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2 weeks ago | 
imperial.ac.uk | Conrad Duncan |Samantha Rey
The list for 2025, which was published as part of the King’s Official Birthday celebrations, honours three academics from Imperial College London for their achievements in scientific and medical research. The recipients for Imperial this year are:Professor Vernon Gibson, Visiting Professor from the Department of Materials, receives a knighthood for services to science and defence.
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3 weeks ago | 
imperial.ac.uk | David Silverman |Conrad Duncan
Aeropod (by Muju Earth), a soil regeneration startup from Imperial College London, and Dainty Grace, an innovative lingerie startup from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), have each won first prizes of £15,000 in the WE Innovate 2025 Grand Final.
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3 weeks ago | 
imperial.ac.uk | David Silverman |Conrad Duncan
Aeropod (by Muju Earth), a soil regeneration startup from Imperial College London, and Dainty Grace, an innovative lingerie startup from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), have each won first prizes of £15,000 in the WE Innovate 2025 Grand Final.
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3 weeks ago | 
imperial.ac.uk | Conrad Duncan
Five universities, including Imperial College London, will join the WE Innovate National network which will run programmes to support 150 women-led teams each year across the participating institutions. The network will be based on the format of Imperial’s flagship competition for women entrepreneurs, WE Innovate - a six-month programme for 25 teams led by students, recent alumni and Early Career Researchers.
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1 month ago | 
imperial.ac.uk | Conrad Duncan
This year’s finalists for WE Innovate are developing new technologies to make the world a better place, with innovative ideas for improving IVF treatment, the security of live events, and the diagnosis of debilitating knee conditions. The WE Innovate programme, run by Imperial Enterprise Lab, is a targeted pre-accelerator open to teams led by students, recent alumni and Early Career Researchers who identify as women.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
imperial.ac.uk | Hayley Sykes |Conrad Duncan
The new material, ‘Roliner,’ offers amputees the power to change the shape, volume, and stiffness of the liner that is used to attach a prosthetic limb’s socket to a residual leg. Amputees could make these tweaks using their smartphone in real-time, providing a more comfortable and personalised fit.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
imperial.ac.uk | Conrad Duncan
Transmission Zero, a research team from Imperial College London in partnership with the Ifakara Health Institute and the National Institute of Medical Research in Tanzania, has developed genetic technology which renders a mosquito unable to transmit the malaria parasite and has a gene drive that ensures that future generations are also resistant to the parasite.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
imperial.ac.uk | Conrad Duncan
The Global Opportunities Reception at Imperial’s South Kensington Campus highlighted the transformative impact that international experiences can have on the education and training of STEMMB students. The event also provided a showcase of the diverse range of opportunities at Imperial for undergraduate and postgraduate students, such as those supported by the UK Government's Turing Scheme.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
imperial.ac.uk | Conrad Duncan |Samantha Rey |Ryan O'Hare
From mining dust to cooling light to startup hub rankings, here's some quick-read news from across Imperial. Cool light Researchers have been surprised to find a curious interaction between scattered light and sound waves can have a cooling effect. In experiments, researchers directed light into a glass microsphere - only four times wider than a human hair - that traps both light and high-frequency sound waves by continually reflecting them around its circumference.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
imperial.ac.uk | Conrad Duncan
Professor Hugh Brady, President of Imperial College London, used this year's President’s Address to highlight the important contribution that universities can make to the UK Government’s mission to grow the UK economy. President Brady said: “Imperial’s founding mission – as I never get tired of saying – is ‘to be useful’. It was written into our royal charter of 1907 and it’s what drives us today.
