News from UoL Colleges and Institutes
22 May, 2013
- UCL Communications has developed a new website and a set of easy-to-use guidelines to help colleagues use the visual identity more ...
22 May, 2013
- To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, King's will sponsor an annual 'King's College London Rosalind Franklin Lecture' at the Hay Festival of Literature, as part ...
22 May, 2013
- On 25 May, David Medawar, Senior Programme Manager, Dubai Centre, will begin a World Record attempt to become the fastest person to travel to all 195 countries in the ...
21 May, 2013
- Laurence Smith, from the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, in partnership with Lancaster University and leading institutes in China, has been awarded funding to research sustainable ...
21 May, 2013
- The Federation of American Scientists think-tank has named Keiko Ono Students’ Union sports and societies officer at SOAS, University of London as one of the 2013 - 2014 Pacific Young Leaders on ...
21 May, 2013
- Riding on the success of last year’s Festival, UCL and UCLU are running the two-week Festival of Volunteering this summer. Running 22nd May – 4th June, the Festival will include a variety of ...
21 May, 2013
- King's alumnus and this year's Templeton Prize winner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu returned to King's last night for the Templeton Prize ...
21 May, 2013
- Researchers from King's College London have for the first time used a novel form of MRI to identify crucial developmental processes in the brain that are vulnerable to the effects of premature ...
21 May, 2013
- The number of people diagnosed with eating disorders has increased by 15% since 2000, according to a new study by King's College London and UCL Institute of Child ...
21 May, 2013
- President of Iceland calls for honest examination of fundamental ...
20 May, 2013
- SOAS' Centre of African Studies, in partnership with ASAUK, Goldsmith's College and the MBI Al Jaber Foundation, is holding the conference 'Mali in Transition' at SOAS on 29 and 30 ...
20 May, 2013
- With nearly a year to go until the start of the 2014 World Cup, King's Brazil Institute hosted a panel discussion last night on the changing global perceptions of Brazil and the country's image in ...
20 May, 2013
- An interactive game that explores long-term memory and an art sculpture that responds to changes in air pollution are just two of the projects from the Media and Arts Technology Programme at Queen ...
20 May, 2013
- Two medical students from Queen Mary, University of London have recently been appointed to the national committee of Medsin, a student network and registered charity tackling global and local health ...
20 May, 2013
- Philosopher Jules Evans from Queen Mary, University of London is among 10 UK academics to win the title of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker 2013 and turn their groundbreaking ideas into top ...
20 May, 2013
- Award-winning medical journalist Sandra Hempel is to speak on the Victorian phenomenon of death by arsenic, at Barts Pathology Museum on Tuesday 18 ...
20 May, 2013
- A campaign backed by Birkbeck to promote the benefits of part-time study is launched ...
20 May, 2013
- Scientists at King's College London have discovered that Vitamin D has the potential to significantly reduce the symptoms of asthma. The study, led by Professor Catherine Hawrylowicz from the MRC & ...
20 May, 2013
- Business chiefs discuss the future of leadership at global ...
20 May, 2013
- Britain's employees are feeling more insecure and pressured at work than at any time in the past 20 years, national survey results published today (Monday, 20 May) show. The findings are based on ...
20 May, 2013
- An ICR research programme that will lay the foundations for anyone with cancer to have access to genetic testing has been launched with £2.7 million funding from the Wellcome ...
20 May, 2013
- New studies highlight need for balanced aid distribution and improved care for pregnant women with ...
20 May, 2013
- New studies highlight need for balanced aid distribution and improved care for pregnant women with ...
17 May, 2013
- Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and blood tests to establish the cause of death in fetuses and newborn babies is virtually as accurate as a standard autopsy, according to a paper published in ...
17 May, 2013
- Professor Steve Williams, Head of the Department for Neuroimaging at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical ...
17 May, 2013
- As excitement builds ahead of this year's Play! Festival, we caught up with Stage Manager and Royal Holloway alumna Lizzie Cooper to find out how rehearsals are going and what she finds inspiring ...
17 May, 2013
- Women’s groups can dramatically reduce the number of maternal and newborn deaths in some of the world’s poorest communities, according to a new meta-analysis published in The ...
17 May, 2013
- English and Drama student Catherine Sutherland was recently selected by the British Council from hundreds of applicants to raise awareness of the benefits of international study in an event in ...
17 May, 2013
- With just a few days of non-harmful brain stimulation and brain training, scientists have improved people’s ability to manipulate numbers for up to six ...
17 May, 2013
- The achievements and talent of final year undergraduate students from the Department of ...
17 May, 2013
- LAMP test will also improve diagnosis for imported UK ...
17 May, 2013
- LAMP test will also improve diagnosis for imported UK ...
17 May, 2013
- A London Business School team has won a competition to create employment opportunities for blind and partially-sighted ...
