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the College ewsletter

Job upturn for1993 graduate/11£ College Gareers \'I'",-,ce reflfJ! Is fm a

elcomt? uplurn m Ihe ptrunla 'r f1 Km,

t;raduald known 10 be enhnn mpl"'YmwI

m 1993

G raduates m 1992 encounH:n:c1

the m05t difficult Job market

~ince the 1930~, hUlthere ha\

been a mc in the percentage of KlIlg'

gracluate~ known to be entering

cmplo~mentin I • a \\ell a a fall in

the unemplomenr rate. and it i hoped

till, Improvement may be an earl) ~ign

o economic recove~ 'ational figure

for 1993 graduate are not yct available

or compan,on.

\s thc figure on page 2 ~ho\\, or

19 gracluale\ we have even better

Information on \\hcre Kmg\ graduates

\.\ Cnt than for thc preVIOU\ year.

Contrlhutlng factor mcluded help from

academiC ,taffwlth 'unkno\\n' fir~t

de,tlnatlon" thc telephone \urvcy

conducted hy the Carccr\ Servlcc \taff

and the collection 0 mformatlon rom

degrce preentatlClll ccn.:mollics. Il 1\

/) smal Ghana (Ph)slcs) and V'qar

Ahm d (!'haml coloiJ) areJU IIf&;O ofIhe

50 sludenl f&;ho h e been f&;orklng fWl/h Ihe

Golle e f)r:?df)pmenl Ol/ia our Ihe lasl

four tueks m king conlact fWilh alumm

Sludtnls h e bem culling some 4,200

alumm If) update Ihem on changes m Ihe

Gollege and to ask for Iheir support for Ihe

King's Gollege Ifmdon Developmml 'l rusl

The contact has been very posilive on Ihe

whole, f&;ilh new fn'endships being made

across Ihe generatIOns with a common inleresl

of Kmg's,

On Ihe olher side ofIhe equalion, f,ljls 10

Ihe rund hO'Ve bt?m coming in 01 a good rOle.

There to;:1I be a report on Ihe s ess ofthe

camp i m Ihe nexl Issue ofCommenl.

becommg mcreasingly Important to

have accurate information on grad uate

de t1natlOn , Without the telephone

urvey the 'unknown' rate would have

been at lea,t 2-%. as compared to the

figure of 7. % which \\e dId achieve.

Postgraduate were le s affected by

the re e ~ion than fir t degree

graduate.

Sue Dlrmik i_enlOr Career :\dvi5er

'lee page 2 for lable shof&;mgjirsl

deSlmalllJns ofgraduales

page I

Tlte Pn'me Minister meeling Ion cainsford, Dean of Ihe Medical and DenIal School, when

he visited King's College lIospilalon 23 Februaf) 10 open Ihe new Crilical Care Complex.

he Prime Minister has

opened a new Critical Care

Complex at King's College

Hospital. Costing nearly £14 million, the

Complex consists of 10 operating

theatres and an 1 -bed intensive care

unit, which is one of the large t uch

units in the country. Surgeon will

undertake up to 20,000 major operationsa year in the new facilitie .

The Critical Care Complex at King'complements the Day Surgery entre,

which was opened in 1992 and is the

large t centre for day surgery in the

country.

fI111 lil iterp n 11

oper tl11O"

t 1 atre atIng all

pital---

he folIo 'In 0" table ha vs the first deof King's ColIege graduatc, IOtlfT'''/I"rJ/tom Ptl~{ I

. .tlnatlonS

Undergraduate Postgraduate

1993 1992 1993 1992

Employed 5 9 493 462 3 7

(41.1%) (34.7%) (46.5%) (41.5%)

Further study 424 411 100 63

Itraining (29.6%) (2 .9%) (10.1%) (6. %)

~ot available 19 199 2-6 2 9

(incl overseas grads (13. %) (14%) (25.7%) (31.0%)

leaving UK)

nemployed 110 156 I 27

(7.7%) (11.0%) (1.9%) (2.9%)

Unknown I1I 161 IS 167

(7.8%) (11.3%) (15.9%) (17.9%)

Total 1432 1420 1994 1933

2

'In theNews'

The ordination of .... omen a prle ha

provo ed alar e amount 0 media

Intere t and Professo Us ie Hou

!' o/< so ofTheo 0 • appeared on he

bre . a ho.... on CLR outlinln he

I ue concerned.

1'1'0/<5501' r a f ra m n, lie ofVuD4J rtm t ofW rSt s. et an

honourable men[Jon In a leader

d. eu ing. 'aw' inaction in Bo n1a In

the Indcpen ent on Sunday for remark

made in an article in the Times, that the

hell that killed people In a araje\'o

market moved. 'aw' humiliation at

erblan hand from ·Io.... -Ie\cl· w 'high­

level'.

I he cot Enqull) Into the :'\lacrrx

Churchill affair h , dra .... n much

auentlon and ommem. .~/r At/, m

lomkms. Lecturer m I Il;;, appeared on

Ch nnel4 .\iws dlscu>slng the public

IIHere. t In unity and commenting on the

Government' pO>ltlon.

."-'11' IOn) /home. DIrector ofthe F.nglzsh

I nguage Unit. ha been In demand a~ a

con equence of the publication in

p3 perback of his DIctionary ofModern

Slang and the Dictionary of Popular

Culture. lie has been on chat shows on

Radio 4, Radio 2 and GLR. and he now

also has a regular column in the Sunday

Express entitled lite l..ast Word. in whieh

he discusses terms and thcir origin.

1)1' Tom S nders, Reader m i\'utntion, has

al 0 been much ought after reccntly

follOWing the publication of hl~ book

}"Ju DQn 'tllfJ'IJe to DIet.' .... hlch reaehed

number seven in the diet book best­

sellers list. lie is a regular contribuwr wthe BBC 2 Food and /)nnk programme

and hc I author of lite DeJinllive Two-

p rt Cuide to Food Scares, a feature bcing

rlln by the Independent 0:1 Sunday whieh

put~ IntO per pective the relation hip

between food risk and health. with the

aim of helpll1g peoplt; make en ible

decisions about what they eat and drink.

:\n article in the Mo mgSl rexamlne

the boo let .... rit en by Ms iMcCo~ n, uau" In , entitled 1'0')Equlf)-J stU: esforWo ?lnwhieh

he ar ue or a radlcall. ne.... approach

to equal pa) In Britain. he call or the

onu 0 be placed on the emplo 'er to

eliminate d. rlrrunation rather than on

indiVidual employee to prove that the.

are discriminated against.

The emergence of' uperbug " that is,

microorgani ms whieh are re i tant wseveral antibiotic .....ere the subjeet of

the Arabic Open Programme on the BBC

World Scroia in which Dr Mahmoud

Halo lab, Lecturer in Microbiologj, took

part.

An article in the Dail) Telegraph about

the high e teem in which dog are held,

quoted Professor Richard Sorabji,

Professor ofAnCJent Philosoph) and Dtrector

ofthe Institute ofClassical Studies. 'There

IS a very early example of prai e [of

dog I by Ilomer. When Ody eu come

home rom the 'I rojan wars, nobody

recognise him but Argus, hi old dog.'

To mark the lau nch of a campaign wprovide information and advice on

asthma from pharmacies, Mr Alan

Nathan, Boots Lecturer/Practitioner,

Department ofPharmacy, was interviewed

by BJJC Radio Cambridge.

page 3

ARC at theRa ral Saciet ?., .,

T he u:"EP Environmental

Data Report 1993- 4,

prepared for the L nited

:"ation En ironment Programme by

the Monitoring and Asse ment

Research Centre (\ilARC) at King's

College London, was launched by _ ir

Crispin Tickell at The Royal ocietyon

1 March. \ilore than 60 gue ts from

industry, government departments,

NGOs, academic institutions and the

press attended the launch which was

hosted by the Principal, Profe sor Art!1ur

Lucas. He spoke of the importance of

\ilARC' work and the links between

\ilARC and King's College London

before introducing \iI Fran~oise

Belmont. Officer-in-Charge, L:" EP

Regional Office for Europe, Geneva

(repre enting the Executive Director of

U:"EP) who spoke of the exciting plan;

for C:"EP's future.

