Reading in the news - Tue 23 Jul

University finances: Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Van de Noort, tells BBC Radio Berkshire  and BBC Radio Oxford that despite financial challenges to some UK universities, including on student visas, Reading is in good financial health.

Resilience rucksack: BBC South Today and That’s TV report on a Reading-led scheme to support the mental health of school children, featuring Professor Stella Chan (Psychology).

Food and farming:

• Reading researchers contributed to a study showing how vegetable oils are better for health than butter, Biermann (Germany) reports.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment

• Welt (Germany) reports on research by Professor Giles Harrison (Meteorology) and others that showed water boiled at lower temperatures during Storm Ciaran – potentially ruining tea and boiled eggs for breakfast. Read our news story.
• Dr Balaji Senapati (Meteorology) has discovered a 'New El Niño' that can impact global weather and climate. PHYS, MSN, Read our news story.
• Isabel Smith (Meteorology) explained that climate change is worsening turbulence for Popular Science, Yahoo! News and MSN.
• Dr Kieran Hunt (Meteorology) and Professor Hannah Cloke (Meteorology/Geography) provide expert comment on a Nature paper about AI and weather prediction for the Science Media Centre and Foreign Affairs.
• Climate sceptic blog WUWT highlights how the University is recruiting for a research scientist in extreme weather events, to work with Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) on climate storylines and attribution.

Other Coverage:

• Dr Mark Shanahan, billed as formerly at Reading, discusses the US presidential election on BBC Radio Berkshire.
• Legit and Business Day (Nigeria) highlights the links between the Nigerian advertising industry trade body and Henley Business School Africa.

Alumni:

• Former Reading graduate student Natalie Wright Romeri-Grass has won a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship with Ohio State.
• Agnes Batengas, a Reading real estate and construction graduate and PhD holder, is the new head of Rotary in Tanzania and Uganda, reports Daily News