Alumni Exchange Winter 2011

Alumni EXCHANGE Magazine for the University’s alumni and friends

Issue 6/ Winter 2011

Making an Impact University launches ÂŁ150m fundraising campaign Looking for Lowry Exclusive exhibition marks 130 years of excellence at University.

Love is in the air Couples who met at Nottingham return for a special event.

Graduates make UK history First cohort of Vet School graduates make history.

What’s inside P16&17 Portland Food Court is part of the multi-million-pound improvements

Campaign special P11 VC’s introduction Professor David Greenaway launches Impact: The Nottingham Campaign.

P12&13 Launch makes an impact A round-up of the week-long launch.

P14&15 Five years, five themes The five themes of the Impact Campaign.

P16&17 Buildings herald a new dawn Looking at a multi-million-pound programme of expansion and improvements.

P18 How you can get involved Professor David Greenaway hands over a cheque to the Sue Ryder Centre.

Contents

Welcome

News

Contact

P4 Spotlight A round-up of news and research from the University.

By post: Alumni Relations Team, The University of Nottingham, Portland Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

P5 Looking for Lowry An exclusive Lowry exhibition marks 130 years of excellence at the University.

Email: alumni-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 115 823 2406

P6-10 Alumni news A special love event, centenary celebration, making history and much, much more.

P19 Where are they now?

Catching up with former staff and students.

P20&21 Events past and future A photo gallery of events and dates for your diary for the months ahead.

P22-25 Fundraising How you can support the University.

P26 In memoriam Tribute to those who have passed away recently.

P27 Networks Contact details for hall associations, alumni groups, etc.

Online at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/ alumniexchange Writing: Simon Harvey Design: Karen Shale Pictures: Lisa Gilligan-Lee, Tracey Whitefoot, Andrew Hallsworth, Simon Harvey, David Ouchterlonie.

Issue 6 ©The University of Nottingham.

Alumni Exchange is the publication for graduates, former students, staff and friends of The University of Nottingham. Views expressed in Alumni Exchange are not necessarily those of the editor, alumni or The University of Nottingham.

Welcome to your later-than-usual copy of Alumni Exchange. I felt it was important for alumni to see and read about the October launch of Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, at the earliest opportunity hence the slight delay in receiving your magazine.

Although this edition is a Campaign Special, there’s lots more to enjoy with a full calendar of events from now until May Fest 2012 (on 19 May). You can also find out why our student callers are all of a buzz, why Monty Python’s dead parrot almost shuffled off its mortal coil in the Portland Building and how one of the hottest new chefs in south east Asia honed his skills in Willoughby Hall.

Our online version of the magazine at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/alumniexchange has photo galleries, extended articles, and the opportunity to comment.

You can support Impact: The Nottingham Campaign by following it on Twitter @UonImpact and by adding a Twibbon to your profile picture at: http://twibbon.com/join/UoN-ImpactCampaign.

Claire Kilner, Head of Alumni Relations

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VC’s welcome

Help us to make an even greater impact In 2012 I will have worked for this great institution for 25 years. In that time I’ve witnessed enormous change both in the higher education sector and the University.

My personal involvement with the Jubilee Campus project, the opening of our campuses in Malaysia and China, and then the great honour and privilege of being appointed to lead the University as its Vice-Chancellor, represent milestones in the rich tapestry of the University’s history, as well as my own career.

From my unique perspective I have seen how these step changes in our activity, these ambitious leaps into new and exciting horizons, go hand in hand with the support we receive from our alumni and friends. Our University is built on philanthropy and has philanthropic support coursing through its veins.

This is why we have launched our most ambitious fundraising campaign to date. As you will see in this special edition of Alumni Exchange, we aim to reach our target of £150m over the next five years.

We start from a strong position, with £50m having already been achieved. Impact: The Nottingham Campaign heralds one of the most exciting times in the history of the University. It will establish an even more diverse student body, provide a richer student experience, transform research programmes and help us make an even greater contribution to the global communities we serve.

Not only have I devoted most of my working life to the University but I also want to be at the forefront of this Campaign. Myself and my wife Susan have given a financial gift to the Vaughan Parry Williams Coaching Fund, but I also wanted to demonstrate my personal and genuine commitment to this Campaign through a more challenging activity. In the summer I led a team of colleagues on a cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End, raising £221,000 so far, for the Sue Ryder Centre for Research on Palliative and End of Life Care, based here at the University. It was an experience I shall never forget. If you read my blogs, you’ll see why. (http://tiny.cc/lifecycle).

Fundraising is just one of the ways to get involved in this Campaign and I know there will be lots of opportunities for all our alumni and friends to support us in a variety of ways in the months and years ahead.

Our Campaign Office will answer your questions and help you channel your efforts. But for now I would be delighted and honoured if I could count on your support. Together, I want us to make an impact that will touch generations. So join with us and contribute to securing an ambitious and sustainable future, for your University, for our local and global communities.

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University news

Spotlight

For more on these stories and others, please visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/news and follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/universityofnottinghamalumni and Twitter: @UoNottingham and @UniofNottalumni

Hotel to open at the end of 2012 Construction has begun on a 200-bed upmarket hotel at University Park Campus. Work began on the £20m eco-friendly hotel, which will be next to the East Midlands Conference Centre, in July. The hotel, which will be funded entirely by the University, will be available for use by alumni, conference delegates, University visitors, local businesses and the public and will be built to the highest environmental standards.

World record for smallest periodic table Scientists at the University now hold the 2012 Guinness World Record for writing the world’s smallest periodic table: http://tiny. cc/smallestperiodictable. They engraved the table on a strand of hair belonging to Green Chemist Professor Martyn Poliakoff. It took the skills of experts in the University’s Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, a beam of accelerated gallium ions and clever imaging to create a table so small that a million of them could be replicated on a typical Post-it note.

Bolly on campus A spectacular, time-travelling Bollywood movie has been filmed against the backdrop of the historic buildings of University Park and the ultramodern Jubilee Campus.

Directed by the famous Indian director Kunal Kholi, Teri Meri Kahani is due for release in India in Spring 2012.

Global crop discovery

A new form of resistance to fungal disease has been discovered in oilseed rape, one of the world’s most important crops. It could hold the key to developing disease-resistant crops. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is attacked by the Light Students are happier than ever Leaf Spot fungus (Pyrenopeziza brassicae), which can cut yields Students at the University are happier than before with the teaching, by a third. Now scientists from the University, Rothamsted facilities and opportunities available to them, according to the Research and KWS UK Ltd, latest National Students Survey (NSS). The University now has a have used plant breeding satisfaction score of 87%. methods to discover a form of built-in resistance to the fungus.

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Mind over matter?

A serendipitous discovery by academics at the University has shown that a simple illusion can significantly reduce — and in some cases even temporarily eradicate — arthritic pain. By tricking the brain into believing that the painful part of the hand is being stretched or shrunk, researchers halved the pain felt by 85 per cent of sufferers they tested. The research could point to new technologies of the future, which could help patients to improve mobility in their hand.

In World’s Top 75 The University’s place among the world’s top 75 higher education institutions has again been confirmed in the QS World University Rankings® 2011/2012. Nottingham is 74th worldwide and 14th out of just 37 UK universities in the top 300, reflecting the University’s acknowledged excellence in teaching, learning and research.

Alumni news

A major new exhibition of the work of LS Lowry has opened at the Djanogly Gallery at Lakeside to mark 130 years of excellence at The University of Nottingham.

