UCL in the media
Aung San Suu Kyi looks to Myanmar poll victory at climax of lifelong campaign
Dr Marie Lall (UCL Institute of Education) comments on the likelihood of the National League for Democracy winning the Myanmar elections.
Read: GuardianAcademics land £2m prizes at Zuckerberg-backed 'science Oscars'
Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) has been awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his pioneering research into the genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease, other forms of dementia and Parkinson's disease.
Read: Guardian, More: Times (£), Daily Mail, Financial Times, Huffington Post, Forbes, New York Times, New Scientist, Nature, UCL News, Watch: BBC Two 'Newsnight' (from 36mins 10secs), Daily Mail, Listen: BBC Radio 4 'The World Tonight' (from 21mins 1sec), BBC Radio 5 live '5 Live Drive' (from 21mins 5secs)'Olympicopolis' to boost culture and education in east London
Professor Michael Arthur (UCL President & Provost) comments on the development of UCL East, a new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and says that UCL's involvement will be the biggest event for the university since UCL was formed in 1826.
Read: Financial TimesFrom dissident to decorative: why street art sold out and gentrified our cities
Dr Rafael Schacter (UCL Anthropology) explains how the "edgy authenticity" of street art makes it an ideal tool for urban planners seeking to attract the new "creative class".
Read: The ConversationHe Named Me Malala: the ordinary life behind an extraordinary girl
Dr Alison Macdonald (UCL Anthropology) looks at how the documentary 'He Named Me Malala' tells the story of Malala Yousafzai while shining a light on a global injustice.
Read: The ConversationMedical chief to lower safe alcohol limits
Professor Rajiv Jalan (UCL Liver & Digestive Health) says damage to health could be caused by men drinking just three units of alcohol a day - which is within the current government limits.
Read: Sunday Times (£)Stars of David on the headstones, shrapnel on the ground - how a generation came face to face with WWI
The First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme, which is run by the UCL Institute of Education, aims to enable teachers and pupils from every state-funded secondary school in the country to develop a deeper understanding of the Great War.
Read: Jewish Chronicle, More: Sec EdThe science of colour
Dr Helen Czerski (UCL Mechanical Engineering) discusses her research into the physics of ocean bubbles and her new documentary series on the science of colour.
Watch: Channel 4 'Sunday Brunch' (from 21 mins 45 secs)Baby girl is first in the world to be treated with 'designer immune cells'
A team of researchers from Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL, including Professor Waseem Qasim and Professor Adrian Thrasher (both UCL Institute of Child Health), have developed a new treatment that uses 'molecular scissors' to edit genes and create designer immune cells.
Read: Guardian, More: Telegraph, Times (£), Financial Times, Huffington Post, ITV News, New Scientist, Science, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Zealand Herald, Listen: BBC Radio 2 'Jeremy Vine' (from 1 hour 43 mins)How did Mars lose its habitable climate? The answer is blowing in the solar wind
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) explains how the solar wind has stripped Mars of its atmosphere, making it a lot less habitable than it once was.
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