Reading in the news - Thu 27 May

#PlanetPartners: Reading's global work for a sustainable future

The #PlanetPartners campaign is running 4-27 May, showcasing the University's support of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

Read today's news story on SDG17: Partnerships for the Goals, highlighting how the University works with the UN, governments, and directly with communities around the world to support the SDGs, bring about change and raise prospects.

Please share your own examples using the hashtags #PlanetPartners and #sdgoals. Read more about the campaign here.

Cow's milk and cholesterol: New research suggests that drinking cow's milk has no association to increased cholesterol levels. Professor Vimal Karani (Food) is quoted in multiple news sites including The Insider, Yahoo, News Break,  MSN and The Teller Report. Read our news story.

World temperatures: A BBC News Online on rising global temperatures quotes Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology). The article is also published on Yahoo.

COVID-19: expert comment on the pandemic

• Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) spoke to talkRadio about some of the claims from Dominic Cummings on the Government's handling of the pandemic; and BBC Berkshire about travel restrictions due to COVID-19. He is quoted in The Telegraph (print also) in an article about Bangladeshi people being more likely to die in the UK's second COVID wave; and The Mirror and The Sun on the Yorkshire COVID-19 variant.

Other Coverage:

• Professor Matthew Worley (History) spoke to Times Radio about the British punk movement and the iconic song, ‘God Save the Queen'.
• Dr Dina Rezk (History) spoke to BBC Radio 4 about her personal experience with managing fear. 
• Dr Mark Dallas (Pharmacology) is quoted in Understanding Animal Research on researching dementia using rodent animal testing. 
• Bioengineer and EurekAlert! cover a new project led by Reading scientists that will use weather forecasts to help protect elephants from threat. Read our news story.
• Ride-hailing app ‘FREE NOW' has covered that rides to and from UoR on have tripled, covered in Get Reading, The Daily Post and other regional outlets.
• A Times obituary for Freddie Gutfreund mentions that he worked at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at Shinfield, then part of the University of Reading, in the 1950s.
• An article in News Letter on boosting your immunity features Professor Glenn Gibson (Food).