Supported by University benefactors Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly and organised in association with the Crane Kalman Gallery, London, the exhibition is a coup for Lakeside and offers a rare chance to see a substantial body of works generously donated by The Lowry Collection, Salford.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Greenaway, said: “We are delighted that the University is hosting this nationally important exhibition. It is an exciting opportunity to see a collection of Lowry’s work in the region and I am sure it will prove to be a stimulating exhibition for everyone attending.”

The exhibition coincides with the opening of an £8m campus landmark, the new Humanities Building at Lenton Grove which houses the Archaeology, Art History, Classics, Philosophy and Theology Departments and opened for the new academic year. Designed by Nottingham architects CPMG, the building includes a Visual Resource Centre for Art History and Archaeology laboratories.

The exhibition will focus on Lowry’s work from the 1920s until the mid 50s, from the early industrial subjects to the point where the artist began to achieve popular and commercial success and his interests shifted into the territory of figure groups and individual figure painting.

The exhibition runs until 5 February 2012 and admission is free.

An exclusive alumni talk and tour of the exhibition with the University’s Exhibitions Officer and curator Neil Walker was held on 1 December and proved so popular that we are holding a second talk and tour event on Thursday 19 January, 2012. Please book online or contact Sue Daley, Alumni Relations T: 0115 846 6940 E: susan. daley@nottingham.ac.uk.

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Alumni news

Busy engineers “Engineers are important today, but they will be far more important tomorrow.”

So said alumnus and Rolls Royce CEO John Rishton (Economics, 1979) after receiving his honorary degree at the University. Addressing a ceremony of graduating engineers, Mr Rishton went on: “Scientific and engineering solutions are urgently required to address some of the most pressing problems we face both as a nation, and as a species. Climate change, energy security, the acidification of oceans, producing sufficient food and water for the world’s growing population, to name but a few. So you’re going to be busy.”

Other alumni who received honorary degrees were: former Vice-President of University Council Mike McNamara (Politics 1971); BBC Broadcaster John Holmes (Mining Engineering 1968) and broadcaster and former senior executive at the BBC Matthew Bannister (Law 1978).

You can watch videos of all the summer graduation services at: www.nottingham. ac.uk/graduationvideos/index.aspx.

Catherine’s story When Shropshire primary school teacher Catherine Cooper (Education 1978) was struck down with a degenerative bone disease and then breast cancer, she was devastated.

No longer able to teach, Catherine wrote a children’s book based on the myths and legends of Shropshire.

The Golden Acorn, featuring the adventures of hero Jack Brenin in a world of magical creatures and mythical landscapes, won her the Brit Writer of the Year Award 2010 and Best Story for Children. The sequel, Glasruhen Gate, came out in March and independent publishing company Infinite Ideas is to publish the entire Jack Brenin series. It has also optioned movie rights for The Golden Acorn with Los Angeles-based Delve Films.

Catherine was touted in a recent Observer review as a possible successor to Harry Potter author JK Rowling. Find out more about her books at: www.pengridion.co.uk.

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Love is... couples return to where it all began They met, they fell in love and then they graduated.

For hundreds of our alumni, the University is not just where they got a degree but also where they met their life partner. So in early September, 27 couples returned for our inaugural From Nottingham With Love...

Guests reminisced about halls of residence curfews and Saturday night ‘hops’ and enjoyed a walk round the University gardens, tea and cupcakes and a presentation on the love lives of the romantic period novelists by Professor Lynda Pratt (School of English Studies).

Pat and Dickie Bond met at the University ‘hop’ in Christmas 1954. They were never ‘an item’ but had their photo taken together outside the Great Hall. Carnival Director

Dick graduated in Economics in 1956 and Pat, a hockey player and athletics star, graduated a year later with a Maths degree.

Both went their separate ways.

Dick did National Service in the Royal Army Pay Corps and later got a job with IBM. Pat married, moved to Birmingham, had three children, adopted another and returned to full-time work in Adult Education, later working overseas. Half a century later and the couple found themselves single. Dick, now retired, traced Pat through Friends Reunited and the couple met up again.

In August 2010, they returned to the University for a register office wedding and a ‘repeat photo’ outside the Great Hall.

For an extended version of this article, visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/alumniexchange.

Alumni news

Jack’s Gallery 47 Singer songwriter Jack Peachey (English 2011) performed live to thousands of people at festivals all over the UK within days of graduating this summer. Towards the end of his degree Jack, who performs as Gallery 47, was juggling the completion of English essays with the production of his debut solo album Fate is the Law, which has been positively received. T in the Park, Leicester’s Summer Sundae and Nottingham’s Splendour Festival were the highlights of a busy summer, and Jack’s now touring the album. He’s been writing songs since he was 15 and his influences include Bob Dylan and Nick Drake.

Agrimag celebrates a century of news Dramatic German prisoner-of-war escapes, a home for the Women’s Land Army and the site of the first new Vet School in the UK for more than 50 years, as all Old Kingstonians know, the University’s Sutton Bonington Campus boasts a fascinating history.

And nowhere has that history been better chronicled than in the pages of the student magazine, Agrimag, which this year celebrates its centenary.

The roots of farming and education at Sutton Bonington go deep into the 19th Century when the Midland Dairy Institute was created to offer training in butter and cheese production. A college thrived in the area in various guises, interrupted by World War One, but it was not until the 1930s that degree courses were offered by University

College Nottingham and London University.

Today the campus is home to the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, the 400-hectare University Farm and the School of Biosciences, which is internationally renowned for its cutting-edge research.

And through it all Agrimag has charted the changes and the drama. As a journal of past and present students it has remained the authoritative guide and home to everything connected with Sutton Bonington.

To celebrate Agrimag’s 100 years, a special centenary brochure has been produced.

For details, please email: susan.golds@ nottingham.ac.uk or julian.wiseman@ nottingham.ac.uk.

You can see a podcast of Jack’s appearance at Splendour plus an interview at: www. youtube.com/watch?v=nZ4HTY9qDLk and find out more at: www.gallery47official.com.

Alumni triumph More than 150 alumni returned to the University to wipe the floor with present students across a range of sports at the inaugural Alumni Sports Challenge Weekend.

So successful was the first event that next year’s is already booked in for 16-17 June.

Teams of current students from basketball, netball, tennis, lacrosse and hockey rose to the challenge, but despite strong performances, none were able to overcome the might of past players.

You can see a full report of the 2011 event with photographs at Alumni Exchange online at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/ alumniexchange.

To take part in the alumni weekend 2012, or find out more, please email: diane. hardwick@nottingham.ac.uk. Also visit the event’s Facebook site at: www.facebook. com/#!/uonalumnichallenge.

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Alumni news

Emma is tipped for the top Nottingham alumna Emma Barnett has capped off an incredible year with the awards of Digital Journalist of the Year by the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) Awards and Digital Writer of the Year at the Online Media awards.

Emma, 26, from Manchester, graduated from the University in 2006 with a degree in History and Politics and has been tipped as a high flyer in the industry after being selected as “one to watch” in Red magazine’s annual “20 under 30” hotlist.

She is Digital Media Editor of the Daily Telegraph, is copresenting a 12-part Sky One series on digital media and technology and has just started a weekly drivetime show on LBC Radio.

She was also voted ‘the 9th most influential UK journalist on Twitter’ out of 900 hacks.

