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Dr Bill Frankland, the grandfather of allergy, celebrates his 108th birthday
Dr Bill Frankland, acclaimed allergy expert who popularised the pollen count is one of Imperial’s oldest alumni at 108.
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Professor David Lane retires after 40 years of service at Imperial
Internationally renowned haematologist Professor David Lane is retiring this month after over 40 successful years at the College.
New student accommodation to be named after Imperial’s first female professor
The new hall of residence in North Acton will be named in honour of Professor Helen Kemp Porter, one of the College’s pioneering members of staff.
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In pictures: 300 years of history at Westminster Hospital
Take a look back at some of the key stories from 300 years of the world’s first hospital funded by charitable giving.
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Podcast: 1918 special to mark the First World War armistice centenary
In this edition: We commemorate armistice with a look at Imperial’s war involvement, legacy battlefield injuries, and the Spanish flu epidemic.
Imperial hosts event to mark artefacts joining prestigious cultural register
The event celebrated six significant cultural archives joining the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register.
Celebrating the life of Sir Roger Bannister
Friends and colleagues came together to celebrate the Imperial alumnus, esteemed neurologist and runner of the first sub-four-minute mile.
Pioneering Imperial academic among women engineers named in national biography
For nearly 30 years, Letitia Chitty was a member of the Civil Engineering Department and now features in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Imperial joint mechanics expert elected to World Council of Biomechanics
Professor Anthony Bull was inaugurated in a Dublin ceremony celebrating his work on joints.
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Podcast: Retiring legends in music and glass, and misdiagnosing diabetes
In this edition: Looking back on the careers of Imperial’s music director and scientific glassblower, and learning how diabetes can be misdiagnosed.
