What The Papers Say February 2009
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
An article called The US - India ‘knowledge’ relationship: the sleeping giant stirs! by Tim Gore, Director of the Centre for Indian Business, appeared on the Global Higher Education website.
Metropolitan Life (a magazine for police in and around London) reported on courses that might be of interest to their readers including Criminology, Forensic Science, Law and Psychology.
According to Sri Lankan based Sunday Times Greenwich staff from the International Office regularly visit Sri Lanka and around 350 students from the country study at the university.
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090215/Education/ed717.html
Info4Security website reported that Payne Security had provided a new ID Card system for Greenwich.
http://www.info4security.com/story.asp?sectioncode=13&storycode=4121622&c=1
Greenwich is among those exhibiting at Careers & Jobs Live at Excell according to Ilford Recorder, Newham Recorder, Romford Recorder and Barking & Dagenham Recorder.
According to SecED (The voice for Secondary Education) Beaverwood School for Girls was triumphant at last year’s Aim Higher Awards thanks to its student ambassador programme led by Greenwich student Adam Brett.
Greenwich
Business
James Kennell, Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Regeneration, argued that arts and culture could act as a catalyst for regeneration in the coastal towns of Kent in Greenwich’s regular column in Kent Profile.
Maria Clarke, MA Marketing graduate, is the new show secretary to the Marden Fruit Show Society according to the Kent Messenger.
Professor Stephen Thomas co-signed a letter in the Independent expressing concern over the unqualified portrayal of nuclear new build as a sustainable solution to climate change.
Events Management students are putting on a fashion show at the Wetherspoons in Greenwich to raise money for Great Ormond Street Children’s hospital according to Greenwich Time.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
According to Aviation Week & Space Technology researchers at Greenwich performed an evacuation trial using a mock Blended Wing Body cabin.
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.
Professor Ed Galea and his Fire Safety Engineering Group are looking for people who were caught up in the 2005 London bombings according to the Romney Marsh Herald, Thanet Adscene, Dover Express, Ashford & Tenterden Adscene, Folkestone Herald, Hythe Herald, Kent on Sunday, East London Advertiser and KM FM radio (a local radio station in Kent ).
Professor Ed Galea gave advice on steps that travellers can take to improve their chances of surviving an air accident in the Times, Guardian and German website Welt.
http://www.welt.de/english-news/article3285731/What-are-your-chances-of-surviving-a-plane-crash.html
Following the air crash at Schipol airport the Glasgow Herald reported Professor Ed Galea as saying that the rate of accidents was very low and the survival rates of even life threatening accidents were very good.
Humanities & Social Sciences
In the Independent Professor Mark Pawlowski explained that a US court ruled in 1991that the onus was on the seller to disclose if a house had a reputation for being haunted.
Niamh Newman, English literature and media writing graduate is running the Crystal Inn in Great Yarmouth with her sister according to the Great Yarmouth Mercury.
Music Production graduate, Dave Batchelor, has left Sheppey radio station BRFM and is now going to work as a studio manager at the BBC according to the Sheppey Gazette.
Creative Writing & English graduate, Novlet McLeary, who is writing her first novel was given as an example of what can be achieved by the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning according to Adults Learning.
In an article in the New Law Journal Sarah Greer said that the Ministry of Justice has been compelled to undertake a review into the protection afforded to borrowers by the existing law.
Mobile News cited Media, Culture & Communications graduate (2004) Sayed Hajamaideen, who is now channel marketing executive at 02 UK as someone who had moved from shop floor to head office.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
Professor Sarah Palmer, Director, was the focus of the Me & my Borough feature in Greenwich Time (the Greenwich Council newspaper).
General campus news
The campus is hosting the Women in Business Forum in March on International Women’s Day (March 6) according to Meridian and Greenwich Time.
The University of Greenwich Big Band will be performing at the Old Royal Naval College next month according to Greenwich Time.
Avery Hill
Members of the Jamaican women’s netball squad trained at the Avery Hill Gym ahead of their three game series against England, the first game of which was held at the 02 in Greenwich.
Architecture & Construction
Building Surveying graduate, Stuart Martin, has been appointed Project Manager for the London and South East Office of Salus Building Control and Fire Safety Consultants according to Building Engineer.
The President of the Royal Institute of British Architects said in the RIBA Journal that the work of the prizewinning Greenwich students is being displayed on the walls at RIBA.
Sidney Carrasco, MSc graduate, will become a Graduate member of the Ergonomic Society when he graduates according to Ergonomist magazine.
Building Design reported that Alan Powers discussed the work of Erno Goldfinger with broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson in the first of a Royal Academy series.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=429&storycode=3134059&c=2
Reverend Christopher Dench, Assistant Director of Ministry and Training at Rochester has won a bursary to study for a Masters degree in therapeutic counselling at Greenwich.
According to the Eastern Daily Press Greenwich graduate Emily Barnston has been awarded a partnership at Feilden & Mawson, one of East Anglia’s oldest firms of architects.
Ed Frith reviewed a book by Iain Sinclair titled Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report in Building Design.
Zairul Musa, MSc graduate in Facilities Management, is the co-author of an article about Shopping Centres and their Management systems in the Journal of Retail & Leisure Property.
