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Newbold Continues to Achieve |
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Newbold continues to thrive, as this year has seen several new and prestigious achievements and publications among the College staff. 
Many congratulations to Dr Jan Barna, Lecturer in Systematic and Biblical Theology, who has just successfully defended his doctoral thesis at Trinity College in Bristol, completing his PhD. This great achievement is the culmination of many years of hard work. Well done! 
Congratulations also to Dr Steve Currow, Principal Lecturer in Pastoral Studies and Postgraduate Course Director, who has been recently elected as chair of governors at St Crispin’s School in Wokingham.
 Over the summer, Dr Laurence Turner, Principal Lecturer in Old Testament Studies and Research Degrees Director, helped to organize a conference for the Tyndale Fellowship in Cambridge on Christian proclamation of the Old Testament and how to use it in preaching. He is now in the last stages of co-editing those contributions for a book which will be published by Inter-Varsity Press next spring and has written a chapter in it himself on preaching Old Testament narrative. The volume differs from other such books, as it is written not by pastors but by Old Testament scholars who also preach, including some major names in Biblical scholarship. In addition, he is working on extensive research on the book of Esther, the only book in the Bible that never mentions God explicitly. He is therefore currently ‘Searching for God in the Book of Esther’ and hopes to publish a book by the same title. No one before has written such a comprehensive survey of attempts to find God in Esther – this is what he hopes to do and his research is ever-growing. 
Dr Rod Rosenquist, Head of the Department of Management, Arts and Social Studies and Senior Lecturer in English, has recently delivered a paper for a session on Modernism and Trust at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Montreal, Canada. His paper focused on the nature of trust in the early twentieth century, particularly as modernism pushed people in the background in favour of theories of progress and scientific enquiry. During the conference, Dr Rosenquist was pleased to find that a readership is beginning to grow for his book published this year, Modernism, the Market and the Institution of the New.
Film Studies Lecturer Peter Balderstone has also delivered a paper in October for the Literature/Film Association’s annual conference held in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The theme of the conference was “Texts, Technologies, and Intertextualities: Film Adaptation in a Postmodern World”, and his paper analysed Shakespeare quotations in a variety of films.
Congratulations to Dr Isabel Moraes, Guest Lecturer in Environmental Science, Physics and Maths, who has  recently been nominated as Evotec Outstanding Scientist 2009! She has been working full-time as a Senior Scientist on the X-ray crystallography team for Evotec’s Discovery Chemistry site in Oxfordshire for three years. She works in the area of research and development in the discovery of new medicines and to maximize the efficiency of synthetic chemistry through structure-driven drug discovery. She has solved up to 150 macromolecular structures from viral to CNS (Central Nervous System) targets. Dr Moraes has also been appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and her paper, ‘The Crystal Structure of Human and Rat Serine Racemase: Evidence for Major Confrontational Changes upon Inhibitor Binding to the Active Site’ (regarding important protein for epilepsy and schizophrenia targets), is being published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Many congratulations, scholars! |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 December 2009 )
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