Reading in the news - Mon 17 Jul

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment  

• Wired, Yahoo! News, Aol, Times Radio, Greatest Hits Radio, Tay FM Dundee, Signal 1, Q Radio Tyrone and Inferse quote Professor Hannah Cloke (Meteorology/Geography) on heatwaves in Europe. 
• Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) is quoted in MSN, Aljazeera, DNYUZ on weather patterns becoming more severe. 
• Professor Matthew Owens (Meteorology) spoke to Ordo News on the consequences of future solar activity.  
   

Health and wellbeing

• Medscape, WSTPost,  Express Digest, Gulf Insider  and Big News Network quote Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) on the risks of aspartame following a report from the World Health Organisation that it is possibly carcinogenic.
• The Herald quotes Professor Kuhnle on the recent discussion surrounding the health impacts that may come from ultra-processed food.  
• Associate Professor Mark Dallas (Pharmacy) writes for The Print, Scroll.In, Head Topics, on what young-onset Alzheimer’s is.
• MSN quote Dr Tijana Blanusa (Crop Science) on the use of plants to keep homes purified. 
   

Food and farming:

• Express and the Daily Express (in print) share statistics provided by the University of Reading regarding the dependence on pollinating insects on the world’s food crops.
• The Print, Vegan Food & Living, Devdiscourse, Lokmat Times, Ani News, Big News Network, NewKerala.com quote PhD Researcher Chris Wyver (Agriculture) on rising temperatures making life tougher for bees. Read our news story.
• Professor Sokratis Stergiadis (Agriculture) will be speaking at a new research event, regarding the importance of trees in resilient livestock systems, Business News Wales reports. 
• Asia One and Inside FMCG mention research from the University of Reading that highlighted the impact of climate change on wine production in Britain.  
   

Business and society:

• In a report about four-day work weeks, Wealth of Geeks shares statistics from Henley Business School on how companies are reporting significant cost savings.  
• Mint quote Professor Benjamin Laker (Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour) on the importance of meetings due to the productivity and quality of interactions they produce.  

#UniForReading: our role as a civic university  

• Reading.Today and Wokingham.Today report on the University of Reading’s award of 17 PhD student bursaries.
• BBC Radio Berkshire reports on a local teacher, Matt Knight, who has been working with the University of Reading on a sustainability curriculum.

Other Coverage:

• NewsWise and DailyExcelsior.com report on an app which helps identify autistic children. Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti (Psychology), who led the study, is quoted. Read our news story.  
• Wokingham. Today mentions the University of Reading’s squash court facilties.
• Professor Helen Parish (History) writes for RTE on the legend of St Swithin, and his July 15^th weather forecast.  
• VNExplorer.net, The Herald report on how the University of Reading held the 4^th Commonwealth Conference on Youth Work conference.  

Alumni:

• The Guardian mention how ex-Professor of Environmental Economics, Alan Evans, has passed away at 85.  
• Building (in print), report on how David Ainsworth favourite music memory was seeing the Sex Pistols at the University of Reading, when he was a student in 1970s.  
• Nigerian Tribune mentions how Pastor Daniel Olukoya earned a scholarship to study Molecular Genetics at the University of Reading.  
• Spha Mdlalose, who earned her MBA at Henley Business School, writes for the Daily Maverick on how the new digital age affects creatives.