UCL in the media
E-cigarettes
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) debates the issues surrounding the UK's first licensed e-cig.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Health' (from 3 mins 8 secs)How shift to computer-based tests could shake up PISA education rankings
John Jerrim (UCL Institute of Education) explains how some countries experienced big changes when the global test of 15-year-olds moved from paper to online.
Read: The ConversationPineapple: A Global History
Dr Kaori O'Connor (UCL Anthropology) discusses her book, Pineapple: A Global History, which follows the pineapple across time and cultures.
Listen: BBC Radio 2 'Simon Mayo' (from 17 mins)Focus on mental health
Dr Michael Bloomfield (UCL Psychiatry) comments on a report which has found that around three-quarters of people with mental health problems received no help at all.
Listen: BBC 5 live '5 live Drive' (from 1 hour 40 mins)Pleasure: why we like the things we like
Professor Semir Zeki (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) explains how the brain reacts to something we consider beautiful.
Listen: BBC World Service 'The Why Factor' (from 3 mins 40 secs)Gravitational waves
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) explains what the discovery of gravitational waves actually means.
Listen: BBC Radio Surrey 'Breakfast' (from 2 hours 49 mins)Doctors 3D-print 'living' body parts
Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear Institute) comments on the development of a new technique that 3D-prints custom-made, living body parts.
Read: BBC NewsJapanese satellite targets the x-ray universe
Professor Graziella Branduardi Raymont (UCL Space & Climate Physics) says ASTRO-H, a x-ray observatory, "is going to be spectacular".
Read: Science (£)Period pain can feel 'as bad as a heart attack'
Professor John Guillebaud (UCL Women's Health) says that period pain is not taken seriously enough by doctors.
Read: Telegraph, More: IndependentTrollope captures the essence of Englishness
Professor John Sutherland (UCL English Language & Literature) says the latest 19th-century author to be given a primetime TV makeover has much to say about the way we live now.
Read: Times (£)