Reading in the news - Thu 21 Sep

World’s oldest wooden structure: Dr Annemieke Milks (Archaeology) writes for Nature about the discovery of a 476,000-year-old wooden structure in Zambia. Dr Milks is quoted in The Telegraph, The Guardian, AP News, The Daily Mail, The Independent, MSN, New Scientist, CNN, MSN, KRDO, Vancouver Is Awesome, AccessWDUN, Taiwan News, Yahoo! News, KCRG, KVVU-TV and many more global news outlets. 

Student loan scams: BBC One’s The One Show spoke with University of Reading students about the risk of text message scams from Student Finance fraudsters.  

Net zero targets: Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) is quoted in The Guardian (Republished by Yahoo! News, Execreview and Aol. ) on government plans to water down net zero policies. Read our news story.
 

Business and society:

• Professor Lucy Newton (Henley Business School) writes for The Conversation on the historical practices of private banks. 
• The University of Reading is mentioned in a report by Reading.co.uk about Reading being a magnet for innovative business. 

Food and farming:

• CNN quotes Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) on the suggested links between consumption of ultra-processed foods and depression.  Republished by Aol., KRDO, Pedfire, KEYT and various other news outlets.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment  

• Yale Environment 360 mentions the University of Reading’s new research about the recovery of weather data from ships bombed at Pearl Harbour. Yahoo! News republishes. Read our news story.  
• Reading.co.uk reports on new research being conducted by the University of Reading, investigating Reading’s relationships with red kites. Juliette Waterman (Archaeology) is quoted.  

#UniForReading: our role as a civic university 

• Reading Today mentions that The University of Reading has helped Shinfield St Mary’s Junior School with the national roll-out of climate action planning.

Other Coverage: 

• Harrow Online, HertsLive and Watford Observer quote Professor Avril Maddrell (Geography and Environmental Science) on the national shortage of burial spaces.  
• London World (republished by Yahoo! News) writes about proposals for Kew Gardens to move its herbarium to Thames Valley Science Park. The article also mentions Natural History Museum plans to build a new research and storage facility at the same site. 

Alumni: 

• Luke Collison, a graduate from the University of Reading, has been nominated for his artwork, The Waterside Workshop, in the AJ Student Prize 2023, Architects Journal reports.