Media mentions

IC wins in JREI rounds
Awards totalling more than £1m have been made to Imperial College.

BBC News Online (10/1/00)announced the winners of Joint Research Equipment Initiative funding to 'provide universities with the latest scientific hardware, with the aim of developing and supporting advanced research projects.'

Future of the female
In its millennium issue Vogue (12/99) carried a feature on the future of the female body. Professor Tony Firth, biomedical sciences, predicts that there will be a blending of physical shape, hair type and skin colour. "Today's generation of children is no longer as strongly rooted in the cultural system of their parents. There will be an enormous increase in the amount of partnership and intermarriage between ethnic communities, which will then affect the human gene pool."

An online solution
Imperial College's implementation of e-procurement has effectively freed up staff to do their jobs rather than spend time ordering supplies and has made a predicted saving of £8m and 70,000 hours of research time per year. The success story was featured as a recent Computer Weekly (2/12/99) case study.

Who wants to be a millionaire?
Around 17 million viewers saw IC computer science alumnus, Ben Bartle, win £125,000 on the popular television programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire? A self-confessed quiz addict, Ben Bartle, 54, has also appeared on BBC TV's University Challenge.

Keeping a low profile
In its quest to uncover the reason for the 'low profile' of Mary Archer at Imperial College, considering she is a visiting professor in the department of biochemistry, Private Eye (24/12/99) claims that a 'source close to the rector' explained: "She tends not to be invited to college functions, in case she brings him along with her."

21st century vox
The turn of the century has provoked considerable debate about what the future holds. Building magazine (10/12/99) turned to industry leaders for their visions for the future of construction. Chris Wise, director of Expedition Engineering and professor of creative design at Imperial College, foresees that 'physical movement will be unnecessary. You will be able to double-click to your virtual destination.'

Women on top
Photographer Emma Boam has spent two years capturing images of 100 of Britain's most successful women at work. Featured among them are Professor Averil Mansfield, surgery, St Mary's and Professor Lesley Regan, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, St Mary's. The photographs were published in the Independent on Sunday (2/1/00) and are also on show at the Photographers' Gallery.