Reading in the news - Wed 2 Sep

City status: Professor Steve Musson (Geography and Environmental Science) spoke to PM on BBC Radio 4 about the benefits of being a city, after reports that Winchester and Canterbury may lose ‘city’ status due to local government reorganisation in England.

Nepal Floods:

• Business Standard, Qatar Business Standard, Business Times Oman, The Saudi Observer and others quoted Professor Liz Stephens and Dr Fatima Pillosu (both Meteorology) about the Nepal flash floods. From our expert comment: Nepal's complex chain of flood hazards
• Professor Maria Shahgedanova (Geography and Environmental Science) was quoted by INC, News Finale, Daily Mail and Euro News about the causes of the floods.
• Dr Fatima Pillosu was interviewed by ITV News at Ten (pictured above) on the risks facing rescue teams searching for survivors.

Food, farming and health:

• Professor Richard Bennett (Agriculture) was quoted by Sentient Science on measuring the benefits of higher animal welfare. From our story: Shoppers would fork out more for better farm animal welfare
• Dr Hisham Al-Obaidi (Pharmacy) was quoted by Daily Mail and Streamline about the effectiveness of vitamin sachets.
• Archynewsy quoted Professor Vimal Karani (Food and Nutritional Sciences) on dairy products.
• Dr Charlotte Mills (Food and Nutritional Sciences) was quoted by BBC Food on peanut butter.
• Space Daily highlighted research by Professor Netta Weinstein (Psychology) into attentive listening.
• #PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment
• Time News quoted Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) on the UK’s hosepipe bans.
• Professor Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez and Graduate Kerry Stewart (both Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) were quoted by Economic Times and Inkl about their bird conservation research. From our story: 500 bird species face extinction within the next century

Business and society:

• Research from Dr Anna Jackman (Geography) on drone use in town planning was mentioned by PBC Today.
• Jon Foster-Pedley, Dean of Henley Business School Africa, wrote for Daily Maverick about responding to complacency.
• Newsy Today and Memesita profiled Lebogang Dhludhlu, CEO of Nkanyezii Group, who is studying at Henley Business School.

Alumni:

• Stockhouse, Guru Focus, Investing News Network, CXO Insiders, Market Screener and others reported that John Pissanos has joined Evercore as Senior Managing Director.
• Oxford Mail had an obituary for former postmaster Asadollah Fatemian, who studied Soil Science.
• Baird and World Ports highlighted that Biology graduate Michelle Hildyard has been appointed General Manager at Teledyne Raymarine.
• James Max, LBC presenter, discussed his time studying Land Management at Reading on his radio show.
• Tom Yewbry, graduate and Managing Director of NPZ, wrote for SeedQuest about seed breeding.
• Labo and LSE highlighted that Jonathan Pratt, CEO of QIAGEN, studied Chemistry at Reading.