Reading in the news - Wed 12 Jul

Ultra-processed foods: Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) is quoted in The Independent, Mail Online, The Press Journal, Daily Gazette Standard, News Shopper, Warrington Guardian, Norwich Evening News, Telegraph & Argus, The Mail , The National, Bucks Free Press, Echo Online, The Standard, The Courier, Yahoo! News, Express & Star, The Sunday Post, MSN UK, The Irish News,  Aol., The Press, Reading Chronicle, Witney Gazette and many other media outlets via the Press Association, such as South Wales Argus, Belfast Telegraph and Glasgow Times, discussing the statement from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) on the topic of ultra-processed food and their impact on health.

Mega-floods in India: Deutsche Welle TV, Investing.com, The Sisat Daily, Bhaskar Live, The Weekly Voice, Lokmat Times, Social News XYZ, Newsroom Odisha, Daiji World, and Times of India report on mega-floods in India, quoting Dr Akshay Deoras (Meteorology) on the recent weather events.  

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment  

• CNN, ABC57, Yahoo! News, KRDO, Yorkshire Times, AccuWeather Online and Aol quote Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) on increasingly heavy rainfall causing floods and mudslides, killing six in people Japan.  
• PhD researcher Chris Wyver (Agriculture) is quoted in Yahoo! News and Aol on rising temperatures affecting the life of bees. Read our news story.  
• Professor Simon Potts (Agriculture) was quoted by North East Post, Cumbria Times and Farming Online on bee populations declining due to climate change. An interview with Professor Potts featured on Greatest Hits news bulletins throughout the day.
• Insider and Yahoo! News quote Isabel Smith (Meteorology) on turbulence trends over the North Atlantic, after two people were injured on an Air China flight.  
• Reading.Today and Wokingham.Today reported that the Running out of Time climate baton relay made a stop at Whiteknights campus, en route to Parliament Square.

 #UniForReading: our role as a civic university  

• Bdaily News  Business Mondays and NewsbyWire report on how Ethical Reading, an organisation which aims to make Reading a better place to live and work, hosted a ceremony for its University of Reading essay writing competition.  
• Reading Borough Council report that the University of Reading and other partners are responsible for the creation of the Amnesty Art Project.  

Other Coverage: 

• PhD researcher Chris Griffiths (Archaeology) is quoted in The Pembrokeshire Herald on a recent discovery of some Bronze Age sword fragments, found in South Wales.  
• AfricanEyeReport.com, The Herald, Business Ghana and others mention the enhanced training experience from Multichoice Talent Factory partnerships, which includes Henley Business School.  
• A Spiked article about free speech on campus mentions Rosa Freedman (Law).

Alumni: 

• Grazia and MSN UK mention University of Reading alumna, MP Penny Mordaunt.  
• Alumni, Tom Earl, is reported on in Onrec, regarding his new role at Vidett.