Read an interview with Emma at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/ alumniexchange and find out more at: http://emmabarnett.org.

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Vet Jennifer makes UK history Just as Jennifer Hall graduated with a degree in Biosciences, she heard that the University was going to establish the first new purpose-built Vet School in Britain for 50 years.

Veterinary medicine had been her real dream so Jennifer applied, got a place and five years later made history as a member of the first cohort to successfully complete the innovative degree course, which has helped to change the way veterinary medicine is taught in Britain.

The five-year course is unique in that students get hands on experience with animals from day one and it awards three separate degrees.

Jennifer, now a farm vet in Exeter, said: “I’d heard so much about the vet course and watched the buildings go up. I couldn’t resist trying just one more time to pursue my chosen career. The course suited my style of learning perfectly – everything was based on practical application.

“The course has given me real direction — finally I know where I want to be in life.

“I know that wherever I go there is a support team behind me, both in the form of the staff at the vet school and lifelong friends made in the last few years.”

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons recently made its unanimous recommendation for the degree’s approval to the Privy Council after a detailed visitation and audit process. Professor Gary England, Foundation Dean and Professor of Comparative Veterinary Reproduction, said: “This is a momentous time for the new alumni, their families and the veterinary profession.

“Recognition by the Royal College was the highest possible accolade they could award — their approval and the summer graduation ceremony was the culmination of five years successful hard work for staff and students.”

Alumni news Flashback to the early 1970s... the Monty Python stars have been booked to play two gigs for the Students’ Union and the Portland Ballroom is packed out... but there’s a problem.

John Cleese and the Python boys are refusing to go back on stage for the second show until their dead parrot, star of the Dead Parrot sketch, is returned by the student who ‘borrowed it’ at the end of the first show.

The disappearance of the Norwegian Blue has gone down in Nottingham student folklore and was one of a whole host of stories remembered by a group of alumni who met in Nottingham recently to relive the heady days of student music gigs, extravaganzas, miscellanies and discos.

Mike Gleave (Industrial Economics 1972), Rick Stark (Chemical Engineering 1971), Elaine Woodhams (née Smith) (Social Administration 1972) and John Bailey (Agriculture/Horticulture 1972) were all members of the SU social committee in the early 70s. They were even joined by their showbiz agent of the time, Nottingham’s Tony Sherwood.

John and Rick also presented the University with copies of original band posters from their time in office.

The posters offer a fascinating insight into the musical activities of the SU at the time and, in collaboration with The University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts and Special Collections, the posters have been digitised and placed in the University’s collections for archive.

As for the parrot? There are various accounts but it seems a search of the exiting audience uncovered it from under someone’s jumper and the second show went ahead as planned!

Manuscripts and Special Collections are always keen to add memories of student experience to the collections.

Photographs and records of student societies, including drama, music and sport, are all welcome. Contact Linda Shaw or Caroline Kelly if you have material you think might be of interest, on 0115 951 4565 or email: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk.

You can see a gallery of the 1970s’ posters in our online Alumni Exchange at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/alumniexchange.

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International

Stay in touch Successful alumni events have been held in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Vancouver and Greece this year. These receptions and Talent on Tour evenings are a great opportunity for our international alumni to keep in touch with developments at the University and to network with fellow alumni. Events are already planned for Mauritius and Singapore but keep an eye on the alumni calendar for the latest news and updates about forthcoming events: www. nottingham.ac.uk/alumnievents.

Tri triumph The University of Nottingham’s third annual Tri Campus Games (TCG3) – the only intra-mural competition held across three countries – saw students from China, Malaysia and the UK compete in eight sports in Ningbo, China. The title was retained by the UK team. TCG4 will be held in Nottingham in 2012. To find out more, please visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/ sport/tricampusgames.php or: www.facebook.com/group. php?gid=103846590265.

Coren switch After 12 years and more than 3,000 episodes The Michael Coren Show — a nightly panel show which became synonymous with debate on controversial social issues — has come to an end on Canadian CTS TV. Awardwinning columnist, author and broadcaster Michael Coren (Politics 1980) is now on Coren Tonight for Sun News TV, “Canada’s home for hard news and straight talk”.

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China’s Premier Wen Jiabao paid a surprise visit to the students and staff at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China in April. Premier Wen shook hands with the students who gathered outside to welcome him, and then moved on to chat to business students about their research projects, telling them: “I am very happy to be here to see international students and Chinese students learning together and developing together. This is like an international family.”

Low hits new heights Willin Low (Law 1996) is one of the hottest new chefs in south-east Asia and has been voted a culinary star for his modern Singaporean twist on contemporary western cuisine.

lawyer for eight years in Singapore. The University was the start of my formative years, living independently and beginning to think analytically about everything.”

But it all began in Willoughby Hall where he says the catering “made his tastebuds sad”.

Cooking slowly edged out the legal career until he fulfilled his dream in 2005 by opening his Wild Rocket restaurant at Mount Emily in Singapore, quickly followed by others.

“Coming from Singapore where we have such a wide array of cuisines, I was in shock,” said Willin.

“But there were saving graces, Beeston Tandoori, a chippy and a Chinese take-out kept me alive. I have very many happy memories of the University.

I enjoyed studying tremendously and worked as a

“It’s food that I like to eat! We call it Modern Singaporean because that is what I am, the food may be western in presentation and in origin but it always has a Singaporean or Asian twist to it.”

What are you up to these days?

We want to hear more from our alumni communities all over the globe. If you have a story to tell or want to keep us updated on what you’re doing, please contact International Alumni Officer Hannah Curnock on +44 (0)115 8266941 or

hannah.curnock@nottingham. ac.uk. Hannah (Russian 2003) is an alumna and previously worked for three years in the University’s International Office which involved travelling extensively. The international stories in the magazine are just

a flavour of our international alumni news. Find more in our online magazine at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/ alumniexchange, where you can also comment on the stories you read. So get involved and keep in touch!

Impact

The University has launched the biggest fundraising campaign in its 130-year history. Impact: The Nottingham Campaign will raise £150m to transform research, enrich the student experience and enable the institution to make an even greater contribution to the global communities it serves.

And the work has already started. A total of £50m has been raised through generous donations, both large and small.

Vice-Chancellor Professor David Greenaway launched the Campaign on Monday 17 October and said: “Many of the world’s great universities have been able to flourish due to the visionary actions of philanthropists.

Such investment has allowed independence of thought and action by scholars and students to tackle society’s most pressing issues.”

Impact: The Nottingham Campaign

Two close friends and alumni of the University are the co-chairs of the five-year campaign — Jeff Randall, Sky News presenter and Daily Telegraph columnist and businessman and philanthropist David Ross, co-founder of The Carphone Warehouse and founder of the David Ross Foundation. Both have shown extraordinary levels of leadership and vision in support of the Campaign.

Jeff Randall said: “I graduated in 1979 but my enthusiasm and love affair for The University of Nottingham remains undimmed by time. That’s why I’m supporting the Impact Campaign to raise £150m.

It’s a lot of money and seems like a tall order but it’s a privilege to be involved and to give back something to the University that gave so much to me.

“I’m very proud to be the co-chair of Impact: The Nottingham Campaign with David Ross. Our aim is to persuade you, all of you, that you really can help make a difference. With your involvement in this Campaign we can help lift this University to the next level of excellence. It’s about shaping the future and making a unique Impact.”

