Engineering Sciences News

12 January 2012: Platinum award for UCL synthetic biology competition student

Thomas Deane, an A-level student and member of an interdisciplinary team from UCL, has been awarded an Exscitec Platinum Award for his work in the annual International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition in Amsterdam. Although Deane won the award, the achievement would not have been possible without the work of the rest of the UCL undergraduate iGEM team.
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10 January 2012: UCL Vice-Provost (Research) responds to minister’s Our Hi-Tech Future speech

Professor David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research), comments on the recent speech, Our Hi-Tech Future, by the Minister of State for Universities & Science, the Rt Hon David Willetts: More...

5 January 2012: UCL Student wins IEEE Electron Devices Society PhD fellowship

Sungsik Lee, a PhD student at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College London, has won a prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electronic Devices Society PhD fellowship.
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22 December 2011: UCL News review 2011

The past year at UCL has seen a landmark larynx transplant, a lecture from Noam Chomsky, simulated missions to Mars and a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, among many other groundbreaking developments. UCL Communications has created the digital review of the year below: click on the images to discover more. More...

14 December 2011: UCL Research Strategy published

The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century. More...