Reading in the news - Wed 9 Mar
09 March 2022
Ukraine: Professor Kleio Akrivou (Henley Business School) is quoted by the News (in Ukranian), , , , , , , and others on pressure on food companies to pull business from Russia.
#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment
- Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) is quoted by , , and 27 other radio stations online on research that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point of irreversible decline and damage.
- , and report, and , , and quote Professor Andrew Charlton Perez (Meteorology) on leading a study co-authored by the University that forecasts increases in the number of heat-related deaths in the UK due to global temperature increases.
COVID-19: expert comment on the pandemic
- Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) is quoted by the , , , , and others on waning public immunity and an increasing number of hospital admissions.
- Dr Alexander Edwards (Pharmacy) answered BBC Radio Berkshire's Covid questions.
Other Coverage:
- Dr Lebene Soga (Henley Business School) is quoted by and on the ability for business partners to work well with one another as a key aspect of entrepreneurial success.
- shortlist a collaborative University fashion campaign for 'best engagement campaign' in their Sustainable Fashion Awards.
- reports on proposed parking changes that may affect a street within the University area.
- BBC Radio Solent mentioned Reading research on gendered language conducted with an online vocabulary test.
- reports that TV personality, Ayanda Thabethe, is a student at Henley Business School in an article on celebrities who are students.
Reading alumni:
- , , , , and report on a Henley Graduate's appointment as UBA Ghana's new CEO and MD.
- mentions that Steven Lee Myers, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, is a Reading graduate of 1989.
- lists a Reading graduate and independent specialist in type design and font engineering as an inspiring creative female to follow in 2022.
- reports that a Judge was a professor of law at the University.