scholarly journals Basil Lythgoe. 18 August 1913—18 April 2009

Author(s):  
J. C. Jones

Basil Lythgoe was distinguished as an organic chemist. He began his career at the University of Manchester, where he had studied for his undergraduate and PhD degrees, before moving to University of Cambridge. During this period he collaborated with Alexander Todd on the structural elucidation and total synthesis of the natural nucleosides, and was also noted for his investigation of the structure of the natural substance macrozamin. In 1953 he moved to the chair of organic chemistry at the University of Leeds, running a research group from which several graduate students went on to academic careers of the highest distinction. At Leeds he worked on the structure of the alkaloid taxine 1 and calciferol, among other natural substances. Lythgoe's work was characterized by a combination of insight and high experimental skill.

Author(s):  
Grant Campbell

Assessing students (including giving feedback and making decisions based on assessments) is arguably the single most important thing done in universities in terms of tangible impacts on people’s lives, but assessment is hard to do. Academics are seldom trained in assessment, and for many it is the most worrying aspect of the job. The University of Manchester operates a New Academics Programme for its probationary lecturers, running over three years and encompassing research, teaching, and administrative aspects of academic careers, culminating in a reflective portfolio. This case study describes the introduction of an assessment component into this programme, including its motivation, content, implementation, and evolution, and its reception by the new academics. The assessment component of the New Academics Programme is now delivered in two sessions at different times of the year. The first covers the importance of assessment and gives guidance for designing good assessments and giving feedback. The second session goes more deeply into constructive alignment and learning outcomes, leading on to decision making in exam boards, and ending with a focus on cultivating academic judgement.


1979 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 390-420 ◽  

George Wallace Kenner was born on 16 November 1922 at Sheffield, the younger son of a well known organic chemist James Kenner (1885-1974) who was at that time a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Sheffield. Details of the Kenner family’s origins are to be found in the biographical memoir of James Kenner ( Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , 1975, 21, 389) and need not be repeated here. His mother, herself a chemist, I can recall only as a rather ebullient, talkative woman devoted to her two sons, Donald and George, in a family dominated by an aggressive father and kept very much to itself as a result. Before George was two years old the family left England for Australia where in late 1924 his father became Professor of Organic Chemistry (Pure and Applied) in the University of Sydney. Not surprisingly, we know little of George’s time there since the family returned to England in January 1928 when James Kenner was appointed Professor of Technological Chemistry at the Manchester College of Technology. The Kenners took up residence in the Manchester suburb of Withington where the family home remained (nominally at least) until James Kenner’s death in 1974.


2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (9) ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
Nick Kalson

Professor Gus McGrouther works two days a week at the Wythenshawe Hospital and three days running a research group at the University of Manchester, where he is the UK's first professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Nick Kalson talked to him about the future of surgery and academic medicine.


2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 44-45

Ursula Lowe is a Further Education (FE) science lecturer at Cambridge Regional College teaching the popular Access to Higher Education courses and day-release BTEC Diplomas. Ursula completed an MSc in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Salford followed by a PGCE in FE at the University of Manchester. Ursula has completed a STEM Insight work placement at the University of Cambridge and won the prestigious ENTHUSE Award for Excellence in STEM teaching (Further Education) in 2016. She enjoys professional development, writes a Wordpress blog STEM527 and tweets @ursula17LO. Lorenza Giannella (Training Manager, Biochemical Society) speaks to her about her work.


1977 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 24-51
Author(s):  
Roger Ling

In my earlier paper on the ‘Stanze di Venere’ (written in 1973), I referred to the progressive deterioration of the stucco and other decorations in the Roman remains at Baia. The following pages are an attempt to provide a full record of the Baian stucco-work not covered in the first article. The idea of compiling this record originated with Dottssa. Maria Elena Bertoldi and received the full support of Prof. Alfonso De Franciscis; while the actual drawings were begun in 1973 by Miss Shelagh Rixon and completed, with further visits to the site for checking in 1974 and 1975, by Dr. Lesley A. Ling. To all of these and to our sponsors (the University of Manchester and the Faculty of Classics in the University of Cambridge) I am deeply indebted. Since the drawings were completed, the task of studying stucco decoration in Roman Italy has been greatly simplified by the pioneer-work of Dr. Harald Mielsch of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, who has compiled a major corpus of surviving material and attempted to establish a detailed chronology. It only remains for me to provide a commentary on the drawings, to discuss the architectural contexts, and to enlarge upon or modify Dr. Mielsch's conclusions regarding the Baian stucco-work. The various decorations will be dealt with one by one, and the positions of all but two of them are shown on Fig. 1, which has been adapted, by kind permission of Dottssa. Bertoldi, from one of the plans executed for her volume in the Forma Italiae series.


