scholarly journals John Marion Thoday. 30 August 1916—25 August 2008

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. MacDonald ◽  
J. N. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Research Programme ◽  
Disruptive Selection ◽  
Sympatric Populations ◽  
Genetic Traits ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Adaptive Challenges ◽  
Undergraduate Programme ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Quantitative Genetic Traits ◽  
The University

Professor John M. Thoday, ScD, FRS, was Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge from 1959 until 1983. In that position, he was influential in establishing genetics as an integral part of the undergraduate programme in biology at Cambridge, and he developed an active research programme that explored genetic processes underlying quantitative genetic traits, natural selection in sympatric populations and genetic variation in human and other populations. In more than 125 publications, he brought insightful attention to questions that had often been overlooked by others. Some of his most significant work explored the genetic basis of quantitative traits and thus pioneered approaches to understanding the mechanisms behind responses to selection. This helped set the stage to uncovering genes in the multiple-gene systems that determine polygenic characters in fields from medicine to agriculture. Other key work focused on disruptive, or diversifying, selection as a potential mechanism for populations to respond to adaptive challenges in nature. When his study of disruptive selection began, many in the field believed it was not even a possible process. In his many roles, John Thoday was a mentor who stimulated an open, respectful and intellectually rich academic environment for the Department of Genetics at Cambridge and for his field of creative activity.

scholarly journals Vertical Transmission, March 2008

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Keryn Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Opening Ceremony ◽  
Hot Air ◽  
History Of ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Light History ◽  
The University

The Melbourne meeting is drawing close. The local Melbourne organising committee, NSAC and the Rubbo Committee have put together an excellent programme and outstanding speakers. The opening ceremony will set the benchmark for the rest of the meeting. Professor Peter Doherty will speak on The role of leadership in changing times. Professor Doherty, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology together with Rolf Zinkernagel, discovered how T cells recognise their target antigens in combination with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins. Professor Doherty is currently an NHMRC Burnet Fellow and Laureate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. While maintaining an active research programme, he is also an advocate for innovation, liberal education and the role of science in the community. He has published two books for the general public, his semi-autobiographical book The beginner?s guide to winning the Nobel Prize and, more recently, A light history of hot air. I?m sure all attendees of the meeting will look forward to this fantastic start to ASM 2008.

scholarly journals Stories of Supervision

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Trish Spedding
Keyword(s):  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
First Year ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Supervision Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Research Students ◽  
The University

This article centres upon experiences of supervising practitioner-researchers engaged in the first year of a Customised Master of Philosophy (MPhil) programme of study. This pathway resides within a larger collaboration between the University of Sunderland’s Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (SUNCETT) and the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) delivering a National Practitioner Research Programme (PRP) in England. It takes as its starting point how non-traditional research students from the further adult and vocational education (FAVE) sector experience entry into the programme and their subsequent development of scholarship and research skills as they pursue their studies at research degree level in higher education (HE). Using six guiding principles underpinning the PRP as a framework for analysis, illustrative stories of the experiences of supervisors and research students provide insights into ways in which supervision is enacted. Some key characteristics of supervision practice are described. These often bring to light differences between supervision on the Customised MPhil with that of conventional MPhil programmes. The most striking finding supports how the development of collaborative and cooperative practice helps to shift the customary dynamic of research degree study away from isolation towards a shared experience as members of an inclusive and active research community.

Sir Alwyn Williams. 8 June 1921 — 4 April 2004

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 437-453
Author(s):  
Derek E. G. Briggs ◽  
Dianne Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
University Education ◽  
International Authority ◽  
Government Restructuring ◽  
Active Research ◽  
The University

Sir Alwyn Williams was distinguished as a geologist and palaeontologist and as a university administrator. His PhD investigation of a classic area of his native Wales led to a lifetime of research on the rocks of the Ordovician System, and on fossil and living brachiopods. He became an international authority in both fields, with his original contributions and his organization of multiauthored syntheses. He pioneered the application of electron microscopy to palaeontology using observations on living representatives to inform his interpretation of the fossils. He maintained an active research programme during a remarkable career as a university leader, guiding the University of Glasgow through government restructuring of university finances in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was determined, decisive and eloquent in his promotion of the ideals of university education.

INTERVIEW WITH PETINA GAPPAH

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Faith Mkwesha
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
First Language ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The University ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
University Of Zimbabwe

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).  Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.

2005 Verriest Medal awarded to Professor John D. Mollon

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. ii-ii
Keyword(s):  
Color Vision ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Visual Neuroscience ◽  
Evolutionary Origins ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Color Vision Tests ◽  
Spectral Coding ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The International Colour Vision Society awarded the 2005 Verriest Medal to John D. Mollon, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK. This award is bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions to the field of color vision. If the field of color vision were itself a rainbow, then Professor Mollon's contributions cover nearly its full spectrum, including the isolation and elucidation of basic chromatic coding mechanisms and the constraints that they impose on human (and more generally primate) visual performance, the genetic basis of spectral coding mechanisms, the ecological influences on and evolutionary origins of chromatic discrimination. He has been instrumental in the design of several new color vision tests and has extensively exploited abnormal models, both congenital and acquired, to further our understanding of normal mechanisms. He is especially appreciated for his keen and profound sense of the history of science, in particular with respect to the field of color vision. He has been a member of the society for over 25 years and is currently serving on its board of directors. He organized the 2001 ICVS meeting in Cambridge, celebrating the bicentennial of Thomas Young's lecture on color vision.

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