Nida Mahmud

RCSU provides UROP Bursary for student from lower income background

The RCSU UROP bursary has been awarded to an undergraduate student from the Department of Chemistry. This is a new initiative where the funding will be from the RCSU for students from lower income backgrounds.

Centre for Doctoral Training Festival of Science next week

The annual Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) Festival of Science will be happening on Friday 13th June 2014 in the SAF lecture theatres.

Alumnus Michael Uren Donates £40 mill. for Biomedical Engineering Hub

Imperial College London has received a £40 million donation to build a state of the art biomedical engineering centre from a former student, Michael Uren and his Foundation.

Imperial Students To Take Part in Summer of Student Innovation competition

Two Imperial teams have entered the Summer of Student Innovation competition. This is a competition to fund ideas that use technology that can improve research and education.

Face to Face with Abdulla Sheikh

This week I interviewed Abdulla Sheikh. He is a MSc student at Imperial who has recently started a business and is currently organising TedX Imperial as well as working on a number of other exciting projects.

Chemical Engineering PhD receives award

Dr Maria Fernanda Jimenez Solomon was awarded the prize; which is awarded to excellent PhD students who are doing research that helps solve industrial problems.

An Joseph Interfaith Foundation Discussion – Extremism: Its Root Causes And How To Address Them

A recent Interfaith discussion at Imperial College London was organised by the Joseph Interfaith Foundation (JIF) and the Islamic Society at Imperial. Speakers from the Jewish Society (JSoc), the Islamic Society (ISoc) and the Catholic Society (CathSoc) discussed their views on the root causes of ex Comment: Bension Tilley (JSoc)

Amer Hasan on winning offers from 3 Dragons on Dragons’ Den for minicab price comparison startup

This week Nida Mahmud caught up with Amer Hasan, an Imperial Alumnus and CEO of minicabit. He recently appeared on Dragons’ Den and recieved offers from three out of the five Dragons.

Union submits portfolio of evidence to College’s Residential Experience Review

The Residential Experience review was announced by College at the start of the year. The aim of this review is to improve the residential experience students at Imperial have.

College indirectly invests £785,000 in tobacco industry

Earlier this week the London Student revealed that Imperial College has £785,000 indirectly invested in tobacco companies. This conflicts with the extensive cancer research done by Imperial academics.

Ereira’s Business Insight

Tavistock Tutors was set up by Marcus Ereira and Luke Shelley when they were just 17 years old. A few years on, the business has grown tremendously and they have over 300 tutors on their books.

Imperial and Dyson to launch new Robotics Lab

A new centre that collaborates with Dyson will be launching at Imperial in the Department of Computing, this will be the Dyson Robotics Laboratory.