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DECEMBER 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Seven European Research Council Advanced Grants for UCL
UCL awards and appointments
Three new appointments in UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
Four winners of UCL Public Engagement Awards
Two new appointments to UCL's senior management team
NOVEMBER 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Professor Geoff Burnstock (UCL Cell and Developmental Biology): Copernicus Gold Medal of the Universita Studi di Ferrara, and the British Neuroscience Award for 'Outstanding Contributions to British Neuroscience'.
Dr Rachel Armstrong (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture): TED Senior Fellowship
Dr Janet Anders (UCL Physics and Astronomy): 2009 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship for 'Dynamics of information in quantum many-body systems'
Professor Jenny Thomas (UCL Physics and Astronomy) Elected co-spokesperson of the MINOS experiment, an international collaboration of 140 scientists from across the world.
Professors Chris and Uta Frith win European Latsis Prize
UCL professor joins climate change sub-committee
UCL trio win silver medal at international biology competition
Professor George Janossy (Emeritus Professor of Immunology): 2009 Wallace H. Coulter Life-time Achievement Award
UCL student wins Royal Society of Medicine poster prize
Professor Mohan Edirisinghe, Dr Eleanor Stride and Uthumankandu Farook (UCL Mechanical Engineering) win Royal Society Award for 'Microbubble' research
Dr Caroline Bressey (UCL Geography), Dr Hiranya Peiris (UCL Physics and Astronomy), Dr Eleanor Stride (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners 2009
OCTOBER 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Dr Dan Brett (UCL Chemical Engineering): Oronzio and Niccolo De Nora Foundation Prize for Applied Electrochemistry
Professor Elizabeth Fisher (UCL Neurodegenerative Diseases): Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Josemir W. Sander (Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy): 2009 Epilepsy Research Recognition Award for Clinical Science
Prof Richard Frackowiak (UCL Institute of Neurology) former Vice-Provost: Elected Foreign Associate of the American Academy of Sciences
Rakhee Bashar and David Bishop (UCL Medical Illustration): Gold Award in the Institute of Medical Illustrators' annual awards
UCL community wins Wellcome image awards
Professor Hilary Calvert receives Lifetime Achievement Award
UCL awards and appointments
Dr Neil Strachan (UCL Energy Institute): Readership in Energy Economics and Modelling
Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute): Chair of Energy and Environment Policy
SEPTEMBER 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Dr Giovanna Tinetti (UCL Physics & Astronomy) and colleagues: Group Achievement Award, JPL NASA Honor Awards
Dr Nick Achilleos (UCL Physics & Astronomy), and team: NASA Group Achievement Award
Dr Matthew Wing (UCL Physics & Astronomy): 2009 Moseley Medal from the Institute of Physics
UCL High Energy Particle Physics Group: co-winners of 2009 European Physical Society Prize for High Energy Physics
Professor Bonnie Wallace: Biochemical Society AstraZeneca Award
Professor Jeffrey Jowell (UCL Laws): Doctorat Honoris Causa, University of Paris 2; election as member of the Athens Academy
Signature award shortlist for Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre at UCL
Five awards and appointments for Professor Maria Fitzgerald's laboratory
2009 Sophie Coe Prize in Food History for Dr Kaori O'Connor (UCL Anthropology)
UrbanBuzz shortlisted for Times Higher Education sustainable development award
UCL runner-up in The Sunday Times' University of the Year awards
Professor John French and Dr Hélène Burningham (UCL Coastal & Estuarine Research Unit): Pritchard Award from Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation
Dr Terence Leung: 2009 British Medical Association Student Textbook Award
Professor Claudio Stern (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology): President of the International Society for Developmental Biology
Professor Bernard Buxton (UCL Engineering Sciences): Distinguished Fellow of the British Machine Vision Association
Professor Gaetana Laricchia (UCL Physics & Astronomy): 2009 Occhialini Medal and Prize, jointly from the Institute of Physics and the Italian Physical Society
Eleven awards from the Leverhulme Trust
UCL tops THE league table in research grant wins
Professor Andrew Coates, Dr Chris Arridge, Lin Gilbert, Dr Sandrine Grimald, Dr Geraint Jones, Sheila Kanani, Dr Gethyn Lewis, Dr Chris Owen and Annie Wellbrock, (UCL Space & Climate Physics): the NASA group achievement award for their work as part of the Cassini CAPS team.
Dr Geraint Jones (UCL Space & Climate Physics): NASA achievement award for the Cassini MIMI team.
UCL awards and appointments
UCL Research Challenges 2009 winners
Honorary Lectureship: Albert Lester
AUGUST 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Dr Lucie Green wins prestigious Royal Society award (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
Award shortlist for Professor Kathleen Burk's wine book (UCL History)
UCL Bartlett dominates RIBA President's Awards shortlist
Professor Irving Taylor shortlisted for BMA Medical Book Awards
UCL awards for employment practice for women in science
Two new UCL Fellows of the British Academy
JULY 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Two UCL scientists honoured by Institute of Physics
First prize for student essay on coping with disfigurement
UCL city planning researchers head for Germany on prestigious fellowships
Women in Science Fellowship for Dr Patricia Alireza (UCL Physics & Astronomy)
UCL excels at Medical Research Council applications and awards
Head of UCL Computer Science wins medal
Fellowship award from Wellcome Trust to predict 'how smells smell'
Alzheimer's research award for Professor Martin Rossor (UCL Institute of Neurology)
International neurobiology prize for Professor Stephen Wilson (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology)
JUNE 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Queen's Birthday Honours for the UCL community
UCL awards and appointments
Provost's Teaching Awards 2009
UCL Fellows and Honorary Fellows
UCL Partners: managing director and programme directors appointed
UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences: new leadership team
MAY 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Five new UCL Fellows of the Royal Society
UCL staff awarded host of Medical Research Council Fellowships
UCL quartet join Fellows of Academy of Medical Sciences
UCL awards and appointments
UCL Awards for Enterprise Lifetime Achievement Award: Cengiz Tarhan (UCL Business PLC)
APRIL 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment enabling panel: Dr Pushpa Arabindoo (UCL Geography) and Professor Yvonne Rydin (UCL Bartlett School of Planning)
UCL awards and appointments
MARCH 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
Sparks Young Investigator of the Year: Dr Richard Chin (UCL Institute of Child Health)
American Society of International Law (ASIL) Certificate of Merit: Dr Ralph Wilde (UCL Laws)
UCL wins eight of the inaugural Newton International Fellowships
UCL awards and appointments
Directorship of the UCL School of Energy and Resources, Australia: Professor Tony Owen
FEBRUARY 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
UCL law professors join Royal Commission
Henry Adams Prize for Anglo-American history for Professor Kathleen Burk (UCL History)
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography award for Professor Rick Battarbee (UCL Geography)
Professor Peter Coveney (UCL Chemistry): one of top 25 engineers worldwide
National Academy of Engineering honours Professor Peter Kirstein (UCL Computer Science)
UCL awards and appointments
Provost's Teaching Awards 2009
JANUARY 2009
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
UCL Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology scoops Science prize for amphibian study
Two Royal Astronomical Society medals for UCL Physics & Astronomy
UCL receives ten industry-linked awards from the Medical Research Council
Five UCL staff receive New Year's Honours
UCL awards and appointments
Young UCL Investigator Award in Neuroimaging Techniques: Benjamin Judkewitz (UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research)
Appointment of Dean of Students (Academic): Professor Mike Ewing (UCL Chemistry)