I believe it was in 2001 when a friend of mine, M.A., defended his PhD thesis on the celular cycle of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. His advisor was a collaborator of Paul Nurse, awarded that year, along with two other gentleman, the Nobel Prize. This week I found Mr. Nurse has shot a documental on Climate Change for BBC2. I was not patient enough to finish watching it (want to go to sleep and I have to write here), but I find nothing original. After 30 minutes, I have not noticed his "stiletto-style intellectual demolition of a well-known journalist cum climate change sceptic", as presented by UCL Provost Newsletter (31 Jan). Sir Paul Nurse is Director of the UKCMRI (UK Center for Medical Research and Innovation) at Saint Pancras, being UCL the founding university partner (whatever that means).
Watch it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y4yql
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The inquest on the London bombings on July 7, 2005 concluded last week.
Two out of the four blast locations are around UCL: the bus no. 30 at Tavistock Square, and the train at Russell Square in Picaddilly Line. Two women related to UCL died that day, among the 52 deads and more than 700 injured: Gladys Wundowa, cleaning lady, and a former student, Miriam Hyman. The case of Miriam is shocking. She was 31 at the time and was on her way to Canary Wharf, where she worked as a picture editor for a publishing company. She had been evacuated from the train in Russell Square and, after having talked to her father through the cell, just to say she was ok, she got on to bus no. 30. A few minutes later, Death came back for her.
Gladys was ooriginally from Ghana. She lived with her husband and two young offspring in Essex at the time of the bombing and used to get up by 4 am to go to UCL. She was 50. After 3 days, she was confirmed among the deceased.
A tree is in the Quad conmemorating their lives.
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