16 May, 2013
- This week Dr Phil Clark was quoted in a UK House of Commons report on Rwanda and was also interviewed by Rwanda Today on post-genocide and reconciliation in the country. Dr Jaeho Kang was interviewed ...
16 May, 2013
- The Centre for International Diplomacy (CISD) at SOAS, University of London hosted a panel discussion Thur 16 May with the Coalition for the International Criminal Court ...
16 May, 2013
- The 2013 Annual Lecture of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) at SOAS, University of London will be delivered by John Ashton ...
16 May, 2013
- The King's Russia Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of three new senior lecturers: Dr Marc Berenson, Dr Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Dr Adnan ...
16 May, 2013
- The presence of Scandinavian-style female jewellery in Britain has overturned the idea that the Viking conquest of England was an all-male affair, suggesting that in fact large numbers of women ...
16 May, 2013
- Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, ...
16 May, 2013
- New research, conducted by Ipsos MORI for the Royal Statistical Society and King's College London reveals important challenges in trust in and the value given to ...
16 May, 2013
- Pioneering X-ray technology is making it possible to read fragile rolled-up historical documents for the first time in ...
16 May, 2013
- Lithuanian Martynas Levickis, who graduated from the Academy in 2012, has secured a major record deal with UK Decca Classics. The 22-year-old winner of Lithuania's Got Talent will be the first ...
16 May, 2013
- The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL has been voted the winner of the inaugural Culture Pros Pick at the Museums + Heritage Awards – the Oscars of the museum world – at the awards ceremony last ...
16 May, 2013
- Friday 14th June, 2.30- ...
16 May, 2013
- Winners of Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing were presented with awards designed by students from ...
16 May, 2013
- Scientists will attempt to find out how malaria parasites manipulate their mosquito hosts after discovering that smell could be a major ...
16 May, 2013
- Scientists will attempt to find out how malaria parasites manipulate their mosquito hosts after discovering that smell could be a major ...
15 May, 2013
- A group of London schoolchildren will debate endangered languages at SOAS, University of London on 21 May ...
15 May, 2013
- The 2013 Alumni & Friends Fund (AFF) telephone fundraising campaign reached almost £97,000 in pledges, exceeding its target by a ...
15 May, 2013
- Almost a quarter of jurors (23 per cent) are unclear about the rules surrounding internet use during a trial, according to preliminary research led by Professor Cheryl Thomas (UCL ...
15 May, 2013
- Advice sessions, lectures and workshops are being held in Stratford during Adult Learners' ...
15 May, 2013
- Scientists from Royal Holloway have found that when white Caucasians are under the illusion that they have a dark skin, their racial bias changes in a positive ...
15 May, 2013
- A new creative app from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London puts the fun into computer programming by transforming photographs of real drawings into ...
15 May, 2013
- Queen Mary, University of London threw open its chemistry laboratory-doors for a day of hands-on fun activities for the Salters' Festival of Chemistry on Wednesday 15 ...
15 May, 2013
- UCL has been awarded a share of a government investment of £50m into UK’s leading universities to drive growth, the Minister for Universities and Science has ...
15 May, 2013
- The Institute of Education is now ranked 7th worldwide in the annual World University Rankings by Subject published by the QS Intelligence Unit this week - an upward move of some ten places from the ...
15 May, 2013
- Professor Heidi Safia Mirza, Professor Equalities Studies in Education at the IOE, joined guests from the world of business, politics, sport, entertainment, charity and the media at a reception at St ...
15 May, 2013
- Dr John Jerrim, Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics at the Institute of Education, University of London, has won a prestigious award for his research on the attainment of UK pupils compared ...
15 May, 2013
- Why even capital backed ventures need a plan ...
14 May, 2013
- The SOAS Language Center now offers Classical Tibetan. This newly created course is intended for those with an interest in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, including practitioners, who have not ...
14 May, 2013
- Palestine and the Moving Image Conference at SOAS, 11 May ...
14 May, 2013
- The first book to address the contemporary relationship between China and Africa has been produced by Stephen Chan, OBE, Professor of International Relations at SOAS, University of ...
14 May, 2013
- Queen Mary will be one of the few institutions in London to offer a new degree programme that has been designed with the help of some of the world’s leading ...
14 May, 2013
- The Royal Academy of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of Pamela Thorby as professor of recorder in the Academy's thriving Historical Performance Department. Pamela Thorby joins ...
14 May, 2013
- All UCL students are invited to give their views to a student survey and, in doing so, have the chance to win an iPad and £1,000 in ...
14 May, 2013
- OperaGold is proud to present Benjamin Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's ...
14 May, 2013
- Statement from the ICR about BRCA genetic research and testing, in the light of the announcement by Angelina Jolie that she has had a double mastectomy to reduce her BRCA1-associated risk of ...
