UCL in the media
Building on London's scientific tradition
Professor Michael Arthur (UCL President & Provost) comments on the capital's growing reputation for research: "I believe that London has a golden opportunity to be the premier destination in the world for higher education and, within that context, it can also become pre-eminent in biomedicine, health and life sciences."
Read: FTBartlett hat-trick at 2013 RIBA President's Medals
Students from the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture cleaned up at the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards, with winning projects including a floating community centre for the Helsinki archipelago and a proposal to rebuild 250 Russian churches.
Read: Building Design (£), More: Architect's Journal (£), Dezeen, UCL NewsCrazy comet ISON returns bearing solar system secrets
Geraint Jones (UCL Space & Climate Physics) comments on comet ISON, saying: "It is fairly unlikely to be a naked-eye object."
Read: New ScientistMonkey Planet
Will Self explores the connection between man and his closest living relative, from Darwin to Nim and King Kong to the PG Tips chimps, with contributions from Professor Volker Sommer (UCL Anthropology).
Listen: BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 (from 6mins45secs)Rat study shows ancestral fear 'causes brain changes'
Professor Marcus Pembrey (UCL Institute of Child Health) comments on a new study which has found that epigenetic adaptation can happen from one generation to the next.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 Today (from 2hrs54mins)Wagner: A Long-Running Cycle of Triumph and Despair
A comment piece by Professor Mark Ronan (UCL Mathematics) gives a brief history of the Bayreuth Festival and reflects on the new Ring production this year for Wagner's bicentenary.
Read: History TodayQuarter of Brits suffer 'pavement rage'
Professor Michael Batty (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) comments on the issues surrounding crowded shopping environments, saying: "During busy shopping periods, the limited pavement space available is put under pressure to accommodate an increasing density of pedestrians."
Read: Daily TelegraphModern life 'turning people off sex'
Results published in The Lancet give the most detailed picture yet of the British population's sex lives over the last 10 years, as part of the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal). Study Principal Investigator Professor Dame Anne Johnson (UCL Infection & Population Health) said: "We tend to think these days we live in an increasingly sexually liberal society, but the truth is far more complex."
Read: BBC Online, More: The Independent, Metro, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, The Times (£), Daily Mail, UCL News and extensive national and international coverage
Committee meeting today on mad cow disease
Professor John Collinge (UCL Institute of Neurology) comments on data suggesting 1 in 2,000 people in the UK are carriers of vCJD , in light of a parliamentary committee on the issue being held today, saying: "These are diseases that incubate silently in humans for decades."
Listen: BBC R4 Today (from 55 mins)Exercise in sixties boosts healthy ageing
Regular exercise in later life can dramatically boost the chance of healthy ageing, a UCL study suggests. Dr Hark Hamer (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) said: "The take-home message really is to keep moving when you are elderly."
Read: The Daily Telegraph, More: Daily Express, Daily Mail, BBC Online