Reading in the news - Fri 17 Feb

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment

• Professor Giles Harrison (Meteorology) is quoted by the Financial Times (and in print) and Public News Time on the use of weather balloons.
• Medium publishes an article on how to reproduce Professor Ed Hawkins' (Meteorology) climate stripes with python, and Wokingham Today reports that restaurant foodservice supplier, Brakes, has launched the UK's first zero-emissions electric transport vehicle. It carries Professor Ed Hawkins' (Meteorology) climate stripes.
• Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) is quoted by Grid News predicting Europe's summer forecast and expecting extreme weather events to persist as a result of global warming.

Cost-of-living crisis: The support that the University is offering students hit by the cost-of-living crisis.

• Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor PeterMiskell (Education and Student Experience) was interviewed by BBC Radio Berkshire on the financial support that the University is offering students.
• Sheldon Allen (RUSU President) was interviewed by BBC Radio Berkshire on the University's affordable breakfast initiative entitled Warm Welcome. 
• BBC Radio Berkshire reports on the launch of the University's student opportunity fund.

Food and farming:

• Professor Jeremy Spencer (Food) was interviewed by Channel 4's Food Unwrappedon the University's research on the health benefits of flavanols found in cocoa pods. 

#UniForReading: our role as a civic university  

• Greatest Hits Radio reports that, in response to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the University's Turkish Society has raised more than £2,000 for relief efforts in the first few days of fundraising. Read our new story.
• Wokingham Today reports on an upcoming choir performance celebrating the King's Coronation to be held in the University's Great Hall. 

Other Coverage:

• Cannabis Business Executive, Sci Tech Daily, and Today Headline mention the University's early research in 2010, discovering CBD's medical potential to reduce epileptic seizures. 
• Jon Foster-Pedley and Rashika Padarath (both Henley Africa) are quoted by Startup Mag on the opening of Henley Business School Africa's new branch in Cape Town.
• Dr Dominic Lees (Film, Theatre, and Television) is quoted by News Week on a 'deepfake' that was made of President Joe Biden making extra-terrestrial claims about foreign weather balloons over the US.
• Professor Jonathan Passmore (Henley Business School) wrote an article on coaching trends and it is published by HR Daily Advisor. 
• Dr Chris Dalton (Henley Business School) wrote an article on expectations in management and leadership and it is published by Management Today.
• University student, Ben Holder's (Law) article on London's commercial court is shortlisted for an award by Legal Cheek as among the best journal contributions to be published on their site.
• Reading Chronicle (in print) reports on complaints against 'for sale' signs outside student homes in Reading. 

Alumni:

• Real News and Daily Nigerian report that an online community that Reading alumnus, Dr Peter Ogudoro, has founded is to appoint an award for the 'best Nigerian teacher'. 
• Citizen Digital reports on Reading alumnus and provost Sammy Wainaina's political stance on keeping the church and politics separate. 
• The Business Desk reports on the appointment of Reading alumna, Susan Boyd, to Harris Lamb's business rates and lease advisory teams.
• Kansas State University reports that Reading alumnus, Professor Vara Prasad, has been named in the top one percent of the world's influential and highly cited researchers for 2022.