Issue 28
25 June - 22 July 1996
STAFF NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
In brief
Peerage
Field Marshal Sir Richard Vincent GBE KCB DSO, Governing Body chairman-elect, was created a life peer in The Queen's birthday honours list.
IC authors
Three Imperial academics have books due for publication. Professor Igor Aleksander's Impossible Minds: My Neurons My Consciousness, published by IC Press is due for release in September. Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline' 1870-1970 by Dr David Edgerton is published by Cambridge University Press and will be available from 12 July. Dr Lara Marks has a book published by Clio Medica as part of the Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine: Metropolitan Maternity - maternal and infant welfare services in early twentieth century London.
Open day
A marquee on the Queen's Lawn will be the focal point of Open Day on 27 June. The marquee will house departmental stands and, for the first year, a team from ICSM.
HECC chairman
Professor David Phillips, head of the Chemistry Department, will assume the appointment of chairman-elect of the Higher Education Chemistry Conference from July 1996. In July 1997 Professor Phillips will succeed Professor John Holloway as chairman. The HECC is the body which represents the interests of depart-ments engaged in chemical education, scholarship and research in universities and similar institutions in the UK.
Phone frauds
The annual Association of University Administrators Improcom seminar was hosted by Imperial College, for the fourth successive year. The theme, PABX security and fraud involving telephone services, was chosen by IC's telecommunications manager, Alan Hillyer. Delegates heard advice from Home Office representatives, a law firm and major telecom providers. "The cost of fraud to users and the industry, $3 billion in the USA last year, has reached mammoth proportions," commented Mr Hillyer. "Although we can't solve the problem, the seminar served as a useful reminder to be on your guard. If you're not aware of it, it is probably happening to you!"
(c) Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1996
Last Revised: 21 June 1996