew T ea e, S rand Campus

9 & 11 500 and 930,10 & 2 arc 19 30 TIC e s, £4 Foru er de ails el 07 -873 2399

10 MarchDepartment of Music ConcertRoom G01, S rand Campus, 1305wor s bV J S Bach, Pro of,ev andMesslaen Ann Warner, flu e, and

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Sa'a" co S, iJ a'lO10 MarchCentre for late Antique & MedievalStudies lecture~OOI"" • 306 S'ra 0 Ca 0 s, . 7 30B sops and e ,a;..<. m e ear

,ddleAgesu'Rosa:"!"lo"'c

14 MarchCentre for Hellenic Studies andByzantine & Modern Greek StudiesSeminarRoom 86 C,ass,cs Oepa men,S ra d Ca pus, 7 00Vene o-Cre an drama he reader asspec a orRose ary Bancro . arcus

15 MarchDepartment of Geography SeminarRoor" 02 oro BUild ng S randCampus. 700AdjuS mg 0 peace and mdependencem Ovam o/and, amlbla0' Pair ca Oa ev, U I ers 'V 0 0 'ord

16 Marchliddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives and War StudiesDepartment ConferenceGrea Hall, S rand Camous, 1030 0

700D Day debated What was It Ir e to behere)

16 Marchliddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives Annual lectureGrea Hall, S rand, 800 0 900

DDay1\;1a as Ings, Ed' or of The DailyTelegraph

17 MarchCentre for Philosophical StudieslectureCo m ee Room, S rand Campus,730

lssues m MedIcal EthICS should wemIx mds) Transgemc engmeermgPro essor S ephen Clar ,Unrve s' 0L verpoOI

25 Marchset1

Fover, S rand Campus, 10 00 0 6 00Computers and Modern Languages

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1 MarchThe British Institute of HumanRights Lecture.e ~rea"e Si'a 0 CafT10 s • 300

'0" 00

C III e",es n he cr m na jUSilCes seP,o essor Ii chae Za de', 0

Sc 00 0' ~co 0 cs e De' o· '~e

Ro a COrYl ss 0 o~ C 'la,.) S' ce

14 MarchCentre of Medical law & EthicslectureRoo B04, S ra d Ca""pus, . 3 00 0, 00

Who can consen ) Who can re use)B enda Hoggen, QC, La Co ISS:O

22 MarchCentre of Medical Law and Ethics &Nuffield CouncilGene le Screemng SymposiumSirand Ca'T1o s cons der e

pi ca ons 0 ,e 'f eld Reoort onGe e c Scree Ing 0 be publ shedshor ,v Spea' ers w cludePro essor Oa e J L oVd, Pro essor anKennedy, S, Pa liC a,me, Pro essor

argot S acev

Life. BI it. kl!lcal noI k.lIth SClcncc

28 FebruaryMaxwell Society lectureRoom 2C, S rand, 4 00 0 5 00

The spy m the s yOr S aJba hs, Ing's

28 FebruaryDivision of Biomedical SciencesRanda ns: u e Lec'ure ea' e,7000'800

Chroma m s ruc ure and geneexpressionOr Gary Felsen eld, a ,0 al ns u eso Hea, h, Be hesda, aryland USA

7 MarchRandall Seminarhe Randalllns . u e, Oru Lane,700

E2F an expandmg famtlyofheterodfmertc transcrtptton factorsmvolved m cell cycle controlOr IC La Thangue, I R, ill Hill

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8 MarchBurton Memorial lectureRoom 1B06, S rand Campus, 17.00

Inorganic chemIstry as a source ofnew physIcsPro essor P Day, FRS, Royal Ins 't on

9 MarchBiomedical Sciences Division OpenDayGreat Hall, S rand,1 .00 014.00

14 MarchRandall SeminarThe Randalllnstitute, Drury Lane,17.00

Mutants and protein tyrosine kinasesin the Interferon alpha beta andgamma signal transduction pathwaysDr lan err, ICRF, Lincoln's Inn Fields