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Impact

Powerful stories, world-changing research, celebrity debates, a celebration beer for a new micro-brewery, a Guinness World Record and live internet streaming across the globe... the launch of the University’s new campaign certainly made an impact.

Impact: The Nottingham Campaign was a weeklong series of events attended by alumni, students, academics, friends of the University and leaders in the world of business and higher education.

Five themed days from 17-21 October attracted more than a thousand visitors eager to experience the Campaign’s series of high-impact global projects which will touch generations. Further Campaign launches are planned in Malaysia and China next year.

Each day was badged with one of the five Campaign themes: The Nottingham Experience, Health and Well-being, Nurturing Talent, Ingenuity and Sustainable Futures. Question Time-style debates featuring TV celebrities such as author and broadcaster Adam HartDavis, science presenter Maggie Philbin and Private Eye columnist and practising GP Dr Phil Hammond attracted crowds.

An oak tree was planted on Jubilee Campus by the Vice-Chancellor and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Michael Wildgust, to launch the Nurturing Talent theme and a time capsule was buried containing 200 messages from students, sixth-formers and researchers in Malaysia, China and the UK, saying where they see their talent taking them in 10 years.

You can also see the featured time capsule messages when you visit the Impact Campaign website: http://tiny. cc/UoNImpact click on Nurturing Talent and select Time Capsule from the drop down menu.

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Dr Matthew McFall, creator of the Wonder Room at Nottingham University Samworth Academy, chats to two young pupils at the Nurturing Talent launch

Week-long launch has real Impact at Sutton Bonington, which includes the new microbrewery. Brewing will play a leading role in developing sustainable manufacturing innovations which will benefit not only the food and beverage industries but will also deliver environmental impacts to other manufacturing sectors.

And in a finale to match any major launch members of the University Boat Club powered their specially adapted rowing machines for 24 hours to potentially set a new Guinness World Record for generating electricity using only human power.

To see more photos, visit: www.facebook.com/ universityofnottinghamalumni.

Explore further how we are making an impact, and how you can make yours at: http://tiny.cc/UoNImpact.

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Impact

Five years... five themes Researchers and scholars at The University of Nottingham are furthering our understanding of the world and finding solutions to global challenges. Investing in today’s research will improve tomorrow. Through the development of ideas and discoveries universities are making an enormous impact on the economic, social and cultural well-being of their local communities, the UK and the world.

Each of our Campaign priorities has been carefully chosen to build upon genuine areas of strength within the University and represent the areas where we believe we can make the biggest difference.

Visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/impactcampaign/campaignpriorities to see exclusive video footage of each project and download brochures which explain why the project is so important, or contact the Campaign Office to receive any of our brochures and leaflets by post.

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Impact Ingenuity: Support innovation. Save lives.

Change the world.

The University has always been a hub for ingenuity. It’s also been a platform from which our alumni have gone on to develop their great ideas into innovations and discoveries which extend the boundaries of knowledge. As a world-class research university we strive to support our research community and its discoveries, providing an outstanding environment and resources to enable blue-sky and translational research to flourish. We recognise how important it is to support research with no immediate or obvious commercial benefits, but which often leads to world-changing inventions, as well as research whose explicit purpose it is to turn discovery into concrete material benefits and products. 90% of our research is rated as ‘international standard’.

The Campaign will build upon our strengths by supporting research that tackles diverse global issues. We will grow our postgraduate, doctoral training and research programmes across a range of disciplines, ensuring that students and staff realise the benefits of state-of-the-art facilities and participation in a dynamic world-class international research community.

Health and Well-being: Prevent illness.

Protect children. Shape healthier futures.

Thousands of you have benefited from the University’s research in health and wellbeing, especially if you’ve had an MRI scan. With Sir Jesse Boot as a founding philanthropist it’s hardly surprising that the University has a tradition of pioneering work in medicine, diagnostics and community health. Thanks to world-class strengths in subjects such as chemistry, engineering and pharmacy, our medical community finds itself at the junction of some extraordinary inter-disciplinary achievements.

The Campaign will build on its heritage, including its role in the development of MRI, to progress major and diverse research programmes and seek to embed

research evidence into clinical practice to significantly improve health outcomes and quality of life for patients and carers.

Research will focus on a range of issues building upon our expertise. To promote and encourage a wider sense of health and well-being for all our stakeholders, the Campaign will also enable an expansion of our commitment to animal welfare, recognising the important role that animals play in both balancing our eco-systems, and in enriching our lives.

Nurturing Talent: Inspire students.

Enhance opportunities. Help transform lives.

VC Professor David Greenaway says one of the markers of a great university is the quality of its alumni. We have a large community of successful alumni playing leading roles in their chosen fields around the globe. We aim to continue to attract and retain the very best intellectual talent and connect the University and its communities at all levels. The University provides scholarships and bursaries to encourage academic excellence, promote international mobility and to overcome obstacles which might deter students from applying to, or remaining at Nottingham.

The Campaign will support the brightest and most promising school children, undergraduates and postgraduates to realise their full potential regardless of socio-economic background. We have bold plans in place to raise aspiration and support achievement, particularly within this region. The Campaign will also promote the next generation of researchers by offering early career research fellowships to recruit, support and retain talented researchers at this critical time in their career.

Sustainable Futures: Combat climate change. Alleviate hunger. Find lasting solutions.

Barely a day goes by without sustainability being in the news: global warming, the limits of fossil-fuelled power and possible

alternatives, the population rise and the need to find a more sustainable way to feed the world. The University is recognised as a leader in environmental sustainability through our interdisciplinary research programmes and our green campuses.

The Campaign will advance innovative solutions to establish sustainable and secure energy supplies at affordable prices and to develop technologies to mitigate global warming. The University’s commitment to a ‘greener’ future is for a 20% absolute reduction in CO2 emissions, from a 2009/10 level, by 2015. The Campaign will harness the University’s unique international strengths in developing sustainable agricultural systems to produce more food from the same amount of land while using less fertiliser, water and energy to meet the demands of a growing global population.

The Nottingham Experience: Support success. Broaden horizons. Provide the very best.

As a graduate, you know about The Nottingham Experience. We think you’ll agree that this is a special place to live, study and work. If you’ve been back recently we hope you would also agree that our commitment to the quality of the University is evident on all our campuses.

These are the envy of many others and frame a memorable, often life-changing experience for those who have lived and worked on them, characterising their Nottingham Experience.

The Campaign will preserve and expand this legacy for future generations. We will continue to provide inspirational teaching and learning and provide vibrant cultural and leisure facilities for our students, staff and local communities. We will enhance the opportunities for personal development, international mobility and career advice and support to provide the best launch pad for future employment and service as a global citizen.

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Impact

Buildings herald a new dawn Two prestigious buildings were opened during the Campaign launch — just part of a multi-million pound programme of expansion and improvements that is set to cement the University’s status as one of the most popular destinations among UK students.

• A £1.5m investment into pedestrian, cycle and vehicle routes on University Park, including widening roads to include cycle lanes, improved and new footpath and cycle routes, layby bus stops with electronic bus information and a new road lay-out to form a pedestrian zone in the central campus area.

A raft of new teaching and learning buildings, a £2.5m revamp of café and food facilities and improvements to its halls of residence are designed to enhance the University experience for its 40,000 students and confirm Nottingham as an inspirational place to work and study.

