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Professor leads development in hormonal disorder research
3 Feb 2012
  • Queen Mary, University of London is leading the UK’s part in a European-wide collaboration which has been given the green light to accelerate scientific discovery in hormonal disorders.
    • New research will investigate role of hygiene in infant growth
    3 Feb 2012
  • Dr Andrew Prendergast, Senior Clinical Lecturer in paediatric infection and immunity at Queen Mary, University of London, has been awarded a Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust to study the effect of improved sanitation on the health of infants in developing countries.
    • Students re-write history on the Number 10 website
    2 Feb 2012
  • Prime Minister David Cameron met with a select group of history students from Queen Mary, University of London to thank them for revamping the history section of the Number 10 website.
    • Ten years of Student Volunteering at UCL
    2 Feb 2012
  • To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Volunteering Services Unit at UCL, the Wilkins South Cloisters is currently home to an exhibition of photographs showing some of the vast number of volunteering projects UCL students have been involved with over the last decade.
    • Report reveals year of research success
    2 Feb 2012
  • The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust have launched their Joint Annual Research Report for 2010/11, highlighting a year of significant achievements.
    • SAS-Space Collection of the Month for February is the recently digitised collection of research papers on the Americas
    1 Feb 2012
  • The SAS-Space Collection of the Month for February is a growing collection of recently digitised occasional research papers from the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA), and the Institute of Latin American Stu read more
    • Proposed EU Data Protection laws unlikely to promote cloud computing, warns Professor Millard
    1 Feb 2012
  • The European Commission's draft Data Protection Regulation is intended to be ‘cloud friendly’. Will it work?Professor Christopher Millard, leader of the Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary, University of London, gives his views.
    • Mending Broken Hearts at Queen Mary this Valentine’s Day
    1 Feb 2012
  • Queen Mary, University of London will be offering something a little different this Valentine’s Day- an exclusive event that asks the question poets, lovers and singletons have been musing for centuries: can you die from a broken heart?
    • Prostate cancer drug shows impressive new Phase III trial results
    1 Feb 2012
  • Patients with advanced prostate cancer who were given a new type of hormonal treatment called MDV3100 lived an extra 4.8 months compared to men taking a placebo, according to the full analysis of a Phase III trial.
    • Provost's Awards for Public Engagement at UCL
    30 Jan 2012
  • The Provost's Awards for Public Engagement have once again recognised the fantastic work that UCL's staff and students are doing to open up what happens at UCL, creating two-way conversations with the public.
    • Cutting off the oxygen supply to serious diseases
    30 Jan 2012
  • A new family of proteins which regulate the human body’s ‘hypoxic response’ to low levels of oxygen has been discovered by scientists at Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary, University of London and The University of Nottingham.
    • Queen Mary’s researcher development programme scoops EU Commission award
    30 Jan 2012
  • Queen Mary, University of London has been recognised for its programme to support research staff and their career development, with a prestigious award from the European Commission.
    • Art by Animals comes to London
    27 Jan 2012
  • An exhibition featuring works of art from several species of animal, including paintings by elephants and apes, starts next week at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology in collaboration with a graduate from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art.
    • New School Visiting Fellow: Professor Lisa Lowe
    27 Jan 2012
  • Professor Lisa Lowe arrived on Monday, 16 January to take up her post as the School’s Visiting Fellow for 2011/12.  read more
    • City bonuses are matter of bad business practice, says Professor Harney
    27 Jan 2012
  • Following news that Stephen Hester, CEO for Royal Bank of Scotland, has netted an annual bonus of nearly £1m, Professor Stefano Harney, Chair in Strategy, Culture, and Society at Queen Mary, University of London makes the following comments on the City bonus culture:
    • €915,000 grant awarded for Department of Economics research
    26 Jan 2012
  • Jan Toporowski and Ben Fine, Department of Economics, have won a European Commission Framework Seven five-year research grant worth €915,000.
    • UCLU referenda result
    26 Jan 2012
  • UCL welcomes the outcome of the vote announced today by the UCLU. UCL is today one of the most popular and respected universities in the UK and internationally.
    • UCL student film selected for festival
    26 Jan 2012
  • A film by four UCL students has been selected for the London Student Film Festival, which runs from 3 - 5 February 2012.
