Reading in the news - Wed 4 Sep

#UniForReading: our role as a civic university  

• Wokingham Today reports that the University will host an event for International Observe the Moon Night on 14 September, offering the public access to its telescopes and a series of talks celebrating the moon. Read our news story.

Heritage and culture:

• BBC 1 South, ITV 1 Meridian and Archaeology.org report on the University’s excavation at Cookham, which has uncovered additional Anglo-Saxon burials at the medieval monastery site. Read our news story.
• Dr Anna De Amicis and Dr Yi Wu (both Henley Business School) have co-written an article for The Conversation about communities can protect their heritage in areas that are becoming gentrified.
• Greatest Hits Radio features the University of Reading's Great Hall in the Heritage Open Days event programme.

Business and society:

• Jurek Sikorski (Henley Business School) is quoted in an FT article about business schools encouraging women in the start-up scene.
• An IBM blog post about new tools to prevent AI being used for cheating, mentions research by the University which found that 94% of ChatGPT exam answers were not spotted by the people grading the exams.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment 

• Dr Kieran Hunt (Meteorology) explains to Down to Earth the likely cause of heavy June rainfall in Delhi, which claimed 14 lives.
• Media Indonesia features research by Dr James Ryalls and Visiting Professor Robbie Girling (Agriculture) on how air pollution reduces bee visits to flowers. 
• LBC News features Dr Rob Thompson (Meteorology) discussing why June and July were cooler than average amidst overall global warming trends.
• Motor Transport reports on Forest Green Rovers’ new kit, which features the Climate Stripes developed by Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology). Republished by Geopost.
• Thames Valley Chamber highlights that the Climate Stripes developed by Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) feature in Leonardo Di Caprio’s new film ‘Ozi: Voice of the Forest’. Read our news story.

Health and wellbeing:

• WhatsNew2Day highlights Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) discussing Harvard's study on ultra-processed foods and heart attack risk. Republished by Mahalsa UK and Express Digest.

Other coverage:

• A profile piece on BusinessGreen with the COO of brewer Toast Ale mentions that the company partnered with the University through the Knowledge Transfer Centre.
• The Macau Daily Times runs a story from this day in 1957, when the Wolfenden Report was first published. The report, produced by a committee chaired by Sir John Wolfenden, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, paved the way for the legalisation of homosexuality in the UK.
• Reading Today covers the news that the University of Reading's Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences has been awarded accreditation by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG). Read our news story.

Alumni:

• Biz Today features Shafiul Syed, the newly appointed Chief Executive of RoyalJet, who studied Business Administration at Henley Business School. Republished by Hozipitality Plus, Arabia Travel News.
• Russell Shackleton, a risk management and corporate governance expert with an Executive MBA from Henley Business School, was featured in GlobeNewswire. Republished by Yahoo! Finance.
• Avrupa Times highlights Nesil Çalışkan, a University of Reading alumna, as the first Turkish MP of Northern Cypriot origin elected to the UK House of Commons.
• Trinidad Express reports that Marc Jardine, who has an Executive MBA from Henley Business School, has been appointed Managing Director of RBC Royal Bank.