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25 February 2011: Christchurch earthquake seminar on 2 March 2011
In response to the Christchurch earthquake, a seminar ‘Understanding Earthquakes’ will be held on Wednesday 2 March, 5–6pm in the Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre. More...
23 February 2011: New 'thunder-thighs' dinosaur discovered
A new
dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or "thunder-thighs" after its
enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new
species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica by an international team of scientists from the U.K.
and the U.S.
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21 February 2011: Award-winning book on France and England’s aggressively intimate relationship
The quintessentially English author Chaucer is more French than most of us realise, argues Ardis Butterfield (UCL English) in her award-winning book The Familiar Enemy (Oxford University Press). More...
18 February 2011: Students sleep rough for Action for Brazil’s Children
A group of UCL students joined volunteers from other London universities to sleep rough for a night to raise money for Action for Brazil's Children (ABC) Trust.
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15 February 2011: Past Antarctic cooling may help studies of global warming
Research
led by Dr Amelia Shevenell (UCL Geography), published in Nature (9 February), shows that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of
the fastest-warming places on Earth, experiencing dramatic regional climate
change in recent decades, especially during La Niña years.
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11 February 2011: Gallery: New funding for colossal stone statue research
An award of over £640,000 has been made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a new phase of the project ‘Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Landscapes of Construction’.
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10 February 2011: EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science visits UCL
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European Union Commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science made an official visit to UCL on 7 February 2011. More...
10 February 2011: Simple marine worms distantly related to humans
Two groups of lowly marine worms are related to complex species including
vertebrates (such as humans) and starfish, according to new research.
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10 February 2011: Look at your body to reduce pain
Simply looking at your body reduces pain, according to new research by
scientists from UCL (University College London) and the University of
Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
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3 February 2011: ‘Shocking’ levels of salt found in African and Caribbean foods
Popular dishes from African and Caribbean restaurants in London can contain the same level of salt as that in over 30 packets of ready salted crisps, according to new research which highlights how salt intake could potentially contribute to high blood pressure (hypertension), stroke and heart problems in people of Black-African descent. More...
1 February 2011: The UCL Colin Chapman Lotus Engineering Scholarship: the chance to make a change to the world we live in
Nicholas Mak, a Singaporean UCL MSc Mechanical Engineering student, received the first UCL Colin Chapman
Lotus Engineering Masters Scholarship on 27 January.
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