'C\\ \ OIUnlC

The Environmental Data Report ;erie;

is a cornerstone of L:"EP's

environmental reporting, delivering

timely, reliable information to support

rational decisions on environment and

development. It has been prepared for

U01EP on a biennial ba 'is by Vli\RC

page 4

since 19 7 in co-operation "'Ith the

""orld Resource In mute, \\'a;hington

DC and the l;K Department 0 the

En ironment. The ne\\ volume i thu

the fourth in the eries and continue

the reputation of the rcport a one of

the keyource of accurate inforrna ion

for en\'ironmental elentl;t and policy

maker, all over the "'orld.

Thi role of the report wa tre;'led by

Sir Cri pin Tickell, a former 13riti h

Permanent Representative to the

Lnited :"ations and now, amongst other

po ts, Chairman of the Government's

Advisory Committee on the Darwin

Initiative and Convenor of the

,overnment Panel on Su;tainable

Development. Ilaving given an

overview of the 10 chapter; of the

report, each comprising data cables with

text and graphic; to a;;ist

interpretation. whi h cover

environmental pollution, climate,

natural resource, population and

development, human health, energy,

industry and transport, wa;tes and

wa te managcment. environmental

disaster, and international co­

operation, Sir Cri pin emphasized the

increasing importance of environmental

issues and the need for such an

:lIJt!1oritative information source on all

a;pcct., of environ mcnt and

development. lie stated 'This is the

kind of book which I gOlTlg to make a

sub tantlal difference '.

The report wa well received by tho e

pre ent at the launch and generated

considerable pre intere t among t

national ne'" paper and BBC and LBC

radio.

Carol \ilead

\1ARC

set7 update

Arrangements for the ollege's

contribution to et7( ee the

last issue of Comment) arc

continuing apace with the final touches

being put to the various event across the

campuses.

There has been considerable interest

a., a re ult of the leaflet which has been

mailed to all school, librarie and

museums in Greater London, the display

material in the, trand music room

windows and the publicity chool have

undertaken themselves. It i hoped that

not only will there be a good turn out by

chool children and members ofthe

puhlic, but by College taff too, who are

very welcome to view the displays and

listen to the talks.

The \ilayor of Ken ington and

Chelsea will be attending events at the

Kensington campus on Wednesday 23

\ilar h and hopefully participating in the

'hand-on' display..

For more information, contact I\nne

Robinson, on ext 2696.

For details see the Events section on page 14

Sir Crispln Tickell (left) Ms Fran{oise

Be/mont, ProJArthur Lucas and Dr Philip

Whitfteld, Ilead, Division oJ Life Sciences, at

the launch oJ the Uf\'EP Environmental

Data Report 1993-94 at The Royal Society

on I Manh

"p . 11 CICl cet 1 Ii ~

0l11C

1n <rM

Educationtar .,.ecr

to

he King' hra tlan Forum

..... elcomed the Rt lion Mr

John Patten, ecretary of 'tate

for Education, a their gue t peaker on

'I ue day March. 1115 tOpiC for

dl~cu~~ion, Morality In Iliglrer I~ducolion

was ugge ted by Father Jennings in the

ChaplainCy, who had Invited Mr Patten

to peak. Although acknowledging the

value of academle freedom, Mr Patten

aid that tudent had to accept their

respon, ibilities toward their university

and society, 11 i list of ba ic values,

which IOcluded self reliance, self

diSCipline, regard for proper authority

and the readine s to tand up for what

one believes m, were, he aid 'a

nece ary condition and hallmark of a

ci III ed ociet~.'

lie told the Forum that higher

education could build upon the

fo~ndation of empha I on pinrual and

moral development In pnmary and

econdary school, now found in the

. 'atlOnal Curriculum as a re ult of the

Education Reform, cr.

With regard to student loan, M r

Patten aid that it wa 'morally right'

that student hou Id contribute to the

co t of their education, and posed the

question 'wh hould their friend and

ibltngs who gotraight from chool to

work .... meet more than a part of the co t

of su pport(ing) furu re grad uates out of

the UlXe they pay?' Thi 'moral'

que~tion went on to fuel the debate

which follo\~ed :'vi r Panen's lecture.

returnIIobda

The Secrelary ofSI le 11Jct?!mg ProfessorI.ord Russell (It/I; nd lire G!I pI. In

education departnncnt~of VartOUS

unIVer'>ltleS, The. Lien e LlIle I

funded by thc 'Acllcome I rust and the

Royal. oclety, and IS keen to enlist the

support of any organl\attOn v. hlch hare

It aim.

If you would li e to panl Ipate m thi

project, please telephone the Pre sand

Publications office (ext 3202) for a copy

of the form, to be returned to. clence

Line. If you ha e any further question

ahout the prOject please con:act Stephen

Ilolland, Science Lmc, 13.' ,252

Wc tcrn Avenue, London, W3 6XJ.'I elephone: 0 1-99362 I,

P eter Ilobday of RadiO 4' Today

programme. who made a

con iderable hit when he poke

at the (;mlng 10 gnps 'Ifi.l/lr IIr :vtfdlo

lecture In ollege la t \1ay, I~ returning

to take part In a train Ing day for

academic staff on prcss and publication

topiC on I April.

Mr Ilobda will be talking about the

relation hip between unlversltie and

journali ts and advi 1nl': on how to

pre em your work effectivel for

newspapers, radio and televi ion. lie

will provide tips on broadcasting and It

I~ hoped he will conduct ome mock

interviews to how how it's done.

For further detail., please onta t the

Pre ~ and Publications Office on ext

202.

ou h 1an

he Press and Publica Ion

Office h been contacted b~

ience Lme, a ne\.\- service

which amlS to provide authoratatl 'e,

accurate and clear! presented scientific

information to the public b~ telephone.

Over the la t ix month traal of the line

ha e upported selected Channel 4

Equinox programme on ubject from

dinosaur to pace hunle and memory.

On each occasion they an v.ercd around

700 calls from vle.....er acro the

country. From :'vlonda~ 21 \1arch ther

will be operating on a dail~ ba I to

cover any a pect of ciencc, technologr.

medicine and englneerang.

'1 he line I taffed by people \\ Ith a

general cience background, ..... ho will

an~""'er many of the day to day enqulfle

them elve,. There could be occaslon~.

however, when the~ need to call on a

pecialist to discus or explain a

particular POint and they are looking for

volunteers from a wide range of clence

dl elplines who would be prepared to

help in this way. If you become anexpert, they envi age that you would

only be called upon 2-3 time~ a year.

when they will a k you either for

pecific information on a particular topiC

or even to phone the caller back your elf

to dl cu the an wer directl~ with them,

ender no circumstanccs will you get

call directly from the public.

cience Line' link with broadcasting

mcans that the will be supporting

particular cience programme again In

the futurc. When the e arc on your

peclality, cience Line will notif~ you

in advance to ee if you v.ould be willing

to help with the incrcased nu mber of

enquirtes they would expect to receive

Immediately after the programme.