23 Marchset1

Hands on public events, 10.00 to

16.00Matters of life and deathRandall Institute (ticke only), DesIgnergenes and other molecular matters

ensington Campus, Ecosystems andpollUtion: tackle pollution withoutgetting your hands dIrtyContact Reena PateI on 071-3334648for tickets and further information

7 MarchThe Chelsea Alumni Lecture

College House, Chelsea, 18.30

From Aids to ZOVlfax: A selection form

the lexIcon of drug discoveryProfessor Trevor M Jones, Director,Research Development and Medical,The Wellcome Founda ion Limited

Ph " ical Science andEngineering

7 MarchMaxwell Society lectureRoom 2C, Strand, 14.00 0 15.00

Droppmg a clangour: a sCIentIst looks

at bell-ringingDr M T Sprac ling, ing's

14 MarchMaxwell Society Lecture

Room 2C, Strand, 14.00 to 15.00Microwaves - goodbye to cancer.?Dr Helen Taylor, Cancer ResearchCampaign

21 Marchset'Mathematics Teachers' ConferenceSpea ers J G Taylo , Mathema ICS

and he mindeill, Changes m VI form

mahema ICSA G Gardlner

Con ac Dr e Laird, e 2226

24 Marchset'Chemistry Teachers' ConferenceComac Dr elth Jones, ext 2534

25 Marchset'Modern Chemistry - what it has doneformankmdCon ac Dr ei h Jones, ex 2534

25 Marchset'IIlus ra ed lec ures on compu ing:

1 Computer crime - a witch's brew2 Should we trust computers?

3 SCIence, SImulation andsupercomputersComac Dr Richard Overill, ex 2833

25 Marchset'How engineering helps medicalprogress and rehabilitation. A series ofshort talks, demonstrations and toursContact Dr orman Borrett, ext 2639

25 & 26 Marchset'Radio Days: The wonder of RadioCommunications will be illuminated by

in eractlve displays, exhibi sandpresentations. An ama eur RadioS ation will be available. Programmede ails from Dr i e Holwill, ex 2715.

Obituarv~

Alan Hill CBE

lan Ilill, council member ofChel ea

College before 1 - and of King' for

several ear after the merger, died on

17 December 1994. He was elected a

r-ellow'Of King' College hort! after

the 19 - merger. However, thi was not

onl a recognition of hi un tinting

contribution to Chel ea and King's; it

was also a reflection of his distinction as

one of the country's leading publisher.

Alan Hill' outstanding contribution

was in educational publishing. lIe was

born into a chool teaching family in

1912 and his father became pre ident of

the :"ational union of Teacher . Mter

graduation and a hort spell in teaching

he joined Ileinemann in J936 and

remained with them, apart from war

ervice in the RAF. Whil t he knew

many of their great names - Graham

Greene, Jacob Bronowski, Robert Bolt

for example, he concentrated on

education and founded Heinemann

Educational Books. This became

famou in school education, producing

many work which were outstanding

ucce es, not only in thi country but

world-wide. He was continually

oversea ,and played a special part in the

encouragement that Heinemann gave to

African writers.

Alan rose to be managing director of

the Heinemann group. He was also

founding chairman of the Educational

Publi her' Council. However, his

interests were far wider in scope;

witnes his love for the Lake Di trict,

where he served on the Council for the

Lakes ociety, and his interest in

classical archaeology, which led to hi

Fellow hip of the ocietyof

ntiquaries. There wa al 0 hi interest

in politics, for he had sat at Prime

Minister Callaghan' table with the

Fabian cognoscenti and campaigned, at

the age of 80, to help secure Glenda

Jack on' succe s at Hampstead in the

la t election.

Tho e who knew him per onally

could al 0 enjoy hi involvement in

London club with dinners at the

Garrick and the Athenaeum. More

ignificantly, we could also admire and

enjoy the affection and devotion that

wa apparent after over SO years of

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marrted li e, between himsel and hi

WI e Emd.

lan HIli aye much 0 hi ime to

helpln the ""or of the. 'u leld

Chelsea CUrriculum Tru t. ""Ith ""hlch

the Cencre or Educational cudle h

been closel, a oclaced. Thl unselfi h

con rtbuuon "" 'pical 0 hi character.

