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The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL will present innovative designs in its annual student showcase the Bartlett Summer Show from 21–29 June.

What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL.

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The Bartlett Postgraduate Open Day will be held on Wednesday 27 March in the South Cloisters and Garden Room. It is an opportunity for prospective students to meet course directors, faculty academics and current students to find out more about what it's like to study at The Bartlett. 

UCL guidelines on open access and a publishing guide are available to UCL researchers.

The RCUK Policy on Open Access introduces, with effect from 1 April 2013, new open access requirements for research papers funded by the Research Councils.

The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, is offering MSc, MA or MArch students 20 scholarships, each worth £5,000, to be used as partial fee remittance for study in 2013/14.

The European Investment Bank and University College London have agreed to work together to support a new post-graduate course in Infrastructure Investment and Finance.

In the future police will be able to predict the spread of riots, and how they impact on cities, thanks to a new computer model. 

In celebration of its centenary, The Bartlett School of Planning will be offering 10 ‘Centenary Scholarships’ worth £5000 in total to new MSc students joining the School for 2013/4 academic year.

The first ever cohort of UCL students to take the MSc programme in Facility and Environment Management in Singapore has today graduated at a ceremony hosted jointly by UCL and Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA).

23 postdoctoral researchers from 14 different countries have been awarded Marie Curie Individual Fellowships. The awards will enable researchers to spend up to two years working with research teams across all schools at UCL.

Academics from the UCL Bartlett School of Planning have welcomed the completion of the final section of London’s orbital railway in south London, which they first proposed in 1999 in a report commissioned by the London Development Partnership.

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• Future Proofing Cities
• UCL Development Planning Unit

The UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme invites applications to fund cross-disciplinary projects in Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.

A new free-standing ‘centipede’ cinema designed by an academic at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UK – will open this week in Guimarães, Portugal as part of celebrations for the 2012 European Capital of Culture. 

UCL today announced the future launch of its first two Built Environment Clubs (BECs) in Shanghai and Hong Kong on 28th and 29th October respectively. UCL has developed a significant academic and business network in these and other China regions which include many Alumni keen to bring additional value to China's urbanisation programme by harnessing the expertise of their 'alma mater'.

The proportion of the world’s population that lives in cities has been steadily rising, so that 3 in 5 of all people globally will live in a city by 2030. The UCL-Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities explores the many issues other than health services that contribute to population health in a city environment.

The UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment is introducing £100K worth of studentships to encourage postgraduate students from a broader social background to apply.

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture undergraduates are mentoring A-Level students from London schools as part of the Accelerate programme.

Professor Tadj Oreszczyn and Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute) have been announced as advisors to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s new Energy Efficiency Deployment Office (EEDO).

Tackling rising CO2 emissions from the residential sector could make a vital contribution towards mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the UCL Bartlett School of Planning.

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• UCL Research
• Guardian HE Summit 2011

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• Royal Commission report on demographic trends and consumption patterns
• Professor Maria Lee
• Professor Joanne Scott
• Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones
• Population Footprints symposium: 25–26 May 2011

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  UCL Epidemiology & Public Health
  UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
  
• Research paper in Obesity Reviews
• Coverage in The Daily Mail
  

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• UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
• Professor Alan Penn