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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Lunch Hour Lecture Spring Series 2009

6 January 2009

The challenges and opportunities facing the 44th President of the United States, in foreign affairs and beyond, will be discussed by Professor Philippe Sands, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Laws, in his Lunch Hour Lecture, 'President Obama and America in the world: From inauguration to action',Ìýon Tuesday 27 January 2009 at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº.

The spring series kicks off with a talk by Dr Robin Murphy, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Psychology, on whether rule learning makes us human, in his lecture on Tuesday 20 January 2009.

Other lectures that will run this spring include:

  • Wellbeing for the 21st century - Professor Nick Tyler, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Civil and Environmental Engineering (Thursday 5 February 2009)
  • Children and the environment: independence or obesity? - Professor Roger Mackett, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Centre for Transport Studies (Thursday 26 February 2009)
  • Physiology on top of the world: Xtreme Everest - Dr Mike Grocott, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Medicine (Tuesday 3 March 2009)
  • One-person households - a resource time bomb? - Dr Joanna Williams, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Bartlett School of Planning (Thursday 12 March 2009)

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Lunch Hour Lectures are free and open to all. The full list of lectures for Spring 2009 can be found at .

Notes for Editors

1. Admission is free without a ticket, no need to book. However, entry is on a first-come first-served basis.

2. Lectures are held in the Darwin Lecture Theatre, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, Gower Street (entrance via Malet Place), London WC1E 6BT. Lectures run from 1.15 pm to 1.55 pm.

3. The full listing of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Lunch Hour Lectures for Spring 2009 can be found at .

4. Journalists seeking more information can contact Jenny Gimpel in the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Media Relations Office on tel: +44 (0)20 7679 9726, mobile: +44 (0)7747 565 056, out of hours +44 (0)7917 271 364, e-mail: j.gimpel@ucl.ac.uk.