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The University of Essex in the Press
December 2011
Friday 2
New research park road to open
A new access road to Colchester's state-of-the-art research park
will open next week. The road will take traffic from the A133
Clingoe Hill to the University of Essex's Knowledge Gateway. It is
hoped the new junction will also improve student safety, as it
included a pedestrian and cyclist crossing.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Why China is in our hands
Essex County Council first started its relationship with the Jiangsu
province of China 23 years ago and as a result of a recent visit to
China, 22 senior judges from the province visited the University of
Essex to take part on a two-week course and a further delegation of
senior managers from Wuxi city government visited last month. It is
hoped more courses will be arranged in the future.
Essex County Standard
Essex honoured
Essex has been honoured by the Speaker of the House of
Commons, John Bercow in his official coat of arms. Tow of the
scimitars from the Essex coat of arms are displayed prominently in
the new coat of arms as Mr Bercow was a student at the University of
Essex.
Essex County Standard
Protesting University students occupy
lecture theatre
Around 30 protesting students have occupied a lecture theatre at the
University of Essex. They said they were protesting in solidarity
with the public sector strikes, including their lecturers, as well
as against changes to accommodation services at the university and
privatisation of universities.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Maldon and Burnham Standard
Walkout shuts schools and disrupts
services
Lectures at the University of Essex were cancelled as
members of the University College Union took part in the walkout.
Essex County Standard
Business school to build £21m centre
The University of Essex's Business School has revealed
an ambition to become one of the best in Europe via plans for a
£21million centre. The new building next to the new Knowledge
Gateway will include a 200-seat lecture theatre and state of the art
computer facilities. The building is due for completion by early
2014.
Gazette
Who backed the strike?
Students at the University of Essex occupied a lecture theatre in
support of striking workers. About 30 students said they were
protesting in solidarity with public sector strikers, including
their lecturers, for free education, and against changes to
accommodation services and privatisation of universities.
Essex County Standard
Student's DNA found on tights
A man has been jailed for five years for sexually
assaulting a University of Essex student. The new student was
out with friends during fresher's week when she was assaulted.
Essex County Standard
DNA leads to sex attacker
A man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a
woman at the University of Essex, almost two years after the attack.
Essex County Standard
Blaze in student kitchen
Firefighters were called to the University of Essex
after a blaze broke out in the kitchen of a student block. Students
were kept away while the crews tackled the blaze before using a
high-pressure ventilation fan to clear the smoke away.
Essex County Standard
Gazette
Cambs 24
Halstead Gazette
Life and death in MUD
Multi-User Dungeons have shaped the modern online gaming experience
in ways many remain unaware of. In the late
1970s, Roy Trubshaw was a computer science student at the
University of Essex and together with Richard
Bartle they created an extensive, virtual, and totally open
world with no real goals other than that of exploration. Called
Multi-User Dungeon – MUD for short – the exercise was named for the
Dungeon variant of Zork, an even earlier single player text-based
forerunner that both had enjoyed playing extensively.
Gameplanet
Next Generation
Thursday 1
The Best books of 2011
Ten scholars,
critics, writers, and artists choose the year's outstanding titles.
Professor Dawn Ades from the Department of Art History and Theory
chose the 1945 children’s book Bilderbuch
by Hannah Höch,
recently published for the first time in English as Picture Book
(Green Box).
Art Forum
All is calm - natural seasonal stressbusters
If the prospect of Christmas makes you feel
blue, exercise outdoors to reduce stress. "Whether you go on a
gentle walk in the park or career down a mountain on a bike - it all
helps to boost mood and self-esteem," says Rachel Hine of the Centre
for Environment and Society at the University of Essex. "We found
changes to mood after 15 to 20 minutes of exercise and, for some,
the benefits lasted for days."
allaboutyou.com
Graduation day for School for Social Entrepreneur-East
students
The first students have graduated from the
School for Social Entrepreneurs–East (SSE-East) at a graduation
ceremony held at University Campus Suffolk and the Eastern
Enterprise Hub in Ipswich. A second group
of students has now begun the course, with the two cohorts between
them already responsible for social enterprises with a combined
turnover of £21.5millilon and employing around 730 people.
Royston Crow
BDP graduates with honours from university challenge
BDP, the international practice of über urbanists, has won design
bids for two major projects in academia in the East of England. BDP
has been selected to design the new Department of Chemical
Engineering and Biotechnology research and teaching building for the
University of Cambridge and BDP’s
interdisciplinary team has also been chosen to design the £14
million Essex Business School at the University of Essex’s
Colchester Campus. The new building will be zero-carbon as part of
the school’s ethos to lead the development of sustainable business
strategies.
Business Weekly
Education award for University
The University of Essex has been given an award for helping
under-represented youngsters get into higher education. The
Realising Opportunities programme, run with 11 other universities,
has won Widening Participation Initiative of the Year at the Higher
Education awards.
Gazette
Alexandra out to claim the Miss Essex
crown
Alexandra Gill, a biological sciences student from the
University of Essex is competing to become Miss Essex 2012.
Gazette
Innovation From the Ocean: Aquatic Biomimicry
Beautiful data-gathering robotic fish were
spawned in the lab of University of Essex professor Dr Huosheng Hu.
The fish are designed to swim around and measure pollution levels
in bodies of water, helping scientist
monitor and protect the “real” fish.
Txchnologist.com
November 2011
Wednesday 30
A return to all riot on the east German front
Dynamo Dresden fans are in the vanguard of a new and worrying wave
of hooliganism spreading among hordes of disaffected youth in the
former GDR. Dr Jan
Vermeiren from the Department of History
comments.
The Independent
Stanley Mitchell obituary
Read an obituary for Stanley Mitchell, who in
1965 became the first lecturer in
Russian literature at the University of Essex. Working alongside the
poet Donald Davie – on Onegin translation seminars – and Angela
Livingstone, he displayed an innovatory approach to the study
of language and literature. Read his obituary
here.
The Guardian
Good eggs in the public sector
Compassion in World
Farming recognised over 40 hospitals, educational centres and local
councils at the Public Procurement Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards
in London. Awards were presented in three
categories – Good Egg Award, Good Chicken Award and Good Dairy Award
– and recognise the commitment these organisations are making to
improving the lives of animals by specifying only higher welfare
eggs, chicken or dairy produce for use in their catering operations.
The University of Essex won a Good Egg award.
Premises & Facilities Management
If everyone was on DNA database we’d catch more criminals
Sex offender Lawrence Button probably would have got away with
assaulting a woman in woodland near Essex University if it had not
been for the DNA database.
Gazette
Essex uni’s Ida is set to publish first novel
A graduate of Essex University has won a literary prize in her
native Norway. Ida Lokas secured a deal for her debut book,
'The Beauty Flows Past',
after entering a competition organised by publishers Schibsted
Forlag. The novel, which also won her a 27,000 euro prize, is about
a boy growing up in a council estate in London. Ida lived in
Greenstead, Colchester, whilst studying, and said her experience of
living in the UKL had informed her writing.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Essex County Standard
Lost generation warning
Prem Sikka, professor in accounting at Essex University, commented
on the Chancellors Autumn Statement and claims the measures will do
little to stimulate economic growth and help working people. He
said: “I don’t think it was helpful. One of the major causes of the
economic problems is ordinary people don’t have enough money to
spend. “Private debt is at £1.5trillion and the Chancellor is saying
by 2014 it will be £2.12trillion – that’s another 50 per cent.”
Gazette
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