UCL in the media
Is there a savant inside all of us?
Professor Mark Lythgoe (UCL Metabolism & Experimental Therapeutics) comments on "sudden savant syndrome" and case of Tommy McHugh, a builder from the Wirral, who became a prolific painter following a stroke 11 years ago.
Read: TelegraphA woman's work was never done! Researchers find evidence women did metalwork in Bronze Age
Professor Sue Hamilton (UCL Institute of Archaeology) comments on the discovery of the remains of a female metal worker from the Bronze Age, a discovery that challenges ideas about the division of labour in prehistoric times.
Read: Daily MailTeenage kicks in the hormones
Drs Anne-Lise Goddings (UCL Institute of Child Health) and Iroise Dumontheil (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) comment on the hormones involved in puberty, and how they affect brain development.
Read: Irish TimesDispatches from Qatar: first term at a new branch campus
As they welcome the first cohort of students, Brett Kershaw (UCL Qatar) chronicles just how far UCL's new branch campus in Qatar has come, and what others could learn from their experiences.
Read: GuardianStudents to be issued with graduation 'report cards'
UCL and other universities are planning to the abolition of the 200-year-old degree classification system and replace it with a system which provides more detailed information about a student's learning and achievement.
Read: Telegraph More: ScotsmanSnail sheds foot to stay ahead of snake predators
"I had no idea that snails did this, so it is interesting in that respect and may prompt someone to work out exactly how they do it," says Professor Susan Evans (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology), who researches limb loss in lizards. "What we really need to know is the developmental processes that underpin it."
Read: New ScientistWebsite calls on people to become 'bat detectives'
UCL scientists are calling on citizen scientists to help researchers monitor and record Europe's bat population.
Read: BBC News More: UCL News storyCollege of Law launches combined LPC and LLM course
"From the point of view of the students it is a positive development but a minor one. The likelihood is that the College of Law is offering this to make it more competitive against schools which offer both the LLM and the LPC," says Professor Richard Moorhead (UCL Laws).
Read: Legal WeekPublic schools threaten university boycott
Headmasters are demanding that universities such as UCL are banned from setting targets which classify students according to the type of school they attended.
Read: Telegraph More: Daily MailApplying to university: Case study corner
Students Lillie Grimshaw (UCL Anthropology) and Gabriel Mallows (UCL Politics) talk about applying to university, and life as a student.
Read: Guardian