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UCL in the media
Dinosaur planet
Ahead of the BBC's new 'Planet Dinosaur' series, Dr Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences) highlights the importance of recent fossil discoveries and explains how they hold clues to the future on Earth.
Read: Daily Telegraph, Listen: BBC Radio 5Live's 'Breakfast', BBC Radio Scotland's 'Good morning Scotland'Growing fears woman kindnapped in Kenya might be in Somalia
Following the kidnap of a British woman in Kenya, Dr James Thompson (UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) discusses the psychological impact on victims of kidnap. Watch: BBC 1's 'Breakfast' (no link available)
John Mullan on 'American Gods'
Professor John Mullan (UCL English Language and Literature) discusses Neil Gaiman's 'Amercian Gods' in the Guardian's regular Bookclub feature.
Read: GuardianWellcome Trust report reviews 20 years of human functional brain imaging
The Wellcome Trust has published a report reflecting on human functional brain imaging. Between 1990 and 2009, the Wellcome Trust invested £114m in the area, of which £50m was allocated to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.
Read: Wellcome Trust press releaseOnce you're gone, you'll be very much forgotten
In his regular column, Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Clinical, Educational and Healthy Psychology) discusses the potential for managers to leave legacies in the business world. Read: Sunday Times (No link available)
The fine art of medical diagnosis
Professor Michael Baum (UCL Research Department of General Surgery), one of several UCL academics appearing at the British Science Festival, will lecture on the importance of art in medical practice, and vice versa.
Read: The ObserverOne stir, then I'll discover a galaxy
In an article on the rise of crowd sourcing, Professor Philip Schofield explains how UCL's Bentham Project used it to transcribe 1,500 of Jeremy Bentham's previously unpublished texts.
Read: Sunday Times (£), More infoBabies feel pain at 35 to 37 weeks of development
A study led by Dr Lorenzo Fabrizi (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology) shows that babies can distinguish painful stimuli as being different from general touch at 35-37 weeks gestation.
Read: New Scientist, ABC News, Daily Mirror, Herald, More info: UCL Press ReleaseEden Project airtight chamber oxygen test for scientist
Under the supervision of doctors from UCL's Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine a scientist will spend 48 hours sealed inside an airtight chamber, surviving on oxygen produced by plants.
Read: BBC OnlineEchoes of Elgin Marbles
Tim Schadla-Hall (UCL Institute of Archaeology) comments on the Turkish Government's request for the UK to return the head of an ancient marble statue taken more than a century ago.
Read: CNN International
