Reading in the news - Mon 3 Jun
03 June 2024
#EnglishCreates: As part of a national campaign this week, Professor Gail Marshall (English Literature) writes for TES on the importance of inspiring students to study English at A-level and beyond. Visit the #EnglishCreates campaign.
Election 2024:
- Professor Stuart Green (Construction Management and Engineering) is quoted by Construction News, on Conservative proposals regarding a trade-off between university courses and apprenticeships.
#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment
- Dr James O’Donoghue (Meteorology) tells CNN what planets will be visible from Earth during a ‘planet parade’. Republished by Yahoo! News, Aol., Rocket News, Pedfire, Tech News Vision, Samachar Central and MSN.
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Dr Kieran Hunt (Meteorology) is quoted in The Independent discussing the extreme hot and humid conditions in India. Republished by Yahoo! News and Aol.
- Flog It! (BBC Two and iPlayer - from 15:30) visited Reading’s Harris Gardens and herbarium. Herbarium curator Dr Alastair Culham (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) is featured.
Business and society:
- My Joy Online and BusinessGhana mentions that Henley Business School co-curated the British Council’s SoCreative E-Learning programme.
- Heart Radio spoke to Professor Adrian Palmer (Henley Business School) about ticket scamming.
Other Coverage:
- Visiting Professor Katherine Harloe (Classics) is interviewed for a BBC Radio 4 documentary about thefts from the British Museum, focusing on efforts of Dr Ittai Gradel (who worked at Reading 2005-2008), to alert the British Museum about his suspicions that items had been stolen. The interview also appeared in a BBC TV documentary: Thief at the British Museum
- Dr Simon Clarke (Biomedical Sciences) spoke to LBC Radio on the health risks from contaminated drinking water, after the latest in a series of risks
- An article in The Conversation mentions Professor Liam McGuffin (Biomedical Sciences) and his team at the University of Reading are predicting the stoichiometry of protein complexes. Republished by The National Tribune, Mirage News, News Beezer and EconoTimes.
- The Reading Chronicle reports that the Reading Guild of Artists is holding its 93rd annual exhibition at the University of Reading. Republished by MSN.
Alumni:
- The Telegraph publishes an obituary of political theorist, David Martin Jones, who studied at Reading. Republished by Yahoo! News and Aol.
- Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Shurti Patel, who writes for PDA, studied at the University of Reading.
- Photographer Mark Neville attended Reading, Get to Text and Paudal report.
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