News archive 2009

23 Dec 2009	King’s and Somerset House join forces
King’s is to work together with the Somerset House Trust to provide a new cultural hub for Londoners as well as an extension to the College’s existing Strand Campus, delivering innovative research and teaching.
22 Dec 2009	Time Magazine Top Ten
A study by an international research group including researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, has made TIME Magazine’s prestigious Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs list for 2009.
21 Dec 2009	New interaction for Breast Cancer Gene
Scientists at King’s College London have found that a family of proteins can play a crucial role in repairing DNA damage and help prevent Cancer – according to research published in Nature.
18 Dec 2009	Booker prize winning novelist at King’s
The Centre for Life-writing Research hosted a discussion about autobiography and fiction between two of Britain’s most distinguished novelists, Hilary Mantel and Fay Weldon, last night on the Strand Campus.
17 Dec 2009	New lung function genes discovered
Scientists in the Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit at King’s working with 96 scientists from 63 centres in Europe and Australia have identified five common genetic variations which affect lung function.
14 Dec 2009	BBC China ‘Christmas cracker’ at King’s
King’s joined up with the BBC World Service, Chinese Service for a live ‘Christmas Celebration’ quiz show, on Sunday 13 December in the Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus. The show was filmed and streamed live over the internet to thousands of viewers on BBC China, Sina.com and qq.com, some of China’s largest web portals.
11 Dec 2009	King's Archives awarded Wellcome Trust grant
The Wellcome Trust has awarded King's College London's Archives Service £108,000 to catalogue and preserve the papers of Professor Maurice Wilkins, who won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA.
10 Dec 2009	Composer-in-residence for Nursing & Midwifery
Renowned Irish composer John Browne will swap the opera house for the Health Service in 2010 when he becomes the first-ever Composer-in-Residence at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s, it was announced this week.
08 Dec 2009	Childhood traumas health risks for adults
Research from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s has found that negative experiences in childhood may alter not only mental health but also physical health, into middle age and beyond.
07 Dec 2009	King’s and Somerset House join forces
King’s is to work together with the Somerset House Trust to provide a new cultural hub for Londoners as well as an extension to the College’s existing Strand Campus, delivering innovative research and teaching. This development represents a milestone in the long term plans to reinvigorate the estate.
04 Dec 2009	Role of the Private Sector in Humanitarian Efforts
The Humanitarian Futures Programme in the Department of War Studies and the international disaster relief charity RedR yesterday hosted more than 150 delegates in the Great Hall, Strand Campus. The event had a high-profile line up of speakers, including HRH The Princess Royal and Sir John Holmes, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator.
04 Dec 2009	First international HR management academy
The King’s College London HRM Learning Board and The Forum for Expatriate Management have today launched The International Human Resources Management Academy (IHRMA). It has been developed specifically to help global organisations address opportunities and threats in developing a global employer brand, how they manage workforce risk across global operations and other highly challenging international business issues.
03 Dec 2009	BRC Faculty launch
The NIHR comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) based at King’s College London and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital Foundation Trust took another important step forward with the opening of its physical home on the 16th floor of Guy’s Tower and a keynote lecture for members of the Faculty of Translational Medicine.
03 Dec 2009	New University of London Vice-Chancellor appointed
Professor Geoffrey Crossick, currently Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London, has been appointed to take over from Sir Graeme Davies in September 2010 as the 50th Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
03 Dec 2009	Climate change impact on mental health
Leading mental health researchers are warning that some of the most important health consequences of climate change will be on mental health, yet this issue is unlikely to be given much attention at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen next week.
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