Warwick People

Wendy Coy, Head of Human Resources in WMS has been appointed as the new School Secretary of Warwick Medical School. Wendy will take up her role in early February.

Mark Kennell has been appointed as the new Head of Security Services from Tuesday 4 January 2011. Mark joins us from Derby Community Safety Partnership where he was the Crime Prevention Manager for 10 years. Prior to this he worked in the private security industry and has also served 12 years in the Royal Air Force Police.

The University regrets to announce that Dr Hassan Nakhai, a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Life Sciences, died in Germany on Tuesday 21 December 2010 during a course of treatment for an illness.

Chancellor Richard Lambert has been knighted as part of the Queen's New Year's Honours. This honour comes in recognition of his services to business as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

The University is saddened to report the death of Herman Coetzee who was an employee of BOTEC (Botswana Technology Centre) and a PhD student in Engineering at Warwick. He was due to finish his doctorate in 2011 on solar thermal chimney power, a topic of great importance to Botswana. He died on 5 December on the day after his return to Botswana to work on his experimental rig.