News archive 2010

12 Oct 2010	King’s business plan competition launched
King's graduates and post doctoral researchers have an opportunity to make a difference via the Lion’s Den business plan competition launched this week. Participants have the chance to win prizes with a total value of £10,000 if they enter this programme which is a joint initiative between King’s Business and King’s Graduate School.
11 Oct 2010	Honorary Fellow wins Nobel Literature Prize
Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin America’s most significant novelists and leading author of his generation, a former member of staff and Honorary Fellow of the College, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature.
08 Oct 2010	King's contributes to WHO Intervention Guidelines
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched new mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guidelines with important contributions from Professors Graham Thornicroft, Martin Prince and Colin Drummond, Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and Centre for Global Mental Health, King's Health Partners .
07 Oct 2010	Nightingale app previewed
A new iPhone app, ‘Navigating Nightingale’, is to be previewed at a Story of London festival event at the Maughan Library at King’s College London’s Strand campus on Thursday 7 October. The free app will guide users along the banks of the River Thames to learn more about the life of Florence Nightingale a century after her death.
05 Oct 2010	Free radicals shown to protect the heart
Scientists at King’s College London have discovered that some ‘free radicals’ protect the heart, providing a possible reason why trials of antioxidant therapies for heart disease have so far failed.
01 Oct 2010	Cheltenham Literature Festival preview
A special preview event in conjunction with The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival will take place at King’s featuring prize winning writer Rose Tremain on 5 October. In a discussion with Clare Lees, Professor of English at King’s, Tremain, one of our most versatile contemporary writers, will discuss her latest novel, Trespass.
01 Oct 2010	New Marshall Scholarship
Professor Rick Trainor, King’s Principal and Dr Frances Dow, Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission recently signed an agreement that makes the College one of Marshall’s University Partners.
30 Sep 2010	Annual Fund launches King’s radio
A radio station and 3-D models for teaching nursing students to recognise patient wounds that may develop in hospitals, are among the student activities and teaching initiatives set to benefit from the College’s Annual Fund. This year nearly £300,000 has been donated by alumni, staff, parents of students and friends of King’s.
28 Sep 2010	Opening of Year Service
The Opening of Year service will be held on Wednesday 29 September at 13.10 in the College’s Chapel at the Strand Campus. The service celebrates the start of the new academic year and the preacher will be the Most Revd Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. The service is open to all.
27 Sep 2010	Tenth anniversary of Shakespeare MA
Shakespeare’s Globe and King’s celebrated a decade of successful collaboration with the 10th anniversary of their joint MA in Shakespeare Studies: Text and Playhouse with an event attended by 80 alumni, current students, King’s staff, colleagues from The Globe and scholars from other universities.
24 Sep 2010	Recognising success: King’s Awards 2010
The 2010 King’s Awards reception took place last night (Thursday 23 September) in the Weston Room, Maughan Library. For the fourth year, members of the College community gathered to celebrate the excellence and contributions of staff and students.
23 Sep 2010	Sharing research management skills
As part of a project funded by The Carnegie Corporation in New York to develop research management in higher educations institutions in Africa, King's is currently hosting Dr George Nasinyama, Deputy Director of Research, Makerere University, Uganda. The visit is led by King’s Business.
23 Sep 2010	King’s India Institute appoints Director
King’s College London has appointed Professor Sunil Khilnani as Director of the King’s India Institute. Sunil Khilnani is currently the Starr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Programme at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC – a programme which he founded. He is expected to take up his new position at King’s in July 2011.
21 Sep 2010	Massive global cost of Alzheimer's
A landmark report on the Global Economic Impact of Dementia finds that Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are exacting a massive toll on the global economy, with the problem set to accelerate in coming years. The Report was jointly authored by Professor Anders Wimo of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Professor Martin Prince, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
20 Sep 2010	Dental one-in-a-million
More than £1million has been left to King’s College London by a former student who studied dentistry in the 1940s. Diana Trebble (née Jennings), who died in February last year, left two thirds of her estate to King’s and her gift will be used to create an open scholarship for postgraduate dental students called the ‘Diana Trebble PhD Scholarship’.
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