The cience Line' operation are

managed by Broadca ting upport

ervlce , under the direction of a mall

teering group representing Channel4,

the ience Mu eum and The

Wellcome Trust. Other organl~ations

offering upport include The Briti h

As ociation, the 13riti h Library,

C P S, the Ciba Foundation. the

Library As ociation and the continuing

page

Delegates at 'he International conferenCl' on telecommunicationr, IJu/J12I

International conference ontelecol11111unicatiol1 Dubai, l" \9-12 Januar . 1994

~ .~------

T he Communication Re earch

Group of the Electronic and

Electrical Engineering

Department spon ored an internatIOnal

conference on telecommunication for

the fir t time outSide the l K. Both the

Vice Chairman, Profe or 11 Aghvami,

and the Technical Chairman, Dr F

Marvasti, were from the Electronic and

Electrical Engineering Department of

King's College. Other sponsor, were

prestigiou institution uch a, I E I·, and

IEEE and the everalorganizatlon In

Dubai for local arrangements. The

technical committee consisted of well

known scholars and researchers from all

over the world. 130 technical paper

from 23 countrie were received but

onl 0 paper were chosen and

pre ented at the conference. About 200

expert from all o~er the world

participated and the con erenee was a

ucce s both in term, 0 financial

income and the publiCity that it

generated internationally. There wa

one full day of hort cour,e and three

day. 0 techn ical ses,lon consl tlng of

14 sessions. The technical topiC' were

peech and Video Signa I "roce,. ing,

atellite and \10bile Communication.

Optical and \11 ro~\aveSY'tem,. L I) ,

:lnd :"et~\ orklng. Due [() [he ,ucce~s of

[he conference, It ha heen decided that

it \\ ill be repeated on an annual baSIS In

different ountne,. The next onc \\ ill be

In Bali, Indonesia in April 1995.

Dr F \larvasti

Department (l Electronic and

Electrical Englneenng

KinO" sets thecene for

en\" iron 111enta1. .

1110nl torIl1g

O n 17 and) February

King's wa host to the 2nd

European Work hop on

BIO en or for Environmental

\1onitoring. The purpose of the

\\orkshop, which was attended by65

participants from 11 European countries,

was to revie\\ the progress of the EC

funded projects on Technologies for

I',nvlronmental Protection. The

workshop kicked off With a pre entation

by Dr Peter Ben netto (who also

organised the meeting) on Developmtnt of

on-stream biosensors for pestIcide detect/on(an Interdlelplinary project co­

ordinated by Dr Le~\ is and Dr Bennetto

from Chemistry and Or \lason from

Life SCiences). There followed twO day

of pre entations covering topic ranging

from advanced OptiCS to immunology.

The meeting in luded a 'brain­

storming' sesSion to identify priority

areas for future EC funding. Dr Jurgen

BUsing, the I~C CommiSSion

Environmental programme Co-ordinator

said that 'the meeting had been a great

success, forming a sound basis for

development, in the future '. J le added

that this was particularly timely since

'calb for new proposals under

Framework 4 Research and Development

Programme ~\ere expected as early a,

• eptember ,0 re. earcher hould be

talking to p:lrtner, and developing

projec~s now'.

The Fourth Framework

EnVironmental programme has three

main themes: (I) The natural

enVironment, en ironmental quality and

global change; (11) Environment related

technologie (diagnostic and remedial);

(iii) Earth ob ervation and the

application of space technologies.

The budget for th IS programme over

19 4- wdl be 50 million E C. Further

information can be obtained from ara

Kelly, KCL EnterprISes Ltd, ext 3321.

Jeremy \1a,on

KCL r:.nterpmes

pa e

Helpin to.1 1prO\ eh u in a tIlt

11 . nadan I ~ the nadlan :'-1101 try 0

Extcrnal A air IOvlted re earch

app!Jcation from north I~uropean

national to compare some a5pect J)

Canada v. ith it countcrpart 10 their ov~ n

countric ...~ I have worked In Canada

for three ycar . had tv.o of my book,

offiCIally produced b the Queen'

Printer (thc equivalent 0 H \1 0) and

\\a ub equently IOvlted by the On ario

:'-1101 tcr of Ilou 10 to advI con thc

ueatmcntlleeded to n;deem a eflOU,

problcm hou 109 e tatc, my Canad lan

expeflcncc atl ficd all the conditiOn

laid dOlAn or the anadlan rc,earch

app!Jcatlon , and Dr Davld ero;, and I

thcrcforc decldcd to apply or thc lar~cr

of the av.ard avatlablc from the

1101 try.

I he re,earch propo;,al v.a, a

compafl;,on of prohlem e. tate In

Canada and 13f1taln. Thorough and

large- ale Bmi5h ,tud le had already

been made, 0 thi mcantthatthe \\ holt:

award could bc devoted to work on the

Canadian '>Idc. Work In thl'> ficld

involvcd collaboration with architect

planncr'> and other practitioner of

;,ubjects eligible for the award. 'I he,e

fact,> mu t havc appealed to the

Committee, and the bid wa'>u cc;"ful.

We werc given an officc In the

Gcography and Planning Dcpartment of

the Cni cr ity of ' 1oronto, and

accommodatIOn 10 a hall of re5Jdence

dlrectl oppo ite It. \\"hat a boo to

productlvlt it I v.hen there I no

Journcy to work. \\·c were able to

ach leve record output 10 the form 0

report on thrce problcm c tate,>. lA rth

recommendation5 for de'>ign and layout

Impro cmcnts that would alleViate their

50Clal breakdown qUite ;,ub tantlally.

The three estate provided a nice

ba lance 0 condition'>. as the fir;,t wa;,

entirely house. the ,econd almo't

entirely nats and the third a mixture of

both. Infe5ted b drug pu;,her" lhe all

appeared to be daunting problem arc\'.

but survey;, revealed the preei e caU5e,

of their vulnerability, and each de'lgn

de eC[ could be con idered or hc e

v. a. of elimlOatlO I or a lea t

mlOl I 10 . i in ue n e. v.lthout

IOcurr n" 00 much cxpcn

\\ e v.ere able to per Cl e hav. the

nu mbcr 0 de -ec pc r hOI could c

reduced rom a pernlCIOIJ I cl ran"ln,..

r m- 011 0 r'!Jtt cl

'0 o~. Imtlarl .• he 9 to 12

the l.,Juld be redu cd to 0 to 3 in

almo t e.ery ca .'1 he h nl!' \\ould

ma e thc e tate thorouhhb" un afe or

the dru o ulture. bUl \a, Iy '>3fer for

everyone cl e, a the re ommended

feature lAould promote natural

community ormatlon In a lAay th t I

qUite Impo Ible at pre ent

In each ca'>C our prlOcI plc and re uIts

received an open-minded lAelcome from

the authomle,. and 31 0 rom the

tenant' leader \\ hom v.e eontactcd on

the lAor,t e tate. Simtlar rntere,tlAa,

'>hc)\\ n by people aw: nchng a hou Ing

con erence at which I de!Jvered a paper.

and a rerurn \ i"t to Canada ccm;,

highly 11 ely.

Pro e"or \!Jce Coleman

Dlel·. ProJcct. [>Cpartmenr 0

(jeography

,\ymtnglon PlaCl!, sludtf'd Iry Ktng's College

gt!ographers in ToronlfJ lIs /96 flals create

n almosphere 0/anonyrmty and Ihe lerrace

(Jne floor abt/Ut! Ihe gmund Ihfll's flU lars 10

break tn Ihrough OIr-condtlllmtn 1 nlles lite

Irl't!s. planlt!d lu SO/I IItf'Sane, rt: luu near

l/it! but/dtng and Iltrealm 1(, acl aJ ladders

jr,r (/Kt//' tnlrudtrt

ReallV Rai In a

t ndard

hi I the title 0 a ne\\ boo

due Ollt hordy \\hich 0110,,",

up he re~rch on he

de elopmen 0 children' mtelli ence

lA hlch Dr Phlllp -\de and llchael

hayer 0 the choolo Education. havc

been conductIO for o.er 20 year.