2009 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
J. T. Stuart

Leslie Howarth was born in Lancashire and studied at Accrington Grammar School and the University of Manchester, where he graduated in mathematics. Sydney Goldstein (FRS 1937) had a great impact on him, and he migrated with Goldstein to the University of Cambridge. There he studied for the Mathematical Tripos and then for a PhD under the guidance of Goldstein, gaining the Smith's Prize in the process. The 1930s were a golden age for fluid dynamics, both theoretical and experimental, partly because of the rapid rise of aviation in both Europe and North America. Howarth rapidly developed a formidable international reputation, producing a string of theoretical and computational papers at the cutting edge of research in the study of boundary layers in aerodynamics and fluid dynamics. In 1937–38 he spent a year in the USA at the California Institute of Technology, working with Theodore von Karman (ForMemRS 1946), during which they produced a remarkable paper of lasting importance in the theory of turbulence. During World War II Howarth worked for several UK government agencies, but afterwards he moved from Cambridge to the University of Bristol, where he developed a strong research school in theoretical fluid dynamics and applied mathematics.


Author(s):  
Euzi Rodrigues Moraes

Registra o trabalho realizado por um grupo de professoras e pesquisadoras ligadas ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, em Vitória-ES, durante um período de dez anos. Inicialmente, o grupo era formado por três alunas do mestrado em Educação, sob nossa orientação, cujo interesse se centrava na aquisição da escrita por crianças, jovens e adultos. Com o passar do tempo, o núcleo original transformou-se em um grupo de estudos e pesquisas que incorporava alunos da pós-graduação e professoras, e que atuava dentro e fora da universidade. Esta breve história introduz os principais aspectos do trabalho, aponta e analisa seu caráter científico e seus resultados práticos, e oferece uma lista de trabalhos publicados e inéditos com o objetivo de dar substância ao relato e facilitar o acesso do leitor às ideias do grupo. Abstract In this article an attempt is made to record the work carried out by a group of teachers and researchers attached to the Post-Graduate Programme in Education of the Espírito Santo Federal University, in Vitória-ES, Brazil, over lhe past 10 years. At its outset, the group consisted of 3 post-graduate students pursuing their Master's Degree in Education while focussing their studies on child and adult literacy acquisition, under the supervision ofthe author. Wiyh the passing of time, this original nucleus grew into a study and research group which incorporated both post-graduate students and school teachers, acting inside and outside the university. This brief history introduces the main features of the work, points out and analyses its scientific aspects and practical results, and offers a list of published and unpublished titles produced by the group, to substantiate the report presented and to facilitate access to the group's ideas. Résumé Dans cet article l'auteur essaye d'enregistrer le travail réalisé par un groupe de professeurs et de chercheurs liés au Programme de Spécialisation en Education de l'Université Fédérale de l'Espírito Santo, à Vitória-ES, Brésil, dans la période de 10 ans. D'abord, le groupe était forme par 3 eléves du "mestrado " en Education, dont l'intérêt était axé sur l'acquisition de l'ècrit par des enfants, des jeunes et des adultes, sous l'orientation de l'auteur. Quelque temps après, le noyau original s'est transforme en groupe d'études et de recherches qui incorporait des élèves de la Spécialisation et des professeurs, et qui opérait dans et hors l 'Université. Cette breve histoire introduit les principaux aspects du travail, signale et analyse son caractere scientifique et des resultais pratiques, et offre une liste de travaux publiés et inédits dont l'objectif c'est de donner de la substance au rapport et de faciliter l'accès du lecteur aux idées du groupe. Resumen En este artículo, la autora trata de mostrar el trabajo realizado por un grupo de profesoras e investigadoras, vinculadas al Programa de Posgraduación en Educación de la Universidad Federal de Espírito Santo, en Vitória-ES, Brasil, durante un período de 10 años. Inicialmente, el grupo era formado por 3 alumnas del mestrado en Educación, cuyo interés se centraba en el aprendizado de la escritura por niños, jóvenes y adultos, bajo la orientación de la autora. Con el pasar del tiempo, el núcleo original se transformo en un grupo de estúdios e investigación, que incluía alumnos de posgraduación y profesoras, y actuaba dentro y fuera de la Universidad. Esta breve historia muestra los principales aspectos del trabajo, apunta y analiza su carácter científico y resultados prácticos, y ofrece una lista de trabajos publicados e inéditos, con el objetivo de dar consistência al relato, y posibilitar el acceso del lector a las ideas del grupo.


