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Reflections on TTZero June 2013

During 2012 we had been developing a new electric motorbike to race at the 2012 Isle of Man TT Zero. This new bike built on the tremendous success we had with the 2011 bike that achieved 3rd place. I decided to take a gamble with the 2012 bike and use the latest prototype components as ...

Posted in Mechanical and Automotive Engineering News, SEC News

Kingston is the fastest UK university at Isle of Man TT Zero

Principal lecturer Paul Brandon, centre, with the student team who helped build the Phoenix electric motorbike.

A brand new Kingston University electric motorbike has finished in fourth place in the 2013 Isle of Man TT zero emissions race. The Kingston team completed the 300-mile course in 25 minutes 41 seconds, with an average speed of almost 89 miles per hour. Kingston fared better on the circuit than any other university team ...

Posted in Mechanical and Automotive Engineering News

Human activity has contributed to increased forestry disease

Connections between climate change and biological trends are often difficult to establish from short-term studies. In a paper Drought, disease, defoliation and death: forest pathogens as agents of past vegetation change Professor Waller looks at the fossil evidence available to reconstruct outbreaks of fungal pathogens (such as ash dieback) and insect defoliators over the last 10,000 ...

Posted in Centre for Earth and Environmental Science, Geography, Geology and Environment News

IhSHA Student Conference 4th July 2013

First Student Conference of the Interdisciplinary Hub for the Study of Health and Age-related conditions (IhSHA) taking place all day on Thursday 4th July 2013 in JG1002 at Penrhyn Road Campus. By invitation only Please check your email for the invitation and a link to book your place. This event will start at 9:30 and will contain poster and oral ...

Posted in IhSHA Calendar

4G health; mobile health beyond the smart apps

Professor Robert Istepanian Director of the Medical Information and Network Technologies (MINT) centre at Kingston University is to give a talk at the meeting organised by The Royal Society of Medicine on Thursday 6th June 2013. "Worlds in collision: Is mobile technology challenging conventional telemonitoring" The aim of this one day conference is to inform attendees how, going forward, ...

Posted in Medical Information and Network Technologies (MINT), Research News

MSc opportunities in the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Research Group

MSc by Research positions in Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease The international diabetes foundation estimates that diabetes will affect 1 in 10 people worldwide by 2030. Diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, as well as other complications that can ultimately lead to loss of sight or limb amputation. Do you want to be involved in ...

Posted in Diabetes Research Group

The Work Based Route to Professional Registration

Institution of Mechanical Engineers Registers Success Ian Henderson, a graduate of the MSc Professional Engineering course at Kingston University, has become the first graduate of the Engineering Gateways scheme to become a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. During this time, Ian was working for Caterpillar, but is now a mechanical design engineer at ...

Posted in Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering News, Mechanical and Automotive Engineering News

Congratulations to Henry Taylor for successfully completion of his MSc by Research

Congratulations for his successfully completed his MSc by Research

Congratulations to Henry Taylor who has successfully completed his MSc by Research in the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Research Group,  with his project on ‘Modulation of growth factor receptor trafficking as a novel approach to promoting b cell expansion’.  Well done Henry!

Posted in Diabetes Research Group

Scientists put bowel cancer under the microscope

Patients with bowel cancer - the third most commonly diagnosed form in the United Kingdom - could enjoy increased survival rates as a result of a new study led by an expert from Kingston University. Professor Helmout Modjtahedi is heading an investigation examining why some tumours are hard to treat and how they can be ...

Posted in Cancer Biology Research Group, Research News, SEC News

Do all drowning victims drown? Cold water immersion and cardiac arrhythmias. 10 June

Sorry but this event has now been cancelled. Check this site again for any further information. Professor Michael Shattock King’s College London When people fall, jump or dive into cold water a number of physiological mechanisms are activated.  The idea behind this talk is that in some, fortunately rare, circumstances, these physiological reflexes may be dangerous.  I will ...

Posted in Diabetes Research Group, IhSHA Calendar