Reading in the News 2008
As a world-renowned research and teaching institution, the University of Reading is rarely out of the local, national and international media.
This section contains a selection of media appearances by University staff and press cutting summaries which highlight the important work being done by the staff and students of the University.
December
- A medieval take on financial woe
- Interview - Professor Peter Scott
- Interview - Dr Tom Woodman
- Interview - Professor Derek Clements-Croome
- It is rocket science!
- University scientists scoop prize
- Forget presents...the Christmas card cost £8,469
- Quite Interesting
- £250m funds for training of scientists
- Hines funds Reading fellowship
- Uni full of fantastic ideas
- Overseas key if construction is to survive downturn
- Keeping the faith
- report - 100th birthday of Wantage Hall
- Improving diet of cows beneficial to public health
- interview - Roger Martin-Fagg
- Law teacher listed
November
- Help redundant staff start again
- Enterprise status
- Medal for pioneering professor in the field of robotics
- Degree proved pick of the crop
- Baroness gives talk on special needs
- This is no mirage...the Gulf is growing
- report - Blooming Students!
- BBC 1 - Politics Show
- Good Chemistry
- Prof is at the top
- Wrecking ball kicks off uni plans
- Uni Euro conference
- Interview - Professor Beatrice Heuser
- Bacteria that's not so friendly after all
- Global warming studyneeds schools' help
- Interview - Dr Dale Walton
- Is water the new oil?
- The champagne caviar diet
October
- Fairtrade students smell a coffee award
- news report - STEMNET launch
- Climate change 'making seas more salty'
- Interview - Professor Peter Scott
- Cloudy outlook for climate change
- Interview - Professor Patricia Leopold
- Interview - Dr Orla Kennedy
- feature - launch of STEMNET, a national science and engineering ambassadors' project
- Student town planning trip
- Getting to the root of soil structure
- Uni short courses kick off
- MBAs can help you keep your head above water
- Award for placement student
- Making gene therapy safer
- Interview - Dr Paul Williams
- Lecture on cannabis
- Teach an entire book? Now that's a novel experience
- Feature Story
- Artificial intelligence tested
- Swanning around with award
- BBC 2 to air health show Grow Your Own Drugs
- MMR Sniffs out sensory opportunity
September
- Uni to study how London's buildings affect our climate
- Boadicea's revenge served hot
- Jodi's runner-up in uni enterprise awards
- Summer placement students' award joy
- Feature article by Rachel Carlyle
- University launches freshers' fortnight student safety drive
- 100 at uni seminar on eating good food
- Feature broadcast - Professor Peter Scott
- Interview - Professor Brian Scott-Quinn
- Interview - Professor Brian Scott-Quinn
- Record-breaking month for rural museum
- Take positive steps when managing a stressed colleague
- Uni short courses offer
- Interview - Dr Mark Hodson
- Uni brains simplify cancer drug production
- Research zoomsin on easy internet use for OAPs
- New 'super worms' may clean up heavy metals
- Spare a thought today for the shocking rate of male suicide
- Reading moves up a league
- Food tasting centre at uni
- Interview - Professor Susan Edwards
- Practical Prescribing
- First-class job for men
- Interview - Jane Strachan
- Leaders of the pack
- Science ambassadors visit schools
- Changing times - changing knowledge
August
- Interview - Ross Reynolds
- Mixing habitats best for wildlife
- University opens its exotic gardens
- University proud to have played his part
- Interview - Professor Alan O'Neil
- University proud to officially be Fairtrade
- Worming regimes go under the microscope
- Robot controlled by Sterile Brain
- Robot wars helping British troops
- Prince branded 'a Luddite' over his attack on GM crops
- Uni gains £610,000 grant for military study
- Curves give electronic eye a finer view
- Disease-mongering is big business: It sells sickness and promotes drugs
