Chancellor's Fund Newsletter (Issue 23)

Chancellor’sFund Newsletter Issue 23 April 2016

Supporting tomorrow’s sporting stars

Unlocking Glasgow’s hidden histories The Chancellor’s Fund has awarded £2,500 to the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences to produce a booklet which documents the important role played by community and workplace organisers in shaping Glasgow.

The Banner Tales of Glasgow is a collaborative project involving the University, Glasgow Museums and the GMB trade union which showcases images and slogans from Glasgow’s rich culture of community and workplace organising. Many people with direct experience have shared their stories, with the project giving voice to the campaigns and struggles of Glasgow’s trade unionists and activists.

The project centred around four participatory workshops in Nitshill, Castlemilk, Barmulloch and Govan.

Banners were brought from Glasgow Museums’ collections to local communities for public viewing and discussion, and those involved were invited to share their experiences.

The Banner Tales of Glasgow booklet contains testimonies of trade unionists and other political activists in Glasgow reflecting on how banners were used to challenge injustices. The images and slogans on the banners combine to shape alternative values, visions and pride in work and neighbourhood, while often at the same time challenging injustices.

Fiona Hayes, Social History Curator for Glasgow Museums, said: ‘For Glasgow Museums the Banner Tales project has had significant impact. It is the means of putting the voice of people who made and used the banners into Glasgow Museums’ records to be linked to the banners for present and future generations.’

Welcome from the Chancellor It has been an exciting time for the University in recent months, with our researchers being at the forefront of major scientific and medical discoveries. On 11 February the discovery of gravitational waves was announced. University researchers played a key role over several decades in supporting the worldwide effort to make this groundbreaking discovery.

We have also made major breakthroughs in the area of pancreatic cancer, offering new opportunities to treat the disease which may prove to be of great benefit to society.

Your gifts to the Chancellor’s Fund support innovative projects that enrich the student experience, support excellence in research and teaching and enhance the physical and cultural heritage of the University.

As ever, thank you for your generosity and support. Gifts from alumni and friends really do make a difference.

Professor Kenneth Calman Chancellor

Tomorrow’s sporting stars Some of the University’s most talented athletes are to benefit from an award of £4,500 from the Chancellor’s Fund.

The Sports Bursary programme helps gifted student athletes to achieve their potential in combining sporting excellence with high academic achievement.

One of the programme’s beneficiaries, psychology student Rachel Hannen (pictured on the front cover), is following in the footsteps of former curling bursar Lauren Gray. Rachel, who won a silver medal in European Senior Women’s Curling in 2015, has been a keen curler from a young age. She says the Sports Bursary programme has proved invaluable to her, helping her to succeed at top level in her chosen field.

Previous recipients of the sports bursary over the last four years of the programme include Olympic and Winter Olympic medallists such as Emily Maguire, who graduated with First Class Honours in Mathematics & Statistics and was part of the GB hockey team at the London 2012 Olympics.

The Sports Bursary programme allows exceptional, talented athletes to continue to train at a high level while undertaking full-time study. Your continued support will make a significant difference in attracting top-class athletes and gifted students to the University in the future.

Workshop with a carnival atmosphere The School of Modern Languages & Cultures was awarded a grant of £3,250 to host a Brazilian workshop, culminating in a Brazilian festival.

MAKING LIFE-CHANGING TRAVEL POSSIBLE In May 2015, the Chancellor’s Fund for Sport was awarded £5,000 to give students the opportunity to take part in exceptional sport and recreation trips and gain valuable transferable skills.

Since 2003 over 400 students have benefited from this fund and last year it allowed the University Canoe Club to embark on a trip of a lifetime. Twelve members of the club travelled to L’Argentière in the French Alps to hone their kayaking skills, and developed essential safety, rescue and river leadership skills.

The Chancellor’s Fund made the trip more affordable and therefore more inclusive for all club members. Many students have reported back that their confidence has increased since taking part in the trip. Club member Fran Bamber said: ‘The trip hugely improved

the team’s confidence and skills, and was a great experience of a different kind of river and paddling style than we have ever experienced in Scotland.’

Another group of students took part in an expedition to the King’s Trail in the Arctic Circle, and to Lofoten in Norway, where they visited a Sami camp to learn about traditional survival methods.

The Chancellor’s Fund for Sport offers students a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in extraordinary projects, enhancing their cultural experience and supporting the next generation of intrepid trailblazers.

In order to engage and inspire students across all disciplines, the school developed eight workshops on Brazilian cultural history, language, key figures and musical styles of Brazil for those interested in learning more about Brazilian music and culture.

The workshops allowed students from Brazil the opportunity to meet others in the community and share their culture while having the chance to practise their English.

A further celebration of Brazilian culture was organised in the form of a Brazilian festival held in February, where staff and students attended various dance performances and taster sessions, including capoeira, forró and samba, as well as enjoying food and drink tasting at the Queen Margaret Union.

The workshop allowed Brazilian students and researchers to integrate further into the local community, gave Portuguese students in the school the chance to practise their own language skills, and succeeded in promoting Brazilian culture to a wider audience.

First Chemistry Challenge goes with a bang The Chancellor’s Fund awarded the School of Chemistry £686 to organise a Chemistry Challenge for undergraduate students.

