UCL in the media
Curb your narcissistic chief executives
Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) explains why businesses often select candidates with narcissistic tendencies for leadership positions.
Read: Financial TimesUCL and IoE merger: a marriage of like minds?
Professor Michael Arthur (UCL President & Provost) and Professor Chris Husbands (UCL Institute of Education) explain how the union between UCL and IoE was underpinned by a powerful vision of what it takes to flourish in a higher education environment.
Read: THEWhy Scandinavia is not the model for global prosperity we should all pursue
Professor Henrietta Moore (UCL Institute for Global Prosperity) explains that although Norway, Denmark and Sweden represent models many strive to emulate they are not the northern utopias they seem.
Read: GuardianJersey's laser caves digitally copied to beat erosion
Dr Matthew Pope (UCL Archaeology) and 3DIMPact, a 3D-imaging research group at UCL, have created a visual record of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey, one of the most valuable archaeological sites in Europe.
Read: WiredHuman rights veto 'threatens future of UK'
In a speech at UCL, ex-attorney general Dominic Grieve QC explained why the UK quitting the European Convention on Human Rights could damage the UK's constitution.
Read: Guardian, More: Times (£)Alan Turing Institute for Data Science to be based at British Library
UCL will partner with a number of institutions to launch the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science as part of the newly announced Knowledge Quarter in Central London.
Read: GuardianDNA Confirms: Here Lieth Richard III, Under Yon Parking Lot
A statistical analysis led by Professor Mark Thomas and Professor David Balding (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) has combined several different lines of evidence to confirm that 'Skeleton 1', discovered in a car park in Leicester, is that of Richard III.
Read: National Geographic, More: UCL NewsOlympic site to become hub for arts
UCL is to build a new second campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to form part of a wider Education and Cultural Quarter following the government's announcement of £141m in support of the project.
Read: Financial Times, More: Evening Standard, Evening Standard (2), BBC News, Guardian, Daily Mail, City AM, THE, Wired, UCL News£125 genetic test kit backed by Google arrives in Britain - with a health warning
Commenting on a new Google-backed genetic test, Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) says that: "For better or worse, direct-to-the-consumer genetic testing companies are here to stay".
Read: Daily Mail, More: Independent, Listen: BBC World Service 'Newshour' (from 46 mins 57 secs), Watch: BBC 2 'Newsnight' (from 24 mins)The worrying rise and rise of hidden hearing loss
Professor David McAlpine (UCL Ear Institute) explains how we start losing our hearing as babies, and by mid-40s most people will have some hearing loss that affects their day-to-day life.
Read: Daily Mail