Reading in the news - Thu 4 Feb

Flight paths re-routed: Last week, Professor Paul Williams and Cathie Wells (Meteorology) published this study with global media coverage on how shifting transatlantic flight paths would cut flight times and emissions. Yesterday, air traffic controllers NATS announced they are doing it. Read our news story.

COVID-19: expert comment on the pandemic 

• Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences)was on ABC News (Australia) TV and radio, BBC Scotland, Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2, RTUK, Voice of America, New York Post, NBC News, and Yahoo News.
• Professor Ian Jones (Biological Sciences) quoted by Reuters - syndicated globally - on vaccine ‘mix and match' trials. Further coverage in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and elsewhere of his Lancet comment of the Russian ‘Sputnik' vaccine.

#UoRWay: how University life continues through the pandemic

• Student Pok Lai (MSc Environmental Science) writes for Times Higher Education on how Reading's strong student community has helped with life during lockdown.
• Undergraduate Lewis Paget (Microbiology) tells the Daily Echo how he survived cancer - and is now wants to help study cancer to find new treatments.
• Greatest Hits Radio (in Norfolk, Essex, Berkshire & N Hants) interviewed Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Van de Noort on his call to government for extra support for students affected by the pandemic. Read the letter here.

Other news

• Wokingham Today reports on TV studio plans at Thames Valley Science Park
• Conservative Home mentions former linguistics professor David Crystal in a blog on teaching grammar.