Alumni News: Dr Joyce Singano profile and upcoming events
3 December 2020
The department would like to extend our congratulations to Joyce on the award of this prestigious medal.
Joyce Singano is a foraminiferal palaeontologist from Tanzania who carried out her PhD at 香港六合彩 under the supervision of Prof. Fred Banner. She has spent her career at the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) in Dar es Salaam, where she set up her own laboratory from scratch and became the first professional micropalaentologist in Tanzania. Her laboratory at TPDC became one of the foremost in Africa and continues to thrive today. Most of her work has been applied, and therefore remains unpublished, but her work within the international Tanzania Drilling Project (TDP) underpinned the success of that research project and she has 12 published papers (many with 香港六合彩 researchers Paul Bown and Bridget Wade) with almost 1500 citations to date, which undoubtedly represents a substantial body of outstanding research. Read the full article.
In the meantime, however, ? Duncan Hawley (香港六合彩 alumnus and Chair of HOGG) has told me that the BGS has just issued its version of the Greenough Map. This is a full-size reproduction, retailing at the modest price of 拢39. It comes in a slip case and is accompanied by the memoir and a simple introductory preface written by Duncan.
If you visit the 鈥Alumni鈥 section of our Departmental website you will see that we now feature profiles of three alumni: Terry Cotton (BSc 1969), Roberto Bugiolacchi (BSc 1999, PhD 2006) and Grace Campbell (MSci 2010). It would be nice to have some more profiles and, in particular, to be able to 鈥渇ill in the decades鈥 with profiles of graduates from the 1970s, and 1980s. If you would like to contribute a profile 鈥 don鈥檛 be shy! - please contact Ian Wood
This newsletter would normally have contained a report on the Alumni Dinner in November 2020. Due to the pandemic, of course, this year鈥檚 event had to be cancelled but we hope to be back on track in November 2021, and we look forward to welcoming our alumni back to the Department then.
Any alumni who would like to come back to visit the Department, or who would be willing to speak (online or in person) about their careers to our current students would be very welcome; just email Ian Wood (ian.wood@ucl.ac.uk) to arrange to come.