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The conference app wins Downing Street supported initiative
A conference-focused smartphone application has won the inaugural 'StartUp Summer' scheme. The programme, which was organised by UCL, YouGov and Imperial College with Downing Street support, is designed to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among students.
Read: Conference News, More info: StartUp SummerThe rights and wrongs of peanut-monkey managers
In his regular column Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology) explores the old adage: 'if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys'. Read: Sunday Times (no link available)
World university rankings show that good higher education can be a bargain
UCL is placed 7th in this year's QS World University Rankings.
Read: Guardian, More coverage: Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Metro, ScotsmanTeaching grammar to the iPhone generation
Staff from UCL's Survey of English Usage and UCL Business have launched a new iPhone app which provides a complete, interactive course in English grammar.
Read: Evening Standard, FirstScience, More info: UCL NewsPlan to revive 1970s UK satellite
PhD student Roger Duthie (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) is leading efforts to revive a unique spacecraft. Prospero, the only UK satellite launched on a UK rocket, is still in orbit after almost 40 years.
Read: BBC News, Daily Mail, Independent, Listen: Space Boffins (from 16m 30s)Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science
Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology) argues that a boom in the number of academic papers and journals published each year has diluted the effectiveness of the peer-review process.
Read: The GuardianProfessor John Evans - obituary
Professor John Evans, who died on July 4 aged 86, served as director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of UCL) from 1973 to 1989.
Read: The TelegraphApollo 18: why we should go back to the moon
Professor Alan Smith (UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics) discusses the scientific reasons for future manned visits to the Moon.
Listen: BBC Radio 4's 'Material World' (from 20mins 45sec)Breast screening and women's health
Professor Michael Baum (UCL Research Department of General Surgery) asks whether the £100m spent each year on the breast screening programme could be better used improving women's health in other ways.
Read: The Times (£)English academic honoured with Légion d'honneur
Professor Michael Worton (UCL Vice-Provost, International) has been awarded the prestigious Légion d'honneur.
Read: Times Higher Education
