Reading in the news - Fri 22 Sep

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment

• Professor Chris Hilson (law) writes for the Financial Times’s Sustainable Views website about the government’s watering down of its net zero policies. Earlier in the week, Professor Hilson was interviewed about the same topic by BBC Radio Berkshire (skip to 2.51.00)

• CBS News reports on the study conducted by the University of Reading, regarding recovered weather data from ships bombed at Pearl Harbour. Praveen Teleti (Meteorology), who led the study, is quoted. Republished by Yahoo! News, Aol. and MSN.  

• The Herald features a reader’s letter which mentions the University of Reading’s Rainfall Rescue project, led by Professor Ed Hawkins, which involved 16,000 volunteers digitising rainfall records going back to 1836.  

Food and farming:

• Dr Laurence Smith (Agri-Food Economics and Marketing) is quoted by Agro Portal on the challenge of feeding cows a 100% grass diet. Agro Portal also reports on Smiths work with coordinating the EU project, PATHWAYS.

Culture and heritage: 

• UNILAD, Breaking Latest News, Newser, Express and many other global news outlets report on the discovery of a 476,00-year-old wooden structure in Zambia. Dr Annemieke Milks (Archaeology) is quoted with her analysis. Read our expert comment.
  

Business and society:

• Professor Benjamin Laker (Henley Business School) writes for Psychology Today on the psychological need for meaningful work. Republished by Qoshe.  

Health and wellbeing: 

• PR Newswire, Yahoo! Finance, Times of San Diego, The Oxford Eagle and many other global news outlets republish a report by Research and Markets on the 6th Annual Neuroscience R&D Conference, which Dr Mark Dallas (Pharmacy) is set to speak at.  

Other Coverage: 

• FE News mentions that previous winners of The Pitch, a competition for aspiring marketers to react to a real-life brief, were the 007 Girls team of Anita Marcu, Scarlett Cassidy and Marie Oceane Bax De Keating, from Henley Business School.  

• Greatest Hits Radio aired a snippet of its new documentary highlighting the risk of spiking in nightclubs. Advice is provided for freshers at the University of Reading about how to keep safe on a night out. 

• New18 mentions the Felix Scholarship, a scholarship available through the University of Reading to support underprivileged students from developing countries.