Reading in the news - Tue 14 May

Gardeners’ Question Time: BBC Radio 4's Gardeners’ Question Time was recorded at the University and features Dr Alastair Culham (Biological Sciences) and a feature about medium-range weather forecasting with Professor Sarah Dance (Maths and Meteorology).

Food and farming:

• The Mirror continues coverage on the avocado shortage as an impact of climate change, quoting Professor Carol Wagstaff (Food and Nutritional Sciences). Republished by Plymouth Live and Ghana News Agency.

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• The Peninsula, KTBS, Khaleej Times, Big Country News, Voice of America, 24News, Manila Standard, Nigeria Sun, ParisNews.Net, Scandinavia Times and Time News continue coverage on the recent northern lights in the UK, quoting Professor Mathew Owens (Meteorology) on the solar storms that hit Earth and the visibility of the lights.  Read our Expert Comment.
• Oregon State University mentions that Professor David Ferreira (Meteorology) is an additional co-author for a study that identified the rate of natural carbon dioxide rising over the last 50,000 years. Republished byScienMag, EurekAlert!, Bioengineer.org, Mirage and ScienceDaily.
• South Africa Today shares an image by Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology), displaying temperature change in Bhutan via bar chart.

Other Coverage:

• BBC Radio Berkshire spoke to Professor Stella Chan (Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences) on helping young people with anxiety during exam season.
• The Japan Society reports that they visited the University of Reading to deliver two soroban workshops for students training to become primary school teachers.
• Professor Rosa Freedman spoke to The Hated and the Dead podcast, discussing Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was the President of Haiti in the 1990s and early 2000s.
• BBC Radio Berkshire spoke to Reverend Dr Fiona Haworth, former Reading PhD student, about an upcoming Café Théologique event looking at how the relationship between humans and dogs has evolved, and the part that religion plays.
• A University of Reading student, Tristian Boedts, ran the Bidwells Oxford 10k, raising awareness of limb girdle muscular dystrophy, Bicester Advertiser, Witney Gazette, The Herald Series, Oxford Mail and This is Oxfordshire report.
• A repeat episode of BBC 2’s Digging for Britain featured Professor Martin Bell (Archaeology), who spoke about a coastal site that he has been excavating for over 30 years.

Alumni:

• Farmers Weekly reports that Manawatu farmer, Will Hilton, holds a BSc from the University of Reading.
• Global Newswire mentions that Russell Shackleton holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School. Republished by Yahoo! Finance.
• Licence Global, Licensing International and Brandora shares an obituary for founder of Kilogrammedia, Jane Garner, who studied at the University of Reading.