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News Archive

News and events for the year 2004


  • December

    • MP kicks off sporting lectures
    • In the beginning there was something
    • Climatologists get real over global warming
    • University gets green electricity
    • BBC dig wrecks site
    • Fears for CAP cash after 2005 reform
    • Students' art work on show
    • Inspiration from student's triumph
    • Sugar beet feed has role in lifting milk fat
    • Thinking Allowed
    • Berkshire dignitary receives honorary degree – University of Reading
    • Degree of success for Lieutenant
    • Metabolic Syndrome: A ticking time bomb – University of Reading
    • Political alchemy comes to the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • New Pharmacy course meets national needs – University of Reading
    • Best Practice on Mobile Phone Network Development – University of Reading
    • Research Studentships on offer – University of Reading
    • Support your local young engineers – University of Reading
    • Robotic Surveillance Project launched – University of Reading
    • University helping to change Britain's Enterprise Culture – University of Reading
    • First Date
    • Crime figures reveal 'top of the flops' police forces
    • Big-hearted readers flood us with toys
    • The A-Z of business schools
    • Breakthrough in Molecular Genetics of Strawberry
    • Oceanographers combine numerical models to improve hurrican research
    • A sea change
    • Woman's Hour
    • News
    • Euro funds to help build an eco-friendly power station
    • Raising millions for the university
    • Lecture on coral reefs
    • Shout from rooftops
    • Vision: Graduate special
    • What a swell party this is
    • Is Asian Bird Flu the next pandemic?
    • Forecast 2005: Europe
    • Atheist discovers 'the science of God'
    • Accio 2005 call for papers
    • Talk tickets go fast
    • Who has the most chairs?
    • Nightwaves
    • A victory for green power
    • Perfect present
    • Bugs on agenda
  • November

    • The birds, boys and female clothes
    • A Roman view of Purbeck
    • Meads falls to Alex the great
    • Meteorology grants boost
    • El 'cyborg' briténico
    • Meridian TV
    • Moves
    • A lofty perch
    • Material World
    • Polish play premieres
    • Perfect finish
    • English country crafts report launched – University of Reading
    • Coral Reefs: Climate Change and Sustainability – University of Reading
    • What satellite data reveals about climate change
    • Farm House
    • Farm Business Survey results published – University of Reading
    • Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate – University of Reading
    • Ethical Issues in Intensive Care – University of Reading
    • Appointment takes new School of Pharmacy forward – University of Reading
    • From Ethics to Genetics – University of Reading
    • Breakthrough in molecular genetics of strawberry – University of Reading
    • Sh112bn is needed for roads
    • Reading courts squash success – University of Reading
    • All in the mind
    • Mapping link
    • Choir stars join concert
    • Consumer champion hits out at food policy
    • Has a 'runaway' greenhouse effect begun?
    • US election coverage
    • Farming subject of lecture
    • Rents killing golden goose, says Dixons
    • 'Blaine box' pair clearly mad for it
    • Team digs in to make a difference
    • Winning gamble for all in big draw
    • Meltdown for European skiing?
    • Sunday papers
    • Visit strengthens academic links
    • Hutton hits out over food initiatives
    • Aventis and US Department of Health enter into third pandemic influenza vaccine agreement
    • Stenton Lecture on Abraham Lincoln
    • Reassure dad
    • Seeking the key to music
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Virus warning: cyborgs at risk
    • Magnetic catalysts work like a dream
    • How much can we take?
    • Judge us on our final lease code report
    • Bodgers craft a rural revival
    • University Sinfonia is sure to hit the right note – University of Reading
    • Reading rowing success
  • October