1nl I they publi hed the findmg of

their C.\ E ( ognltiVe AcceleratIOn

through clen e Education) programme

on a"era e puplh' mtelligence and

general a demlc achievement. -I hey

ou nd that pu pll lA ho used the

programme In the fir t year of their

econdary ehoollOg went on to obtam

Ignlficantly higher grade in G E

r-.ngli5h, mathematiCs and clence than

did matched control groups.

Ilo\"evcr. de plte the Wide acclaim

and huge media mtere t their findlOg

attracted. the Department for educatIOn

ha;, ~tlll not taken the method on board.

'I·hc book ,>how~ clearly the potential

that eXI t;, for changing the academl

a hlcvemcnt of a nation, and how that

potential might be realised.

Really R /Slng Slandards i aimed at a

wldepectrumofgroup frompoliey

maker to education profes ionals

through to parent. It relate the

development of higher level thinking 111

oung adole;,cel1ls to eonuover ial is ues

such a;, ;,electlOn, 'treaming, differences

bctlAeen boy' and girl' intellectual

development. and a . 'ational

urrieulum which emphasi cs content

acq ui5ition at the expen e of intellectual

de e1opmcnt.

p c7

Staff ec\\ hee Churl!l Ch lplain

'lite College's nm Free-Church Chaplain, Rev John Ilambrick (nghl), was recenlly

'{J;;elcomed 10 King's,,> the Chaplain, Fr Philip Chester nd Ihe Principal.

Professor WilkinsProfes~or :VI Wilk ins was one of two

Ilonorary Fellow recently elected by

the Royal ociety of Edinburgh.

Professor Wdkins, who became a ,,"obel

Laureate In 1962 for his work on the

structure of D. '1\, i Emeritus Professor

of Bioph sics at King's.

Or F Oliveira-PintoDr F Oliveira-PintO from :vlathematies

~ ill give an inaugural address entitled,

Aims and lools for energy RTV slraleg; in

Ic-urope at the European Congre 5 on

Economies and :vlanagement of Energy

10 Industry in E torit, Portugal on 5April 1994.

Or Oavid NokesOr Oavid ,,"okes. a Reader in the

English Department, has been

commis ioned b publi hers, Fourth

Estate, to write a new biography of Jane

Austen wh ieh is expected to be available

in 1997. Dr '\ okes won the James Tait

Black :vlemorial Priz.e in 19 6 for his

biography of Jonathan Swifl.

to c()\\ hit

( .ongr:ltU I.ltion

Or Hall

J)r Trevor Jame Ilall rom the

I )cpartment of EIc tronlc and Electrical

f·.ngincering ha. been elected a Fello~

of the InstillJtc ofPhysic".

Professor Ilarold Baum of Life

Science, famous (amongst other

things) for hi" "etting of

~ iemific laws and formu lae to mu>ie so

that they can be ea>ily memorized, ha~

had a hit with hi, song, in l{uS'>ia.

Profes or Alexander Boldyrev of the

Department of Biochemistry at.\10scow

• tate L niversity has written to Profes or

Baum: 'Since 19 6. ~ hen I fir>t heard

your Biochemical songs. I have u~ed

them with great succe,~ teach ing my

students. Together ~ Ith Leninger

'I extbook in Biochemistry, your

Biochemi t's • ongbook is the mo~t

important manual in m, course.'

Profe" or Boldy re" ha .. a ked Profes. or

fhum '5 permis ion to use several songs

from hi book, 0 that he can 'popularize

in I{ussia your pleasant and informati ..e

way In teaching modern Biochemi try'.

\rtlHlti (:ouncil.1\\ lrlh

Dam \ard to King'Ph ici

K ing's has been awarded two

out of the ten pre tigiou" and

competitive PhDtudentship

granted by the Arthriti Council in 1994

to encourage outstanding young science

graduate to embark on a re. earch career

in rheumatOlogy. The award are or: the

characterisation of T cell clones reacting with

epitopes oftype II collagen in arthn'tis by

Profe or:" taine and Or LLanehbury from the Infection and

Immunity Re earch Group; and Sitnc

oxide andperoxynitrile: agenls ofdamage in

Ihe inflamed rheumaloidjoinl by Profes~or

13 Ilalliwell from the Pharmacology

Group.

P rofe or Ronald Burge.

WheatstOne Profes~orof PhysIcs

and Or Gary lark, He~earch

Assistant, are members of a Japanese

and Bntl h team who have won an

award of 10,000 from the Dalwa Anglo­

Japane e f-oundation which encourage

cientific collaboration between

Japanese and British re earch.

The award wa made at a ceremony

on 2 :vlarch at the Royal In tltutlon of

Great Britain. Onl four projc ts were

elected from 130 applieation~ to win

the prestigIOus award.

Professor Surge and Dr Slark. \\ ith

a i tanee from Or \1ike Bro\\ ne al~o 10

the King' Phy ic Departmcnt.

produced a world fir t in high re>olution

imaging \\ ith an X-ray laser 10 a ~ingle

ubnanosceond pu Ise of soft X-radiation

of incredibly high inten ity. Thl

experti e contributed to a programme of

joint research in imaging with Japanese

cienti ts u ing the X-ray la,er at O"aka.

p ge

[men i\ c Language Cou r eZ~-Z() \larch 1994

T he Language and

Communication entre are

holding an Inten Ive

Language our e on Friday 25 and

aturday 2 March. The objective 0

the cour e I to give all participants the

opportunity to acquire or improve

communication kill in a \AIde range of

modern language.

Cour e will be offered in Prench,

German, • panish, Italian, Portuguese,

Greek, Russian and Japane~e at up to

four level: l3eginner, Lower

Intermediate, Higher Intermcdiate and

Advan ed. The course will run from

10.00 to 17.000n both daY~\lith break~

for refrc~hmenu, and lunch.

The fee for the cour~e ha~ heen

~peclally reduced to £90 for all ~t.1

Plea~e contact \'ane ~a Ilc:ud on e t

24 - for regi tration det:III~.

,!1Jrter and Surure

T he College's Charter and

Statutes have now been

reprinted to Includc the

amendment. made at the time 0 the

merger and the Commiioner~

Statutes (which were made under the

Education Reform Act 19 4 and cover

redundan y and di. mi~ al of :lcademi

~taff for good cau e). opie arc

available for consultation in School.

Division and Department:lI office~.

Peter Gilbert

Assistant, eeretary

Un ure of the j·.lectronic l"nj[

T h.C Electronic Lnll. on 'inall)ormed In I 62 at Quecn

E Irzahcth Collcge to meet the

electronIC need ofdepartmcnt there.

and ~ub~cquentl) mo\ed to thc. trand, "

to cia e m J ul . George \lela~, the last

remalnmg member 0 it~ ~taff. \1111 be

takmg premature retlrcment. In the

I 70 the L: nit e tabli hed a facility for

the deSign and manufacture ofhybnd

thick film circuit, and developed a high

level of expertise in mieroprocc~~or

technolog). data aequl IlIon. proces ing

and control.

Formermember~oftheLnit' ~taff

and those 1\ ho have ontrin uted to its

Illlrk include Cly n Jone~. John Fitch,

Peter Gilyard-Iker, l)r G.\ re). Dr

Rogcr Sladc. l)r I'ctc Ilenncllo and

I'rofes~or .\ I~oger~.

Letter

Dear Editor

I ugge t a College competition for

logan to go on the College franking

maehme. matching the enterprise of our

fnend in L:niver ity College. Their

franked letter ay 'the Original London

L ni er Iry'. Given the centrifugal force

at work in other colleges, could we try

'the Final London L: niversity'? Other

entne to the Editor.

