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University news Sciences and Ethics. Vice- Chancellor Professor David Melville said: ‘The Transmanche University is the first of its kind on both sides of the Channel. We are creating a real transfrontier higher education institution, so it is particularly fitting that we are opening our doors to our first students in the centenary of the signing of the Entente Cordiale.’ The Transmanche University is being jointly funded by education departments in France and the United Kingdom, as part of a £1.4m education accord signed at the Anglo-French summit in Le Touquet between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Jacques Chirac in 2003. It will be developing undergraduate programmes in addition to the postgraduate courses already offered, and there are plans to introduce lifelong learning initiatives and professional development programmes. The Transmanche University will also contribute to the economic development of regions on both sides of the English Channel. Kent student wins prize University of Kent Film Studies student, Mike Walden, who made Two DICE students observing an endangered gold eyelash viper from Costa Rica the best short film on last year’s undergraduate filmmaking module, Moving Image Production, was presented with the Cranbrook Golden Windmill Award by the Cranbrook Film Society at a special public screening of his film on 24 March. He received a cheque for £250 for his film, 250/251. The panel of judges included two BAFTA judges, a film lecturer and a filmmaker. Mike’s short, about a footballcrazy boy and his relationship with his father, competed against work by numerous talented student filmmakers from universities and colleges in the region. He hopes to write and direct films professionally and is currently applying to MA courses in filmmaking. Catherine Grant, Director of the Kent Film Studies programme said ‘We are delighted for Mike. He has produced an accomplished and beautiful short film of rare intensity that will clearly have a life beyond the university course for which it was produced. We think the prize is well deserved.’ Jersey Zoo Links between the University’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT), formerly known as Jersey Zoo, have recently been strengthened. Eighteen third-year undergraduates in the Biodiversity and Management and Conservation BSc programme attended workshops and presentations on overseas conservation efforts by Jersey staff over a two-day visit to People Paul Allain is now Professor of Theatre and Performance. Peter Brown is Professor of English. Professors Davina Cooper, formerly Professor of Law and Research Dean, and Didi Herman, formerly Professor of Law and Social Change, both at Keele University, have joined the Kent Law School. Professor Tim Jordan, formerly of the University of Nottingham, is now Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Kent. The first Head of the new Medway School of Pharmacy is Professor Clare Mackie, from The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Professor Mackie holds the prestigious new Pfizer Chair of Pharmacy. Professor Ian Marshall, previously Research Leader, Autonomous Systems at BT, took up the Chair in Distributed Systems in Computing in January. Dr Mark Van Vugt, currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton, will take up the Chair in Social Psychology at Kent on 1 September. Professor John Baldock is the new Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, succeeding Professor Chris Hale. Dr Anthony Ward is Clare Mackie the new Associate Dean for the University of Kent at Medway; Dr Ward will also continue as Master of Darwin College. Ian Black is the new Director of Personnel. Professor Richard Burns (Biosciences) was made Professor Emeritus in January. Dr Richard Bodmer has been given the Presidential Award for 2003 by the Chicago Ian Black Zoological Society. Dr Bodmer is Reader in Conservation Ecology in the University’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) based in the Department of Anthropology. The Award has been made in recognition of his ‘personal work on the sustainable use of natural resources by communities throughout South Sally Fincher America.’ Sally Fincher, Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory, has been awarded the 2003 Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. Simon Campbell Dr Elizabeth Mansfield, from the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. She is currently looking at ways of synthesising software design that has in it the principle of ‘optimisation’. An example of ‘optimisation’ is the calculation of aircraft flight paths that use least fuel for a given wind pattern, she explained. Dr David Oliver, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences (KIMHS) and Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Medical Director of the Wisdom Hospice, has been awarded the Humanitarian Award by the International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations. Dr Simon Campbell, member of University Council, was appointed as President Elect of the Royal Society of Chemistry in November. the Trust. They also had a behind-the-scenes tour of the reptile house, where captive breeding programmes are helping many of the world’s most endangered reptiles. 6
Development programme A CHANCE TO PUT SOMETHING BACK Give as you earn Give as you earn (GAYE) enables you to give to charity from your gross salary. By making a gift this way, donors are ‘rewarded’ by having their taxable income reduced by the value of their gift. Many staff at Kent give through GAYE, to good causes at Kent, including Seeds for Africa, the Music Bursary Scheme, the Overseas Bursary Fund, and the Annual Fund, and to charities outside Kent. To find out whether GAYE is available where you work, consult your employer. Music A recent graduate and friend of the University has made a very generous anonymous gift to Music at Kent. His contribution has made possible additional student music bursaries and a special concert in memory of his late wife. The University’s programme of free lunchtime concerts is generously supported by Furley Page Solicitors in Canterbury. The series brings a wonderful range of talented and well-known musicians to perform at Kent. Furley Page are also sponsors of the Brodsky Quartet concerts at the University. Sports The University funds several sports bursaries for star athletes at Kent. Past recipients have included national and international competitors in judo, swimming, netball, football, hockey and trampoline. In 2003 the Alumni programme awarded a bursary to Daniela Riva, a star volleyball player from Vicenza, Italy, now following on from her Kent MA to do a PhD in Medical Statistics. Annual Fund (UKC Development Trust) Four new trustees joined the Trust this year. Margot Chaundler OBE R67 (née Kirk), Bursar of St Paul’s School for Girls; Charlotte Green E75, BBC Newsreader; Rhonda Smith R68, Managing Director at GCI Health Care; and Professor Robert Worcester, Chairman of MORI and a member of the University’s Council. They join the Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Melville CBE, Dr Alister Dunning, University Treasurer, and Dr James Bird, former University Treasurer. At the annual meeting of the Trust in February, it was agreed to fund another Alumni Postgraduate Research Scholarship, to assist the Student Disabilities Unit with their purchase of equipment for students with disabilities, and to help the Stage Spiders, a society made up of Kent students on different courses, take their community theatre to schools in Africa. Sir James Colyer-Fergusson In 1996, Sir James Colyer-Fergusson made a very large gift to Music at Kent, which funds an annual concert (this year in the Cathedral on 13 March) and other special music projects. Sadly Sir James passed away in January this year, but he is commemorated at Kent through the annual Colyer-Fergusson Concert and other ongoing musical activities. A very thoughtful and generous man, Sir James had much earlier created an endowment at Kent to help young humanities scholars. Each year £4,000 is available to postgraduates and young academics in the humanities for help with their research. This year Dr Sarah Turner (Film Studies) was awarded £2.000 towards post-production of the film London Birds Can’t Fly (commissioned by Carlton TV), which she directed. Legacy booklet The University recently updated its legacy booklet ‘Investing in the Future: Making your will’ and posted it to a number of alumni and friends. If you didn’t receive a copy and would like one, please let us know. For further information about any of the above projects or about making a donation to the Annual Fund, please contact Killara Burn at the address on p 2. 7
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