Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England questions central bank power
Published: Jun 4, 2013 11:47:54 AM
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Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England questions central bank power
Publication date: 4 June 2013
The former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England has highlighted the current power of central banks five years on from the financial crisis.
UCL Festival of Volunteering
Publication date: 21 May 2013
Riding on the success of last year’s Festival, UCL and UCLU are running the two-week Festival of Volunteering this summer. Running 22nd May – 4th June, the Festival will include a variety of volunteering-related activities for the UCL community to get involved in.
Dig This! UCL masters students at the Geffrye Museum
Publication date: 7 May 2013
Masters students from the UCL Institute of Archaeology are collaborating with the Geffrye Museum on an exciting project about gardening and happiness in the urban home.
UCL Festival of the Arts: Q&A with Professor Jonathan Wolff
Publication date: 29 April 2013
With the UCL Festival of the Arts running from 7 - 17 May, UCL News spoke to Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy), Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, about the festival, and the importance of celebrating the arts at the time when many courses at other institutions are under threat.
Sounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramas
Publication date: 19 April 2013
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.
From Austen to French cinema: UCL celebrates the arts
Publication date: 15 April 2013
Join UCL in a ten-day celebration of the arts that will give the public a chance to experience, explore and engage with the latest research.
UCL PhD researcher strikes gold in Parliament
Publication date: 27 March 2013
Joanna Brunker, a PhD student in the UCL Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, struck Gold at a competition in the House of Commons, for the excellence of her Biology research, walking away with a £3,000 prize yesterday.
UCL Friends of MSF charity run
Publication date: 27 March 2013
On Saturday 16th March 2013, over 300 individuals took to the paths of Regent's Park running either 5km or 10km in aid of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
Formal opening of UCL Academy
Publication date: 19 March 2013
A unique partnership between a school and one of the world’s leading universities is being celebrated today at the formal opening of the UCL Academy, the first school in England to have a university as a sole sponsor.
Most extraordinary materials on earth housed in new Institute of Making
Publication date: 12 March 2013
This week the Institute of Making opens at UCL giving a permanent home to the Materials Library, a collection of the most unusual materials in the world, and the MakeSpace, the ultimate making workshop.
Exhibition explores different perspectives of Iraq war on 10th anniversary
Publication date: 12 March 2013
An art exhibition opening this week at UCL brings together six works by artists from Iraq and Britain to explore different experiences of the Iraq war on the 10th anniversary of the invasion.
UCL project uncovering hidden gems in Slade Archive
Publication date: 8 March 2013
A new project between the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is exploring and mapping hidden gems from the Slade Archive.
UCL Library Services help launch new Wellcome digitisation project
Publication date: 4 March 2013
UCL Library Services is working with the Wellcome Trust to collect together the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics through a new digitalisation project.
Flaxman Exchange offers new perspectives on UCL collections
Publication date: 4 March 2013
A unique collaboration between UCL Art Museum and performance artist Marcia Farqhuar will explore the UCL Flaxman Gallery and the stories connected with renowned neoclassicist John Flaxman.
City layout key to predicting riots
Publication date: 21 February 2013
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.