Richard orabj I

Department of I'hilo ophy

1'Iu Greal 11011 wasJilled If) capacity 'fI1,1'lh friends, sludenlS and collea es bolh pasl and

prlsenl, on Ihe occasion of Ihe one da) conference held on 4 March 10 mark Ihe reliremenl ofIhe

RtUrend Rich rd Coggins and Professor Leslie Houlden from Ihe Deparlmenl of Theology 01

Ihe end of IhlS academic;ear

BOlh have ven oUlJlanding Service 10 Ihe College and Ihe Deparlmenl of Theology, Richard

for 32 )earJ and Lesliefor 17 )earJ Richard and Leslie are picluredhere wilh Professor Colin

(,unlon (I I 'Od ofDepOrlmenl) allhe Jlarl ofIhe conference, 01 which Ihe speakers were Professor

Roberl Carroll, Professor of BIblicalSludies allhe Unive ity ofGlasgow, and Ihe Very

RtverendJohn fJrul), Dean ofChml Church Oxford. TIre conference ended wilh 0 Brahms

sonola p/a)td bj I "(/ colleagues, Francis Walson and Alan Torrance, os 0 musical In'bule 10

Ridard and 1,(';/:1'.

p:I C q

echeePro rammc to upport a re rch

projec entitled' ccuri and dcmocra

111 the ne"- Europe' Total granr,

112. 2

Centre for Educational Studies

\Ir DJ qUire. £4 ,720 (I3ml h

Library) to uppOrt a research project

cntltlcd 'u co rr -a i ted II1formation

y tem 111 academiC re earch '. Prof Y1

Bro\\-n. Or imon, 1 ,4-0 (E RC) to

upport a re earch project enllllcd

'pnmary clencc and mathcmatlc ra ks:

pupil' perceptIOn and performancc·.

I otal grant~. 'I - -. 170.

Centre of Medical law and Ethics

\1r.\Grubb,310,310 Ecu (£22 ,'3

approx J IEEC) to support a research

project entitlcd 'the moral and lcgal

IS ucs urroundlng thc treatment and

hcalth carc of patient In per 15tent

vegeratlve ratc '. Total grant,

£229,

Chemistry

Dr C Koh, 14.925 (£ ,970 approx)

(Cornell Lnlver~lty) to '>upport a

spectroscopic study of natural gas

h dratc formation and inhibition. I'rof

\1 t\ Robb, .£25,167 (l)are bury

LaboratOry (SE RC» to support research

on thc 'electron corrclation in molecu lar

wavefunctions for thc CCP I '. Or C D

Ifall, £24,6- (Jotun Paints).

Contribution lOward, re earch sraff C05tS

and consumable'>. Total grant ,

£132,412.

Computer Science

Total grant,>, 1,400.

Electronic and Electrical

Engineering

ProfCW'lurncr. 4,OO(l'aul

In trument Fund) lOward thc cost 0

the comtructlOn of a wldeband optlcall

canned hydrophonc for high rcsolution

phase insen~itlvcdctcction and rapid

mapping of cw and pulsed acou tic field

distribution In quantlrative ·D'I. Y1r P

J Langlol, ,000 (Y1 uItllOne

1'.lectronlc Plc). CA E award. Dr'l J

Ilall, Dr \' :\ Ilandcrek, £204,5 J4

(SE RC) to support a re earch project

entitled 'parallel oplO-electronic

telecommunications ~Y5tcm '. Dr A

\'clastln, £ 4,935 (5ER ) to support

rant ed belo\< v\ere

rccelvcd n hc uarler ended

1 January 1 'H. Detail 0

gran under -,000 are not Iven. nor

arc ex en ion of exi ling rant or tho e

\< hich are confidential. butthc amoun

are Included In thc total or thc

depar ment or unit

Age Concern Institute of

Gerontology

Prof A 'I In cr. ()r J \ ham.2 .s00 Ecu

tU , 3 approx) (J', 11 ro pea n

Foundation or the Improvcmcnt 0

Llv Ing V\ Jrk Ing Condlllons) to

IJppOrt a research project enlllled

. uture pro pect for amily care of older

people In the European Communlt) '.

Prof :\ Tinker. Prof \ \1 \\'arnes. Or J

\skham. 5.000 (.\ I.eadlng Rctailer) to

uppOrt rc carch on 'the ,hop plO '

behav lOur of elderly people - an

exploratory study'. Prof ..\ '[ Inkcr.

£47,062 (Jo eph Hov\ntrce Foundation)

to upport a rcsearch proJcct on 'dlfficult

to Ict ~heltercd hou",ng: a 5wdy of

pre\'alenee poliCy and practlcc'. !'rof A

1 inker, £ 13.300 (E. I~CJ to support a

rcsearch project entitled 'community

care for elderly people: technology for

liVing at home'. 'f otal grants. .£ 0,565.

Anatomy and Human Biology

Group

Prof .. Iloldcr. 240.000 I',cu (£177, 04

approx) (EEC Iluman Capital and

\Iobilit)) to wpport a re earch project

entl led 'molecular ha" of cell

dlfferenllation during development'. Or

L C \Iahadcvan, .£ I') .070 ('\FH ) to

support re earch on 'bactenally

ynthesized translational In hibitor as

agonist of nuclear signalling and proto­

oncogene inducllon in mammalian

cell '. Dr J A PIZ7.cy, £65,475 (\\'ellcomc

1 ru l) to support a research swdy of the

alterations In subun It expres,>ion of

receptor proteins as a potential

mechanism for drug dependence &

wlerancc. 'I otal grants, £457,777.

Centre for Defence Studies

\Ir Y1 C1arke, 149,026 Ecu ((£1 12,924

approx ) (EEC. Phare Democracy

n H.:n

c I c erh Im 1 r

n the last edition of Comment ,omc

confu ion was cau cd by the

instructions we gave on ho\< to

aeces the King's Information Sy~tem.

To access K[ please type' I 'FO'

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y tem helpful, and an comment

hould be addres cd to the follo\\ In' In

the AcademiC tandard eClIon of he

cademlc Registry:

Loul e. 'adal on CDXX2 4. cxt33 or

arah Knell on C DX 29 . ext3

he Leverhulme I ru t ha

offered a grant 0 '27 ,7 0 0

the C nlverslC) 0 - Cambndge

In aid of Profe or R E Bur e' re earch,

for the 4-year period starting from)

October) 4 on the Consolid. (IOn oJX­

ray microscopy and X-ray hologr. pity In

blOp!rjJUS The re earch be \\ ill ba ed at

the Cavendl h Laboratory In the

Department of Phy IC at the L nlver it)

of Cambndge and the grant prov Ide for

uppOrt to Profe or Surgc In thc form

of a mcmber of sta f, a rc careh a ociatc

and ccrctanal a5 I tance.

Profe sor Surgc I~ \\'heat,>tonc

Profe or of Physic at King's and a 1,1 e

\IIember of Clare Ilall, Lnlver Ity 0

Cambndge.

Kate Quantrell

Academic Registry

p [)

re car h on 'incident detcclIon and data

gathering or crowd in confined area~

u ing image proce sing', Prof \\'

Turner, ,7 Ecu ( ,732 approx )

(EE (Brite-EuRam))to upporla

re earch project entitled 'ultra onic

re onance pectro cop: qualit)

as urance of concrete. aero pace

componen and die-ca t aluminium

components '. Dr A "ela tin. Prof A C

Oa ie , \1r R Bowman, \1r D '\ Fra er,

.000 (l1f1ti h Aerospacc J):naml )

for appliCatiOn of DORI IDI.\DE\1 to

real-time control of multiplc robots.

Total gran, 75.0 1.

