CommentIssue 198 | January 2012

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Students at King’s are enjoying the newly modernised Franklin-­Wilkins Library, teaching rooms and social spaces on campus and have provided glowing feedback on the services

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Rick Trainor, Principal

A word from the Principal

News in brief

Green Reggie leads King’s to environmental sustainability

of History

10-­year contract extension for

Australian composer and pianist Wendy Hiscocks performs extracts from Nocturne and the British prémier of Dry White Fire. Wendy has recently completed a doctorate on the music of Arthur Benjamin

A hub of activity: students can now access key student support services in Franklin-­Wilkins Library Vice-­Principal (Health) Professor Robert Lechler

Partners

Avantha Chair and Director of the new India Institute Professor Sunil Khilnani will lead on furthering understandings of contemporary India in its global context

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Take a virtual tour of King’s

Design award for the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing

The Atrium, Franklin-­Wilkins Building

Deborah Bull will lead the cross-­disciplinary teaching and research initiative King’s Cultural Partners

Lancet Journal of Strategic Studies

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King’s College London and Imperial College London have now formally joined the partnership behind The Francis Crick Institute. The partnership was

Executive of The Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse. The two universities have joined the

the Wellcome Trust and UCL to create the world-­leading biomedical research institute in central

London. Accelerating discoveries made in the laboratory into the clinic is a core focus of the Institute.

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Faheem Ahmed uses medical science to raise awareness of gun and knife crime in London

Paige Rushbrook hopes to inspire young people to conserve our oceans

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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic

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National Geographic Kids

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American senator gains honorary degree from King’s

King’s launches alumni branch

What does your current role involve?

What is your proudest work

What do you see as your next particular

Book on your bedside table?

The Hare with Amber Eyes

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Three former deans of the Institute of Psychiatry saw their portraits unveiled at a special ceremony in October. Professor Sir

(2007 to 2009) received tributes at the event in front of colleagues, alumni, friends and guests at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Denmark Hill

Campus. Dean and Head of School Professor Shitij Kapur (far right) said: ‘The portraits capture not only the likeness of the person, but their personality, and the three deans

we remember today have made a tremendous

and will be fondly remembered for their many contributions.’

The Principal, Professor Rick Trainor (far left, seated) and Lord Douro (far right, seated) with the College’s new honorary doctors

Links between King’s and India strengthen

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Anti-­doping Professor

Times Washington Post

Neuroimaging techniques

Newsnight

The Devil’s chord

The One Show

Gold on glass

Engineer United Press International

Blood pressure cancer risk

Time to talk

Daily Telegraph Daily Mail

Health and safety review

Sunday Times Daily TelegraphFinancial Times

Breast cancer screening

The Times IndependentDaily Telegraph

Romanian adoptees

All in the Mind

Chemistry at King’s

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Times Higher Education

Japan Times Wall Street Journal Time Economist

Healthy teeth

Mail on Sunday Sun Times of India

Independent GuardianNew York Times

Saving Libya’s heritage

Al Arabiya Sunday

Comment

40 years ago:

Evening Standard was

Henry VIII,

Two Gentlemen of Verona

25 years ago:

Focus Flashback

Nature

PanoramaGuardian Daily Mirror

Tensions in Asia

News in brief

Archbishop Tutu’s 80th birthday honour

What next for the US?

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On Living in an Old Country

Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature

Of Cabbages and Kings.’

Research and teaching in the Department of English has wide geographical and cultural reach

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Before Comment King’s News which on 10 December 1970 ran an article lamenting women’s ‘ugly fashion’

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Blair’s Just War: Iraq & the Illusion

Palgrave Macmillan

Asylum Seekers

Oxford University Press

(3rd Edition)

Mental Health Outcome Measures

RCPsych Publications

Castlereagh

Quercus, Legenda

Story of One Fateful Day

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What’s on

‘Animals in the Strand: the elephant in the room’ Dr Christine Kenyon Jones 16 January 2012, 18.15 -­ 19.30 Anatomy Lecture Theatre, K6.29, Strand Campus

The King’s Greek Play: 8, 9 and 10 February 2012, Greenwood Theatre, Weston Street

Hecuba

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Learning from Lister: Antisepsis, Safer Surgery and Global Health

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The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualising Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae

Oxford University Press

Parallel Lives of Jesus: Four Gospels, One Story

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Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World

Hodder & Stoughton