    • Study provides fresh insight on volcanic eruptions
    • The Education Diaries Revisited
    • Campus connections
    • You will obey...
    • Prisoner is in spotlight
    • University Challenge
    • Relax your diet
    • ISMA survey shows 19% growth in repo outstandings
    • Scientists' warning on probiotic foods
    • Where to study ... Meteorology
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Japanese art strengthens UK link
    • Use antibiotics, experts advise
    • What do you want in a science job?
    • Let's kava baby
    • Burmese prisoner honoured by British university
    • Secrets of baby babble revealed in new video
    • Bodies special
    • Intercropping has promise
    • Japanese 'Heart Art' comes to Reading – University of Reading
    • Success story from the Enterprise Hub&ellipse; – University of Reading
    • Comparative research to begin on UK spatial planning systems – University of Reading
    • Research wins prestigious IChemE Award – University of Reading
    • Expo helps University staff and students to be safe – University of Reading
    • Visit helps forge closer links with China – University of Reading
    • Research locates and lists literary manuscripts – University of Reading
    • 'Heart Art' exhibition links England and Japan – University of Reading
    • Reading triumphs on University Challenge – University of Reading
    • University serves up unique squash tournament – University of Reading
    • Dame Deirdre Hutton DBE gives Memorial Lecture – University of Reading
    • Henley welcomes Olympic heroes
    • Universities to study spatial ways forward
    • Launch of Reading's new Café Scientifique – University of Reading
    • An Olympic hero's week
    • Small islands are big issue
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Starting Out
    • Reunited: The days of frolics and gowns are no more
    • Shops have 'plenty of clout' on rent
    • A prophet in the wilderness
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Use contracts to control cleaners
    • Turning your back on pain
    • 20 herbs to change your life
    • Big Weather
    • Cause celeb
    • Surprise CO2 rise may speed up global warming
    • Don your way
    • Bond scheme
    • Continued scrutiny of the justification for invading Iraq
    • All the REIT moves to rescue property
    • News
    • News
    • Enhancing the lives of people with Parkinson's
    • Countryfile
    • New hope for autism
    • Workshop puts uni on the musical map
    • News
    • Popular public lecture series to tackle copyright issue
    • Meridian Tonight
    • The natural answers to those drug scares
    • Cahalan gets top yachtswoman nod
    • Japanese art show
  • September

    • Garden at Uni is still blooming
    • Data you can virtually touch
    • Outsourcing thoughts turn to Europe
    • A foreign country
    • Want to learn more about teaching?
    • News
    • Cheer at Uni VAT victory
    • Uni's robots join in Big Draw campaign
    • Promotion reflects experience
    • Crosby: 'Why do you like upward-only reviews?'
    • University guide
    • Stopping slip-ups on banana yields
    • Do protests work?
    • Moves
    • News
    • Practices can make perfect
    • Town's gems open doors to the past
    • Seminar on Finance
    • The fun of the fairs
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • After signs of slowdown, which 'path to equilibrium' will house prices take?
    • A Taste of Teaching : free course – University of Reading
    • Sunday News & Sunday Papers
    • Howard's visit takes him from one kind of pitch to another
    • Test can tell date of murder
    • From coral reefs to copyright: Public Lecture Series 2004-2005 – University of Reading
    • University visit adds up to a great weekend – University of Reading
    • Evolution of Mind and Music exploratory workshop – University of Reading
    • A Bond Scheme for Common Agricultural Policy Reform – University of Reading
    • The Robot Big Draw at the Museum of Reading – University of Reading
    • How virtual reality can help people with disability – University of Reading
    • Open Days for adult education courses – University of Reading
    • Archaeology experts speak at BA Festival of Science – University of Reading
    • Pupils get an insight into university life
    • BBC Southern Counties Radio
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Former hostage to give film theatre talk
    • Creating a robotic Michelangelo
    • BCS winner extols value of placement
    • History lesson for Labour
    • The great outdoors
    • Community News
    • Moves
    • Director who gave Shakespeare back to masses quits Globe
    • The dangers of toothpaste and deodorant
    • Mars Mission
    • News
    • The £6bn Ache, And How To Beat It
    • Archaeologists to share secrets in festival.
    • 'Course is music to our ears'
    • The great escape
    • Farmers in crops call over wildlife
    • News
    • Trans Fats
    • Your questions answered
    • Cats can catch and spread Bird Flu, study says
    • At last, an early warning system for baby's blues
    • Beetle's about
  • August