GeographyProf 0 Brunsden, 53,000 ECll (£39,265

approx )(EEC (Iluman Capital and

\IIobility) tOupport a re~ear<:.h 1)f0Jell

entitled 'geomorphology and

environmental impact a~sc ,mcnt: a

network of reearch in the I·.llrop<:an

Community'. Dr \1 E Fro,>t, Dr "­

Spence. £21,900 (E. RC) to ..upport a

re earch project entitled' hanglllg

labour catchment areas and Ilork force

mobility in Briti h citie '. Or J

Wainwright, £7,615 (:"ERC) to ~upport

a research project entitled 'e kct'> of

extreme climatic events on landform

change In southern France'. (Thl'> grant

ha been tranferred from thc L 11Iver~ity

of. outhampton), 1 otal grant,>. £70,61

HistoryTotal granL", SO

ImmunologyProf N i\ Staines, £111,376 (i\rthritis and

Rheumatism Council) to suPPOrt a

re ear h project enlltlcd 'primary

structure and functional analy I 0

autoantibody \' region eplLOpc '. 'I ot31

gra nts, I 1I.376.

Life Sciences Division

Dr R l3alle . £42,423 (Dar\\ In Inltlatlle)

to su pport an invc tlgation of thc

diver ity 0 fi h fau nas and aq U311C

ecosy tern In the Rwenzofl \!oumaln

Western Lganda. Or RJ \1 lies. £ 6.16

(\1inistry of Agriculture, FI~herie

Food) to UppOrl a re earch project

cntitled 'bacterial decontamination of

food " Or C F Thur ton. £250,469

(:\FR ) to upport research on 'genc

structure and expre ion for

Ilgnocellulolytic cnzymes in the

cultivated mu hroom agaricu bl'>poru .. ·.

Or C ale, £25.772 (Cniver itle

Federation for Animal Welfare) to

..upport a research urle) of no"e III dog

hou~lng. Dr P R EIII~.£8.23')

(I,eathcrhead "ood R\)tl llpporta

re carch ..tlJdcntshlp enlltlcd

'development of rheologlcal methods to

charaClcrt e the nutritional propcrtie of

dletal) complex carbohy drate " Total

rants. 4-3.r .

Management Centre

1 otal grant. 1.000

MathematicsProf JTaylor, 24,000 Ecu ( 17,7 0

approx) (EEC (Iluman _apital and

Mobility)) to suPPOrt a rc~earch project

entitled 'no cl neural netl\ork '. Total

grant. 17,7 0.

Mechanical Engineering

Total grams. £25.000.

Molecular Biology and BiophysicsGroup

Prof 11 Could, Dr B J Sutton, Dr J J

\turphy (Immunolol,') Section),

~')20.14.3 (Wcllcomc 'I ru ..t) to '>llpport a

rc,>carlh project entitled 'role ofCD23

In Beell dc'clopment'. Dr \1 R~andc",on. Dr R K Patl<:nt.£157,741

(, r I{Cl to ..upport a re,earch project

entitlcd ·..truclUral lUdlC\ on the

recognition of O..:\ b) the zinc finger

gata-l '. Dr \ R IIipkl . £ 9.43 • (World

ancer Rc earch Fund) to support a

rc~careh project entltlcd 'inhibition of

;ugar-mediated mutagen production by

dletal)' peptides'. Dr J \1 \1cl)onell. Or

BJ ' utlon. £59.246 (Wellcomc Trust).

Illtchlngs-Elion fell 0\\ ship for a

re~earch "lUdy of biophySical

char:lCtcri ..ation of IgE-nctwork

intcraction ... Dr \11~ Sandc"on, £9,917

(\1 RC) to support a re'>eareh project

entitled 'regulation of IIIV transcription

hy :"F-KB: identification ofpotcmial

target for anti-AI D, interaction'. Total

grant... £970.650.

MusicI otal grants, £7-0.

Nursing Studies1)r S COI\ le). £99,229 (Engl"'h :"ational

Board for:" ur Ing, :'vlldl\ IfCl) and

Ilealth \ 1'ltll1g) to ~u pport a re~earch

lUd) on the Identification 0 thc

changlOg need of comm unit) nur e ,

mid\\ Ife and health vi itor "'ith regard

to need~ a ~esmem taff eo~t'> and

qualJt) of care in the context of the

I Land Communlt) Care Act 1990.

1)r E Carr. !'rof J \\ t1 ..on-Barnetl.

£30.292 (~outh East 'I hamcs Hegional

Ilcalth :\llthomy) to support rcsearch on

'position ing of stroke [Jatl~nts: the

dcvclopment and evaluallon of a

tcachlng [la kagc for nu"e .. '. (I his grant

\la\ JOllltly ;I\\arded to thc de[lartment~

cl IIrslOg 'itudlcs and !'hY"IOlherapy.

Kmg' ). Prof J Wil on-Barnetl. £36,000

(ParklO\on' DJ ease ociety) to upport

re. earch on 'evaluating the role of

pcciali t nur e caring for patien with

Parkin on' di ea e'. Total gran

167.021.

Nutrition and DieteticsDr A R Leed, 23, 00 (Quaker Oats

Ltd). ontribution toward the co t of

undertaking experimental tudie. Or \1

. 'cl on. 17, -0 (I3riti h Council).

ontribution toward the co t of

e tablJ hing an academic link with the

C niver it) of Indonesia. Total grants,

£45,3 2.

Pharmacology GroupDr Brain, £6,900 (Fisons Plc).

Re earch . lUdentship. Prof J Littleton,

£70,903 (Lipha A) to upport research

on al ohol dependence. Prof 13I Ialli\\ell. Or 0 Aruoma, 303,122

(\111115tl) of AgricullUre, Fi herie

1- ood) w support a research project

entitled 'the development of

methodology for mea uring oxidative

damage in the human bod '. Or P K

\100re. £32,7 2 (Wellcome Tru t) to

su pport research on the 'role of nitric

oxide in acute and chronic nociception

and neurodegeneration: use of novel

inhibitors of nitric oxide biosynthesis'.

Total grants, £427,809.

PharmacyProf r~ _11 ider, Or S \1athcr, £40,577

(Imperial ancer Research Fund).

Contribution towards research staff

costs. !'rof RC (Iider, £156,906 (i\FRC)

to su pport a researeh project entitled

'the truclU re/fu nction relations of

FE(III)-phyto iderophore activity &

transport in cereals'. (This grant wa

jointly awarded to Prof R A Leigh,

t\FR -IACF, Rotham ted

Experrmental tation and Prof RC

Ilmer, King' ). Dr GP \1artin, ProfC

\larnotl, £5,000 (Parke Davi and

Company Ltd). Contribution toward

the co t of technique validation. Total

grant, £247.64 .

PhilosophyProf R orabji. £ 10.000 (Briti h

Academy) to upport a research project

entitled 'Creek Commentator '. Total

grant.£11,39.

PhysicsTotal grant, £440,176.

Physiology GroupOr :--.: J Ab bott, £202,951 (:vi RC) to

support a re carch project enlltled

'wx leology of the in'i.1·'ro blood-brain

barrrer: modulatIOn of toxicity by

page I J

re

Or R W Ashby

Ron A hby, " ho died hi month aged

n, wa a particular) I'ted teacher and

much loved collea ue 10 the Kin '

Phtlo ophy Department rom 1 ' to

19 ,and then part-time until 1 5,

fter volunteering for ambulance

service in 1 41, he was Impri oned a a

paclfl tin 1942, His belief, In plred by

Gandhi. were carefully thought out, but

toO comple to find avour in court. and

It wa only through the C orts of

\llchael .\ Ippctt that he wa relea ed

after SIX momh and allowed to return to

Jmbu lance \~ork.

