Reading in the News 2010
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
- BBC Breakfast - interview with Professor Rowan Sutton
- The Daily Telegraph - Advice on coping with an upset stomach at Christmas
- Daily Mail - Couples' diet suffers when they have children as they ditch fruit and veg
- The Independent - Isotype: Graphic detail. Is a picture worth a thousand words? The creators of isotype, an image-based language, thought so. They used it to explain the 20th century's biggest ideas.
- Financial Times - Roman Showdown
November
- BBC Online - Can brain scans tell us who makes a good chief executive?
- The Daily Telegraph - The rise and fall of Mr Fox
October
September
- Dr David Nutt (Chemistry) appears on Deutsche Welle, a German (English language) international radio station.
- The Independent's Business diary - Henley Business School lecture given by Jeremy Darroch, Chief Executive of Sky
August
- Museum of English Rural Life featured in the BBC's A History of the World Project
- Interview - Professor Sir Brian Hoskins appears on ITN News to discuss what's causing the extreme weather in Pakistan.
- How Britain's smallest owl (7inches and 6oz) won a very big battle with a worm
July
- Home or abroad: where to study
- Relic of Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and silence, found at Silchester
- Unbeelievable
June
- Attack of the vapours – how jet trails block out the sunshine
- Benito Mussolini's diaries 'hidden near Swiss border'
- Irony of policy reverse not lost on City - Brian Scott-Quinn provides expert comment on the announcement that the Bank of England should be responsible for prudential supervision of the nation’s banking sector.
- Short business courses - It's amazing how much can happen in three days
- Reading Post - Week to celebrate university's achievements
- Foxes: the facts and the fantastic
- Food Manufacture Magazine - University to open food security centre
- Food Manufacture Magazine - University to open food security centre
May
- BBC Online - A scientist at the University of Reading has become the first person in the world to be infected by a computer virus
- BBC Online - Reading University bird feeding study seeks volunteers
- Professor Simon Andrews appears on BBC Radio Berkshire to discuss the news that scientists have created 'Artificial life'.
- Professor Chris Bones, Dean of the Henley Business School, talks to the BBC World Service about the issues surrounding companies outsourcing work
- Why Shakespeare's Henry VIII remains a rarity - Professor Grace Ioppolo provides expert comment for BBC online
- Dr Simon Potts talks to BBC Radio 4's Farming Today about the decline in UK honey bees
- Chef Heston Blumenthal tackles hospital food - BBC Breakfast visit the Whiteknights Campus to find out about the University's pioneering research into enhancing the taste of hospital food to help prevent or treat malnutrition in older people.
April
- The views of Reading students after the 2nd leaders debate
- Interview with Professor Giles Harrison who fed back important information to the Met Office about the make-up of the volcanic ash cloud
- Low solar activity link to cold UK winters
- Reading academic appears on The Late Late Show
March
- Interview - Professor Bob Rastall appears on the Food Programme
- President Obama pushes for healthcare reform
- Interview - Professor Peter Scott
- Britain planned Dambusters assassination of Mussolini
- Interview - Dr Jane Donoghue talks to BBC Radio Berkshire about the issues surrounding anti-social behaviour
- Interview - Dr Chris Collins appears on Radio 4's Home Planet programme
- DNA test 'could predict most effective diet'
- Interview - Gerri Excell
- Housing recovery one of quickest
February
- Analysis of Roman grave reveals that York was a multicultural society
- Reading University receives Queen's prize
- Interview - Dr Lucinda Becker
- Interview - Professor Roz Shafran regarding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Interview - Dr Dominic Swords
- Why was it cold in the UK, but not across the world?
January
- Interview - Dr Carmel Houston-Price
- Bee numbers in England fell by more than half over the last 20 years
- Cadbury takeover likely to be a 'disaster', MPs warned
- Life in the deep freeze
- At last, the magic powder that can help beat Delhi Belly
- interview - Professor Averil Macdonald
- Interview - Dr Pete Inness
