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The UCL AI hub in Generative Models, led by Professor David Barber, will develop tools to help build responsible generative models, while Professor Ricardo Silva is named co-investigator for a separate hub using AI to improve healthcare.

Minister for Technology and the Digital Economy, Saqib Bhatti MP, said the skills and supply chain are essential in scaling up the UK semi-conductor industry, as he chaired a panel of experts from research and industry hosted at UCL.

A UCL research team developing an artificial fibre technology to accelerate neurodegenerative disease clinical trials will be one of the first studies supported by e-money venture Science Card.

Congratulations to Dr James Robinson from the UCL Department of Chemical Engineering and the Advanced Propulsion Lab (APL) for being named the Faraday Institution 2024 Community Awards Researcher Development Champion.

Staff, students and associates of the UCL Centre for Engineering Education were in full strength representing UCL's engineering education research at the annual SEFI conference this September.

With his appointment as the new Head of Department, Danny Alexander takes up leadership of UCL Computer Science, succeeding Professor Steve Hailes.

Professor Mark Miodownik (UCL Mechanical Engineering) discusses how humans came to understand that gas existed in the first place and how many of the innovations in modern society have been underpinned by this mostly invisible and odourless substance.

The composition of this cohort of students was likely to have been impacted by their A-level grades being disrupted by the pandemic, says Professor Susan Smith (UCL School of Management).

Ales Cap (UCL Computer Science) talks to Ed Vaizey about why fears that the 2024 British General Election would be dominated by AI generated deepfakes turned out to be largely unfounded.