• Improvements to halls, including the installation of solar roof panels on Derby and Lincoln Halls on University Park that will generate renewable electricity that will feed directly into the University’s grid-connected electricity distribution network and will save 60 tonnes of carbon every year.

Sustainability runs through the heart of the developments, reinforcing the University’s green credentials and supporting its commitment to environmental excellence.

• More than £500,000 refurbishment of the Lakeside Arts Centre that will provide more gallery space to accommodate larger and more diverse exhibitions. The former Art History library has been refurbished and will be home to the University’s Museum.

The landmark developments and improvements include: • A stunning £7m Gateway Building at Sutton Bonington incorporating straw-bale construction from straw grown on campus and used within timber-framed units to provide lowcarbon, highly-insulating cladding for the building.

• A £10m Engineering and Sciences Learning Centre (ESLC) on University Park offering teaching rooms, a graduate centre and computer rooms over three floors.

• A £7m Mathematical Sciences undergraduate teaching and learning building on University Park. The environmentallysustainable design features a ground-source heat-pump and a bio-diverse roof planted with local seeds.

• An £8m Humanities building bringing together the departments of Archaeology, Art History, Classics, Philosophy and Theology. The building features ‘green’ heating and ventilation systems and includes a computer room and archaeology labs.

• A £25m Bioenergy and Brewing Science Building at Sutton Bonington with a state-of-the-art micro-brewery – small compared to SABMiller’s pilot plant also housed in the building, but the biggest research facility of its kind in the country.

• A home for the Centre for Advanced Studies and Graduate School housed in a £2.3m extension and refurbishment at Highfields House on University Park.

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In addition, the University has invested £2.5m into one of its biggest overhauls of catering facilities at University Park to create a truly international flavour, while offering exceptional choice and quality. A food court has been unveiled at Portland Building offering Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, African-Caribbean and Italian menus, as well as traditional options such as a salad bar and pasta and a Starbucks.

It includes Man’s Gourmet, the University’s first collaboration with local business Man’s Group, the owner of Mr Man’s on the edge of Wollaton Park and the city-centre Man’s Restaurant. It also includes Item Seven, the brainchild of University of Nottingham Business School graduate and entrepreneur Olu Amodeni (Entrepreneurship 2011), which offers a fusion of African and Caribbean foods for the University’s increasingly diverse international community.

Portland’s B floor has gained a New York style deli counter, serving kosher food. The Café@Trent has doubled in size, providing a stunning setting overlooking the lake and making the most of the Trent Building’s original Art Deco architecture with its scalloped mirrored kickplates and photographic wallpaper wall echoing the 1920s and 30s. Café facilities have also been improved at Coates and Telford buildings on University Park, a café has been created at Cavendish Hall of Residence and improvements have been made to the Sports Juice Bar at the Sports Centre.

Impact

The landmark developments include the impressive £7m Mathematical Sciences building (top), the £7m Gateway Building (above left) and the innovative £25m Bioenergy and Brewing Science Building (above).

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Impact

The VC hands over the Lifecycle cheque to the Sue Ryder Centre

Leading the way As part of the build-up to the Campaign launch, a team of University staff, led by Vice-Chancellor Professor David Greenaway, cycled more than 1,000 miles from John O’Groats to Land’s End, raising a staggering £221,453 (so far). The team battled strong headwinds, steep climbs, punctures and the odd fall, but still completed the journey in just 13 days.

During the Impact Campaign’s Health and Well-being event, Professor Greenaway presented a cheque to Professor Jane Seymour and her team at the Sue Ryder Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care, based at the University. The team will use the money to continue their world-leading research into improving the treatment of those at the end of life.

The University of Nottingham is an “exempt charity” under the provision of Schedule 2 to the Charities Act 2006. Exempt charities are organisations whose purposes are charitable but which are accountable to a body other than the Charity Commission and given the comprehensive monitoring and audit processes already in place are “exempt” from registration with the Commission. The University of Nottingham is accountable to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. As such it has the same tax benefits as registered charities which include the ability to recover tax deducted from deeds of covenant and receipts under Gift Aid, exemption from Inheritance Tax for donors to the institution and exemption from Capital Gains Tax. 18/ Alumni Exchange/ Issue 6/ Winter 2011

Professor Greenaway described the ride as ‘the experience of a lifetime’ and said it was made all the more special for being shared with such a wonderful group of people.

“I owe the other 10 riders and four support team members a great debt of gratitude for the very real sacrifices they have made in taking this on and for being such wonderful companions. Thank you to our sponsors FreethCartwright LLP and the University Partnerships Programme and everyone who has supported us.”

You can see films of the riders, read the ViceChancellor’s blogs and support the team at: http://tiny.cc/lifecycle.

Supporting The University of Nottingham Campaign Office The University of Nottingham King’s Meadow Campus Lenton Lane Nottingham, NG7 2NR T: +44 (0)115 846 7213 F: +44 (0)115 951 3691 E: impactcampaign@nottingham.ac.uk W: www.nottingham.ac.uk/impactcampaign

Profile

Where are they now?

Let us know where you are and what you’re up to by updating the class notes section of Your Profile at www.alumni.nottingham.ac.uk.

1950s

Barry Hutton (Geography 1957)

1990s

Nolan Clamp (History 1952)

Retired. Ex-academic transport planner — Pro-director and HOD Dept Town Planning Bristol Poly. Also consultant: Milton Keynes structure, Kosovo Transport Plan, Egyptian National Institute of Transport, professional witness at planning inquiries.

Lance Corporal Emeritus Royal Engineers (Christmas Island (1958-9).

Charles T Mbohwa (Manufacturing and Ops Management 1992)

I spent a year in Colmar, Alsace, teaching English while studying French Literature at Strasbourg University, returning to Nottingham to get an Education Certificate.

National Service was covered by a four-year short-service commission with the RAF education branch in Gutersloh, Germany, from 1954-58. Two years’ teaching in London were followed by four years’ teaching in an RAF school in Cyprus.

Returning to England in 1964, I spent two terms in a Great Yarmouth school before becoming Assistant Director for Further Education in Gateshead. From 1967-72 I was Deputy Director at Burton-on-Trent, moving to a similar post with the Service Children Education Authority in Germany.

In 1976 I became Director, responsible for nearly 100 schools and around 27,000 children, aged five to 19. In 1991, I retired and returned to Beccles with my wife.

Rex Andrews (English 1957) After graduating, my MPhil and PhD research at the London Institute of Education accompanied teaching in schools for 10 years and colleges and university for 20 years. I edited the London Educational Review from 1971-74 and founded the MGMT, promoting Education for International Understanding at the Institute. The World Education Fellowship and the British Council enabled me to visit schools and I still contribute to international conferences. I married Marie in my final year at Nottingham and had four children.

We retired to France. Three years ago we celebrated our golden wedding. We can do painting and writing that there was never time for before. Alongside poetry, fiction and educational material, I am finishing a book, God the X Factor.

1960s

Elizabeth Goodman (Law 1965) After lecturing in law, I worked for HM Courts and Tribunals chairing Social Security Appeals Tribunals. I retired in 2008, but work part time. I play tennis, walk and keep up with four grandchildren. I married in 1967 and had two children.

1970s Valerie Lark-Webler (Geography 1973) Having worked in town and transportation planning and architecture for many years, I moved to Germany in 1990 to join my husband. We have one daughter who has grown up bilingual. I now work for the International School of Stuttgart as Director of External Affairs and Facilities.

