Reading in the news - Thu 22 Aug

Waterspouts: Further coverage of Dr Pete Inness (Meteorology) explaining what waterspouts are and how they form after the sinking of a superyacht in Sicily following a dangerous storm. Quoted in: MailOnline, MSN, Indy100, MSN, Greatest Hits Radio, Magic London, LBC News, The US Sun, News Explorer, Gulf News, Daily Express US, Citizen Digital, New York Post and Mahalsa.

Health and wellbeing:

• Technology Networks covers a piece of new research that Dr Mark Dallas (Pharmacology) was involved in. The research could lead to new treatments for a form of cancer. Read our news story.
• Professor Ian Jones (Biomedical Sciences) is quoted in MSN Indonesia and Kompas for articles about monkeypox.

Business and society:

• National World reports that the University will host the upcoming South East Business Insider breakfast event in September, featuring a talk from Guy Hembury, director of knowledge exchange commercialisation & partnerships at the University of Reading.
• Dr Peter Cruse (Henley Business School Africa) writes a piece for Juta Medical Brief on healthcare technology.
• Professor Jonathan Passmore (Henley Business School) is listed as a speaker at the upcoming International Coaching Expo, to be held in Nigeria in October, writes Real News.
• Contact-centres.com mentions that Professor Moira Clark (Henley Business School) is the newly appointed Chair of Judges for the European Contact Centre & Customer Service Awards.
• Professor Chris Hilson (Law) is quoted in this ENDS Report article on Walley’s Quarry and the limits of the Environment Agency.

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• The Reading Chronicle covers the news that both Reading FC and Forest Green Rovers FC will display the climate stripes on their kits this season. Also featured in Stroud News and Journal (in print). Read our news story.
• Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) is quoted in this New Scientist (also in print) article on how the ways we cope with extreme temperatures are contributing further to climate change.
• Science Alert and Future Zone quote Professor Mathew Owens (Meteorology) in a piece about solar activity. Republished by MSN.

Other coverage:

• Hotel Magazine, Hospitality and Catering News and Prestige Events Magazine mention that Ascot Racecourse works with the University, and other partners, to source junior chefs, catering teams and waiting staff for events such as Royal Ascot.
• AB Newswire, Benzinga and others report that an innovative indoor gardening company has secured pre-seed funding from Henley Business School.
• Express and Echo (in print) mentions that a student from Sidmouth College is coming to the University after receiving her A-Level results.
• Dr Shumetha Sidhu (UoR Malaysia) was a judge at the Three Minute Thesis Competition in Singapore this month, writes James Cook University.
• Dr Peter Scarfe (Psychology) was interviewed for the Somewhere On Earth podcast about his research into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in exams.

Alumni:

• PhD graduate Elliot Sainsbury is quoted in Scinexx.de and Focus.de, discussing hurricane Ernesto and why more hurricanes are crossing the Atlantic from the US.
• Themba Chakela, who holds an MBA from Henley Business School, has been appointed as head of people, culture, and change at e-motion consulting, according to Chro South Africa.
• A news item on the British Film Institute website mentions that Kay Eldridge, a collections audit assistant, has an MA in History from Reading.
• A feature piece on Kathryn Whale, who has just started a new theatre school, reports that she studied drama at Reading, in British Franchise Association.