UCL in the media
Body sensors to measure Heathrow 'noise stress'
People living under the flight path of Heathrow Airport are being invited to wear body sensors to monitor stress caused by aircraft noise.ÌýAbout 140 residents have already taken part in a study using a mobile phone app to record and chart plane noise. UCL is extending the project to monitor the stress inflicted on people's bodies.
UCL opposes sale of Shakespeare Folios
Dr Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services, said:"UCL has expressed its opposition to the sale of a set of four Shakespeare Folios from the Sterling Bequest by the University of London."
New Director named for leading HIV research centre in South Africa
Deenan Pillay, Professor of Virology at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË, is named as the new Director of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, one of the Wellcome Trust's major overseas programmes.
The Life Scientific
Professor Mark Lythgoe (UCLÌýMetabolism and Experimental Therapeutics) talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the frontier research at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË's Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging.
Level playing field for Clostridium difficile diagnosis
The multi-centre study, in partnership with colleagues from UCL, tested more than 12,000 faecal samples from hospital patients to establish the best method for diagnosing C-Diff.
Boost for wind technology development
UK-based marine aerofoil technology company Oceanfoil says that it has formed partnerships with naval architects Owen Clarke Design and UCL's Energy Institute to further develop the company's wingsails for auxiliary ship propulsion.
Watch your earnings go up in smoke
Prof Robert West,ÌýÌý(UCLÌýEpidemiology and Public Health) said, "Economists are often not the best people to be engaged in public health-type research because their skill set is a poor match."Ìý
Heaney showed that great artists can be good men
"I flinched from the news of Seamus Heaney's death; after which a great desolation set in." - Karl Miller, former professor at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË, commenting on the death of Heaney.
Just one minute of brisk exercise a day may help women to lose weight
Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology and Public Health) was sceptical about the extent of the effect reported by the paper, but said the study answered the question of whether very small amounts of activity counted.
Scientists aim to lift the veil on so called dark matter and energy
Dr Chamkaur Ghag & Prof Ofer Lahav (UCL Physics and Astronomy) discuss the concept that Physics can only account for 5% of the 'stuff' that makes up the universe. Listen:Ìý