- Warm spells are linked in a study to heavy rain
- Rowing the Thames indoors
- Interview - Professor Glenn Gibson
- Feature - Henley Business School
- Top employment marks for our unis
July
- Chinese and UK experts discuss climate
- Graduates splash cash to help current students
- News
- Presenting solutions to climate change
- Interview - Dr David Shipworth
- Our role is to inspire youth
- GM crop trials 'should be secret'
- Pupils taste uni life
- 26 tons extra waste at end of uni term
- New professor joins university
- Eat artichokes to cut fat levels
- Don't let the rise in food prices ruin your diet
- Mercury Prize 2008: the nominees
- They liked the lecture on liquid crystals
- Uni business aid boost
- Uni boffins have say on biofuel
- Hundreds flock to University to inspect plans for new halls of residence providing 1,850 rooms
- News
- Schools talk at uni debate
- Demand likely to drive up rents
- Soaring prices drive a perilous gold rush
- Consumers favour health
- Looking at Roman life
- Speech problems in young not being met
- Abu Dhabi sponsor for Uni seat
- Fat-busting benefits of artichoke extract
- Uni golf day builds biz links
- Interview - Dr James Ferryman
- Business-university link 'so good for town'
- Pimple particles in vaccine drive
- Community officers' uni-que year
- Award for land management student
- Six Reading Uni rowers make Olympic squad
- NFU launches campaign to convey Why Horticulture matters
- Islamic finance degree initiated
- Volunteers see how they do it in Sussex
- Uni lecturer wins top teaching award
- Uni conference tackles sustainability
June
- Topping up risks
- Jump to it!
- Former chief vet is first to collect new university Alumnus Award
- Whiteknights revamp plans on display
- Beijing Bound
- Pilot therapy scheme to help tackle depression
- Students can make a clean getaway
- Uni volunteers rewarded for their community spirit
- Crafty fair celebrates rural life
- County hereos thrilled to be honoured by the Queen
- EYPSs celebrate new status
- Chemicals provoke a big reaction in competition
- Legal eagles put best foot forward for charity
- Anton runs through the pain barrier for hospice
- Museum wins £95,000 grant
- Uni concert for summer
- The best before challenge
- Airlines may be forced to fit anti-terror cameras in seats
- Interview - Dr Jeremy Spencer
- Gardens to open for trust
- Book review
- Uni professor gets a nod at conference
- Leading financial centre has just got even better
- Rural museum hosts a day of family fun
- Storm warning ahead
- Interview - Professor Ian Jones
- Moves to prevent end of term mess
- Volunteers to look at language
- New look for campus gatehouses
- Malaria threat from climate change
- Trouble at Home
May
- Call for welfare labelling made at BVA AWF forum
- Uni students in World Cup glory bid
- Eurovision prof right
- Fun for everyone at rural museum
- Choir invited to sing at national festival
- Reading wins Silver Award at the Chelsea Flower Show
- Uni keen to share its knowledge
- Reading SIFE Team win three awards
- Life feels the effects of changing climate
- Quest for anti-gas grass to tackle global warming issue
- Knowledge and tools to empower sustainability
- Hospital's discovery is set to save lives worldwide
- High time kids were measured
- Interview - Dr Graham Crampton
- How to graduate to your dream job
- Uni flies flag for science
- We've got the power
- Interview - Professor Kevin Warwick
- History essay in the making
- Climate change and the Indian summer monsoon
- Report on CEDAR opening
April
- Uni hall is awarded listed building status
- Interview - Dr David Ward
- Hedge funds take extra risk to reach fee targets
- Uni joins forces for rural progress
- research at a distance
- Professor awarded funds to develop HIV treatment
- Interview - Dr Graham Crampton
- Small Talk
- News
- Spreading manure on maize - but get the nitrogen application right
- Sharing equates to responsibility as well as costs
- Co-ordinating scheme to tackle hunger and poverty
- HTA funds climate change study
- Lesson for landlords