    • Disease study needs volunteers
    • Our ancestors were adults
    • Conservation award for Ethiopian student
    • News
    • Bull beef producers get maize message
    • World-spanning Envisat Summer School
    • Early gains to ease calving
    • The hired hands of public enterprise
    • College is offering pioneering degrees
    • Spark
    • Clearing at the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Major cash boost for the all-new Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • The University of Reading and Witan International College – University of Reading
    • Linking Climate, Water and Civilisation in the Middle East and North Africa – University of Reading
    • Appeal for volunteers to help ginger study – University of Reading
    • New Enterprise Hub Director Appointed – University of Reading
    • False Dawns and hope for Autism
    • Enhancing the lives of people with Parkinson's Disease – University of Reading
    • Reading student honoured for crucial conservation work – University of Reading
    • Family property law: a need for reform? – University of Reading
    • Reading rows to Olympic glory – University of Reading
    • News
    • UK Family Property Law: A Need for Reform?
    • Sailors preparing for new round-Britain attempt
    • Countryside exhibition benefits from windfall
    • Video takes mystery out of baby talk
    • Allergy victim calls for mast ban
    • News
    • Meridian Tonight
    • News
    • March of the automatons
    • Scientists alarmed at ten-fold increase in melt rate of Greenland ice-sheet
    • Boris's boss upstaged
    • Read all about it
    • Country museum makes cash appeal
    • In search of a cure for autism
    • Fabricated feeling
    • Back in shape
    • Agricultural photos saved for posterity
    • Agricultural machines to be built at campus
    • Half man, half robot
    • Adam is a real star pupil
    • Rome's ancient fisheries confirm sea-level fears
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Space eye to help beat skin cancers
    • British women gain degree of success by capturing silver in quadruple sculls
    • Miracles and glass politics
    • Solar innovations put Reading spinout in front rank of SMEs
    • Fans dig Roman ruins
    • News
    • Georgian leader walks a separatist tightrope
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Cap and gown, check. Wallet, check.
    • Uni gets £1.2million to study weather
    • New boss for Enterprise Hub
    • Taking a more natural approach
  • July

    • Young poet stanza out
    • Uni courses are open to everyone
    • A day of epic proportions
    • At last, babies do come with a manual
    • The Soft Fruit Technology Group Expands
    • Ready to do the business
    • Me Tarzan, you pre-feminist symbol of patriarchal repression
    • BBC Radio 5 Live
    • UK market most liquid in Europe
    • Newsnight (Scotland)
    • BBC Breakfast
    • BBC World Service Newshour
    • Dan is UK's top young farmer
    • Bot a science day
    • Masterclasses in Music – University of Reading
    • Business survey indicates growth
    • Chemistry Masterclasses for A Level Students – University of Reading
    • Summer Honorary Degree Ceremonies – University of Reading
    • Yehudi Menuhin School Plays Reading – University of Reading
    • Family day at the Ure Museum - the epic battle at Troy – University of Reading
    • Student wins engineering research prize – University of Reading
    • University statement concerning the future of the intra-School Music Section – University of Reading
    • Reading Scientist Wins Top Chemistry Award – University of Reading
    • New University spin-out company develops novel solar power solutions – University of Reading
    • International business research boosted by new appointment – University of Reading
    • Silchester archaeological dig opens to the public – University of Reading
    • KTP helps Solar Power Company win Construction Industry Award – University of Reading
    • BRP project aims to deliver valuable benefits
    • Research unlocks the secrets of 'baby language' – University of Reading
    • Friendly bugs tackle autism
    • No banana-eating snakes or flying donkeys are to be found here
    • Woman's Hour
    • Same song, different notes
    • Adult education for all – University of Reading
    • How children read
    • Brain injury research results
    • News
    • News
    • News
    • Twenty Questions
    • Stress and bias prove a winning BA formula
    • Japan and the World Humor Front
    • Trainee teacher in bid for jungle crown
    • Friend or foe?
    • Triumph of the Will
    • A quick study in buy-to-let
    • Historic battle to be re-lived
    • Sigh of relief as satellite lifts off at last
    • Exotic collection unveiled for charity
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Curry Spells End Of Worry
    • Older, wiser and solvent
    • Literacy scores improve at last
    • News
    • Student engineers top award win
    • Project managers call the shots
    • Enjoy a taste of honey
    • Archaeology dig opens to public
    • Study confirms the Power of the Pineapple
    • Hedge funds need to be a matter of fact
    • Making music
    • Visitors 'dig' Open Days at Silchester Roman Town – University of Reading
  • June