Education & Training
Professor Ian McNay had two letters published in Times Higher Education. The first was about the recent fall in part-time student numbers, the other about the appearance of Satan or Lucifer in the Bible and the media.
Retford Times reported that Janet Fairbrother (nee Adams) is trying to trace Eleanor Lissaman who was a fellow student at Avery Hill College from 1956-8.
Health & Social Care
Lynn Baxter, senior social work lecturer, reviewed a book titled The Emotional Well-being of Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK in Community Care.
Jane Reeves, research lead in the Department of Family Care & Mental Health, reviewed a book titled Shattered Lives: children who live with courage and dignity.
Ambulance Life reported on the success of Paramedic course at Greenwich.
According to the News Shopper Bexley Care Trust has reappointed Paul Cutler as Non-executive director. He occasionally lectures on social care at Greenwich.
Kerri Wright, Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, was the co-author of a paper in the British Journal of Nursing titled Barriers to effective pain management in sickle cell disease.
Lynn Baxter, senior social work lecturer, reviewed a book titled The Art of Social Work Practice in Community Care.
Medway
School of Science
Eureka website and Medway Messenger reported that Dr Andrew Haggart had given a lecture on climate change at the campus.
http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/16907/Climate-change-should-we-be-concerned.aspx
Dr Monem Jemni, Sports Science programme leader has been given a science and research achievement award at the Asian Artistic Gymnastic Games in Qatar, according to Kent Profile.
According to Medway News, Kent Messenger, Medway Messenger, KM Extra (Medway), and Only Kent website nutrition expert Dr Paul Amuna has been invited to share his expertise at a prestigious international conference in Ghana.
http://www.onlykent.com/20090204/university-expert-to-speak-at-african-conference/
John Nicholson, Professor of Biomaterials Chemistry, reviewed a book titled Polymers, Patents, Profits in Materials World.
Dr Bruce Alexander and PhD student Craig Morton are trying to develop new approaches to a process called photocatalysis – producing hydrogen from water using sunlight according to Kent on Sunday.
Twenty promising young athletes carrying Kent’s Olympic hopes are receiving support from Kent County Council, Greenwich and other partners according to Kent on Sunday.
Medway Messenger gave advance publicity to a School of Science Open Day next month.
Natural Resources Institute
Kent Profile and Medway News 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.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jgfxoPfzbS59dsNPN62jLchuo-gw
According to Tanzanian based Daily News, the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC) in close partnership with NRI launched a Cassava –Adding Value for Africa (CAVA) project, aimed to support the development of High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF).
http://dailynews.habarileo.co.tz/sports/index.php?id=9852
According to the Bangladesh based Daily Star, New Age, Financial Express, Independent, Bangladesh Today, New Nation, the Daily Rupashi Bangla, South African based Times, Hong Kong based The Standard, Google News, SOS Childrens Villages and Agence France Press (AFP), Steve Belmain, rodent ecologist, is studying the impact of a rat infestation in Bangladesh.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=78740&sid=22854297&con_type=1
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=949102
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g04nUtpU1oiADQINyaKL4pFkkPbQ
http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/plague-bangladesh-fear-.htm
The Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency reported Julian Quan’s comments at a Technical Centre for Agricultural & Rural Cooperation (CTA). He said that in principle small-scale farmers can be more efficient per hectare than more commercial farms but the way global trade works it is easier for agribusiness to produce food at a scale that can meet the standards required for global markets.
Medway School of Pharmacy
A photo of four Pharmacy students making a snowman in front of the Pembroke building made the front page of Your Medway and the Kent News website. It also appeared in the Medway Messenger.
General campus news
Your Medway and Medway Messenger reported that students at the Universities at Medway organised a number of events as part of Go Green Week.
Timber Trades Journal reported that the new student accommodation includes an acoustic floating floor.
Kent on Sunday reported on the Upbeat Day marking the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Medway Adscene publicised an International Women’s Day event which will be held at the campus.
The campus was hosting an Open Day on Saturday 21 February according to the Medway Messenger and Kent Messenger.
Modern Methods of Construction reported that Baudet have supplied bathrooms for the new Student Halls of Residences at the campus.
The next Pembroke Lecture at the campus will be about the prison hulks on the River Medway according to the Kent Messenger and Medway Messenger.
The campus is hosting a careers fair called the Medway Futures Roadshow according to the Kent Messenger and Medway Messenger.
Folkestone
According to Building Design the University Centre Folkestone forms part of the ambitious plans to redevelop the harbour area of the town.
A group of Nepalese women have completed a course run by the centre to help them apply for jobs and do well in interviews according to the Hythe Herald, Romney Marsh Herald, and Folkestone Herald.
Kings Hill
Meetings & Incentive Travel reported that Kings Hill had increased the number of rooms available to hire.
Further information
More details on many of these stories and others can be seen on the PR website at:
University of Greenwich press releases are now available via Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
http://www.gre.ac.uk/pr/rss.htm
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Some websites only have stories online for a limited period before they are removed or replaced.
The text of some of the articles contained may be accessed by university staff and students via the university portal using the Information & Library Services Lexis Nexis electronic database.