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Browse previous issues of Imperial magazine and its predecessor, Imperial Matters, in our magazine archive
Imperial Magazine:
Imperial 55: Winter 2023-4
Imperial 54: Summer 2023
Imperial 53: Winter 2022-23
Imperial 52: Summer 2022
Imperial 51: Winter 2021-22
Imperial 50: Summer 2021
Imperial 49: Winter 2020-21
Imperial 48: Summer 2020
Imperial 47: Winter 2019–20
Imperial 46: Summer 2019
Imperial 45: Winter 2018–19
Imperial 44: Summer 2018
Imperial 43: Winter 2017–18
Imperial 42: Summer 2017
Imperial 41: Winter 2016–17
In Issue 41, published in November 2016, we follow the paths of some of Imperial’s most intrepid expeditioners, explore the answers to fundamental evolutionary questions, and venture into the world of machine learning.
Issue 40: Winter 2015-16
In this issue:
- Campus life: Potential energy – Althea-Imperial prizewinner and Imperial College PhD Scholar Clementine Chambon tells us about juggling studies with entrepreneurship and travelling the globe.
- Careering ahead: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock – space scientist, science communicator and presenter of the BBC's The Sky at Night tells us about building satellites, her dream of retiring to Mars and meeting the Clangers.
- Global citizen: SAFE. Or is it? – ever wondered what a gibbon call sounds like? Dr Rob Ewers tells us about the sounds of the rainforest and his research in Borneo in this Q&A, complete with images and sound recordings.
Issue 39: Summer 2014
In this issue:
- Careering ahead - an interview with bespoke tailor, Roubi L'Roubi - As bespoke tailor to the glitterati, Roubi L’Roubi (Mechanical Engineering 1992) draws on lessons from Imperial to stay ahead of the curve.
- Picture this: The Bottle Match - Since 1902, members of the Royal School of Mines have been meeting their rivals from Cornwall, the Camborne School of Mines, almost every year to valiantly face-off at rugby—an English invention that historically has been the chosen game of Home Nations miners.
Read issue 39 of the Imperial magazine [pdf]
**Correction**
Imperial was incorrectly informed that two alumni were deceased and reported this in the In Memoriam pages of issue 39. Both are still alive and well, and we sincerely apologise for this error:
- Colonel John F.H. Fitzgerald (Civil Engineering 1977)
- Mr Brian D. Steel (Botany and Plant Technology 1979, MSc Computing 1981)
Issue 38: Winter 2012-13
In this issue:
- Careering ahead - an interview with animation lighting specialist Afonso Salcedo - Coding sunshine, starlight and shadows, Afonso Salcedo (MSc Computing 2002) creates animated worlds unbound by conventional optical laws.
- Saving brains - Thanks to research on brains donated by MS patients, Imperial researchers have made major advances in efforts to understand and treat the disease.
- Plugged in: Life as a blogging professor - Professor Stephen Curry on blogging as an academic.
- Splash: Water polo and London 2012 - For an Olympian the routine becomes extraordinary, says PhD student Adam Scholefield (Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2007).
- Voyages of particle discovery - Born in Kenya, now commuting between the Alps and London, Professor Tejinder Virdee is a particle physicist working at the CMS experiment at CERN.
- Keeping up with mascot rivalries - Imperial has an age-old tradition of mascotry, symbolising its spirit and character. Mascots are either ‘inviolate’ (they can’t be stolen) or ‘violate’ (they can be swiped and then held for ransom). The kidnapping of mascots is a game of skill, cunning and opportunity played by the various students’ unions to raise money for well-deserving, student-run charities (RAG).
Issue 37: Spring 2012
In this issue:
- Leading light [pdf] - Theoretical physicist John Pendry reveals what gets him thinking and the inspirations behind his new ideas.
- Biting back [pdf] - Imperial’s laboratories are home to tens of thousands of mosquitoes that are specially bred to help researchers understand and prevent the spread of devastating diseases.
- Getting things done [pdf] - An inside view on the role of engineering in government.
- Cutting edge [pdf] - Technologies for training surgeons double up as essential props in public events that make a drama out of an operating theatre crisis.
- Magnificient motors - In restoration projects that may last years, if not decades, Will Fiennes (PhD Mechanical Engineering 1970) takes the unrecognisable shell of what may, in its heyday, have been a supercar and painstakingly returns it to its former glory.
- The Imperial underworld - Staff and students go about their daily business oblivious to the world beneath their feet: a network of tunnels under the South Kensington Campus that is shrouded in mystery.
Issue 36: Spring/Summer 2011
In this issue:
- Technologies of war and peace [pdf] - By putting scientific experts and technological development at the heart of the Second World War, a new history by David Edgerton reassesses the relationship between war and innovation.
- Genesis of genius [pdf] -As imperial launches a campaign to sustain scholarships and financial aid for future students, Imperial magazine catches up with an alumnus, who is using his own experiences to guide boys from under-represented backgrounds into higher education
- Light fantastic [pdf] - Professor Martin McCall (physics 1983) is a physicist by day and a Ceroc dancer by night!
- Spray-on science [pdf] -Silly string was the inspiration for Fabrican Ltd, a collaboration between chemical engineer professor Paul Luckham and spanish designer Dr Manel Torres (topl-r).