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December 2006
AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS & HONOURS
BLISS Baby Charter Neonatal Awards Research Award: Professor Linda Franck (UCL Institute of Child Health)
British Paediatric Neurology Association MacKeith Prize Co-Winner: Dr Richard Chin (UCL Institute of Child Health)
Chinese University of Hong Kong Honorary Adjunct Professor: Professor Theo Hermans (UCL Dutch)
'Current Neurovascular Research' Editorial Board Member: Dr Patrizia Ferretti (UCL Institute of Child Health)
Department of Health Lifetime Achievement Award: Professor Roger Ekins, past Head of UCL Molecular Endocrinology
Econometric Society Fellow: Professor Jean-Marc Robin (UCL Economics)
Higher Education Active Community Fund Student Volunteering Award: 'The Music Project', set up by Joyce Ngai (UCL Medicine)
Horst-Bickel Award: Dr Philippa Mills (UCL Institute of Child Health)
National Health Institute of Italy National Project of Oocyte Cryopreservation Senior Advisor on Reproductive Cryobiology: Dr Barry Fuller (UCL Surgery)
Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council Inaugural Science & Society Fellowship: Dr Margaret Aderin (UCL Physics & Astronomy and UCL Science & Technology Studies)
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for Astronomy: Professor Len Culhane (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
UK Erasmus Student Awards 2006 Photography Category Winner: David Tett (UCL French); Essay Prize Shortlist: Abla Kandalaft (UCL History)
UK National Stem Cell Network Steering Committee Member: Dr Chris Mason (UCL Biochemical Engineering)
University of Otago (New Zealand) Honorary Doctorate of Laws: UCL President and Provost Professor Malcolm Grant
UCL APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS
UCL Economics Chair of Economics: Professor Guy Laroque (Laboratoire de Macroéconomie, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique, Paris)
UCL Epidemiology & Public Health Chair of Social Epidemiology: Professor Mika Kivimäki (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and University of Helsinki)
UCL and London Business School London Entrepreneur's Challenge 2006/2007 Phase One Winner: Bring It Back, led by graduate student Umair Rashid (UCL Centre for Enterprise & the Management of Innovation); Postgraduate, Staff & Alumni Category Winner: ProFocal, led by Tim Carter and Dean Barrett (UCL Medical Physics & Bioengineering); Undergraduate Winner: ClinSkills, led by Diana Marcus and Masumi Tanaka Gutiez (UCL Medical School)
UCL Geography Readership in Human Geography Dr Ruth Panelli (University of Otago), with effect from 3 January 2007
UCL Graduate School Research Images as Art/ Art Images as Research Competition Winner: Giulia Ricci (UCL Slade School of Fine Art), Second Prize: Fraser Simpson (UCL Biology), Runners Up: Helen Brand (UCL Earth Sciences), Margarita Myrogianni (UCL Slade School of Fine Art), Charlie Bristow (UCL Earth Sciences), Alexis Ashot (UCL History of Art), Dietmar Backes (UCL Geomatic Engineering), People's Choice Prize: Brock Craft (UCL Computer Science)