PMLA ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Henry Louis Gates

For those of us who were students or professors of African or African American literature in the late sixties or through the seventies, it is a thing of wonder to behold the various ways in which our specialties and the works we explicate and teach have moved, if not exactly from the margins to the center of the profession of literature, at least from defensive postures to a position of generally accepted validity. My own graduate students often greet with polite skepticism an anecdote I draw on in the introduction to my seminars. When I was a student at the University of Cambridge, Wole Soyinka, recently released from a two-year confinement in a Nigerian prison, was on campus to deliver a lecture series on African literature (collected and published by Cambridge in 1976 under the title Myth, Literature, and the African World). Soyinka had come to Cambridge in 1973 from Ghana, where he had been living in exile, ostensibly to assume a two-year lectureship in the faculty of English. To his astonishment, as he told me in our first supervision, the faculty of English apparently did not recognize African literature as a legitimate area of study within the “English” tripos, so he had been forced to accept an appointment in social anthropology, of all things! (Much later, the distinguished Nigerian literary scholar Emmanuel Obiechina related a similar tale when I asked him why he had taken his Cambridge doctorate in social anthropology.) Shortly after I heard Soyinka's story, I asked the tutor in English at Clare College, Cambridge, why Soyinka had been treated this way, explaining as politely as I could that I would very much like to write a doctoral thesis on “black literature.” To which the tutor replied with great disdain, “Tell me, sir, … what is black literature?” When I responded with a veritable bibliography of texts written by authors who were black, his evident irritation informed me that I had taken as a serious request for information what he had intended as a rhetorical question.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (137) ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Michael De Anda Muñiz ◽  
Janaé Bonsu ◽  
Lydia Dana ◽  
Sangeetha Ravichandran ◽  
Haley Volpintesta ◽  
...  

Abstract The Policing in Chicago Research Group (PCRG) is an activist research collective composed of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We conduct useful and accessible research on policing in support of campaigns organized by abolitionist social movements in Chicago. Beginning as a two-semester graduate research practicum, the PCRG has transitioned to an activist research collective. In this roundtable discussion, six members of the PCRG and four of our community partners reflect on the project’s challenges and successes. We consider the pedagogical power and limitations of an activist research practicum, the power dynamics within the research group and between the PCRG and our community partners, and the ability of the PCRG to remain accountable to our partners and the communities they represent.


Author(s):  
Douglass Taber

X. Peter Zhang of the University of South Florida extended (Organic Lett. 2009, 11, 2273) Co-catalyzed asymmetric cyclopropanation to the activated ester 2. The product 3 readily coupled with amines. André B. Charette of the Université de Montréal showed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6970) that even α-olefins such as 4 could be cyclopropanated in high ee with the diazo amide 5. Xue-Long Hou of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry established (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 8734) conditions for the enantioselective coupling of 7 and 8 to give 9 , in which sidechain chirality was also controlled. Tristan H. Lambert of Columbia University found (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 7536) that “methylene” could be transferred in an intramolecular sense from the epoxide of 10 to the alkene, delivering the cyclopropane 11 in high ee. Yuichi Kobayashi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology established (Organic Lett . 2009, 11, 1103) that the 2-picolinoxy leaving group worked well for the SN2' coupling with 13 to give 14. Chang Ho Oh of Hanyang University developed (J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 370) a new route to cyclopentenones such as 16, by gold-catalyzed cyclization of diynes such as 15. David J. Procter of the University of Manchester used (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 7214; Tetrahedron Lett . 2009, 50, 3224) SmI2 to cyclize 17 to 18 and 19 to 20, each with high diastereocontrol. Yoshiaki Nishibayashi of the University of Tokyo devised (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2534) Ru catalysts for the cyclization of an enyne such as 21 to the cyclohexadiene 22. Laurel L. Schafer of the University of British Columbia developed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 2116) a Zr catalyst for the diastereocontrolled cyclization of amino alkenes such as 23. Hongbin Zhai of the Shangahi Institute of Organic Chemistry showed (J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 2592) that the Mo-mediated cyclization of 25 also proceeded with high diastereocontrol. Even more impressive was the selectivity Kozo Shishido of the University of Tokushima demonstrated (Tetrahedron Lett . 2009, 50, 1279) for the cyclization of 27.


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