    • Project to reveal hidden pioneers of modern medicine
    26 Jan 2012
  • Testimonies of the ‘unsung heroes’ of modern medicine will be captured in the largest medical history project of its kind at Queen Mary, University of London, thanks to a £1.4m Strategic Award in the History of Medicine from the Wellcome Trust.
    • Controversial bill would end right to comprehensive health care, say academics
    26 Jan 2012
  • Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and public interest lawyers have made a detailed legal and policy analysis of the Government’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill.
    • UCL modern language entry requirements
    26 Jan 2012
  • At UCL, we believe that knowledge of a modern foreign language and the possession of intercultural skills are an integral part of a 21st century education.
    • Musicians, artists and scientists collide at the SuperCollider Conference 2012
    25 Jan 2012
  • Musicians, artists, computer scientists and coders will be brought together in April for a festival exploring work with the SuperCollider audio programming environment.
    • Learning Matters: Queen Mary’s dynamic new online journal reveals what makes an outstanding university teacher, and more….
    25 Jan 2012
  • University students value inspiration, encouragement, support and humour over subject or method-related concepts when nominating excellent teachers, reveals a study by staff at Queen Mary, University of London.   2051 comments contained in the nomination statements made by Queen Mary students for its Excellence in Teaching Awards were analysed at both Institutional and Faculty level, focusing on the traits, skills and approaches that students identify as being ‘excellent’. The study: “What makes an outstanding university teacher”, recommends that those skills, traits and approaches which students value should be looked at in appraisal and promotion schemes for university teaching staff, and is among just some of the content of a dynamic new online journal being launched for the academic community by Queen Mary: Learning Matters.
    • Major new Scholarship Programme to support 15 students at UCL
    24 Jan 2012
  • 15 undergraduate students from underprivileged backgrounds will receive £10,000 a year throughout the three years of their studies at UCL, thanks to a £450,000 gift from the Reuben Foundation.
    • UCL and partners win £5.4 million for PhD studentships
    24 Jan 2012
  • UCL has led a successful multi-institutional bid for £5.4 million to fund new PhD studentships in a competition run by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
    • Vicious Venoms and Poisonous Parasites at Centre of the Cell
    24 Jan 2012
  • The exciting workshop ‘Vicious Venoms and Poisonous Parasites’ will take place during the February school half-term holidays at Queen Mary, University of London’s unique science education centre, Centre of the Cell.
    • Women with faulty BRCA genes more likely to survive ovarian cancer
    24 Jan 2012
  • Ovarian cancer patients who carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are significantly more likely to survive the disease than women without these faulty genes, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
    • Development Viewpoint N.69 has been published
    22 Jan 2012
  • The Centre for Development Policy and Research is very pleased to announce the publication of Policy Development Viewpoint #69 “India’s Software and IT Services Sector: An Elite Enclave or a Boon to Development?”
    • February is Diversity Month at UCL
    20 Jan 2012
  • February is Diversity Month at UCL and there is a varied programme of events taking place to celebrate diversity across the organisation.
    • External structural work complete on UCL Academy in Camden
    20 Jan 2012
  • The new UCL Academy in Swiss Cottage is on target for an official opening in September of this year. The completion of the external structure was celebrated this week.
    • Naked mole-rat secrets laid bare at annual odour lecture
    20 Jan 2012
  • A double lecture on the way naked mole-rats and leaf cutting ants use smells to ‘talk’ was held at Queen Mary, University of London last week in front of Britain’s leading experts in the flavour and perfume industries.
    • ‘Rules’ may govern genome evolution in a young plant species
    20 Jan 2012
  • Rapid genome evolution can occur in predictable patterns, an international team of scientists has found whilst researching young plant species. The discovery – published online in Current Biology 19 January 2012 – provides new evidence for predetermined pathways in evolution.
    • Princess Anne launches new Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series on the Monarchy and the Commonwealth
    20 Jan 2012
  • Image courtesy of the Commonwealth SecretariatOn 11 January 2012, the Chancellor of the University of London, the Princess Royal, visited the Institute of Commonwealth Studies to launch a series of seminars for the Diamond Jubilee Year exploring the relationship between the monarchy and the Commonwealth. read more
    • Musculoskeletal side–effects from breast cancer treatment are not long term
    20 Jan 2012
  • A drug regimen found to cut a women’s risk of dying from breast cancer gives a higher risk of carpal tunnel syndrome, but this can be managed and does not persist once treatment has finished.
