What The Papers Say May 2008
(Individual campus news follows below)
Obituaries for former Chancellor Lord Holme in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Times, Birmingham Post, Liverpool Daily Post , the weekend Financial Times, Middle East Times Western Morning News and Yorkshire Post mentioned his role at the University of Greenwich.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/universityguide/profile/story/0,,2276816,00.html
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/05/12/atlantic_eye_of_kings_and_kingmakers/28e3/
In the Times, architecture correspondent, Marcus Binney, praised the use of the Old Royal Naval College by the university and Greenwich Foundation.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3957792.ece
The London Paper mentioned the BSc in Animal Management available through Hadlow College in a How to be an…RSPCA Inspector feature.
Greenwich has the most Indian students in the UK according to the Guardian.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/internationalstudents/story/0,,2280979,00.html
The Bexley Times and News Shopper reported that the Greenwich American Football Team had drawn 14-14 with the Kent Ravens.
An article in Indian based Financial Express about the visit by Professor Rick Trainor, President, Universities UK, said that previously he was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich.
A letter in the Daily Mail mentioned the university as the location of Gordon Brown’s keynote speech on education last year.
Peninsula publicised the annual lecture being given by Peter Lilley MP on Why isn’t poverty history.
Greenwich is among three universities helping a deprived area of Kent through the South East Communities Project according to New Start.
Greenwich
Business
According to the News Shopper, Events Management degrees at Greenwich are increasingly popular.
The Guardian reported that Max Tookey, Senior lecturer in Management, explained that in reality an aggressive approach to sacking people is storing up problems such as industrial tribunals.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/may/03/workandcareers
Peninsula reported that former Greenwich lecturer Melanie Smith argued that the 2012 Olympics would not be a white elephant at the Olympic Legacy conference held at the campus.
Innovation and entrepreneurship lecturer, Victor Newman, was the subject of a full page article in Kent Business.
According to Bromley News Susan Mundy and Christine Jacques are celebrating a change of life after taking part in a 50+ e-enterprise course at Greenwich.
People Management reported that Geoff White, Professor of Human Resources Management is the co-author of a new textbook called Employee Reward.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
US based Business Wire, Earth Times, Consumer Electronics Net, Internet IT Business Net and Centre Daily website reported that NDS Surgical Imaging has appointed Greenwich Computer Science graduate John Murphy as New President and CEO.
http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/592827.html
http://digitalaudio.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=392662
http://business.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=392662
Professor Ed Galea and a team of international colleagues have won a grant of two million Euros from the European Union for research into why people from different countries behave differently in a crisis according to Australian based News Medical, the Engineer online, German based Innovations Report, Cordis and Alpha Galileo websites.
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/306454/Modelling+a+disaster.htm
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38691
http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=17447
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/studien/bericht-111135.html
The Independent mentioned the Digital Animation degree in an article about the subject.
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-degrees/digital-animation-819313.html
According to Kent Life, Greenwich and the Cutty Sark have won Best Partnership London.
Professor Chris Bailey is addressing a conference on Packaging Technology according to the Advanced Packaging website.
According to Meridian Greenwich and the Cutty Sark have won Best Partnership London.
SBAC (The Society of British Aerospace Companies) website reported that the second NACRE (New Aircraft Concepts Research) conference will be held in July at the Greenwich campus.
Greenwich Time reported that final year multimedia students are showcasing their work at an end of year show.
Education & Training
Professor Ian McNay said that increased resources were needed to provide increased learning support for students in Times Higher Education.
Humanities & Social Sciences
A team of researchers led by Dr Sandra Dunster is planning to write the definitive history of the Medway towns according to the Medway Messenger. This forms part of the Victoria County History project.
Southwark News reviewed the New Voices season at Greenwich Playhouse.
http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/arts-and-listings/00,news,10220,462,00.htm
The London Paper mentioned the Law course and next Open Day at the Greenwich campus in an article about Law courses.
The Brentwood Gazette reported that Thomas Acton, Professor of Romani Studies, is backing a call for a meeting between local residents and those from ‘gipsy and traveller communities’.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
According to BBC Online Louise de la Fayette, visiting professor at the University of Greenwich said of the failure to reach a comprehensive agreement between the five states who met to discuss : "I am disappointed that they seem to have rejected proposals for a comprehensive legal regime for the Arctic.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7423787.stm
General campus news
The Guardian publicised in advance the Annual e-learning conference held at the campus.