- Stephen loves the press at last
- New student work scheme
- Swedish academics pay a business call
- Housing woes in US spread around the globe
- 7,500 at forum
- Pollution is making flowers smell less
- Higher aims
- Rise of the digital machine
- The sweet taste of science
- Father 'caught bird flu from son'
- Educational partnership launch to improve employer links
- Interview - Professor Sue Walker
- Natural seats planted
- Access cash is best spent 'lower down the chain'
- Architects of a low-energy future
- Turned off by telly
- 'Virus' dressings may beat superbugs
- Safe guarding Earth's data
- Teaching tiny tots a second language
March
- Interview - Dr David Ward
- Good Plane Cooking
- Toddler time at museum
- A splashing time at church events
- News
- Top diploma opportunities for uni's financial centre
- Interview - Dr James Ferryman
- Historian explores the plight of evacuees
- Uni's new cure changed my life, says gran
- Interview - Professor Averil Macdonald
- Three-in-a-bed's a success at Uni
- Life skills key to success
- University lecture on addiction
- Uni hosts embassy secretary
- Rural crafts' history in spotlight
- Non-dom tax 'will force out City's talent
- Can a 60p pill from the chemist really add years to your life
- Robot technology smooths ride
- What on earth is 42?
- World cup call for Mewse
- European house price boom finally loses steam
- Olympic training sites named
- EU Lipgene Project Update
- Global trends identified
- Protecting Professional Interests
- TB testing is proving to be too costly, says uni survey
February
- Interview - Dr Sophie Bowlby
- Bronze medal caps sparkling weekend
- Interview - Revd. Dr Timothy Astin
- Maths day equals fun
- Cultural show for New Year
- Interview - Dr Chris Collins
- The diva within
- Oxford in Thames warm-up
- Reading uni sides reach national championships
- Pupils rise to the science challenge
- Uni ploughs in for charity
- Uni enters wishful world of dreams
- Interview - Dr Tim Wheeler
- Abbey body identified as gay lover of Edward II
- Scientific Overview
- Filling in gaps
- Soul searching
- Nerc goes to work on £1bn climate change partnership
- Wind turbines feature
- Interview - Dr Jonathan Bell
- Beetroot Juice: Superfood or Super Marketing
- Minimum English standard is set too low, tutors say
- Interview - Dr Dominic Zaum
- Polish students give support in schools
- Interview - Dr Karin Lesnik-Oberstein
- Countryfile - Dr David Jukes
- All invited to green energy debate
- Bond market likely to move out: Experts
- Uni scholarship up for grabs
- Now wrongdoers have the grass on their heads to fear
- Antarctica a big puzzle in debate on global warming
- The ghosts in the library
- Teaching's such a real toddle
- Language evolves in quick bursts
- The changing climate of tourism
January
- Students tread the boards at London theatre
- Interview - Dr Andrew Adams
- Be the voice of reason when it's crunch time
- Jim is top of the crops with university degree
- Higher education forum
- Experts alarmed by levy skills time lag
- Brain next in wiring up to the internet
- Poor research cited for low language take-up
- Book Review
- Pupils demand steps for safety
- Grants for best and brightest students
- Food award scoop
- Award sparks University-industry link to study digital power supplies
- How do we reduce drugs errors?
- Call to give GPs nurse training
- New centre to research and treat depression
- Merger could form business giant
- It's weather forecasting - but not as we know it
- Letters - generosity of many, made appeal a success
- Man into machine
- Five ways to improve your circulation
- Interview - Professor Richard Sibly
- Interview - Dr Anne-Marie Minihane
- When the rag trade first came to town
- Interview - Dr Peter Inness
- Does obesity carry too much weight?
- Reading's students adept at spotting opportunities
- At last, a jab that protects against every strain of flu
- Are cosmetics harming you?
- Restore confidence
- Baskets and containers
- Facing the facts
- Why ban Brazilian beef?
