Reading in the news - Wed 25 Oct

Storm Babet: BBC Radio 5 Live spoke to Professor Hannah Cloke (Geography/Meteorology) on Storm Babet and the inadequate preparations for flooding in the UK. Dr Jess Neumann (Geography and Environmental Science) is quoted in i news, regarding the need for preparation in the UK for extreme floods like Storm Babet.

Business and society:

• CEO & Chief Creative Officer for X3M Ideas, Visiting Fellow Steve Babaeko (Henley Business School), writes for Forbes about X3M Ideas becoming the first Nigerian and West African agency to win the Cannes Lions Awards. 
  
  

Other Coverage:

• Olive News mentions that the first Congress of Entomology Conference took place at the University of Reading in 1978.   
• Times of Israel republishes quotes from Professor Michael Schmitt (Law) about whether the IDF is complying with the laws of war in the Israeli-Hamas conflict. 

Alumni: 

• Former meteorologist at the University of Reading, Roger Brugge, is quoted in Maidenhead Advertiser after a ‘funnel cloud’ was mistaken for a ‘twister’ in Maidenhead. Republished by Windsor, Ascot & Eton Express.