UCL in the media
Daily Mail accused of insulting top female scientists
Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) has written an open letter to Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, to raise concerns about an article commenting on the race and gender of UCL academics appearing on BBC Newsnight.
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Commenting on the pope meeting with mafia victims' families for the first time, Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) said:"This is the church making up for lost time. There was a long time where the best you could say about the church's attitude to the mafia was that it was culpably silent."
(from2hrs55mins)Experts hail meningitis jab U-turn
Dr Helen Bedford (UCL Institute of Child Health) comments on the Government's decision to introduce a vaccine against meningitis B for young babies.
,Mobile Phone Autopsies
Dr Carina King (UCLÌýInstitute for Global Health) discusses usingÌýmobile phones to conduct 'verbal autopsies' in Malawi, creatingÌýthe country's first database of deaths and causes.
MH370 relatives wait in limbo
Professor Lorraine Sherr (UCLÌýInfection and Population Health) says when there is an information vacuum, the loved ones of missing people "oscillate from hope to despair".
,Urban Myths: Can a coin dropped from a skyscraper kill you?
As Britain unveils a new pound coin, Professor Jon Butterworth (UCLÌýPhysics & Astronomy) answersÌýthe question of whether falling change can, in fact, be lethal.
Black scholars still experience racism on campus
At a UCL talkÌýtitled "Why Isn't My Professor Black?"Ìýacademics argued thatÌýUniversities are beset by a racist mindset that views black people as "outsiders".
Philosophy is dead white - and dead wrong
Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (UCL Philosophy) discusses philosophy's colour line.
Ripples in space-time: scientists discover gravitational waves from the Big Bang
UCL experts including Dr Hiranya Peiris (UCL Physics & Astronomy) comment about the discovery of gravitational waves - ripples from the Big Bang 14.8 billion years ago, which were predicted by Einstein almost a century ago.
, , ,Map: London's most popular commuter destinations
Dr Ed Manley (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) has created a map showing the most popular destinations for the capital's millions of commuters, using data gathered from nearly 50 million Oyster Card journeys.
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