UCL MEDIA RELATIONS

Dara O Briain and his crack team of UCL experts take a peek into man's final frontier - space. Watch: BBC 2’s Science Club

Professor Mark Ronan (UCL Mathematics) talks about Robert Oppenheimer and the nasty investigative process designed to undercut his authority and remove his security clearance. Read: Standpoint mag

Faber and UCL have launched a new scholarship in memory of Faber’s former finance director, David Tebbutt, which will help people get into publishing. Read: The Bookseller

“All of our conversations revolve around job interviews, applications and deadlines. There’s no let-up,” says Claire Roberts (UCL Italian), on the search for graduate employment. Read: FT (£)

Residents and students in support of Carpenters Against Regeneration Plans (CARP) have occupied a room at UCL. Read: London24 More: Building Design Building Design II Workers' Liberty FT (£) Guardian Building Design III Guardian II Building Design IV

A report from the UCL Energy Institute has found that the costs of retrofitting houses exceeded the government’s Green Deal allowance. Read: Building Design More: AJ

“I would hate it if we moved to a system where appointments or promotions were driven by metrics. That, to me, would mean that we had lost confidence in our own expert judgement,” says Professor Richard Catlow (UCL Chemistry). Read: Chemistry World

Rich countries like Qatar can build flood barriers but poor nations will suffer, says Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography). Read: Telegraph

Using a dataset of 1.5 million private hire cab routes through London, Ed Manley (UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) has identified key clusters of transport activity. Read: Guardian

“It is good news that parents have regained their confidence in this highly effective vaccine,” says Dr Helen Bedford (UCL Institute of Child Health). "However, some teenagers and children have never caught up with missed vaccines and remain at risk of these potentially harmful infections.” Read: Telegraph More: BBC News