I li~ ability to ,tand up qUietly and

rationally for hiS conviction W3 to be

manlfe ted many times again, and not

onl in the context of philosophical

dl CUS,lOns, It wa shown In the late

1,)50s, for example, when he reSigned

from the Cemral Office of' nformatlon,

on being told that hi~ duty wa, w tell

not the lruth. but 'the truth as '!er

\1aJesty' Government sees it', It

appeared in more htlarious guise in his

rcmarkable gift for persuadlOg

policemen by the use of logic alone, that

he had nor committed traffic violations.

lie came late to Philosoph .

completing hi BA in the Birkbeek

Philo ophy Department 10 1 49, and hi

Ph D in l niver ity College in 1 '4,

ome re ult are publi hcd 10 the

Proceedings '1lhe An'sloleltan Society for

1 55- . and he left a number of entries

10 DJ O'Connor's en'/lcal" Iory ofWestern Phtlosop!ry and Paul Edward '

fnC}c1opaedia of Philosoph)

13 ut it wa a a teacher that he made

hiS mark, lie started teaching extra­

mural cia es in 19'0, and eame to

King's on a temporary, part-time ba i 10

I 5 ,winning hi Lecture hip only in

1 63, s a teacher, he pos e ed the

great art of never making anyone feel a

fool, and for many KlOg's students he

wa the preferred tutor. Sympathetic,

patient, thorough and lucid, he al 0 had

a devoted following in the extra-mural

system at :'vi orley College, From 1967 he

taught the advan ed c1a\s there, and

encoura cd a serle of tuden to mo e

on to the Lnlver i ,to the con iderable

bene It 0 KlOg' .

'n rewement, he howed hi u ual

comblOatlon of fearle ne and ratIonal

CUrlO ity m learnin electrontCS With the

aim, happily unfulfilled, of making

him el a mlcroltte plane to fly in, lie

al 0 put hi talent for meticulou hard

work to the service of other, who like

him elf had been taught in the Barlow

Clowe finanCial fraud, or les

dramatleally in an expen Ive problem of

rottlOg concrete 10 the flats where he

lived. lie \Vtll be greatly mised b) the

many frtend~ and \wdems who

remember hIm.

Richard orab)1

Department of Phtlo ophy

Alan Fairbourn

The udden death of lan r-airbourn on

5 February wa a great loss to his family,

hi many friends, and his colleagues and

students in the Department of

Computer Science.

Alan first encountered computer as a

re earch tudem in Chemi try at Queen

Mary Collcge, isits to the In tiwte of

Computer cience at Gordon quare for

data processing brought him into contact

with the Ferrami :'viercury computer,

and, IJke man anothcr chemists, hc

never looked back,

I le JOJOcd the lecturing taff of the

Computer Icnce Department at

Wc tfield College, was promoted to

Senior Lecturer, and in 19 5 upervised

their transfer to King's a acting' lead of

Department. For many years he was also

chairman of the Fir t Degree

1I bcommiuee of the Board of tud ie

in Computer cience.

1I is extramural activities incl uded

computcr based genealogy, organising

medieval revel and banquets for the

Fair Isles Society, rebuilding part of a

ruined abbey at Rozct-Combier a a

second home, and the posts of

•ometaboltc demand'. Pro P

\-fc. ·aughton. ,4'7 Ecu ( 71,'75

approx) CE C (Human Capital and

\lobilit) to upport a re arch rant

entitled 'cellular basl of lran ductlon of

painful tlmult in nociceptive neurone '.

Prof Howell, ) 0.000 (\\'ellcome

FoundatIon Ltd). Research tuden hIp.

Prof L) lowell, Dr J Per uad.

7, '4 (Wellcome Trust) to upport a

research tud of the role of protem

inases In In ulin secretion. Total

grants, 4 ,4.

PhysiotherapyMis F Kenney, Dr D :"ewham, 5,02

( outh Ea t Thames Regional Health

Authorit ) to support a re earch project

entitled 'po itioning of tro e patient:

the development and e aluatlon 0 a

teaching pac age for nur e ',n hi gram

wa jOlntl) awarded 0 the department>

of Ph iotherapy and. ' ur 109. LUdic ).

Total grants, ',029.

Theology and Religious StudiesProf Gunton, 40,643 (Bmlsh

Academy), Po tdoctoral fellow hip.

(Thl grant has been lran ferred from

Worcester College). otal grant,

£40,9 2.

Vascular Biology Research CentreDr P A Fra er, £117,2 4 (Wellcome

Trust) to support a research project

cntitled 'mechani ms of 11+ tran port

across single cerebral microve el in

vivo', Dr G E Mann, Prof J D Pear~on,

Dr D Leake ( niversity of Reading),

£212,6 3 (M inistry of Agricu ILUrc,

Fi herie & Food) to support re earch

on the 'dy function of vascular smooth

muscle and endothelial cell nitriC OXide

and prostacyclin production in

inflammation', ProfJ Pear on,£6,012

(Over ea ource (Japan» Research

bench fee for Dr T Kuroka\ a, Total

grants, 35,979,

War StudiesProf L Freedman, £2 ,750 (London

Bu ines hool) to upport a re earch

tudy on security and its implication for

the City of London, Dr E Karsh, £5.000

(British Academy), mall per onal

re earch grant. Dr B Jasani, £ ,042

(For chungszcntrumJuelich G:'viBH) to

support a research project enlllled

'enhancing (AEA's safeguards u ing

satellites'. Total grants, £45,392,

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pa I..

churchwarden, choirman, and latterly

organi t, at t John the Baptist church.

Leytonstone.

From computing to cooking, from

medieval revels to music making, from

re-roofing the church hall to building a

house, Alan u cd all of hi many talents

to the full, but without 0 tentation. He

is greatly mis ed.

Richard Overill

Departmcnt of Computer cience

Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman, the controversial film­

maker and gay rights activist, who died

on 19 Fcbruary, was a grad uate of

King's. lie studied Engli h, Ilisrory and

Ilistory of Art, gaining hi~ (kgree In

1963.

Derek Jarman, a King's graduate.

Professor Cedric Masey White DScIEng)

Profe sor C:-'l White, DSc (Eng). who

died on 27 December 1993 aged .5

years, was very much an individualist

and wa inherently very hy.

Throughout hi entire academic

career C:-'1 White applied fundamental

thinking [0 his chosen field of applied

fluid mechanics and civil-engineering

hydraulic. Accordingly. by his novel

approach, he made a la [Ing impact on

tho e undergraduate, re earchcrs and

other who came under hi'> influence,

hoth at King' College London. from

1'J21 to 1933, and at Imperial College

London, from 1933 [0 1966.

During his earl and productive years

at King's, White benefited greatly from

the co-operation and collahoration of his

olleagucs who Included at that time

Professor A I I Jameson, S J Davie , E

Giffen and H :vi Clarke.

Later, a Reader in Hydraulics at

Imperial College, V/hite re-vitalised the

Ilawksley Hydrau lics Laboratory and

between 1933 and 1939, with R A

Bagnold, R V Burns, F C Colebrook, E

F Gibbs and RP Pendennis-Walli ,

pursued and supported fundamental

re earches into topics such as wave-

pre sures, ediment transport, pillway

design. pipe and channel friction,

cavitation. drag force and flood

predictions. During World War I I,

studies concerned with the design of

pneumatic breakwater, with \1ulberry

Harbour and with similar projects were

undertaken.

In 1946 a personal Chair of Fluid

\1echanics and Hydrau lic Engineering

was conferred on C M White. From then

on studies were undertaken on

problems concerned with thermal

stratification of water reservoirs, with

spillway designs for hydro-electric

power installations and similar topics. In

addition. Professor White gave full

encou ragement to h is you nger

colleagues in their various pursuits

concerned with flow-induced gate

vibrations, wind effects on water,

cavitation damage on concrete, air­

entraining siphonic flows, river-flood

control and associated topics.

