CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE The annual Celebrating Excellence Awards event was recently held in Castle to celebrate excellence amongst our academic community. Two Emeritus Professors, Professor Rosemary Cramp CBE FBA and Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS DSc, were awarded the esteemed Chancellor’s Medal. The Chancellor’s Medal is presented to retired members of staff who have made a huge contribution to the University and continue to do so. Both have led distinguished careers at Durham and in the wider academic community, receiving national and international
recognition for their work. Professor Andy Brinkman received the Research Impact Award at the event. Promoted staff, outstanding researchers and teachers and nationally recognised members of the University were also celebrated at the dinner.
Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS DSc
Professor Rosemary Cramp CBE FBA
CONGRATULATIONS Lisa Dobson (IT Service) received the Oracle ACE award for her technical contribution to the UK Oracle community, a global group of 300 Oracle ACEs of which only 26 are based in the UK. Sheila Hingley (Library) collected the second place award, on behalf of many others, in the Tourism and Leisure category of the Renaissance Awards of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors for the new Wolfson Gallery at Palace Green Library. Paulina Lubacz (Treasurer) was invited to be a member of the Durham Cultural Partnership Board, which will lead on arts projects across the County. Lucy McEnaney (Event Durham) was short-listed for an award in the national ‘Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2011’ run by Visit England. Tim McInnis and the Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO) were shortlisted for the THE ‘Outstanding University Fundraising Team’ award. Tracey Butterfield (College and University Catering) won Bronze Medal at the UK CUBO food service challenge in Blackpool. Mustafa Gun (St Mary’s), Melanie Philip (Grey), Steven Smith (Business School),
Paul Simpson (Collingwood), Richard Metcalfe (St Hild and St Bede) and Dave Walker (Executive Chef), all made the finals.
Anoush Ehteshami (School of Government and International Affairs) was invited to join the select ‘East-West Institute’ Expert Group on the Euro-Atlantic community.
Four of our students/alumni David Hosking (former world gold medalist), Naomi Hoogesteger (former world medalist and current PhD student; St Chad’s); Chris Covey and Paddy Thomas (Henley gold medalist) broke a world record for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean in 31 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes.
David Hunter and Linda Marks (School of Medicine and Health), were commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to develop a public health strengthening action framework for Europe.
Clare Bambra (Medicine and Health and Wolfson Research Institute) was selected as one of the Institute for Public Policy Research’s top 50 ‘Northern Lights’ – the brightest and most talented people across the North of England.
Irene Panozzo (History) and Kieran McNulty (Anthropology) have won Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowships.
Michael Blakemore (Geography) was appointed as a ‘Bologna Expert’ to provide a pool of expertise to promote and enhance EU initiatives related to higher education. Alex Densmore (Geography) was awarded the Geological Society’s Bigsby Medal for 2011.
Colin Macpherson (Earth Sciences) was invited to join the NERC Peer Review College.
David Petley (Geography and IHRR) attended an Expert Panel on Riverbank Collapse Hazard in Adelaide, Australia. Eleanor Spencer (English Studies) was awarded a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship by the Kennedy Trust in recognition of her academic record and a Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University for 2011–2012. Carolyn Summerbell (Medicine and Health and John Snow College) delivered her inaugural lecture ‘Unpicking Childhood Obesity’.
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