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5 unusual facts about UCL


Andrew Garrard

Andrew Garrard is a British archaeologist and a professor at UCL.

Isaac Rosenberg

He completed his apprenticeship in 1911, and managed to find the finances to attend the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London (UCL).

Squares in London

Other events are organised to coincide with this weekend, for example, the "World Archaeology Festival" run by the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, in Gordon Square.

United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad

Olympic athlete Christine Ohuruogu MBE is the patron of UKLO, having completed a Linguistics degree at UCL.

UnLtd

UnLtd has partnerships with academic institutions UCL, Open University, Middlesex University, University of Birmingham.


Abrictosaurus

In 1975, James Hopson redescribed a fragmentary heterodontosaur skull (UCL A100) found in South Africa that Thulborn had previously assigned to Lycorhinus angustidens.

Archaeological Institute

UCL Institute of Archaeology, founded 1937, academic department at University College London (UCL), England.

Bloomfield Hall Schools

The graduate programme is offered at University College Lahore (UCL), an associate institution of Bloomfield Hall.

Bloomsbury Theatre

Amongst the many other artists who have performed at the theatre are; UCL alumnus Ricky Gervais has performed two of his standup shows in the theatre, where they were also filmed for release on DVD and was the venue for Crusader Norman Housley come-back lecture series: Contesting the Crusades, which he developed into a popular history book.

Brian Woledge

Woledge introduced Reading Week and the "conferences" at Missenden Abbey or Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park to integrate new students into the department, and established UCL's own B.A. in French.

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc

The Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (UCL-St-Luc) is a non-profit-making (ASBL) hospital associated with Université catholique de Louvain, and situated in Woluwe, Brussels, Belgium.

Ernest Symons

He was educated at the Stationers' Company School and University College London (UCL), serving on the UCL Council in 1975 and becoming a fellow of UCL in 1979.

European Network for Training Economic Research

From March 1, 2011 Richard Blundell (UCL, London), Torsten Persson (University of Stockholm) and Jean Tirole (Université de Toulouse I) agreed to form the new scientific committee at ENTER.

FitFinder

The FitFinder Network covered 52 UK universities, including Oxbridge, Durham University, UCL, Manchester University, Leeds, Warwick, Bath, LSE, KCL, Imperial College London, and most Red Brick universities.

HDBuzz

HDBuzz was launched in January 2011 by Huntington's disease researchers Dr Ed Wild (UCL, London) and Dr Jeff Carroll (Western Washington University).

Hugh Davson

He later studied at University College London and took a variety of research posts at institutes such as UCL, and Canada's Dalhousie University.

Indy Selvarajah

Educated at Simon Langton Boys Grammar School in Canterbury, he went on to study degrees at the universities of Oxford and UCL (University College London).

Joan Malleson

She was educated at Bedales School, where she became Head Girl, and studied medicine at University College, London from 1918, later moving to Charing Cross Hospital due to the hostility to female students she experienced at UCL.

King's College London–UCL rivalry

When King's ignored an ultimatum demanding his return, hundreds of UCL students, transported in furniture vans from Bloomsbury or arriving at Aldwych tube station, stormed the King's quad.

Let's All Be Free Film Festival

The festival also featured panel discussions and Q&As with guest speakers including BAFTA nominated director Kim Longinotto, Amnesty International, human rights organisation Liberty, award-winning Dutch filmmaker Marijn Poels, The Equality Trust, and UCL Economics Professor Richard Disney - all debating what 'being free' meant within the context of their relative professional and personal experiences.

Library publishing

In 2011 in the UK, Jisc funded three library publishing projects: Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (HOAP) at the University of Huddersfield, SAS Open Journals at the University of London, and EPICURE at UCL.

Marie Thérèse Metoyer

Other possible origins of the name Coincoin, together with the names of her siblings discovered by Elizabeth Shown Mills, are being studied by the Africanist Kevin MacDonald at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Michael Baum

He has been Professor of Surgery at King's College London, the Royal Marsden Hospital and UCL.

Organouranium chemistry

After the discovery of ferrocene in 1951, Todd Reynolds and Geoffrey Wilkinson in 1956 synthesized the uranium metallocene Cp3UCl from sodium cyclopentadienide and uranium tetrachloride as a stable but extremely air-sensitive compound.

Peter J. Bentley

Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Reader and College Fellow at UCL and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST.

Peter Ucko

He served as Director of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL), and was a Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Society of Antiquaries.

Philip Cohen

In 1993 he was made a fellow of UCL and in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours was knighted, served as a founding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.

Raymond Wilson Chambers

He served in World War I, with the Red Cross in France, and in Belgium with the YMCA/B.E.F. Chambers became Quain Professor of English at UCL in 1922.

Regional Planetary Image Facility

The first RPIF to be established outside of the U.S. was in England in 1980 at the University College London (UCL), and since then RPIFs have been set up in Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Japan.

Robert Arthur Humphreys

He was appointed assistant lecturer in American history at University College London (UCL) in 1934.

Seona Dancing

In 1982, in his final year as a student at UCL, Ricky Gervais and his friend Bill Macrae formed Seona Dancing, with Macrae writing the tunes and playing keyboards, and Gervais writing and singing the lyrics.

Stan Newens

At UCL, he met Anil Moonesinghe, a Sri Lankan Trotskyist, who was later to become a Cabinet Minister in Sri Lanka) and joined the Socialist Review Group led by Tony Cliff, a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), which later became the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

The Cheese Grater

Since Autumn 2005, a series of articles have appeared under the heading 'UCL plc', written under the pseudonym 'Mr Chatterbox' (a reference to Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies).

UCL Academy

In March 2010 Sylvia Jones, headteacher at Valentines High School in Ilford, Essex, was appointed as the first Principal of the Academy, and Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL, as Chair of the Academy Governing Body.

UCL Arts and Sciences

Notable academics include Dr Hannah Fry from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis who teaches Quantitative Methods and Professor Mark Miodownik a UCL materials scientist and broadcaster who runs the second year engineering module.

University of London Observatory

In 1951, UCL took over management of the Observatory from the University of London, and over the next ten years added library, lecture, and laboratory space.

Vilmantas Marcinkevičius

2004 - Peter T. Kirstein, University College London (UCL), Professor, London, UK


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