Meridian mentioned ‘the arrival of some 7,000 students on the new campus of the University of Greenwich’ in an article about the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
In Britain reported that Sir Christopher Wren’s and Nicholas Hawksmoor’s palatial Old Royal Naval College is now partly leased to the University of Greenwich and Trinity College of Music.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
According to the Manx Independent, Jonathan Walton was planning to compete in the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show studied Garden Design at Greenwich.
The Independent mentioned the Garden Design course at Greenwich in a profile about the subject.
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-degrees/garden-design-820183.html
The East Anglian Daily Times reported that Architecture Postgraduate Mark Hoare designed a garden pavilion for Prince Charles at Highgrove. He is also a Trustee of the Prince of Wales Foundation for the Built Environment and National Trust’s advisory Architecture Panel.
Garden Design graduate, Jemima Hall, is writing a regular gardening column for the Rutland Times.
Kent Messenger reported that Landscape & Garden Design from ‘Greenwich’s Hadlow College campus ….claimed medals’ (at Chelsea Flower Show).
Health & Social Care
Kent County magazine reported that Tracey Vickers who co-founded the Rejuvenation Rooms with her daughter is one of the first students studying for a Graduate Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine at Greenwich.
Medway
School of Engineering
Grahame Baker, Senior Lecturer explained his ‘box of chocolates’ fine for those interrupting lectures by answering mobile phone calls in a letter to the Times.
In Plumbing & Heating Engineering magazine Professor Ndy Ekere congratulated the Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering on gaining a Royal Charter.
Professor Alan Reed has been granted the prestigious Bulk Solids Handling Award by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers according to the Medway Standard.
According to Kent Business Denne Construction has set up a site-based Skills Centre for Management training and employment at Stanhope in Ashford with links to Greenwich.
School of Science
Times Higher Education and Flintshire Chronicle reported that Martin Snowden has been appointed as Head of the School of Science.
According to Charlton FC website the club carried out an OBLA (onset blood lactate accumulation) test on their players at Greenwich in which we looked at the intensity that the players run at and how the lactate builds up over a period of time.
http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=32423&newstype=n
Greenwich is supporting the Foundation Degree in Life Science Laboratory Technology and Bio-Manufacturing at Kent Science Park according to Kent on Sunday.
Kentish Saturday Observer and Kent on Sunday reported that Ecologia Environmental Solutions, has employed Dr Anne Padfield, a Greenwich PhD, as their 50th employee.
Pupils from schools around the region enjoyed a day at Greenwich as part of the Salters’ Festival of Chemistry according to the Medway Messenger and Greenwich News Shopper.
Greenwich, the South East England Development Agency, Kent Bio-Fuels, and Kent County Council have been working together on the Kent Biofuels Project according to Kent Life.
South East Business publicised the new Science laboratories.
The Romford Reporter reported that Sports Science student Jeremy Lynch had taken part in ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent programme demonstrating his ball juggling skills.
Natural Resources Institute
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has backed an NRI initiative to support cassava producers in Africa with a $13.1 million grant according to Times Higher Education, Kent on Sunday, Medway News, Greenwich News Shopper, Medway Extra, Greenwich Mercury, South East Business and Medway Messenger.
NRI is hosting a policy forum on climate change at the Greenwich campus. The event is sponsored by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Development Studies Association and organised by NRI, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and SouthSouthNorth according to Innovations Report.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/umwelt_naturschutz/bericht-111210.html
Kent on Sunday reported on the appointment of Jerry Cross from East Malling Research as Visiting Professor in Horticultural Entomology.
Docklands publicised the annual lecture being given by Peter Lilley MP on Why isn’t poverty history.
General campus news
Invicta FM,Your Medway, Medway Messenger and the Amateur Rowing Association website reported on the Medway Boat Race.
http://www.ara-rowing.org/news/universities-medway-boat-race
Gravesend Rugby Club have provided a bursary at Greenwich according to Medway Messenger.
Medway Adscene reported that local student James O’Connell who is studying networking and systems programming was among those who had received a scholarship from telecommunications company, THUS.
In the Medway Messenger and Medway Matters (local council magazine) Tessa Blackstone looked at the achievements of the Universities at Medway campus in an article celebrating 10 years of Medway Council.
Professor Alan Reed was the subject of a Question & Answer article in Your Medway.
‘The University of Greenwich’s Medway campus is one of the centres that has benefited from extra funding’ according to Kent on Sunday.
According to Specification Baudet UK has supplied 144 bathroom pods for the new student halls of residences at the campus.
Kings Hill
Your County website mentioned the Conference Centre in an article about Kings Hill.
http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/kentbusinessnews/rggroup190508b5.html
Further information
More details on many of these stories and others can be seen on the PR website:
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.