Reading in the news - Fri 30 Jan

Maths fellows: Professor David Lane (Henley Business School), Professor Jennifer Scott and Professor Paul Glaister (both Mathematics and Statistics) are among just 100 inaugural Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences.  South East Online, Education News and Business in the News reported. From our story: Three professors elected Fellows of new UK maths academy

Heritage and culture:

• Professor Aleksander Pluskowski (Archaeology) wrote for Medievalists on places to visit in Europe linked to the Baltic crusades.
• Dr Annemieke Milks’s (Archaeology) research on prehistoric wooden tools is featured by Futurezone, MSN (Germany), Gov News (Greece), ekathimerini, Woodworking News, and Greatest Hits Radio. From our story: Earliest evidence of wooden tools used by humans
• Newbury Today featured the University-supported play Glitch, about the Post Office scandal.

Business and society:

• Professor Jo Phoenix (Law) was interviewed by LBC and quoted by Heart radio on sexual assaults in NHS hospitals.

Health and wellbeing:

• Metro, Daily Mirror, Times of India, Tagesspiegel, and global MSN news quoted Professor Ian Jones (Biological Sciences) on the Nipah virus outbreak in India.

Food and farming:

• Grassroots Health and Zdrowie highlighted a Reading study on Vitamin D. From our story: Vitamin D deficiency linked to respiratory infection risk
• Grain Journal featured FEATURE, a new livestock feed project led by Professor Sokratis Stergiadis (Agriculture). From our story: Greener diets for Europe's farm animals
• Seed World highlighted research by Professor Emily Black on future droughts. From our story: Europe’s crop droughts to get worse even as rain increases

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment 

• Dr Jess Neumann (Geography and Environmental Science) was interviewed by BBC Radio Berkshire on UK flood risks after recent heavy rain.
• Professor Mike Lockwood (Meteorology), President of the Royal Astronomical Society, was among science leaders to criticise plans to cut funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, reported Times Higher Education.
• Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) was quoted by Radio Adelaide and other Australian stations on a study about future warming.

Alumni:

• Reading meteorology graduates Tomasz Schafernaker and Simon King are second and fifth favourites with the bookies to replace Carol Kirkwood as BBC Breakfast main weather presenter, reported Newspoint (Times of India).