He wa generou In I~lng of hi

expertence and III wIthout thou ht 0

per onal benefic. At the same Ime, in

plce 0 a bu y life with numerou

commltmenc long afcer retlremenc, he

was alwa' relaxed, thought ul and

encouraging. Tho e of u who enjoyed

hi company and hi per onal upport

will mi him, but we hall al 0 feel

privileged that King's College could

ha e enJo ed part 0 so dl tlngul hed a

bfe and wa able to pay it due honour.

Profe or Paul Black,

Cencre for Educauonal • cudle

KClA Annual DinnerThe Annual Dinner 0 'In' Colle e

London oclauon "" 11 be held on

Fnda: 1 . larch in he Great Hall at he

uand Campu . The A ocla Ion Will

""elcome those member 0 ta ""ho""ould li e to a tend

enJo: tal In 0 currenc ta 0 he

College.

KCL:\ Pre Ident, Dr Helen Hud on,

""ill pre Ide, and the gue t pea er ""ill

be Rhlannon Chapman, Dlrec or of The

Ind u mal oclety. There"" ill be a

recepuon In the Council Room at 1 .30,

dinner wdl be at 1 .1' and after-dinner

drtnk will al 0 be avadable In the

Council Room.

The co t of the dlnncr. Including

..... ine and drin IS £ I Please contact

\Iargaret Bro""n, -' mor Common

Room, trand Campu ,071- 73 2 7.

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oticebo rdThe Black Sea UniversityThe Black a Cnlver Ity, et up in

1992 by a group of cholars and

re earcher from the European Culcural

Cencre In Buchare t, IS seeking LKleccurers to teach at a ummer. chool In

Romania. The Cniversity IS an

international cencre for continuing

education specialising in shore courses,which has recognised the pres ing need

for updating the knowledge of young

professionals, enhancing their sense of

co-operation and partner hip for joint

projects, and developing the Initiative

skill required by the modern economy

and the values set by dem raClc y cem .

Between May and Occober the

Cniver ityorganise a erie of ummer

hool in Costine ti-. 'epcun, Romania,

and they are inviting lecturers from thc

C niver ity of London to run course,

which u ually last for one or two ""eeks.

Leccurer will havc co find their own

cravel eoses, but accommodation IS

provided free of charge.

nyone incerested in particlpaClng in

the ummer chool programme of the

Univer ity of the Black ea should

contact Dr Mircea Malitza, 50 Primaveril

Blvd, Bucharest, Romania (telephone

401618.50.04, fax 401312. 3.27) or

Gabriel Gafita, Cu Itural Counsellor,

Embassy of Romania, 4 Palace Green,

London W8 4QD (telephone 071-937

125, fax 071-9378069).

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May Ball 1994The Cafe Royal, aturday 7 \1ay I 94.

Black TIe

rhl year the May Ball i being held

In thc magnificent Empire. apoleon

Ballroom at the Cafe Royal In PICcadilly.

Reno ..... ned for Its style and elegance,

thiS SUite plays host to Royal and

elebrit) Galas.

The Ball will follow a similar

programme as In prevIous years, of a

reception, five course dinner and Wine,

and Itve entertainmenc until I am.

KCLSC have managed. despite

Inflation, to keep the co t of the ticket at

£4', and additionally bar price at the

Cafe Royal are comparable to nightclub

price. Tickets are on sale from first

floor Reception. Macadam Budding.

Wanted to rentFlat or hou e, one or two bedrooms,

from pril. Any area con idered. Contact

Dr C Boyle on ext 220', or 041-649

02 .

Flat wantedltaltan profe or of musIc history (35),

With Wife and baby eeks cencrally

located 2-bedroom flat for research viSit

<Warburg In tlcute, Cniversity of

London) from 15, prtlto 15 June 1994.

Please telephone Jane on 0 1-9795864

or lAMS, 071- 732576