October 2006
AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS & HONOURS
Asian Achievement Awards Woman of the Year: Dr Usha Menon (UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health)
Department for Constitutional Affairs Honorary QC: Professor Hazel Genn (UCL Laws)
National Secular Society Secularist of the Year: Professor Steve Jones (UCL Biology)
Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author of the Year shortlist: Dr Nick Lane (UCL Medical School), for 'Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life'; Research Project of the Year shortlist: Professor Paul Longley, Professor Richard Webber and PhD student Daryl Lloyd (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis), for Surname Profiler
UCL AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS & HONOURS
UCL Faculty of Biomedical Sciences Executive Dean and Medical School Head: Professor Edward Byrne, with effect from early 2007
UCL Pro-Provost (China, Hong Kong and Macao): Professor Moira Yip (UCL Phonetics & Linguistics)