Reading in the news - Thu 10 Jul

ECMWF headquarters: BBC South covers the groundbreaking ceremony for the new European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting headquarters, which is to be based at the Whiteknights campus - featuring interviews with Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Van de Noort, Professor Andrew Charlton-Perez (Meteorology) and Professor Hannah Cloke (Meteorology/Geography).

Coverage also seen in: Mirage News, Commercial News Media and GOV.UK

Business and society:

• Ambition magazine features an in-depth interview with Elena Spasova, Dean of Henley Business School, highlighting that the business school is celebrating its 80^th birthday this year.
• Jon Foster-Pedley (Henley Business School Africa) has co-authored an article for Mail & Guardian highlighting South Africa’s G20 leadership as a chance to promote inclusive, values-based policy at the V20 Summit.
• An article on MIT Sloan Review written by Professor Benjamin Laker (Henley Business School) explains that strategic delegation should focus on individuals, enabling work teams to grow stronger.

Health and wellbeing:

• Huffington Post UK, Yahoo! Canada, Discover Wildlife and MSN US reference Reading research into the prevalence of larger animals getting cancer. From our news story: Bigger animals get more cancer defying decades-old belief.
• EBioTrade reports that researchers from the Hugh Sinclair Institute of Human Nutrition at the University analysed UK diet data to explore links between eating patterns and cardiometabolic disease risk.

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment 

• Dr Jess Neumann (Geography and Environmental Science) is quoted by MSN South Africa, MSN India, The Star and INKL, discussing flash flooding and drought. She also spoke to Heart Berkshire on hosepipe bans.
• Professor Andrew Charlton-Perez (Meteorology) is quoted by The Gateway Pundit and Bracknell News Series (in print) stating that the deadly Texas floods were caused by a powerful natural weather system.
• Dr Laura Wilcox (Meteorology) is quoted by iNews (also in print), noting the UK has lost access to a key global air quality dataset after a decision by the Trump administration. Republished MSN Ireland.
• Professor Hannah Cloke spoke to BBC Radio Berkshire about why the current hot weather is a concern.
• Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) is quoted by Financial Times (also in print), Washington Post and Euronews on the increasing dangers of heatwaves.
• NBC News and CNN quote Dr Akshay Deoras and Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology), on the deadly impact of climate change and heatwaves in Europe. Republished by KVIA, News8000, KTVZ, Tagesspiegel, KESQ, LocalNews8, MSN UK, Yahoo!, KRDO, AOL, Science Media Centre, ABC17News, KION546, KEYT, MSN South Africa, Saudi Gazette, INKL, AccuWeather and Islam Times.

Other Coverage:

• Dr Geoff Smith (Archaeology) is quoted by Dagens PS, describing Neanderthals as “master planners” in response to a unique archaeological find in Germany. Republished by MSN Sweden. From our story: Neanderthals crushed animal bones to hoard fat for winter
• Reading is mentioned in this Chromatography Online article about the impact of research funding cuts.
• Museums Journal features the Museum of English Rural Life’s podcast Absolute Units.

Alumni:

• A letter in The Guardian remembers Roger Harcourt, a former University student who was a passionate teacher. Republished by AOL, and Inkl.