Professor Malcolm Dixon’s eightieth birthday fell on 18 April 1979. On behalf of the Molecular Enzymology Group of the Biochemical Society, Dr. R. N. Perham organized a Colloquium in Cambridge on 6th April to celebrate the event. Many of Professor Dixon’s former colleagues and students attended this, and the excellent dinner at King’s College that followed. The speakers at the Colloquium were F...

When Andy Koval joined what was then called the University of Vermont’s Technical Services Program (TSP) as a biomedical equipment technician in 1999, he remembers being presented with the organization’s strategic plan as part of his new employee orientation. When clinical engineer Leah Rafuse joined one year later, she too received the strategic plan at orientation and thereafter heard periodi...