Reading in the news - Tue 3 Dec

Hospital professors: Thames Valley Chamber highlights new titles awarded to hospital consultants via the Health Innovation Partnership. From our story: Professorships awarded to Royal Berkshire consultants.

Food and farming:

• The Daily Mail and Mio features Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) emphasising that additives must pass safety tests by UK and EU food authorities before approval. Republished by MSN, What’s New Today, and Mahalsa.

• AGDaily features the University of Reading as the #1 UK university to kickstart a career in agriculture.

• Business and society:

• Vice highlights research from the University suggesting that college students using AI for homework and exams face less than a 10% chance of detection. From our story: AI generated exam answers undetected in real world test.

• EurekAlert!, Taylor & Francis and Mirage News feature a study led by Professor Billy Wong (Education) emphasising the dominance of white, male role models in technology.

Other coverage:

• MSN and AZoLifeSciences highlights a study co-authored by Professor Chris Venditti (Ecology) that challenges traditional views on brain evolution.  From our story: Brains grew faster as humans evolved, study shows.

• The Tab places Reading among top UK institutions with higher graduate job rates.

• The Reading Chronicle, MSN and TransLogistics report that a lorry crashed into a wall beside the University’s London Road campus on Monday.

• Wokingham Today and RDG Today report on the Toy Run event, with organisers thanking the University for support in securing a new start point at Thames Valley Science Park.

• The Pembrokeshire Herald highlights a solo exhibition by former Art lecturer Carole Hodgson.

Alumni:

• The Straits Times and The Star report the engagement of Malaysian actor and Reading law graduate Koe Yeet, who returned to her acting career after briefly working in law.

• Flux 24, Business Magazin and Ziarul de Vrancea (Romania) highlight the background of Anamaria Gavrila, the leader of the new POT (young people’s party) in Romania, including her 2009 MSc in Real Estate Finance from Reading.

• Kansas State University reports that Vara Prasad, who gained his PhD in crop science at Reading, has been named one of the world's most influential researchers in the 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list.