UCL in the media
Better understanding the regions
UCL Australia will be collaborating with The Yorke and Mid North Regional AllianceÌýon a project to determine how best to prepare Clare, Australia for renewable energy and other low carbon technologies.
Are we too clean?
Ahead of his talk at the Cheltenham Science Festival, Professor Graham Rook (UCL Research Department of Infection) discuses whether good hygiene can lead to an increase in allergies.
Tests for cholesterol gene start
Professor Steve Humphries (UCL Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics) comments on the news that The British Heart Foundation will fund a £1 million programme of tests for familial hypercholesterolaemia, an inherited high cholesterol condition.
, ,ÌýBrain tweak could let you pop a pill to stop seizures
A team led by Professor Dimitri Kullmann (»Ê¼Ò»ªÈËeurology) has devised a new treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy with the potential to suppress seizures 'on demand' with a pill.
, ,We need a new model of economic growth
Professor Henrietta Moore (UCL Institute for Global Prosperity) looks at some of the challenges caused by global prosperity and how the new UCL Global Prosperity Institute will help ramp up the necessary action and debate needed in the field.
Hawkins\Brown submits £30m Bartlett revamp
Hawkins/Brown has submitted a planning application to transform Wates House for The Bartlett School of Architecture. The building will be reconfigured to double the amount of teaching and research space, whilstÌýmaintainingÌýtheÌýbuilding's existing structure.
, ,Games at the Grant
Dean Veall (UCL Grant Museum of Zoology) introduces 'Games at the Grant' and gives more details on the diverse programme of public events run by the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology.
Battered pot found in Cornish garage unlocks Egypt excavation secrets
Dr Alice Stevenson (UCLÌýPetrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) explains how the discovery of a broken pot and cardboard label can help unlock a lost history of finds from 19th century excavations in Egypt.
Falling birth rates in Europe and rising ones in Africa could spell decline in atheism
Professor Steve Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) explains how a combination of surging population growth in Christian Africa and population decline in Europe could signal the decline of atheism.
Technology's value to humanities must be made clearer
Ahead of her talk at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË Festival of the Arts, Professor Melissa Terras (UCL Information Studies) explains that although digital techniques are widely used by humanities scholars, the vital role of technology within the discipline is frequently overlooked.