What The Papers Say January 2009
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
The former Principal of Avery Hill College, Kathleen Jones, has donated £100,000 to help those studying to be teachers at Greenwich, according to the Bexleyheath, Welling & Crayford Chronicle.
Bev Woodhams, Head of Central Recruitment, gave advice on what prospective students should do before attending Open Days in the London Paper.
SEGI College in Malaysia offers a nursing degree in collaboration with Greenwich according to the Malaysian Sun Daily.com website.
Greenwich students put on a fundraising concert for the Cutty Sark according to the Wharf.
The launch of the Centre for Indian Business was publicised by South East Business.
Greenwich is one of the lead partners in the South East Coastal Communities Project according to the Kentish Saturday Observer.
According to the Arab Times online Greenwich was among those who exhibited at the British Council’s annual Education UK Exhibition in Kuwait.
Greenwich is one of only two universities that do not charge the maximum tuition fee according to Times Higher Education and the Yorkshire Post. This was mentioned as the only other Leeds Metropolitan may be reconsidering their charging.
Geoff Dench, Visiting Fellow at Greenwich was one of the authors of a Social Attitudes report carried out by the National Centre for Social Research according to the Daily Telegraph and Thai Indian website. The headline findings were that marriage is no longer regarded as important by the young.
Greenwich
Business
Business Administration graduate Samantha Stagg has joined Kimberley Clark Professional as a Marketing Assistant according to Process & Control Today.
http://www.pandct.com/media/shownews.asp?ID=20052
Events Management student Hannah Luffman appears in a new calendar according to the Wharf.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
According to the News Shopper and Maritime Journal computer scientists at Greenwich working with the Cutty Sark Trust won the top prize at the London Knowledge Transfer Awards.
Parade website reported that according to Professor Ed Galea the safest place to sit in an aircraft was within five rows of an exit.
http://www.parade.com/news/2009/01/how-to-survive-the-worst.html
According to US Based College news website New York University students are using pen spinning to promote recycling. Greenwich Multimedia student Alex Simpson was quoted as the past organiser of a Pen Twiddling World Championship.
A team at Greenwich has won a SPARK award, organised by an arm of the Technology Strategy Board, for designing engine parts which can work at over 1000 degrees centigrade according to the Manufacturer, Engineer and Rapidline websites.
http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/content/8856/Hot_award_for_tech_team_at_Greenwich
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/309714/Sensors+take+the+heat.htm
Industrial Fire Journal looked at the lessons learned from Professor Ed Galea and the Fire Safety Engineering Group’s research on the evacuation of the Twin Towers.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Thomas Acton, Professor of Romani Studies has been awarded an OBE for services to education according to the Brentwood Weekly News, Colchester Gazette, Billericay & Wickford Gazette, Brentwood Gazette, Essex Chronicle, the Wharf, Greenwich Mercury, Times Higher Education and the Greenwich.co.uk website.
According to Herne Bay Gazette Sarah Dunster, Victoria County History Project Director, gave a talk to Canterbury Archaeological Society.
History graduate Susan Cocks and her husband have set up a business called Guided Battlefield Tours according to the South Wales Argus.
Visiting Lecturer H.P.Wilmott has had a book published on World War 1 according to The Officer.
According to the Wharf and County Fermanagh based Impartial Reporter History graduate Kate Martin land the prize for the best undergraduate dissertation of the year at the History Today awards ceremony at the Tower of London.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
Lloyd’s List reported that GMI has achieved success with its courses in maritime policy and maritime management.
General campus news
New art work by renowned illustrator Quentin Blake features in an exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery aiming to encourage publishers to include a wider range of children in its books. The exhibition is supporting disability organisation Scope’s In the Picture campaign according to the Greenwich Mercury, Bexley Mercury, Lewisham Mercury, Bexleyheath & Welling News Shopper, Bromley News Shopper, Dartford News Shopper, Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper, Lewisham & Catford News Shopper and Gravesham News Shopper, Arts Professional and Docklands.
Ben Reynolds from London Food Link will be talking to the Friends of Greenwich Park at the campus at the end of the month according to Meridian, Lewisham & Catford News Shopper and Greenwich & Charlton News Shopper.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
News Shopper and RIBA Journal reported that Greenwich students Francesco Belfiore and Wynne Leung were named as winners of the top prize for new graduates in the President’s Medals Student Awards for their project Invisible University Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) awards ceremony.
Ross Pryce, an architecture student, runs karate classes in The Arc at Caterham according to the Coulsdon & Purley Advertiser, Sutton & Epsom Advertiser, Croydon Advertiser, New Addington Advertiser, and Caterham Advertiser.
According to Garden Design Journal Andrew Wilson is an external examiner for Greenwich.