1980s

I am now teaching at the University of Johannesburg.

2000s Simon Cohen (Theology 2000) An international speaker, consultant and trainer in communications and ethics, Simon set up Global Tolerance to harness the power of the media for positive social change. He has spoken on media ethics and religion in the media at numerous international events. Simon launched the first national conference on religion and the media and has become a leading figure in media ethics. He is also an accredited writer with the British Association of Journalists.

Alexandra Broekema (International Relations 2002) After finishing my MA, I found a job in the University’s International Office. I worked in international student recruitment for nearly eight years, I now work at the University of Birmingham on student experience. I’d love to hear from those I studied IR with!

Shirley Higgins (Agricultural Sciences 1987) I emigrated to Australia in October 2010 and live in Adelaide Hills with my husband and two children.

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1 Edgar Wallner (Pharmacy 1958) receiving his Lifetime Achievement Alumni Laureate Award. 2 Children enjoying May Fest 2011. 3 Ray Dolby OBE (right) with Denis Mee (Physics 1951) a guest at the San Francisco Alumni Reception at Dolby Laboratories. 4 The Vice-Chancellor with Nottingham City Council Chief Executive Jane Todd (Social Administration 1973) and Sky presenter and Editor-at-Large of the Daily Telegraph, Jeff Randall (Economics 1979) at the Laureate Awards. 5 Winners of the 2011 Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Exceptional Achievement by current students. 6 Guests at the alumni reception in Sydney, Australia. 7 Members of the FUN Board at the Vancouver reunion event. 8 Guests with the Vice-Chancellor at the alumni reception in Bangkok.

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Listings

Events

Visit www.nottingham.ac.uk/alumnievents for more comprehensive listings updated throughout the year.

December 16

February 16

March 22

Alumni reception, Mauritius Venue: Le Meridien Ile Maurice hotel, Village Hall Lane, Pointe Aux Piments, Mauritius.

Time: From 7pm Admission: Free

Careers Masterclass: Selling Yourself on Paper Venue: Conference Suite, The Hemsley, University Park Campus.

Time: 6pm to 8.30pm Admission: £5 per person

London Talent Roadshow Venue: Royal College of Surgeons Time: 6.30pm to 8.45pm Admission: Free

The University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Greenaway, will host a canapé reception at the Bay View floating bar and will offer you a chance to catch up and network with alumni. Booking required: Contact: hannah.curnock@nottingham.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 115 846 6941.

January 20 London Aquarium family event with Alex Tate Venue: London Aquarium Time: 6.30pm to 9pm Admission: Children free / adults £15 Bring your children to this exclusive event with a talk from alumnus and BAFTA winner Alex Tate. He’ll talk about his fascinating films investigating the anatomy of the creatures of the deep set against the backdrop of the shark tank!

Contact: jenny.wardrop@nottingham.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 115 846 7306.

February 7 Nottingham Talent Roadshow Venue: Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park Campus, Nottingham Time: 6.30pm to 8.45pm Admission: Free Hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Greenaway, the roadshows are an opportunity to learn about the latest developments at the University and network with fellow alumni. There will also be a chance to view the Lowry Exhibition Contact: events@nottingham.ac.uk

Are you making the maximum impact with your written applications? This workshop will offer tips and techniques for ensuring that your CV and personal statement don’t let you down. Book before 10 February.

Contact: susan.daley@nottingham.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 115 846 6940

February 22 London Careers Masterclass: Selling Yourself on Paper Venue: University Women’s Club, Mayfair, London.

Time: 6pm to 8.30pm Admission: £5 per person As above, but with a change of venue.

Contact: jenny.wardrop@nottingham.ac.uk or tel: +44 (0)115 846 7306.

March 22 Careers Masterclass: Playing to Your Strengths Venue: Conference Suite, The Hemsley, University Park Campus Time: 6pm to 8.30pm Admission: £5 per person This will help you to identify your strengths and consider how they relate to your career ideas. It will also examine how you can manage your weaknesses and capitalise on your strengths. You will be given prior access to an online assessment tool.

Contact: susan.daley@nottingham.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 115 846 6940 before 16 March 2012.

Hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Greenaway, the roadshows are an ideal opportunity to learn about the latest developments at the University and network with fellow Nottingham alumni in your area.

Contact: events@nottingham.ac.uk

May 11 Talk & Tour of Papplewick Pumping Station Venue: Papplewick Pumping Station, Rigg Lane Ravenshead, Nottingham Time: 6pm for 6.30pm to 8pm Admission: £4.50 per person (including tea/coffee) Enjoy a unique opportunity to attend a talk and tour of Britain’s finest Victorian water pumping station. The tour will be conducted by the station’s Director, followed by a short presentation by a University academic.

Contact: susan.daley@nottingham.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 115 846 6940 before 1 May 2012

May 19 May Fest 2012: The University’s Open Day for alumni and friends and their friends and family May Fest 2011 was a fantastic success.

This year, the University is opening its doors once again so you and your family can enjoy a packed programme of fun, interactive events. Watch out for more details at: www. alumni.nottingham.ac.uk.

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Fundraising

Be HeadSmart A campaign has been launched to help parents and health professionals spot the signs of brain tumours in children and young people. HeadSmart is being piloted in the East Midlands and aims to speed up diagnosis rates and raise awareness.

It’s a joint campaign by the Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre at The University of Nottingham, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust that aims to raise awareness of brain tumour symptoms by helping parents and health professionals spot the signs of brain tumours in children and young people.

The campaign has launched a range of resources, including a website, leaflets and a pocket-sized ‘symptoms card’. These provide information for doctors, parents, carers and young people about how to spot the signs of a possible brain tumour.

Visit: www.headsmart.org.uk

Gift of opportunity A legacy can often be the most significant gift a person ever makes.

Alumni who have decided to remember the University in their Will have told us they are motivated by the thought of helping to shape future generations of students, in order to give them the chance of benefitting from the Nottingham experience that played such an important part in their own lives.

The University has produced a brochure designed to help anyone considering leaving us a gift in their Will. It contains practical information to help with your decisions and includes some examples of how others have decided to direct their legacy gifts. To order a copy of the brochure or to speak to us about a legacy gift, please contact: Simon Buttenshaw, Head of Development The Campaign Office The University of Nottingham King’s Meadow Campus Lenton Lane Nottingham NG7 2NR Tel: +44 (0)115 951 3998 email: simon.buttenshaw@nottingham.ac.uk 22/ AlumniExchange/ Issue 6/ Winter 2011/

Student callers get a real buzz Bee farmer and alumnus Tom Ryder (English 1998) has made a generous donation with a difference to the University’s fundraising efforts.

Tom is one of 10,000 former Nottingham students who have been approached by the University’s team of student telephone callers this year.

But Tom’s gift was highly personal – 30 jars of his Nottingham Park honey, worth more than £150, to reward the callers for all their hard work.

“I’m not really in a position to make a financial gift at the moment but I wanted to give something because I think the students are doing a great job and they need encouragement,” said Tom, who operates under the name Park Apiaries.

“It’s very tough for us at the moment,” said Tom. “Many bee farmers have found the last few years the worst they have ever known because the bees are dying at an alarming rate. We really need to find out what’s happening to them – who knows, maybe one of the University’s student callers will one day help to find a solution! I was delighted to speak to the students and tell them a little about my work and donate some of my Nottingham Park honey.”