    • New portal launched for teaching and learning staff
    19 Jan 2012
  • UCL has launched a new Teaching and Learning Portal. It provides teaching and learning-related resources and materials alongside advice on current issues. It also explains a variety of teaching methods - both classroom-based and online - and allows UCL colleagues to communicate around Teaching and Learning via a virtual staff room.
    • New website launched to help students transfer from school to university and employment
    19 Jan 2012
  • A new website designed to help students make the transition between school, university and employment is launched today, by Queen Mary, University of London's Thinking Writing team.
    • Recommendations made for genetic testing for Trimethylaminuria
    19 Jan 2012
  • Recommendations for genetic testing of an inherited disorder known as trimethylaminuria or ‘fish odour syndrome’ have been produced by researchers including Professor Ian Phillips from Queen Mary, University of London.
    • High risk oesophageal cancer gene discovered
    19 Jan 2012
  • New research from Queen Mary, University of London has uncovered a gene which plays a key role in the development of oesophageal cancer (cancer of the gullet).
    • Ecologists gain insight into the likely consequences of global warming
    19 Jan 2012
  • A new insight into the impact that warmer temperatures could have across the world has been uncovered by scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
    • UCL Institute of Archaeology celebrates 75 years
    18 Jan 2012
  • This year marks the 75th anniversary of the UCL Institute of Archaeology (IOA). A number of events are planned to mark the anniversary, including panel discussions, exhibitions, outreach activities and experimental archaeology demonstrations.
    • UCL, Intel and Imperial poised to establish Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities
    18 Jan 2012
  • UCL, Imperial College London and Intel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of establishing an Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities.
    • Scientists unravel cause of second cancer arising from targeted treatment
    18 Jan 2012
  • Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have shown how to prevent new cancers which can occur when malignant melanoma patients are treated with drugs known as BRAF inhibitors, in a Cancer Research UK-funded study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
    • QM entrepreneurs visit Downing Street for high-level technology talks
    17 Jan 2012
  • The founders of a Queen Mary, University of London spin-out company joined the country’s leading technology experts at 10 Downing Street last week to discuss start-ups, sentiment detection and supercomputers.
    • The Crusades, Dr Thomas Asbridge's landmark series, to air on BBC2
    17 Jan 2012
  • Dr Thomas Asbridge, of Queen Mary, University of London, will present The Crusades, a new three-part series tracing the history of the 200-year war between Christians and Muslims for control of the Holy Land. The first episode will air on BBC Two and BBC HD at 9.30pm on Wednesday 18 January.
    • UN Secretary-General supports SOAS initiative on the UN in WW2
    16 Jan 2012
  • A seminar to be held at Lancaster House on 18 January, 2012 will celebrate the 70th anniversary of a crucial diplomatic initiative of WW2: the Declaration by twenty six United Nations on 1 January, 1942.
    • Cell ‘battery’ found to play central role in neurodegenerative disease
    16 Jan 2012
  • A devastating neurodegenerative disease that first appears in toddlers just as they are beginning to walk has been traced to defects in mitochondria, the ‘batteries’ or energy-producing power plants of cells.
    • Queen Mary wins Cathay Pacific's New Horizons Award at the Cathay Pacific China Business Awards
    16 Jan 2012
  • Queen Mary, University of London was named the winner of the New Horizons category in the Cathay Pacific China Business Awards 2011 – a prestigious awards scheme designed to acknowledge and celebrate UK business dynamism and success in Hong Kong and China - which took place at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Friday 13 January 2012.
    • Queen Mary’s third annual MS Research Day to be held at Westminster
    16 Jan 2012
  • Queen Mary, University of London’s Neuroimmunology Group will be hosting their third annual Multiple Sclerosis Research Day on Saturday 28 January at the Church House Conference Centre, Westminster.
    • EATS 2012 Calls for Papers
    15 Jan 2012
  • Call For Papers: The Ninth Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) to be Held on 18-21 June 2012 at the University of South Denmark.
    • Volunteering Fair: Thursday 19 January
    13 Jan 2012
  • On Thursday 19 January UCL will be hosting a volunteering fair, organized by UCL Volunteering Services Unit (VSU) and the UCLU Volunteering Society (UCLU VolSoc).
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