Professor Michael Butler Appointed New Southampton Dean of Engineering and Physical Sciences
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st January 2021, Professor Butler will follow on from Professor Philip Nelson who has been serving as Interim Dean of the Faculty since the departure of Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi earlier this year. Professor Butler first joined the University of Southampton in 1995 as a lecturer, before becoming a Professor in 2000. Most recently, he served as Associate Dean for Academic Infrastructure in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
‘It is an honour to be entrusted with the role of Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. My work as Associate Dean has given me a great appreciation of the strength and breadth of the education, research and enterprise across our Faculty.’
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The Covid-19 Vaccination Task Force has sent its report to government on the roll-out of a national inoculation programme
Professor Karina Butler, consultant paediatrician and Chair of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, and Dr Cillian De Gascun, Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory, have been answering the questions of RTÉ Drivetime listeners on Covid-19 vaccines.
Q. Margaret suffers from allergic reactions to a large number of medicines, NSAIDS (Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), penicillin and live vaccines. Hilda has an epipen, is 73 years old, allergic to aspirin and kiwi fruit. Lynn also carries an epipen, is allergic to NSAIDs and had no trouble with flu or pneumonia vaccine. Can they safely get this vaccine?
of investigations. he has 10 from criminal informatio investigations. joining me now professor butler, and siemi, he is a legal analyst on court tv. on the federal level our producer dwayne put this all together, we have the trump inaugural committee donations and spending. a few are related to the inaugural committee. there is the possible roll of trump and others concealing hush money payments, inflating the insurance value of his properties. there is a lot there that is federal. on the state and local level, the trump organization. you have trump inflating assets,
what are democrats sort of prepared to do to pull this back to where we at least have a policy debate and we re not worried about children being ripped out of their parents arms? i think that it s very important that democrats continue to press hard on this issue. because, as you said, this policy is still going on. i mean, that s the thing we have to remember. this isn t some historical exhumation of something horrible that happened in trump s presidency. this is the reality today in the united states of america at the border. so it s important for democrats, for activists, and just for citizens to say, hey, this is not who we are as a country. professor butler is exactly right. this is not what we stand for. these people are coming here to make a lawful claim for asylum. we need to honor our laws, honor our values, and we need to stop putting our children in metal things that are cages, no matter what you call them. my heart just hurt a little
way. look, if trump wants to know what information they have on him, if he gets indicted, that s when he will be entitled to discovery, and not a moment before. the critical thing, though, and i totally agree with professor butler in your last segment, the critical thing is at what point will the justice department itself, will the institutions themselves start to stand up to trump as opposed to their current posture, which is rosenstein tends to roll over on his belly, roll over on his back and show trump his belly and say please don t hurt me, i m so innocuous. at some point the institutions have to stand up and tell these trump people no, you can t visit, just because you asked for it. what do you think of, that joyce? so i disagree that deputy attorney general rosenstein is rolling over and showing the white house his belly. i think that he and chris wray, the director of the fbi are trying to walk a very narrow tightrope. it s a difficult time to be in the justice department.