Reading in the news - Thu 6 Jul

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment  

• Professor Paul Williams (Meteorology) is quoted in CNBC, 247 News Agency, Airways Online Head Topics, KNBC-TV and other US regional sites, reporting that future climate change will increase turbulence in clear skies. Read our news story. 

• Eureka Alert mentions the University of Reading is part of an international project to improve community preparedness for tropical cyclone in Madagascar and Southern Africa. Professor Liz Stephens (Meteorology) is quoted. Read our news story.
• Professor Mathew Owens (Meteorology) is quoted in ComicBook.com and other international outlets on the vast size of sunspots, which can be visible to the naked eye.

 #UniForReading: our role as a civic university   

• In his monthly column for Wokingham.Today and Reading.Today, University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Van de Noort, writes about the University being recognised as a University of Sanctuary. Read our news story. 
• Reading.Today and Wokingham.Today report on the recent National Meadows Day celebration at Langley Mead, which included guided walks of the site’s 18 hectares. Nigel Frankland, from the University Estates team, is quoted.
• Wokingham.Today report that with the closure of St. Crispin’s Leisure Centre, members of Wokingham Squash Club have been advised to attend alternate sites, which includes the University of Reading.

Food and farming: 

• Professor Simon Potts, Dr Michael Garratt and Dr Tom Breeze (all Agriculture) co-wrote an article for The Conversation on why there are fewer insects found on farms today, and what can be done to restore them.
• Professor Gunter Kuhnle’s (Food and Nutritional Sciences) Conversation article on the risks of aspartame is republished by Salon and Science: The Wire.
• Irish News (in print – request copy) quote Professor Glenn Gibson (Food and Nutritional Sciences) on the potential benefits of postbiotics for our gut health.
• Professor Geoff Dixon (Agriculture, Policy and Development) writes for Hort Week, (in print – request copy) calling for a new policy on food inequality and the complications that arise from home production as well as industry production.  

Business and society: 

• Forbes mentions a report by Henley Business School, emphasising that businesses need to enhance the skills of their workforce, amidst post-pandemic challenges.  
• Management Today features an article written by Dr Chris Dalton (Henley Business School) looking at resilience in management and leadership.  
• Professor Lucy Newton and Professor Peter Scott (both Henley Business School) co-write a piece for The Conversation on why banking giants are leaving Canary Wharf and heading back to the City.
• Professor David Pendleton (Henley Business School and co-chair of the Henley Business School NHS Symposium) co-wrote a letter to The Times (in print – request copy) on the future of the NHS. GPOnline also features comments from Professor Pendleton.
• Foreign Affairs.NZ features comments from Professor Carmel Houston-Price (Psychology) on a new report looking into child nutrition.

Other Coverage: 

• Times Literary Supplement reports that letters and papers of writer Dorothy Edwards are held at the University of Reading.  
• Emeritus professor Richard Bradley (Archaeology) spoke to BBC Radio 4 about neolithic landscapes and their alignment with the sun.
• Comedian, author and broadcaster, Steve Allen, has written an article, published in Barking and Dagenham Post (print – request copy) and Mansfield Chad (print – request copy), on ley line energy at Glastonbury, mentioning research by Professor Roberta Gilchrist.

• XFM London mentioned an experiment involving the University of Reading, which studied Clem Burke’s (drummer from Blondie) drumming and how this might help teenagers with autism.

• An article in Michigan Daily references University of Reading research on a potential link between parabens and breast cancer. 

Alumni: 

• Rebecca Hull, who studied French and management at the University of Reading, writes in Sheerluxe, for a profile piece on the beauty director at Harvey Nichols.  
• Reading graduate, Timothy Parker, wrote and researched an article for Drone Wars about the environmental impact of the UK’s spaceport ventures, as part of an internship.