Cascade Cascade is the new name for The University’s Annual Fund. Donations from alumni, staff, parents and students create a funding pot available to projects which significantly benefit the Nottingham student experience.

Applications are reviewed three times a year by a group of leading alumni donors.

Head of Regular Giving Simon Buttenshaw said: “A survey of staff, students and alumni suggested that Annual Fund might not be the best way of describing a grants programme that many donors give to regularly with a monthly direct debit. Cascade better reflects the way in which relatively modest gifts from across the University community add up to allow students to realise some of the great ideas they have — on campus, in their local communities and around the world.”

Around 2,500 alumni have supported the University during the last financial year, with more than £198,000 shared among deserving projects through Cascade.

Fundraising

New nursery for Limpopo

A team of architecture students have designed and built a new nursery school for young children living in the Limpopo province of South Africa.

The students came up with a simple, environmentally friendly and functional design for a school which will now provide places for 80 newborn to six-year-old children from the Calais township.

The students had the mammoth fundraising task of raising £150,000 to enable them to buy raw materials and tools as well as flights and accommodation.

With help from generous alumni gifts and the University Campaign Office securing Government-matched funding, the total was reached.

As a thank-you, the School of Architecture and the Built Environment took finance officer David Ouchterlonie, a member of the Campaign Office team, on the trip as an extra pair of hands. Throughout his trip David kept a blog (www.projectlimpopo. wordpress.com) and took photographs of the students and the local villagers who took such a great interest in their work.

David, pictured below left, building a wall, said: “It was an absolute privilege to be part of a project which not only changed the lives of our students, but transformed the lives of an impoverished community in one of the poorest parts of the world.”

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Fundraising Alumni gifts and the Old Kingstonian Association have helped students set up a monthly farmers’ market at the Sutton Bonington Campus.

More than 250 staff, students and local residents attended the inaugural market in May taking the opportunity to try locally produced fruit and vegetables, eggs, fresh meat, preserves, olives, cider, dairy and baked products. The idea was the brainchild of postgraduate students Emily Boothroyd, Saoirse Tracy, Sarah Deery and Selina Clayton who successfully applied for a grant from Cascade (formerly the Annual Fund), which uses donations received principally from alumni, to support projects which directly enhance the student experience, or which add to the University’s student outreach or community activities.

Alumni’s generous boost to School Top economics students have received a financial boost thanks to the generous support of two of the School’s alumni.

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Korn/Ferry Whitehead Mann, are supporting the School’s most talented students.

Mr Pawle’s gift supports the student-run magazine, Nottingham Economic Review, allowing the School to increase the scope of the magazine and attract high quality articles through the Oliver Pawle Essay Prize

for Economics. Mr Totty awarded six end-of-year prizes, including the Martin Totty Prize for Outstanding Entrepreneurship, won by Adam Fine, who established a five-a-side football business in South Africa (both pictured above).

Mr Totty said: “The University gave me the platform on

which to build a career. I’ve made my gift because at this time of my life I can afford to give a little bit back to a few people so that they might have a similar experience to mine, so that they can take the opportunities this University will give them and build their own success in a world that’s much tougher than when I left University.”

Fundraising

Coaches arrive at Nottingham Eight new coaches are providing professional help to improve sports performances for all students at the University.

Funded by the Vaughan Parry Williams Coaching Fund, which now stands at £110,000, the coaches are the first of many who will be appointed. It’s hoped that their expertise will provide a major boost for our elite athletes as well as high quality coaching for participatory sports teams.

Director of Sport Dan Tilley said: “We’re very excited about the impact the coaches are making and the student feedback so far has been fantastic. There is certainly a real buzz around the facilities having such highcalibre people in place.”

Among the coaches is alumna, former national table tennis champion and

Commonwealth silver medallist Nicola Perry (Psychology 2004), who was Britain’s No1 ranked player for five consecutive years and the English Table Tennis Association’s Female Coach of the Year in 2005. The other coaches are: Ray Sims (rowing), Matt Taylor (hockey), Harrison Rogers and Kerry Shea (lacrosse), Anthony Clark (badminton), Richard O’Connor (squash) and Mark Taylor (tennis).

You can follow the Fund’s progress at: http://tiny.cc/VPWFund or on the Impact Campaign site at: http://tiny.cc/ImpactVPW. You can also join the Fund’s Facebook page where we’ve posted some classic University sports photographs showing sportsmen and women over the decades: www.facebook.com/pages/Vaughan-ParryWilliams-Coaching-Fund.

A gift of education More than 150 alumni have already taken up the offer of making a £30 gift of education to support our superb library facilities at The University of Nottingham. Each gift is recognised with a bookplate in the donor’s name in the front of a new University library book. New students at Nottingham this academic year have started to notice the bookplates as the books come into use.

If you would like to make a gift of education to The University of Nottingham then please sign and cut out the bookplate, complete the enclosed form, and send your gift of £30 (or an amount of your own choice) in the pre-paid envelope and send it to: The Campaign Office, The University of Nottingham, King’s Meadow Campus, Nottingham, NG7 2NR. Your gift will make a tangible difference to the lives of students at Nottingham.

A charity set up in memory of a young Army doctor and alumnus is helping to improve healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa and providing valuable work experience for medical and nursing students.

Alex Coutselos died suddenly in 2006, aged 23. Alex had worked extensively in Africa and his mother, Ruth Markus, set up The AMECA Trust after his death. AMECA awarded £1,000 bursaries to 15 medical and nursing students at the University this year to help them fund their electives (clinical placements) in Africa.

Visit: www.ameca.org.uk.

In memoriam

In memoriam

The University extends its sincere condolences to the family and friends of those below, who passed away recently.

1942 Norman Labrum (Physics), Jun 2011

1955 John Laws (Agriculture/ Horticulture), Jan 2011

1946 John Pepper (Agriculture)

1956 Dr Heinrich Fessler (Mechanical Eng.), Jul 2011 Dr Donald McKay (Civil Eng.), Aug 2011

1948 Dr Herbert Eisner (Physics), Jun 2011 1949 Bridget Ogden (Economics), Feb 2011 1950 Norman Shelley (Mechanical Engineering) Frederick Ashley (Mining Eng.) 1951 Eric Henshaw (Electrical Engineering), Jan 2011 David Reddish (Mining Engineering), Mar 2011 Terence Blumfield (Chemistry), May 2011 1952 James Haythornthwaite (Agriculture), Apr 2011 Peter Johnson (Mathematics), Jul 2011 Donald Lambley (Mathematics), Oct 2010 Kenneth Sumner (Electrical Eng.), Nov 2010 1953 Robert Wroughton (Pharmacy), Jan 2011 1954 Martin Naunton (Chemistry), Jul 2011 Peter Crampton MEP (Geography), Jul 2011 Michael Holmes (Chemistry) Audrey O’Leary (French) Desmond O’Leary (Spanish/ Hispanic Studies)

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1957 John Inglis (Zoology), Mar 2011 Dr (John) Barrie Harness (Physics), Jul 2011 1958 Peter Morris (Chemistry), Feb 2011 Frederick Gillott (Mechanical Eng.) 1959 Sandra Wilson née Proud (Pharmacy), 2011 1960 Barbara Przedborska née Zielinska (Slavonic/French Studies), Feb 2011 Christopher Kiernan (Psychology), Apr 2011 David Newland (Mechanical Eng.), Apr 2011 1961 Michael Brooke (Civil Engineering), Jan 2011 Hugh Morris (Zoology/ Chemistry), Jan 2011 John Bisson (Chemistry), Feb 2011 Katheleen Juhasz (German) 1964 Carol Downer, Jan 2011 1965 Margaret Scott (Horticulture), Mar 2011 Alastair Wiles (Mechanical Engineering), Aug 2011 Robert Murray (Industrial Economics)

