UCL in the media
Move country to improve post-PhD career prospects, study suggests
Dr Giulio Marini (UCL Institute of Education) discusses his study investigating which factors influence employment and salary prospects for PhD graduates.
Read: THEArtificial 'embryos' created in the lab
Professor Jonathan Montgomery (UCL Laws) comments on the potential regulatory implications if researchers move from artificial mouse embryos to the development of artificial human embryos.
Read: BBC News, Listen: BBC Radio 5 live '5 live Breakfast' (from 3 mins 24 secs)Inside the Industry Building Trump's America Brick by Brick
A book about concrete by professor emeritus Adrian Forty (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) is referenced.
Read: The AtlanticWorld's oldest fossils unearthed
Matthew Dodd and Dr Dominic Papineau (UCL Earth Sciences and the London Centre for Nanotechnology) led a team that discovered remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old, providing direct evidence of one of the oldest life forms on Earth.
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The views of Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) on the origins of life on Earth are mentioned in an article discussing the UCL study finding the world's oldest fossil.
Read: Financial TimesGovernment attacked for 'pub economics' in English HE
Professor Lorraine Dearden (UCL Institute of Education) gave a speech criticising the UK government's market-driven approach to university funding.
Read: THEMinisters announce grants for London universities to develop 'revolutionary' projects
A giant laboratory is being built by UCL for research into new ways of improving London's congested transport, ministers announced today. People-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL) has received £9m of funding from the EPSRC and is being led by Professor Nick Tyler (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering).
Read: Evening StandardTunnel lights will ruin sunset at Stonehenge, say archaeologists
Professor Mike Parker Pearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology) is part of a group of 21 archaeologists arguing that a proposed tunnel under Stonehenge would block the sunset view Stonehenge was designed to capture.
Read: The Times, More: Daily MailUp to 20 per cent of ethnic British DNA of Viking origin
A study by Dr Jane Kershaw (UCL Institute of Archaeology) has found that a much larger proportion of the DNA of ethnic Brits has Viking origins than previously believed.
Read: The Times, More: Daily MailThe whale menopause
Professor Ruth Mace (UCL Anthropology) discusses the evolutionary basis of menopause, and the grandmother hypothesis positing that menopause has benefits as older women will focus on helping raise their grandchildren.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'The Whale Menopause' (from 4 mins 8 secs)