Professor and ex-student honoured
This year saw Professor Ottoline Leyser and Professor Martin Barstow added to the list of influential people connected with the University of York.
Professor Leyser was named as a member of the New Year’s Honours List. She received a CBE for services to Plant Science after being instrumental in the breakthrough discovery of a major hormone receptor in plants. She said: “Plant science has a central role to play in successfully meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century… I am thrilled plant sciences are being recognised in this way.”
This honour follows her being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, when she achieved the Rosalind Franklin Award for an outstanding contribution to natural science engineering or technology.
Leyser became a lecturer at York in 1994 and was appointed as a professor eight years later. “It’s a
true pleasure and a privilege to be able to contribute to this endeavour,” she said.
Following on from this, Professor Barstow, a former physics student of York and the current Head of Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester, will appear in the 2009 edition of The Who’s Who Directory.
Barstow stated on the University of Leicester website: “I was very pleasantly surprised to be invited to have an entry in Who’s Who. It is certainly nice to feel that the some of the work I have been doing has become recognised more widely beyond my usual scientific peers.”
The Directory, which has been published since 1849, lists influential people such as US President-elect Barack Obama and actor Daniel Craig.
Rory Shanks, YUSU Societies and Communications Officer, commented: “YUSU is always pleased to hear of any civil awards or honours being bestowed upon our academic staff. It reflects the high calibre of personnel that I know our departments are keen to attract and is proof that this is indeed being successful.”
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