UCL PRESIDENT AND PROVOST

Professor Malcolm Grant, President & Provost of UCL, has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for 2013 for services to higher education.

Sir Stephen Wall, Chair of UCL Council, talks about the selection process that has led to the appointment of Professor Michael Arthur.

Professor Michael Arthur, currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, has today been confirmed as the new President and Provost of UCL. He will succeed Professor Malcolm Grant, who has led UCL since 2003 and who will be stepping down in September 2013.

UCL President Provost Professor Malcolm Grant has today been named the President of CARA, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics.

Researchers at UCL have been awarded a total of 17 Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC), the highest number awarded at UCL under a single funding call to date. These grants have a total value of €21.6 million. 

A range of eminent figures will join the list of UCL Honorary Graduands and Honorary Fellows during the 2012 graduation ceremonies, held from 29 August to 6 September.

UCL is pleased to announce that our 2013-2014 Access Agreement has received approval from the Office for Fair Access (OFFA).

Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) addresses one of the most fundamental questions: how did complex life arise? He does so as the inaugural UCL Provost’s Venture Research Fellow, a programme for which new applications are invited.

Professor David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research) has been appointed by David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities & Science, as a member of Science & Technology Facilities (STFC) Council.

The 75th Anniversary of the UCL Institute of Archaeology has been marked by a visit this week from Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London.

UCL is pleased to announce that Mr Phil Harding has accepted the post of Director of Finance & Business Affairs. He will take up the role in late June 2012.

UCL's HEFCE grant for the financial year 2012-13 has been announced today as £174.3m, representing a reduction of £7.5m (4.1%) on funding for 2011-12.

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.

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.

A new centre dedicated to the understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases will be established at UCL following the award of a £20million grant from the Wolfson Foundation, it was announced today.

Professor Anthony Smith has been appointed UCL Vice-Provost (Education). Since 2006 Professor Smith has been Principal and Dean of the School of Pharmacy, which merges with UCL from 1 January 2012. He is a distinguished scientist, with special interests in pharmacy education; antibiotic therapy and resistance; biofilms and microbiology.

UCL and the London Borough of Newham have today announced plans to explore the establishment of a new campus for UCL in the Olympic borough of Newham, in addition to the University’s Bloomsbury location.

UCL has moved closer to reducing health inequality present in the UK after the launch of the new UCL Institute of Health Equity by Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.

UCL President & Provost Professor Malcolm Grant has been confirmed as the Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board by the Secretary of State for Health, following a confirmation hearing with the Health Select Committee on 18 October.

UCL President & Provost Professor Malcolm Grant was today named as the preferred choice to chair the NHS Commissioning Board by the Secretary of State for Health.

A time capsule was buried yesterday under the site of The Francis Crick Institute by Francis Crick’s daughter Gabrielle.

Medical research centres run by UCL in partnership with three NHS trusts have received preliminary government funding worth a total of approximately £165 million over five years.

The Centre for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University today released their 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities. UCL has risen to 20th place in the rankings, one of only three European universities in the top 20.

UCL’s new Access Agreement, setting out its plans to further encourage students from disadvantaged backgrounds to come to the university, has been approved by the Office for Fair Access (OFFA), and will come into effect from the start of the academic year 2012-13.

Geraldine Davies, Head of the School of Education at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, has been appointed Principal of the new UCL Academy in Camden.