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KENT - Autumn 2006
News
- Kent shortlisted as ‘Institution of the Year’
- New Chancellor
- Rewriting the history books
- League table rise
- Awarding excellence in teaching
- Honorary degrees
- Design awards for Medway
- Kent still top in South East England
- Vice-Chancellor to retire
- Music prizes
- Pharmacy student success
- OBE for Kent Law Clinic Director
Development news
- Class of 1993 Reunion Gift
- Giving something back
- Phonathon 2006
- Benefactors’ Garden Party
- Larry Grant Scholarship in the Kent Law School
Shaping the world
In this issue, we profile four alumni working in the Arts and find out how their experiences at Kent contributed to their success. David Lister, Arts Editor at The Independent; Dean Harmeyer, Director of Classical Jazz and Associated Labels at the Universal Music Group; Jonathan Morrish, PR and Media Consultant and Elizabeth Buchan, author and journalist.
Constant Gardner
Theatre has dominated Lyn Gardner’s life since childhood and she has been a theatre critic at The Guardian for over a decade. At school she wrote, directed and acted in plays before becoming one of Kent’s first drama students.
Night Train
Night Train 4 is the second edited anthology of Kent’s Creative Writing programme. This year, the collection is edited by Dr Susan Wicks, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, who has selected just some of the work for KENT readers.
Business Links
- MBA alumni scholarships
- Dragon’s Den success
- Kent Enterprise launches Inventors’ Club
- University of Kent at Wye
New Frontiers research news
- Kent scientists record one of Indonesia’s rarest birds
- Research funding of £220k received for project titled ‘Laboratory Research in Colonial India, 1890-1950
- For academic Dr Mark Hampton, backpackers mean serious business
- Nanobiotechnology benefits frozen food
- New book examines the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
- Researchers at Kent awarded £156,000 to investigate identity in mixed-race young people
- High-tech company to revolutionise biomedical optics
Best of Both Worlds
Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his dual role as a leading novelist and Head of the School of English at Kent.
Keeping up with Kent Graduates: Visual Arts
This issue finds out what some of our graduates in History and Theory of Art and History and Philosophy of Art have been up to since they left.
Who’s What Where
Read a selection of newly-updated entries.