With substantial support from the

English Electric Company, Professor

White introduced a very successful onc

year, postgraduate course in llydro­

Power for home and overseas graduates.

This cour e ran for a period of two

decades, or so, only ending with the

simultaneous retirements, in 1966, of

Professor White and Or Charles Jaeger.

Professor White was twice married and

ha.d one daugh ter b~1 h is second

marriage.

\1aurice J Kenn

Engineeringalumnus, 1944-47

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I I umanitie

5 to 7 May

Centre for Hellenic Studies and theWellcome Institute workshop~o ....,,~, or S'1OO 0" ,-a:e ~. c ..... f

ano =a', a,'r'e ce COMao,

I I ea, ' ou are ,n:eres:eo na end I g, con ac A erl Came'on,ex 2330

5May

Centre for Late Antique & MedievalStudies Special Lecture

Room 1006, S 'and Campus, 17 30o Idtan sel -fashlOnmg m medle alII erature Andreas Capehanus. Jean

de eun, and Chaucerp,o essor Alas,alr I n,s, orr:

6MayCentre for Philosophical StudiesSymposium

Co mlt ee Room, Sand CarY'p s,1415

Symposium on MlchaelOummet sOoglns of Analy Ical PhilosophySpea ers' Pro essor Pe er S, ons,Unlversl y 0 SalzburgPro essor Herman P Ilpser, Unlversl yof Lelden1630 A panel diSC SSlon a whichhe spea ers will be JOined by

P 0 essor Mchael Oumme , ormerle am Professor 0 LogiC a

Ox ord and o:hers

11 May

Centre for Philosophical Studies

LectureRoom B06, S rand Campus, 7 15

Philosophy and ar I IClal m elitgence

compu a lonal modellmg In cogm I esCience. a co IqueOr ar;( eane, T(1nl COl ege, Ouohn

11 May

Inaugural Lecture from theDepartment of History

ew Theatre, Strand Campus, 1730The ose and fall 01 total war. thehiStory of a twenlle h-cencury conceptRichard Overy, Professor 0 odernH,s ory

16 May

Centre for Hellenic StudiesGrea' ~a S:'a"o Camp s, '800'0'930

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Institute of Romance Studies/Centre for Twentieth CenturyCultural StudiesOa Co e'enee I assoe at 0

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Room 2B08, S ra d Camp s, 700LmgUls ICS rom an mdl Idualis ICperspec I eProfessor ,oa C oms

,assaeht,;se s ns, u eo, eehnology

25 MayCentre for Philosophical StudiesLectureRoom 1B06, S and Campus, 7 5Philosophy and artdlclal In elitgencehe role of logiC m artdlclal mtelitgence

Pro essor Robert owals I, ImperialCollege

26 MayCentre for Philosophical Studies

Lecture

Comml ee Room, Strand Campus,730

Issues m medical ethics methods ofbloe hlcs some defective proposalsP o'essor Rare, Unlvers' yofF,orida

Law

16 May

Centre of Construction Law

'ehael Brown Foundation Lee ureew Theatre, S rand Campus, 18 00

01930Pro essor John Perry, Beale Professorand Head 01 School of CivilEnglneenng, University ofBirmingham Contae Pauhne Gale orde ails of lee ure and tiC e s on ext2446

I,i re Science

23 Marchset7

ands on public eve s, 0 00 0

6.00

Matters of life and death

Randall Ins i u e (ic e only), Designergenes and other molecular matters

ensing on Campus, Ecosystems andpollution: tac le pollution wlthougetting your hands dirtyContac Reena Pa el on 071-3334648

or tic ets and further information

25 MarchRandall SeminarLecture Theatre, Randall Ins ItU e,

1300

Molecular MotorsPro essor ichael Shee z,Departmen 0 Cell Biology. Du e

Unlversl y edical School

19 AprilKing's College Centre for the Studyof Metals in Biology and MedicineSymposiumRoom C22, A ins Building,

enslng on, 0.00 0 16.00

Themes: Metals in disease: Metals In

the envIronment

20 AprilSociety for General MicrobiologySeminarRoom M20, Atkins Building,

Kensing on Campus, 13.00

Yeast genome analYSIS: fromsequence to functionPro essor Stephen Oliver, University

o Manchester Ins i u eo SCience

and Technology

22 AprilDivision of life Sciences AnnualMeeting on Iron-Sulphur ProteinsAlien Thea re, A ins Building,

enslng on Campus, 0.30 0 1730

Con ac Ru h 0 ine on 07 -333 4329

or urther de ails

4MayKing's & UMDS Health and ScienceResearch MeetingA seminar workshop between ing's

and UMDS to be held at S Thomas's

site Key topics include CommunityNursmg, Quality measurement mheal h care, and PsychologIcal care for

the chrOnically ill. Parallel g ouo

diSCUSSions on hese OPICS Will

revle on-golng prolec s and hope ully

s gges oppo unl les or urecollabora Ion

Fo u er noma 10 ,please con ac

Jenl er ilson-Barne on e 30 0

life Sciences lectures16 MaySeminar Room 3 8, Cornwall ouse,

5.40

Gait mitla IonOr R Soames, Anatomy and Human

Biology, King's

17 MaySeminar Room 318, Cornwall House,

1540

Use of and needs or servIces. datafrom a longltudmal survey of olderpeople IlVmg at homeOr orag Farquahar, Depart en 0

General Prac ice, S Bar holo ew's

edical Sc 001

19 MaySeminar oom 3 8 Cornwall ouse,

540

The Impact 0 AIDS and mIgration onagemg m southern AfncaOr Yolande Coombes, London Schoolo Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

26 MayAlien Theatre, Atkins Building,

Kensington Campus, 9.30 to 17.30

Talks and poster presentations about

research in the Division 0 Life

SCiences

Contac Ru h 0 ine on 071-3334329

or u her de ails.

and

24 Marchset7

C emlS ry eachers' Con erence

Con act Or el h Jones, Depa men

of Chemls ry on e 2534 or ur her

Information

25 Marchset'Talk Modern Chelllistry - what it hasdone for mankind

Contac Or elth Jones, ex 2534 or

ur her details

25 Marchset7

Illus (a ed lec ures on compu Ing.

Computer cnme - a WItch's brew2 Should we rus compu ers?3 SCIence, sImulatIOn andsupercompu ersCon ac Or Richard Overill,

Depa men 0 Compu er Sciences on

ex 2833 or u her de ails

25 Marchset7

a series of short al s, demonstrations

and tours

How engmeering helps medicalprogress and rehabilitationContac Or orman Borrett, Centre for

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25 & 26 Marchset7

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Communications will be illuminated by

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presen a ions w ich are sui able or all

ages An ama eur Radio Sta ion will be

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become a live broadcas er. The BBC

and commercial radio stations are

invited and equipment ranging from

the first transmitters to the lales hi­ech state-of-the-art electronics will be

on show. Something for everyone.

Programme details from Or Mike

Holwill, Department of Physics, ext

2715.

26 MayOne-Day Conference in StatisticalMechanics - STATMECH 10S rand Campus

Following a similar in format 0

pre ious meetings 0 the series, he

con erence will corsis of 20 minute

tal s and wo lec ures given by J

Cardy (Ox ord) and C Gruber

(Lausanne). There is a regis a ion ee

o [5 The deadline or hose wishing

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only required.)

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Mathematics Department on 071-873

2240/2217 (Email D.LAVIS on BAY) or

G S Joyce, Physics on 071-873 2168(Email G.JOYCE on BAY).

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