News archive 2004

30 Dec 2004	King's student reports on tsunami disaster
King's medical student Bala Karunakaran was in northern Sri Lanka gaining work experience at the Killinochchi General Hospital when the region was hit by the recent tsunami.
22 Dec 2004	King’s consortium wins inaugural EU award
An e-Learning project led by the Department of Medical Engineering and Physics at the School of Medicine in King’s College has been awarded one of the first ever Leonardo da Vinci Awards for excellence in vocational education and training by the EU Commission.
22 Dec 2004	King's historian wins transatlantic book prize
Dr Arthur Burns, Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in History has won the 2004 William MB Berger Prize for the History of British Art.
13 Dec 2004	King’s ranked as world leader in science
King’s has been placed fourth in the UK and 47th in the world for science-based excellence in a new league table compiled by The Times Higher.
13 Dec 2004	Hope for spinal cord injuries
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and King's College London, have developed a new technology that facilitates the return of some muscle function giving hope to those paralysed as a result of a spinal cord injury.
10 Dec 2004	AHRB success for Department of History
The King’s Department of History has achieved remarkable success in the latest funding round of the Resource Enhancement scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB).
08 Dec 2004	King's anatomist edits world's most famous medical book
The 39th edition of one of the best-known texts in the world, Gray’s Anatomy, is published this month by Elsevier. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Susan Standring, Professor of Experimental Neurobiology, and Head of the Department of Anatomy & Human Sciences in the School of Biomedical Sciences at King’s.
07 Dec 2004	Human gland probably evolved from gills
The human parathyroid gland, which regulates the level of calcium in the blood, probably evolved from the gills of fish, according to researchers from King’s College London.
23 Nov 2004	King's historian wins top award
Stephen Lovell, Lecturer in Modern European History, is one of 22 academics to win one of the prestigious 2004 Philip Leverhulme Prizes.
16 Nov 2004	King’s wins its first £1 million arts grant
An initiative which will promote and disseminate the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in UK arts and humanities research has been awarded one of the few £1 million grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB).
11 Nov 2004	Global warming: informal networking is the key to a swift response
A recent report on an unexpected sharp rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels has raised the possibility of rapid global warming, but researchers at King’s College London warn that some UK businesses, government departments and voluntary sector organisations are better equipped than others to respond to an increased risk of flooding, storms and extreme temperatures.
09 Nov 2004	Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases opened
The numbers of people suffering from stroke and dementia continue to rise as the population of the UK ages, but at present our ability to repair a damaged brain is limited. Now a new centre at King’s College London brings leading clinical researchers and basic scientists under one roof, with the aim of developing treatments for age-related diseases.
05 Nov 2004	New dental labs bring top-class researchers under one roof
New laboratories for the UK’s leading dental institute are to be opened today (5 November) at King’s College London, following a £3.7 million refurbishment programme aimed at bringing all laboratory-based dental research at King’s under one roof.
03 Nov 2004	Harkness Lecture held at King’s
Research for health and wealth was the title of this year’s annual Harkness Lecture. It was given by Professor Colin Blakemore FRS, Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council and Harkness Fellow (1965-67), on Thursday 28 October in the Great Hall of King’s College London.
01 Nov 2004	New head of Nursing and Midwifery
Nursing policy expert, Anne Marie Rafferty DPhil (Oxon) RGN DN has been appointed as the new Head of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s College London. She will take up the post on 5 November 2004, following the retirement of Professor Dame Jenifer Wilson-Barnett.
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