22 COMPLETED PROJECTS
DONOR WALL
– MEMBERS OF THE CIRCLE OF BENEFACTORS INCLUDE GENEROUS ALUMNI, DONORS, COMPANIES AND TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS – PART OF UCL’S ‘IT’S ALL ACADEMIC’ CAMPAIGN TO RAISE £600 MILLION – YOUNGEST HAND IS 15 AND OLDEST IS 99 – REFLECTS UCL’S COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC ART “The donor wall represents an amazing community who’ve come from across the world to support UCL. It’s really important that this recognition is at the heart of UCL.”
CELEBRATING MORE THAN 60 OF UCL’S DONORS WITH A STRIKING PERMANENT ARTWORK
UCL Slade School of Art alumna Dr Sarah Fortais created the unique public artwork by making moulds of donors’ hands then casting them in bronze and aluminium. The ‘hands’ are displayed on the wall, which recognises the UCL Circle of Benefactors. Each hand represents a member of the UCL Circle of Benefactors, who has generously supported UCL through donations of £1 million and above.
LORI HOULIHAN UCL Vice-Provost (Advancement)
INSTITUTE OF PRION DISEASES COURTAULD BUILDING
– EIGHT FLOORS OF REFURBISHED SPACE – NEW RECEPTION AND OFFICES – HIGH CATEGORY RESEARCH LABS – SUPPORT ROOMS FOR MICROSCOPES AND FREEZERS – REPLACED THE 1980’S FAÇADE – RENEWED DOUBLE-STOREY ROOF
A MODERN FACILITY THAT’S ENABLING TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH INTO PRIONS
The MRC Prion Unit at UCL is one of the world’s leading research centres for the study of prions and their wider relevance to neurodegenerative diseases, with a growing research interest in Alzheimer’s disease. We remodelled an empty building to give them a national centre of excellence, which brings researchers from across campus into one home. The new facilities give the Prion Unit everything needed to carry out research into variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) and other common causes of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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