Garden Design Journal reported that landscape architect Roberto Silva has a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from Greenwich.
Kentish Saturday Observer reported that Professor Sarah Chaplin has joined the Urban Renaissance Institute as Deputy Director.
Education & Training
A profile in the Daily Express on Chris Stainsby who teaches sport at North Hertfordshire College said that he studied for a PGCE at Greenwich.
Professor Ian McNay argued that PhD standards are not slipping in Times Higher Education.
Debbie Allen, one of the founders of the Kent College of Beauty Therapy has a Certificate in Education diploma from Greenwich according to Kentish Saturday Observer.
According to Nursery World Carrol Powell, Manager of First Steps Pre-School in Blackheath gained the Early Years Professional Status at Greenwich.
The Grimsby Telegraph reported on a memorial service for Avery Hill College graduate, Rheita Mary Watkinson.
Adam Brett, Physical Education & Sport student, appeared on the Vanessa Phelps radio show on BBC London discussing the argument by one MP that dyslexia does not exist.
Health & Social Care
Gravesend Messenger publicised an open day about a career in nursing held jointly by Greenwich and Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust.
The Psychologist reported that research by Dr Oliver Robinson shows that people who have anxious or ambiguous relationships with their parents habitually adapt their personality to fit in to social situations as adults.
Medway
School of Engineering
South East Business reported that bringing the Renishaw Centre for Manufacturing Productivity to Greenwich could hardly be a bigger coup.
The Eureka website cited new developments that they had heard at the Renishaw Centre for Manufacturing Productivity including using the ‘Applying the Productive Process Pyramid’ short course as the basis for a new final year engineering course. Lecturer Grahame Baker also hopes this will lead on to research into auto compensation for thermal effects in machining.
http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/16676/Shrinking-thinking.aspx
According to Materials World Greenwich engineers are helping with a project to scale-up a microwave system to teat oil-contaminated waste from fossil fuel exploration.
School of Science
Professor Martin Snowden gave an interview to BBC Radio Kent about likely technological developments in the next 20-30 years.
Bruce Alexander, lecturer in Physical Chemistry, is looking at materials that gather their energy from a much wider spectrum of the sun than previously achieved according to Eureka. The use of sunlight to directly release hydrogen from water could lead to buildings and even cars extracting fuel from rain.
Carbon8 was given as an example of a spin-out ‘sustainable business out of a breakthrough in scientific research’ according to Green Futures.
Medway Messenger, Your Medway and Your County websites publicised in advance the public lecture on climate change by Dr Haggart. He was also interviewed afterwards by BBC Radio Kent.
Natural Resources Institute
Times Higher Education, Medway Messenger, Kent Messenger, Faversham News, Herne Bay Gazette, Kentish Express (Ashford), Kentish Express (Folkestone), Kentish Express (Romney Hythe), Kentish Express (Tenterden), Kentish Gazette(Canterbury), KM Extra, Kent On Sunday, Your Canterbury, Your Medway, Kent Director, Your County website and HUB (SEEDA magazine) reported that NRI expertise may help Jim Garrahy’s Fudge Kitchen increase turnover by a predicted £200,000. Food scientist Linda Nicolaides and recent graduate Julie Crenn, helped solve a shelf-life problem by recommending a change to the sugar levels in the fudge allowing the business to wholesale its products to other retail outlets and restaurants.
Kent on Sunday reported that NRI had conducted taste tests into luxury mince pies on behalf of Which? magazine.
Gabriella Gibson, a medical entomologist at NRI said that new research at Cornell University on the mating song of the Dengue carrying mosquito will open up a whole new area of basic research, from neurophysiology to the behavioural ecology of mating strategies according to the US based Wired website.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/mosquitowings.html
NRI is running their Certificate in Packaging course again according to Materials Handling World and Packaging News.
http://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/index.asp?show=newsArticle&id=6184&country
http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/worldnews/news/872676/Packaging-course-aims-provide-competitive-edge/
David Grzywacz gave an interview to the Newshour programme of BBC World Service about the outbreak of Armyworm in Liberia.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090130/full/news.2009.72.html
GhanaDot.com reported that NRI and the Food Research Institute of the Council for Scientific Industrial Research found worrying evidence about the safety and quality of street foods in Ghana.
http://www.ghanadot.com/social_scene.feature.kunateh.food.012709.html
General campus news
Timber Trades Journal reported that the new student accommodation includes an acoustic floating floor.
Medway Messenger, Kentish Saturday Observer and Your Medway reported on the Upbeat Day marking the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
The Medway Messenger corrected a photo caption that labelled the Drill Hall Library as the University of Kent at Medway rather than a joint Greenwich and Kent building.
Kings Hill
According to Kings Director Business Link is running a London 2012 Environmental Management System workshop.
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