14 May, 2013
- Business leaders from the Young Presidents’ Organization, a global network connecting successful, young CEOs, are among the world’s best at growing their businesses after attending London ...
13 May, 2013
- Paul Webley, Director of SOAS, University of London, chairs an impressive panel in a public debate about what it means to be a modern university in a globalised ...
13 May, 2013
- People with job stress and an unhealthy lifestyle are at higher risk of coronary artery disease than people who have job stress but lead healthy lifestyles, according to work published in CMAJ ...
13 May, 2013
- A leading expert in noise and health from Queen Mary, University of London, has been appointed to an advisory panel set up to help assess options for increasing the UK’s aviation ...
13 May, 2013
- New global surveillance tool detects and monitors public concerns about vaccines in real time and could help boost vaccine ...
13 May, 2013
- New global surveillance tool detects and monitors public concerns about vaccines in real time and could help boost vaccine ...
13 May, 2013
- A study from the ICR involving over 2,000 men has identified nine new regions of the genome associated with testicular ...
10 May, 2013
- Different brain areas are activated when we choose for ourselves to suppress an emotion, compared to situations where we are instructed to inhibit an emotion, according a new study from the UCL ...
10 May, 2013
- ICR scientists find radiotherapy near a woman's first period increases breast cancer risk, but pregnancy doesn't increase ...
9 May, 2013
- Guy Standing of SOAS, University of London has been working with SEWA, the Indian Self-Employed Women’s Association, to investigate the effect of unconditional cash transfers on India’s rural ...
9 May, 2013
- This week Professor Stephan Chan was interviewed on BBC Focus on Africa about China-Africa relations, including a mention of his new book The Morality of China in Africa, the Centre for African ...
9 May, 2013
- An international team led by researchers at the UCL Institute of Neurology has identified a set of tests that could help identify whether - and how - Huntington’s disease (HD) is progressing in ...
9 May, 2013
- Masters students from the UCL Institute of Archaeology are collaborating with the Geffrye Museum on an exciting project about gardening and happiness in the urban ...
9 May, 2013
- Leading asthma researchers at Queen Mary, University of London will ask “do we need to worry about air pollution?” at a free debate taking place at Whitechapel’s Centre of the Cell on Thursday ...
9 May, 2013
- Queen Mary, University of London has been selected to host the next Science on Stage conference in 2015. This conference brings together inspirational science teachers from across Europe and Canada ...
9 May, 2013
- The JBS Haldane Student Hub opened in Anatomy at the start of the summer term in April 2013. This large space overlooks the South Quad and is based in the Anatomy Building ...
9 May, 2013
- The most powerful cluster of research intensive universities in the UK are joining forces to form a new consortium to become one of the world's leading hubs for science and engineering ...
9 May, 2013
- Christina Gansch is the 2013 winner of the Academy's prestigious Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award for postgraduate singers. Richard Lewis, the international British tenor of Welsh parentage, ...
9 May, 2013
- Professor Glaucius Oliva delivers the Bernal Lecture ...
9 May, 2013
- Nick Smart, who has been the Academy's Head of Jazz since 2010, was awarded the prestigious Jazz Education Award at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards on 8th May 2013. The awards ceremony, now in ...
9 May, 2013
- Royal Holloway today received a grant of £3.8 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to host a new Centre ...
9 May, 2013
- Dr Harold E Varmus, Director of the US National Cancer Institute, spoke at King's last night about the US government's global programme to tackle the HIV/AIDS ...
9 May, 2013
- The Academy is seeking to appoint a new Head of Conducting to succeed the distinguished pedagogue Colin Metters from September 2013. The successful candidate will be a musician of the highest ...
9 May, 2013
- 18 multidisciplinary studentships worth an estimated £1.6 million have been awarded to UCL’s Doctoral Training Centre by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
9 May, 2013
- Early-warning sensor systems that can test and track serious infectious diseases – such as major flu epidemics, MRSA and HIV – using mobile phones and the internet are being developed by a major ...
8 May, 2013
- A trial led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London into a new device to control blood pressure could transform the lives of people across the ...
8 May, 2013
- A highly-regarded global analysis of almost 3,000 universities ranks 19 subjects taught at Queen Mary, University of London as among the world’s ...
8 May, 2013
- King's College London is delighted to announce that Dan Abramson has been appointed as the first Head of the new King's College London Mathematics School, due to open in ...
8 May, 2013
- Professor James Shapiro, Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, will hold the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study, ...
8 May, 2013
- London Business School's Assistant Professor of Finance, Samuli Knupfer, has jointly won the 4nations Cup at a competition bringing together some of the finest minds in financial ...
7 May, 2013
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7 May, 2013
- Michael Edward Walsh, a doctoral student at SOAS, University of London has been named to join the Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) Working Group on Emerging Security ...
