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2024 stories

Imperial's global experts: New York Climate Week - Meet six Imperial graduates fighting for the future of our planet in New York City.

Pride in Life Sciences This Pride Month, four staff and students share their experiences of being part of Imperial’s LGBTQ+ community.

D/srupt Magazine – Read the latest issue of Imperial's annual magazine for innovators and entrepreneurs.

How to build a University Challenge team – How Imperial has become a force to be reckoned with in the BBC's university quiz competition.

Uzoamaka Nwamarah – Meet the climate expert guiding women in their careers.

A powerful force for good - Discover a month in the life of Imperial's alumni community

2022-23 stories

Representation, diversity and heritage – To mark Black History Month, our Black staff and students share reflections on the importance of representation.

Behind the lens at Imperial – We speak to four members of the Imperial LGBTQ+ community whose work is behind the scenes.

Shaping the student experience – From campus spaces to support services, 2022 has been a year of collaboration at Imperial.

Bringing different perspectives – We hear from Imperial staff and students about navigating education and a career with a disability.

Carving out your own lane – Exploring the career journeys of our Black staff and students.

Feeling like a scientist – Imperial students and staff share insights and advice for forging a path in science.

Silwood Park at 75 – Dive into the past, present and future of Imperial's unique rural campus.

The origins of Imperial’s Faculty of Medicine – Reflections on the historic institutions that built Medicine at Imperial.

Collaboration, innovation, impact – In pictures: Professor Alice Gast's eight years at Imperial College London.

Candid conversations on identity and representation – Celebrating 100 guests on Imperial As One's weekly interview series, Belonging.

Diversifying Imperial's art – Meet the artists behind Imperial’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Portrait Prize.

Meet the masterminds – Imperial’s University Challenge team talk us through the competition, from speedy buzzing, to bonus rounds and Buffy the bat.

I’m an Imperial Woman in Finance - Three alumni of our Finance Master’s programmes share their stories.

Imperial’s entrepreneurial women - Meet the trailblazers who are breaking biases and turning their ideas into successful businesses.

My identity is my pride - This LGBT+ History Month, five staff and students share their experiences of being part of Imperial’s LGBTQ+ community.

Shaping student spaces – From reimagined study areas to revamped social spots, we explore student space renovations at Imperial.

Older stories

Three Wise Women – This festive period Three Wise Women from the Faculty of Medicine share the gift of wisdom.

A nuclear history – As the remaining staff leave the Imperial Reactor Centre, we explore the past and future of the College's nuclear research.

A campus in constant evolution – Transforming South Kensington for staff, students, and the public.

Going for gold – The history of Imperial and the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In our own words – Imperial staff member share what they’ve learnt about their own mental wellbeing during lockdown.

ImperialWomen – To mark Women@Imperial Week, meet five women leaders at the College who are changing the world.

Learning from a pandemic – Meet the Imperial teachers and students reshaping education.

Flights of fantasy – Imperial's science fiction library is a unique window on our world – past, present and future.

We can do more – Discrimination and inequality must be challenged at all levels, and Imperial is playing its part.

FGM in focus – Exploring Imperial’s community-centred approach to empowering conversations around female genital mutilation. 

Seeing is believing and believing is seeing – From hologram lectures to the gamification of pure maths, technology is transforming teaching at Imperial.

Frontline insights – Moving stories of Imperial academics at the centre of the NHS response to COVID-19.

Body parts – How Imperial's community of innovators are bringing the human body into the 21st-century.

More than meets the eye – Five Imperial staff and students with invisible disabilities share their stories.

The cat that got the cream – As Felix turns 70, some of the student newspaper's leading players – past and present – give us their stories behind the headlines.

Clean reaction – We meet the people who plan to change the world with green chemistry.