July 2006
AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS & HONOURS
British Academy Fellows: Professor Steve Machin (UCL Economics) and Professor Stephen Shennan (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
British Insurance Awards Risk Management Award: Professor Mark Saunders (UCL Space & Climate Physics), for Tropical Storm Risk, the "best application of new techniques, effective identification and reduction of risk and the development of creative risk financing strategies"
British Medical Association and STA Travel Medical Student Photo Competition 2006, 'Medical Student Life, at Work, at Play' category, Runner-Up: Student Ker Shin Audrey (UCL Medical School)
Ciphergen Biosystems Inc Scientific Advisory Board Member: Professor Ian Jacobs (UCL Gynaecological Oncology)
London Strategic Health Authority Non-Executive Director: Professor Mike Spyer, Vice-Provost (Biomedicine) and Dean of the UCL Medical School
Royal College of Ophthalmologists Fellow: Professor David Taylor (UCL Institute of Child Health)
University of Amsterdam Honorary Fridja Chair in Cognitive Sciences: Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (UCL Institute of Child Health)
University of London Gold Medal in Medicine: Student Jake Foster (UCL Medical School), as the best medical student in the University of London
University of London Valerie Myerscough Prize: Christopher Hadley (UCL Physics & Astronomy)
UCL AWARDS & APPOINTMENTS
UCL School of Library, Archive & Information Studies Centre for Publishing Chair of Publishing: Professor Iain Stevenson (City University), with effect from 1 October 2006