1966 Robert Bull (Physics)

Keith Atkin (Mathematics), Feb 2011

1967 Professor Terence Copley (Theology), Jan 2011 Philip Robinson (Industrial Economics), 2011 Roger Peart (Geology)

1979 Barbara Brown (French/ Spanish), Jan 2011 Dr Jill Benner (Chemistry), Apr 2011 John Evans (Education)

1968 Charnchai Charuvastr (Electrical Eng.), Feb 2011

1980 Paul Chidgey (Economic and Social History)

1969 John Lodge (Electrical Engineering), Apr 2011 Elizabeth Rorison (Music), Jun 2011 Janet Holmes née Bowler (French)

1981 Dr Nigel Jordan (Medicine), Jun 2011 Dr Simon Barlow (Medicine)

1970 Roger Marks (Politics), Feb 2011 Graham Bagshaw (Electrical Engineering), Jul 2011 1971 Iris Bell, née Crammond (Education), Jan 2011 1972 Linda Shine née Reynolds (English), Mar 2011 Professor Andrew Brinkman (Electrical Eng.), Jul 2011 Douglas Turner (Physics) James Pattison (Electrical Eng.) 1974 Brian Woods (Pharmacy) 1975 Michael Newman (Chemistry) 1977 Stephen Young (Mathematics), Jan 2011 Diana Draisey née Kemp (Music), Jan 2011 1978 Alan Heywood Kenny (English)`

1984 Dr Ros Dixon (Russian), Dec 2010 1988 Jacqueline Evans (Education), Apr 2011 1989 Robert Frazier (History), Jun 2011 1990 Dr Allan James (Geography) 1991 Anthony Hall (Russian), Feb 2011 1995 Rosemary Fasey (Russian/ Spanish) 2005 Mary Pratt née Johnstone (Children’s Health Care) 2010 Richard Garner (Philosophy), Jun 2011 2011 Sheila Omuri (Economics), Jun 2011

Networks

Keep in touch...

...with the University and each other. Nottingham alumni groups are important points of contact for alumni. They also play a key role in building the University’s global community. Here are contact details for active Nottingham networks.

NUBS Alumni All former Nottingham University Business School students are automatically members of the NUBS alumni network.

NUBS alumni have a dedicated website, magazine and events plus a dedicated alumni manager. Contact: hilary. vaughan-thomas@nottingham. ac.uk

academic functions. Contact: wayne.carter@nottingham.ac.uk or visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/ alumnirelations/pickering

Australia: Contact Gillian Kelsey and Alain Marc de Sales: Gilly164@bigpond.net.au

Korea: Nottingham Alumni Association – Korea (NAAK) Mr Jaesung Kwon: jaesungkwon@naver.com

Old Kingstonian Association (OKA) The old students’ association for both Sutton Bonington campus and the halls of residence on the campus.

OKA produces a publication known as Agrimag and organises a reunion weekend on the third weekend in November every year for recently graduated students and events during the year for other class groups. This year it celebrates its centenary with a special publication.

Contact: julian.wiseman@ nottingham.ac.uk or susan. golds@nottingham.ac.uk

China: Nottingham Alumni Association in Beijing (NAAB).

Contact: Zhan Bo Wang zhanbo1974@yahoo.com or nottinghamalumni@yahoo.cn

Malaysia: Nottingham Alumni Association Malaysia (NAAM) Contact Goh Hoon Huar: hoonhuar.goh@hhgoh.com.my or visit: www.nottingham.org.my

China: Nottingham Alumni Association in Ningbo (NAAN).

Contact Candy Shen: NAAN@nottingham.edu.cn

Mauritius – Nottingham Alumni Association – Mauritius (NAAMauritius) Mr Patrick Tse: NottsAlumniMauritius@groups. facebook.com

Bacon Boat Club (NUBC – BBC) Nottingham University Boat Club (NUBC) has relaunched its alumni rowing club. It is open to all ex-NUBC rowers and organises social events, rowing, and fundraising.

Check it out on Facebook or contact: james.shrager@gmail. com Pickering The alumni association for graduates of the University’s Medical School, with associate membership for staff. Through its database the association can facilitate reunions, support existing students and graduates and arrange social and

Delhi: Contact Vaibhav Verma: v.verma@aspirebig.com Jordan: Contact AlMuntaser AlHindawi: almuntaseralhindawi@gmail.com

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

China: Nottingham Alumni Association in Shanghai (NAAS) Contact Li Shen (Victor): NAAS-UK@hotmail.com Egypt: Contact Dr Maha Mourad: mahamourad@hotmail. com Ghana: Alumni Group. Contact Nana Damoah: n.damoah@ yahoo.co.uk Hong Kong: Friends of The University of Nottingham: Hong Kong (FUN: Hong Kong) Contact Candy Chui: candy@ freecomm.com or visit www. ss.com.hk/fun India: Nottingham Alumni Association – India (NAAI) Mumbai: Jehangir Demkevala, Rahul Modi, Sonal Jalan e-mail: indiaalumni@nottingham.ac.uk

Mexico: Alumni Group: Ninna Makrinov, International Officer: Ninna.Makrinov@nottingham. ac.uk Nigeria: Nottingham Alumni Association Nigeria (NAANG).

Contact Isaac Adoki: izikadoki@ ymail.com Pakistan: Nadeem Omar Tarar, Head of Department, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan: notarar@gmail.com Singapore: Nottingham Alumni: Singapore (NAASingapore) Contact Chris Lee: leekatswee@yahoo.com South America: Contact Patricia Borsa: patricia.borsa@ nottingham.ac.uk

Sri Lanka: Contact Tharindu Wijesuriya: sameendratw@ hotmail.com USA: Friends of the University of Nottingham - America (FUN America) Contact Derek Chapman: chapmandd@prodigy. net We also have active alumni Chapters for many of our international groups. Chapters are dedicated areas of our website for alumni living in a particular country or region and we have more planned for the coming year. You can join by registering your details and signing in at: www.alumni. nottingham.ac.uk HALL ASSOCIATIONS Cripps Hall Contact George Gubas, President: george. gubas@cadacademy.co.uk Hugh Stewart Hall Contact Stacy Johnson: stacy.johnson@ nottingham.ac.uk Lenton and Wortley Hall Association Contact Professor Glenn McDowell: www. lentonandwortley.com Lincoln Hall Association Contact Ben Scott: ben.scott@alumni. nottingham.ac.uk or Dr Mark Goodman: mark.goodman@ alumni.nottingham.ac.uk Sherwood Hall Contact Dr Antonino La Rocca: antonino. larocca@nottingham.ac.uk

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The University’s Open Day for alumni & friends Save the date in your diary to come back with Nottingham friends and your family to enjoy May Fest 2012.

19 May 2012

University Park, NG7 2RD t: +44 (0) 115 951 3722 e: events@nottingham.ac.uk Watch out for more details and updates throughout the year at:

www.alumni.nottingham.ac.uk