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Kailash Ramlaul is a Research Assistant in the Department of Infectious Disease

My identity is my pride

This LGBT+ History Month, five staff and students share their experiences of being part of Imperial’s LGBTQ+ community.

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Two students studying in a breakoutspace

Shaping student spaces

From reimagined study areas to revamped social spots, we explore student space renovations at Imperial.

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Professor Faith Osier in a lab

Three Wise Women

This festive period Three Wise Women from the Faculty of Medicine share the gift of wisdom.

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The reactor core

A nuclear history

As the remaining staff leave the Imperial Reactor Centre, we explore the past and future of the College's nuclear research.

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An aerial photo of Imperial's South Kensington campus

A campus in constant evolution

Transforming South Kensington for staff, students, and the public.

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The Olympic rings in Tokyo

Going for gold

The history of Imperial and the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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An illustration of a woman meditating cross-legged

In our own words

Imperial staff member share what they’ve learnt about their own mental wellbeing during lockdown.

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Five Imperial Women staff members

#ImperialWomen

To mark Women@Imperial Week, meet five women leaders at the College who are changing the world.

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Students taking part in a Maths class at Imperial

Learning from a pandemic

Meet the Imperial teachers and students reshaping education.

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A page of the novel Dune, with people standing on a rock and sandworms down below

Flights of fantasy

Imperial's science fiction library is a unique window on our world – past, present and future.

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Imperial student Sean Bazanye-Lutu

We can do more

Discrimination and inequality must be challenged at all levels, and Imperial is playing its part.

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An illustration of women of a range of ethnicities

FGM in focus

Exploring Imperial’s community-centred approach to empowering conversations around female genital mutilation.

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Older stories

Seeing is believing and believing is seeing – From hologram lectures to the gamification of pure maths, technology is transforming teaching at Imperial.

Frontline insights – Moving stories of Imperial academics at the centre of the NHS response to COVID-19.

Body parts – How Imperial's community of innovators are bringing the human body into the 21st-century.

More than meets the eye – Five Imperial staff and students with invisible disabilities share their stories.

The cat that got the cream – As Felix turns 70, some of the student newspaper's leading players – past and present – give us their stories behind the headlines.

Clean reaction – We meet the people who plan to change the world with green chemistry.