LSE Alumni Newsletter - July 2008

Contents:

• Latest news
• Supporting LSE
• Alumni news and events
• Public lectures and events
• LSE academic news
• Alumni benefits and services

Latest news

LSE Summer Street Party - Saturday 19 July 2008
Get together with your fellow alumni and the Class of 2008 in Houghton Street for an afternoon of live music, entertainment and tasty food. More

LSE helps to expand trade in Africa
Four African nations are getting advice on how to grow their trade around the world during a study tour involving experts from LSE.  More

LSE Magazine online
Main features now available on the LSE Magazine site. Authors include Jon Adams, Fred Halliday, Paul Kennedy, Nicola Lacey, Mary Morgan and Peter Sutherland.

Supporting LSE

Legacy Futures Lunch
Alumni, friends and staff of LSE joined together on Wednesday 2 July for the annual Legacy Futures Lunch. The event was held in the Shaw Library and gave the school the opportunity to thank the participants of LSE’s Legacy Programme and celebrate the impact of legacy support on the School. More

LSE in partnership with alumni to support PhD students
The LSE’s PhD Partnership Scheme, which encourages three-way funding for Doctorate students, has now established over ten scholarships at the School. More

Alumni news and events

Queen's Birthday Honours 2008
LSE alumni who received honours included School governor Bronwyn Curtis (MSc Economics 1974) and Dr Katherine Rake (BSc (Econ) Government 1993), director of the Fawcett Society. More

Houghton Street Online
The School's new alumni web community launched in early October, and already over 13,000 alumni have signed up. For more details and to sign up, please click here.

The Alumni Professional Mentoring Network is due to launch in early September - watch this space!

Alumni events and reunions:

LSE Pre-Departure events - organised by alumni groups and the Student Recruitment Office, bringing together alumni, current students and students joining LSE in October 2008. Find your nearest event

• July Reunion Weekend
  Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July
• LSE Summer Street Party
  Saturday 19 July
• September Reunion Weekend
  Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September

More events available via Houghton Street Online.

Books of the month
LSE alumni - Get to the Top on Google - David Viney (BSc Econ 1991)
Introduces a structured, seven-step methodology for internet marketing and search engine optimisation; how to get your website to the very top of Google and the other leading search engines. More
LSE academic - SuperMedia: saving journalism so it can save the world - Charlie Beckett, director, POLIS
An informed discussion on the importance and future of liberal journalism as a healthy part of a flourishing society. More

Public lectures and events

The LSE Public Lecture Programme for Summer Term 2008 has now concluded. However, if you wish to receive details of any new events as soon as they are announced, and to be the first to know about Michaelmas Term events programme, please sign up to the LSE events email subscription service.

Podcasts of recent public lectures and debates:

• The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means - George Soros
• Skills, Rights and Resources in the East Asian Path to Development - Professor Kenneth Pomeranz
• The War for Wealth: The true story of globalization and how Western society can survive - Gabor Steingart
• Financial Market Stability - Professor Axel A Weber
• Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century - Professor Philip Bobbitt
• What is Wrong with Secularism of all Sorts? Priority for Democracy - Professor Veit Bader

All these and many more available on the Public lectures and events podcasts site.

LSE academic news

New LSE Research published in June includes:

• 'Should we take financial carrots for our health?' asks new research centre More
• Finnish drug regulation needs overhaul More
• Is there a formula for happy communities? More
• 42-day detention would be a ‘disgraceful legacy’ for Labour More

More on the Research Excellence pages.

Alumni benefits and services

• Award-winning bi-annual LSE Magazine and regular email newsletters
• Extensive reunions and events programme
• Alumni groups and contacts in over 70 countries
• Access to the Library, including borrowing rights
• Alumni Professional Mentoring Network
• Houghton Street Online web community, including online email directory, email forwarding service and updating your details
• Membership of the LSE Alumni Association, representing your views to the School’s governing bodies
• Further study opportunities, including alumni discounts on postgraduate, Language Centre and Summer School courses
• Access to the LSE Careers Service
• Termly LSE Events Leaflet (UK addresses only)
• LSE memorabilia, clothing and personalised souvenirs from the LSE Shop
• Discounts on Students’ Union Gym membership
• Accommodation discounts on LSE halls of residence and local hotels

Useful links: Alumni Relations homepage, LSE Annual Fund homepage, Supporting LSE.

Your feedback is valuable and welcome. Please keep us informed and send any news or comments to alumni@lse.ac.uk or contact us.

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