UCL in the media
Turkey earthquake: UK team to assess building damage
Dr Yasemin Didem Aktas (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) co-led an essential Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) expedition to Turkey, assessing building damage from last month's devastating earthquake.
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The great serotonin debate: do depression treatments work by boosting the happy hormone?
“Most of the public felt the link had been proven... Most psychiatrists and scientists knew it hadn’t," said Professor Joanna Moncrieff (UCL Psychiatry) on the effectiveness of drugs targeting serotonin which are widely used to treat depression.
Gene-editing summit touts sickle cell success, while questions on embryo editing linger
“With so much growth in this area of therapeutic gene editing the problem of delivering therapies to patients is only going to grow," commented Professor Claire Booth (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) on the ethical issue of ensuring therapies are fairly delivered.
The diet that could cut your dementia risk by nearly a quarter
“If there is an effect of diet then it is more likely to be on cardiovascular health in general and hence to impact dementia due to vascular disease," commented Honorary Professor David Curtis (UCL Biosciences) on a study into the Mediterranean diet's impact on dementia risk.
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Tributes paid to sculptor and art educator Dame Phyllida Barlow
Tributes are paid to acclaimed artist, Emeritus Professor Dame Phyllida Barlow, who both studied and lectured at the Slade School of Fine Art, before finding global fame as a visionary sculptor.
What do we know about King Charles's coronation so far?
"It seems likely that invitees this time will include representatives from the King's charities and perhaps others who are not celebrities but represent those wider elements of civil society,” said Dr Bob Morris (UCL Constitution Unit) about the invitees for the coronation.
‘Shopping list’ approach to Horizon Europe ‘leads to deadlock’
“These delays are coming at a price – it is costing UK science every day we are outside Horizon,” said Professor Graeme Reid (UCL Vice-Provost Research, Innovation & Global Engagement) about the EU research funding framework that the UK might lose access to.
UK private schools rush to expand overseas as profits soar
“The ethical implications of returning large profits to Britain from developing countries may come to be questioned, and the practice resented, by foreign governments and their peoples,” said Professor Francis Green (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society).
Shakespeare play painting upends history books
“There can be no doubt that this is the first surviving history picture painted after a text of Shakespeare,” said Dr Robin John Hughes Simon (UCL English Language & Literature) on a Flemish painting depicting a scene from The Merchant of Venice.
The war that Russia lost
“The Russians expected to win [the Russo-Japanese] war. It was a classic example of a war that the Russians expected to be short and gloriously victorious,” said Professor Simon Dixon (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies).