Reading in the news - Wed 6 Mar

Children’s mental health: BBC News Online reports on a new project led by childhood mental health researchers from the University. The ‘Resilience Rucksack’ project will see more than 1,000 Year 6 and 7 pupils in Berkshire and Oxfordshire receive a rucksack they will fill with specially designed wellbeing tools and resources. Professor Stella Chan (Psychology), who is leading the project, is quoted. Republished by Yahoo! News, MSN and BNN. Read our news story.

Haiti crisis: Professor Rosa Freedman (Law) spoke to ABC Australia and France24 on Haiti declaring a state of emergency. Read our news story.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment 

• Professor Hannah Cloke (Geography/Meteorology) spoke to BBC 2’s Politics Live  on the impact of the wettest winter in 130 years.

Health and wellbeing

• The Guardian quotes Professor Netta Weinstein (Psychology) on her study about the benefits of solitude for a piece about solo holidays. Republished by Yahoo! News and Web Times.

Food and farming:

• Professor Tom Oliver (Ecology) has joined the Science Council for the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA), Food Safety Magazine reports.

Other Coverage:

• ADVFN mentions that the University of Bath’s Skin Biosciences group is collaborating with specialists, including Professor Adrian Williams (Pharmacy), to study topical formulation transformations using vitro data. Republished by Businesswire, Street Insider, APNews, Yahoo! News and many others.
• Hackaday reports on a trip to the National Museum of Computing, and mentions an article spotted there about the ‘chaos machine’, a collaboration between the University and the Elektor Electronics lab team.

Alumni:

• Henriette Dræbye Rosenquist earned an MBA at Henley Business School, Börskollen reports.
• Chief Executive Officer of MCCI, Daisy Kambalame, studied at the University of Reading, MBC reports.