Alumni and Friends

The recession has hit many small businesses, but business is booming for environmentally friendly taxi firm, GOGREENCAR. Owners David Peters, Business Studies ’01, and Andrew Laughlan, Multimedia Technology ’02, have seen an increase in clientele over the last year as Senior Executives and Managing Directors have moved away from their high-end chauffeured limousines to a more eco-friendly hybrid alternative.  The taxi firm, based in heart of London, has seen its fleet of hybrid Toyota Prius’s grow from 5 to 40 in a space of 18 months and are still adding new vehicles every month. “The current economic downturn has been good to us” said Andrew. “We are competitively priced and as blue chip companies cut back on spending we are the and environmentally friendly alternative.” The firm looks capitalise on the current economic climate by helping more businesses and residents across London reduce their carbon footprint, through their new eco-friendly vehicles.

For further information, visit: www.gogreencar.co.uk

The Alumni Office has teamed up with the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival to offer our alumni a chance to win tickets to Frankie Boyle’s sold-out show!
To celebrate the relaunch of www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com, the festival team is offering you the chance to win a pair of tickets to Frankie Boyle’s sold-out festival show at the King’s Theatre on Saturday 20th March 2010, a night’s luxury four star accommodation at Marks Hotel, dinner for two at the hotel’s One Ten Bar & Grill restaurant and complimentary Magners.
To enter, just register your details on www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com before 11th January 2010!

The New GCU Alumni Blog – Feedback

Development and Alumni Relations has setup a new blog to keep you up to date with activity at your University. This is the first phase of the blog development and we hope over the course of the next few weeks to add more features, improve functionality and to create discussion topics and of course, have fun whilst doing it!

Moreover, the blog is an informal mode of communication with you, our graduates. By bringing together our social networking communications (Facebook & Linkedin) and our e-newsletters, website and magazine, we hope to appeal to all alumni of GCU.

So what do you think about the new blog?
Please fee free to browse the new blog and have a look around and tell us what you think by using the comment box below. We are open to all opinions and suggestions to make this an effective communications tool with you!

Find out how far the GCU Bumper Sticker can go!

Send your pictures of the GCU Bumper Sticker to alumni@gcal.ac.uk. We want to see how far this will go!

If you don’t have a bumper sticker, but would like one, email alumni@gcal.ac.uk with your full name and mailing address and we will send a few out to you.

Great Wall of China - Thanks to Jas Sangha, Social Sciences '09

Iowa USA - Thanks to Summer Zwanziger Elsinger, Masters in Research, Business and Management, '05

Lucy Ross (pictured), now 2nd year International Product Design student, recently won a competition ran by the

 Alumni Department to design the 2009 Alumni Achievement Award.

To read more about this years Alumni Achievement Award Winners 

GLASGOW Caledonian University’s “outstanding work” with children and families from communities across Glasgow has scooped two prestigious awards.

Special Guest Lecture
Tuesday 8th December 2009,
5:30-6:30 Registration/Reception
6:30 Lecture
Glasgow Caledonian University

Professor David Gartry MD FRCS FRCOphth DO BSc (Hons) FCOptom

‘Laser refractive surgery – past, present & future’

We are delighted to welcome Professor David Gartry, BSc (Hons) Ophthalmic Optics ’78, and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon & Refractive Service Director, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, back to GCU to present a special guest lecture.

For more information and to register

Over 500 alumni from the Glasgow Dough School and Queens College attended the launch of the Glasgow Cookery Book.

The 2009 edition, which was published by Waverly Books, was updated with the assistance of Dough School volunteers (pictured). Special care was taken to preserve traditional favourites such as haggis, pot roast, cheese scones and shortbread while including updates for the modern cook.

The Glasgow Cookery Book is available in most West of Scotland Bookstores and online at www.amazon.co.uk

For Further information about the Glasgow Cookery Book

** Caledonian+ Competition **

An innovative new brand is set to make its mark on the headphone market. By focusing on style as well as substance, Audio Chi’s W-Series range is set to revolutionise the world of personal audio.

Audio Chi’s design team have also solved the two major headphone headaches; tangled cables and faulty connections. The woven and colour co-ordinated outer fabric ensures the end of annoying tangles, whilst their detachable connection eliminates faulty connections.

Gavin Muir, BSc Chemistry with IT & Instrumentation ’02, Director at Hunter Reid and an investor in Audio Chi added, “The team have breadth of talent across the business from engineers to fashion marketing and are also running an intern programme which is great, especially in the current economic climate”.

Julie McNicol, BA Hons Fashion Business ’09 who recently joined the company’s marketing communication team said, “The energy and passion within the business is incredible. It’s great to be part of Audio Chi and be working with such enthusiastic and talented people”.

We have a set of fantastic Audio Chi headphones to give away (worth £70), answer the following question: What colour are Audio Chi’s W7 headphones? (hint) visit www.audiochi.com. Answers to alumni@gcal.ac.uk

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