Reading in the news - Mon 3 Jul

University of Sanctuary: BBC Berkshire reports that the University has been awarded University of Sanctuary status. Further reports on BBC Berkshire and RDG.Today highlight scholarships for sanctuary seekers scheme and English Language support. Read our news story.  

Food and farming: 

• Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) is quoted in The Times (in print), Channel 5, Daily Mail, Express Digest, The Sun, Earth.com, PsyPost and other regional sites, on reports that a sweetener is to join a WHO list of ‘possibly carcinogenic’ chemicals.
• Farmers Weekly reports that the University of Reading will run a collaboration with the Soil Association as an Innovative Farmers field lab.  
• Sunday Observer quotes Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences), on cocoa potentially being beneficial for your brain. 
• Dr Gemma Walton (Food and Nutritional Sciences) told Food Matters Live, about Diet and Health Innovation Hubs to promote healthier food consumption across the UK. 

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment  

• BBC Wales reports on the Running Out Of Time relay is using the climate stripes, created at Reading, will highlight how different parts of the UK are heating up.
• Heart Berkshire mentioned that it is set to be the hottest June of the University of Reading’s records. RDG. Today and Wokingham.Today quote Dr Stephen Burt (Meteorology) on the increased temperature and he appeared on BBC Radio Berkshire. Read our expert comment.  
• Scientific America and The Indian Express report how Professor Paul Williams (Meteorology) and his colleagues found air turbulence has increased in the North Atlantic jet stream. Read our news story.  

#UniForReading: our role as a civic university  

• Wokingham.Today report that despite declining user numbers at other local leisure centres, squash playable at the University of Reading.  
• Blooloop mention how the University of Reading is hostingthe Natural History Museum to create a new collectionsand research centre at Thames Valley Science Park.   
• Maidenhead Advertiser report the visit of a local social group to the Museum of English Rural Life.  
• Henley Standard (in print) reports that toads found at Greenlands have been rescued.  

Other Coverage: 

• The Financial Times quotes Dr Mathilde Pavis (Law) in a story about an actor who says his voice was ‘cloned’ using AI without his permission.
• Beaulieu Convent School in Jersey is presenting work to sequence daffodil DNA at the Royal Society summer science exhibition, building on work at Reading, Bailiwick Express reports.
• RDG.Today report that Henley Business School has appointed a new Dean, Professor Elena Beleska-Spasova.  
• Women’s Health (UK) mention how researchers from the University of Reading have discovered how matrixyl could be used to increase levels of collagen in skin.  

Alumni: 

• Daily Mail, The Conservative Woman, talkSPORT and HEAD TOPICS mention that a Readinggraduate, Finlay Andrews, tackled a Just Stop Oil protestor during the Ashes Test at Lord’s.  
• DevonLive.com reports that alumna Sylvia Penelope (Pell) Sayers (née Weston) has died aged 96.