    • Uni garden open to plant lovers
    • Review Column
    • Students flock to university
    • University and local FE colleges join forces – University of Reading
    • Selection proves a risky business
    • Oil supply peak not too far away
    • Sars vaccine on road to success
    • Meridian Tonight
    • The Rose Theatre, London: the state of knowledge and what we still need to know
    • Muddles - the best start to the day?
    • Plastic Fantastic
    • Students urged to make a difference
    • Shipwrecks cast new light on the Dark Ages
    • Research is an eye-opener
    • Phone boss scores with sporting links
    • Rise
    • Web news
    • Hard Talk
    • Reading's Career Management Skills programme goes international – University of Reading
    • Research suggests aspirin helps combat cataracts – University of Reading
    • Reading student in sailing world record attempt – University of Reading
    • University secures £2.4M funding to develop industry links – University of Reading
    • ISMA Centre Hosts Schools Stock Market Challenge – University of Reading
    • Real Estate Achievement – University of Reading
    • Museum of English Rural Life on the move – University of Reading
    • Can ginger help your metabolism? – University of Reading
    • Fine Art students make an exhibition of themselves – University of Reading
    • Students honoured for their community spirit – University of Reading
    • Volcanoes, Mars and robots - all in one day – University of Reading
    • Future sport leaders and firefighters on campus – University of Reading
    • Under pressure at the Summer Science Lecture – University of Reading
    • New Chair in English and American Literature appointed – University of Reading
    • Researcher elected to Society for General Microbiology Committee – University of Reading
    • Improving the life quality of older people – University of Reading
    • Shakespeare's "Rose" was a bear pit – University of Reading
    • Science is elementary
    • Spacecraft to check on climate
    • News
    • Concrete helicopter goes on show
    • Study to reveal power of ginger
    • Hot-wiring humans
    • What does your neighbour earn?
    • Why partnerships often hit the rocks
    • University environment course best in UK
    • Student sailor's world record bid
    • Night Waves
    • Aiming higher
    • Reading soft fruit team plans to expand
    • News
    • 'PM' programme
    • News
    • MERL Spring Spectacular
    • The History of Reading Society
    • Housing bubble fears 'overblown'
    • This rural life
    • Play area slides into action
    • Investing In People
    • Shake-up looms for business rent reviews
    • Leap forward for further education
    • War horse
    • Closing down the miners
    • Long man casts a short shadow
    • Breast Cancer Scares
    • How to bend it like Madonna
    • Shedding light on false warriors
    • Councillor dedicated to volunteering
    • Partnership is key to UK animal care
    • Can Paul McCartney control the weather?
    • Acting up for greater equality
    • Students' joy in court battle
    • Novice Tom on course to beat the experts
  • May

