Download - Comment 198 - January 2012
CommentIssue 198 | January 2012
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Students at King’s are enjoying the newly modernised Franklin-Wilkins Library, teaching rooms and social spaces on campus and have provided glowing feedback on the services
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Rick Trainor, Principal
A word from the Principal
News in brief
Green Reggie leads King’s to environmental sustainability
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10-year contract extension for
Australian composer and pianist Wendy Hiscocks performs extracts from Nocturne and the British prémier of Dry White Fire. Wendy has recently completed a doctorate on the music of Arthur Benjamin
A hub of activity: students can now access key student support services in Franklin-Wilkins Library Vice-Principal (Health) Professor Robert Lechler
Partners
Avantha Chair and Director of the new India Institute Professor Sunil Khilnani will lead on furthering understandings of contemporary India in its global context
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Take a virtual tour of King’s
Design award for the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing
The Atrium, Franklin-Wilkins Building
Deborah Bull will lead the cross-disciplinary teaching and research initiative King’s Cultural Partners
Lancet Journal of Strategic Studies
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King’s College London and Imperial College London have now formally joined the partnership behind The Francis Crick Institute. The partnership was
Executive of The Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse. The two universities have joined the
the Wellcome Trust and UCL to create the world-leading biomedical research institute in central
London. Accelerating discoveries made in the laboratory into the clinic is a core focus of the Institute.
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Faheem Ahmed uses medical science to raise awareness of gun and knife crime in London
Paige Rushbrook hopes to inspire young people to conserve our oceans
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National Geographic Kids
National Geographic
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National Geographic Kids
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American senator gains honorary degree from King’s
King’s launches alumni branch
What does your current role involve?
What is your proudest work
What do you see as your next particular
Book on your bedside table?
The Hare with Amber Eyes
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Three former deans of the Institute of Psychiatry saw their portraits unveiled at a special ceremony in October. Professor Sir
(2007 to 2009) received tributes at the event in front of colleagues, alumni, friends and guests at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill
Campus. Dean and Head of School Professor Shitij Kapur (far right) said: ‘The portraits capture not only the likeness of the person, but their personality, and the three deans
we remember today have made a tremendous
and will be fondly remembered for their many contributions.’
The Principal, Professor Rick Trainor (far left, seated) and Lord Douro (far right, seated) with the College’s new honorary doctors
Links between King’s and India strengthen
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Anti-doping Professor
Times Washington Post
Neuroimaging techniques
Newsnight
The Devil’s chord
The One Show
Gold on glass
Engineer United Press International
Blood pressure cancer risk
Time to talk
Daily Telegraph Daily Mail
Health and safety review
Sunday Times Daily TelegraphFinancial Times
Breast cancer screening
The Times IndependentDaily Telegraph
Romanian adoptees
All in the Mind
Chemistry at King’s
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Times Higher Education
Japan Times Wall Street Journal Time Economist
Healthy teeth
Mail on Sunday Sun Times of India
Independent GuardianNew York Times
Saving Libya’s heritage
Al Arabiya Sunday
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Evening Standard was
Henry VIII,
Two Gentlemen of Verona
25 years ago:
Focus Flashback
Nature
PanoramaGuardian Daily Mirror
Tensions in Asia
News in brief
Archbishop Tutu’s 80th birthday honour
What next for the US?
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On Living in an Old Country
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature
Of Cabbages and Kings.’
Research and teaching in the Department of English has wide geographical and cultural reach
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
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Blair’s Just War: Iraq & the Illusion
Palgrave Macmillan
Asylum Seekers
Oxford University Press
(3rd Edition)
Mental Health Outcome Measures
RCPsych Publications
Castlereagh
Quercus, Legenda
Story of One Fateful Day
I B Tauris
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What’s on
‘Animals in the Strand: the elephant in the room’ Dr Christine Kenyon Jones 16 January 2012, 18.15 - 19.30 Anatomy Lecture Theatre, K6.29, Strand Campus
The King’s Greek Play: 8, 9 and 10 February 2012, Greenwood Theatre, Weston Street
Hecuba
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Learning from Lister: Antisepsis, Safer Surgery and Global Health
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The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualising Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae
Oxford University Press
Parallel Lives of Jesus: Four Gospels, One Story
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Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World
Hodder & Stoughton
