What The Papers Say December 2009
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
Greenwich
Woolwich Polytechnic, now the University of Greenwich, has its first Nobel laureate according to Guardian.co.uk, Ingenia and Belfast based U.TV website.
Hindustan Times, Sakal Times, Glimpse of the Future, Shadow, State Times and DNA reported that Greenwich courses were now available in India and signed agreements with various organisations there.
Greenwich accredits courses offered by the London College of Clinical Hypnosis according to the Halifax Evening Courier, Highlands & Islands Press & Journal and Business 7.
Members of the University of Greenwich Ruby Club have posed for a Calendar Girls style calendar according to Docklands and Greenwich.co.uk website.
Greenwich has chosen IT service management software from Sunrise Software according to Realwire and PublicTechnology.net website.
Greenwich is among those that have supported the appeal to provide a permanent display for the Greenwich Millennium Embroideries at the Greenwich Heritage Centre according to the Greenwich Mercury.
Greenwich Mercury reported that Tony Wright, Audio-visual Manager, created jingles for Chris Evans BBC 2 Radio Show in which he sang lyrics in the style of Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond and Dean Martin.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Professor Ed Galea gave advice on how to survive disasters on planes and trains and in buildings on ABC Nightline programme. The American Broadcasting Company is one of the large US networks.
Greenwich picked up the outstanding research team award for its work in using computational mechanics to help restore the Cutty Sark according to Guide.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Edward Willatt questioned the assumption that ‘disciplines whose subject matter is unfamiliar or appear to lack relevance to the real world are non-vocational in a letter to Times Higher Education responding to an article about cutbacks in philosophy teaching at UK universities.
Alessandro Benati, reader in second-language acquisition, is the co-author of a book called Processing Instruction & Discourse according to Times Higher Education.
Greenwich Maritime Institute
The Peninsula, Bexley Times, Wharf, Kent on Sunday, Kent on Saturday, Medway Messenger, Kent Messenger, KM Extra and Greenwich News Shopper reported that a new book on Admiral Byng had been written by Chris Ware. In 1756 Byng was held prisoner in Queen Anne Court which is now part of the University of Greenwich prior to his trial and execution.
General campus news
According to the News Shopper ‘the area where the (Greenwich) palace once stood is occupied by the University of Greenwich and Trinity College of Music.
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
According to Architects Journal and Artdaily.org Anam Hasan was winner of the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing category in the RIBA Presidents medals for her project Desert(ed) Hotel. Mariska Schreuder was also shortlisted for her project The Depository.
Architects Journal and Artdaily.org reported that Professor Alan Powers was among the judges for the RIBA Presidents medals.
Build IT had a feature on the Brooking Collection.
According to the New Hampshire based Nashua Telegraph Alfred Au, Occupational Safety & Health Postgraduate, has been named as US operations manager for the National Standards Authority of Ireland.
Education & Training
Police Service Gazette reported that students from the Certificate in Teaching Competence course have recently graduated.
Health & Social Care
According to the Daily Mail, Daily Star, Blackpool Gazette, BBC Radio Kent, Kent on Saturday, and Kent on Sunday, research by Dr John Foster for the Alcohol Education and Research Council, found drinking at home is now routine behaviour for millions. He said that 'Supermarkets are “normalising” the purchase of a drug for adults that over time is likely to have major health costs, including rising cancer rates’.
Rhona Meek had an article with the theme that it is time to challenge stereotypes of the elderly in Greenwich’s regular column in Kent Profile.
Medway
School of Engineering
According to Kent Business Professor Alan Reed and Professor Mike Bradley played a leading role in the UK Trade & Investment mission to Australia and gave presentations on the Wolfson Centres research.
Mechanical Engineering graduate Gert De Kok has been hired to lead the research team at Oil Drum who manufacture fuel saving hydrogen generators reported the Whitstable Times, Faversham Times, Canterbury Times, Your Canterbury and Herne Bay Times.
School of Science
Your Medway, Wharf and BBC Radio Kent reported that Colin Hills and Paula Carey were guests of the Prime Minister who praised them for their ground-breaking green invention which captures carbon dioxide and turns it into rock. It simultaneously converts contaminated soil and industrial waste into harmless pebbles which can be recycled as a construction material.
Colin Hills was interviewed about the Folkestone earthquake on BBC Radio Kent.
According to Medway Messenger and In Practice (Ecology & Environmental Management) a partnership between Greenwich and Entec UK to address the skills gap meeting the needs of profession was the runner-up for the Tony Bradshaw Best Practice Award at the Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (IEEM) annual conference.
Greenwich Research & Enterprise has links with creative arts and manufacturing centres in South China according to the Medway Messenger.
Natural Resources Institute
NRI is one of the partners in trials aimed at finding ways of controlling cherry’s major pests and diseases by non-chemical means according to Horticulture Week.
General campus news
The campus hosted a meeting of Medway Parent & Carer Forum according to Medway Messenger.
Further information
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