Reading in the news - Thu 11 Jul

Business and society:

• Professor Benjamin Laker (Henley Business School) writes about Malaysia’s economic turnaround under the leadership of Anwar Ibrahim for Forbes and Scoop. Republished by The Borneo Post, Bernama, The Edge Malaysia, New Sarawak Tribune, I3 Investor, MalayMail, Business Today, Dagang News, Berita Harian and The Times of India.
• Dr Niran Subramaniam (Henley Business School) is quoted in an article on Public Accountant, on the topic of AI in accounting.

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• Dr Peter Inness (Meteorology) features in new Amazon Prime documentary ‘Twisters: The Real Story’, ahead of the release of the new ‘Twisters’ feature film.
• Dr Matthew Patterson (Meteorology) is quoted by The Conversation and Devdiscourse on the UK’s weather this summer not being unusually cold and instead close to their seasonal averages. Republished by Yahoo! News, Knews Media, inkl, Big News Network and Swift Telecast.
• Dr Jessica Neumann (Geography and Environmental Science) discusses the concern about the potential widespread and long term impacts of the diesel pollution on the River Mole for SurreyLive. Republished by Yahoo! News.
• The Reading Chronicle reports on a lecture being held at the University of Reading on plans to tackle Net Zero.

Other Coverage:

• Professor Eleanor Dickey (Classics) is quoted by the Daily Mail on the likelihood of several different accents during the Roman era. Republished by MSN,
• Professor Ludovica Serratrice (Psychology) discusses what causes language loss for The Connexion.
• KWGN (CW) and KDVR-DEN (FOX) reported on research by the University of Reading in which 6% of AI generated work was flagged as suspicious, with 94% going undetected. Read our news story.
• The University’s ice cream making course is mentioned in an interview on BBC Radio Northampton.

Alumni:

• Global Newswire reports that Russell Shackleton holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School. Republished by Yahoo! Finance and ValueSpectrum.