A new initiative in the School of Chemistry has proved so successful that it has been used as an outreach activity to school pupils in the Glasgow area.

The ‘Chemistry Challenge’ is a project designed to give third- and fourth-year students the opportunity to interact and socialise with one another, improving peer relations while enhancing chemistry knowledge and developing transferable skills.

The inaugural Chemistry Challenge was held in autumn 2015, consisting of a lab-based practical activity followed by a quiz. The teams were made up of

enthusiastic students plus a very brave team of University staff.

Dr Ciorsdaidh Watts was one of those assessing performance. ‘I really enjoyed being a judge for the performance of fellow academics during the lab challenge,’ she said. ‘Let’s just say the students excelled.’

Following its success, it is hoped that the Chemistry Challenge will become an annual event for the School of Chemistry, with the current third-year students acting as ambassadors for the Challenge in the future.

Chancellor’s Fund giving: how you can help make a difference

How to contact us Editor: Gemma Elliott Tel: +44 (0)141 330 8501 Email: gemma.elliott@glasgow.ac.uk

We commemorate all gifts of £250 and above with an inscription as a way of acknowledging your support. Your chosen dedication will appear in our publications, such as Giving to Glasgow, and also on our Online Benefactor Wall, a web-based version of the traditional donor wall. Unless you have chosen to remain anonymous your name or dedication will appear on these lists as a means of recognising your generosity. All Chancellor’s Fund donors receive this newsletter twice a year, which will include information about the initiatives made possible as a direct result of your gift.

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Latest projects The latest projects to benefit from the Chancellor’s Fund are listed below.

Undergraduate Expedition Support Programme £15,000 To support international scientific expeditions by undergraduate students.

MVLS Graduate School Science Den £5,000 To provide financial investment to fund/supplement the winning project proposed to a panel of judges.

BDS Undergraduate Conference 2016 £1,000 To support a unique conference led, organised and delivered by dental students for dental students.

Why the Deuce – Celebrating the University’s First Computer £4,000 To fund the creation of a display case celebrating the Deuce, Scotland’s first academic computer, raising the profile of Computing Science at Glasgow while highlighting our long heritage.

Jet X Engineering £1,000 To engage students from various disciplines in aerospace engineering design research.

Manchester Metropolitan University Embedded Systems Design Contest £1,000 To fund students participating in a competition aimed at designing, developing and testing an autonomous battery-powered vehicle.

Formula Student Racing Team £5,000 To enable engineering students to participate in a competition for automotive engineering.

Early Career Researcher Training Symposium in Early American and Atlantic World History £3,000 To allow early career scholars and PhD students to present their research and to establish greater ties with other higher education institutions.

Wait, Weep and be Worthy? £2,000 To provide a centenary public symposium on women and the First World War. The Art of Bill Wylie £2,000 To support an exhibition to celebrate the life and works of former PhD student Bill Wylie, who died in 2015.

THANKS TO ALL OUR DONORS...

The Workers’ Music Association Archive £2,500 To allow staff and students access to a wider range of materials for research, focusing on the 1930–1950 period, covering WMA interactions with anti-fascist and pro-Soviet activism in Eastern Europe.

The following lists those who have given new gifts, named existing gifts or have been upgraded a level between 17 September 2015 and 16 March 2016.

In addition to those listed below, there are a number of donors whose gifts are awaiting confirmation of naming or who have chosen to remain anonymous.

Shakespeare 4 x 400 £5,000 To establish a programme of public events to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

Tower Donor

Glasgow Economic Forum £2,500 To promote economic discussion among students, academics and business.

Teaching in the Natural Environment £3,000 To fund a hydrology laboratory to provide students with real-world environmental monitoring skills.

What Type of Graduate Are You? £4,000 To launch an interactive alumni quiz to promote alumni volunteering activities.

Dr Grace A Caddies Spence† • Dr Robert C Smith • The Mary Andrew Charitable Trust • Two anonymous donors

Bute Donor

Dr Bassam G Saffouri† • Professor James M Kelly† • Frederick Q Lunt • Gerard Robertson • John M Galloway • Andrew K Gersh† • Douglas M Gebbie MBChB, FRCP (C) & Anne M Gebbie RN† • One anonymous donor

Avenue Donor

Professor Pablo Huq† • Professor William A McDougall† • Rev Dr Alan M McPherson • Alyson Craig • Bashir M A Dodhy • Dr James McGregor • Elliott A Glen-Esk • In memory of Thomas and Jean Millar • Margaret R Greenshields • Mawulorm Hevor • Professor William C Russell • Sanjoy Mukherjee • One anonymous donor

Glasgow University Medical Infection & Immunology Conference £500 To bring together life sciences, medical and other interested students to discuss a range of themes around infectious diseases and immunology.

Gilmorehill Donor

Chapel Choir Tour to Sweden £5,000 To undertake a choir tour of Sweden, to build on its international reputation.

* denotes donors who have been upgraded a giving club level. We would like to thank all donors for their continued support.

Dr Blanche A Borzell† • Dr Nathaniel W Revis† • John L Doyle† • Stephen H Campbell† • Alistair McLauchlan • Christopher Carson • Ian Lyall • Irene Hair • John C Christie • Mark Heron • Robert Locke • One anonymous donor

† denotes gifts to American Alumni of Glasgow University (AAGU). We would like to thank AAGU for their support.