    • Songs of Praise
    • Haptics technology makes the impossible possible – University of Reading
    • Scientists discover new bacterial group – USDA press release – University of Reading
    • New collaboration makes higher education more accessible – University of Reading
    • Page and Rodford on the verge of selection
    • The Not-So-Velvet Revolution
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • You and yours
    • New study to identify best diets to reduce heart disease – University of Reading
    • Government delivers over £200,000 to Town Planning Education at Reading – University of Reading
    • Helping students Aim Higher – University of Reading
    • Business School appointments strengthen research expertise – University of Reading
    • The Farmers Weekly in Retrospect – University of Reading
    • Free Business Mentoring from TVLSN – University of Reading
    • Lord Sainsbury to open New Research Facility for Meteorology and Psychology – University of Reading
    • New appointment advances health research – University of Reading
    • Bracknell to become a European beacon for green energy – University of Reading
    • Tackling health inequalities in Berkshire – University of Reading
    • Virtual world gets a sense of touch
    • University display scoops Chelsea Flower Show award – University of Reading
    • Leading Edge
    • News
    • Care for trees, fight poverty
    • Building a career
    • Under arm tactics
    • New £5M research centre unveiled
    • Nigerian trees for life
    • Spotlight on The Harris Garden, Whiteknights
    • Pharmacy staff with disabilities sought for research into work coping strategies
    • Noticeboard
    • Farming Today
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Summer heat will cause deadly ozone
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • The order in a billion sequences
    • Students vie for a prestigious title
    • Kindness and humour cures my homesickness
    • Rural rug making
    • Bacterial drink help on autism
    • Pores for thought
    • Under the online hammer
    • The shoe fits shy princess of British retailing
    • Heart of the matter
    • Free tennis for all at Reading University
    • New collaboration makes higher education more accesible
    • Moves
    • Global property prices poised for further growth amid bullish economic indicators
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • A little light gardening will keep you in the pink
    • Academics hopeful of student intake upturn
    • University guide
    • Rural Heritage Project
    • Language and Literacy
    • Support for Burma prisoner
    • Enterprising initiative
    • University and college to woo more adults
    • Bacteria could treat symptoms of autism
    • Meridian Tonight
    • A history of farming saved in pictures
    • Hard to swallow
    • Solid Evidence
    • Pharmacy degree is not a passport to nowhere
    • House price boom leaves MPC with no place to go
    • Moves
    • 'Net gazette'
    • Pressing issue that must be resolved
    • The good bug guide
    • Pictures show a glimpse of the past we could have lost
    • Building all of our futures
    • Uni's support for tech firm set-ups
    • Light show wins award
    • Exposing Europe's democracy deficit
  • April

    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • The long road to the mind
    • Reading alumna wins the Veuve Clicquot Award Business Woman of the Year 2003 – University of Reading
    • Pupils react well to a day of creative chemistry
    • Improving the nation's diet
    • Wartime evacuees tell of lost childhood
    • It's a jungle in there
    • Why oceans behave like water in the bathtub
    • Older volunteers needed for study
    • Money matters for life scientists – University of Reading
    • Regulation threat to commercial leases
    • New fields for exploring the Rural Heritage online – University of Reading
    • Research reveals a mixed picture on flexibility of commercial property leases – University of Reading
    • Volunteers to help vital ageing research – University of Reading
    • Spring Spectacular at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • Reading geoscientists scoop prestigious research paper prize – University of Reading
    • Festival of Chemistry goes with a bang – University of Reading
    • University hosts International Workshop on Climate Prediction – University of Reading
    • New appointment in School of Agriculture and CEDAR – University of Reading
    • Global warming could lead to a greener Greenland – University of Reading
    • Meteorology student shatters world yachting record – University of Reading
    • Guilty, or Not Guilty? The jury decides – University of Reading
    • Climate scientists use the world's largest supercomputer – University of Reading
    • Reading student breaks yachting record
    • Downside of a life-saver
    • At sea in the language of Shakespeare and Bollywood
    • Good times rolling
    • Countryfile
    • Club to help small businesses
    • Doctor Net
    • Crystal clear history online
    • Humble tea bag brews up hope for organics
    • Firm plans human DNA tree memorial
    • What the UK can learn from the country most at risk of housing market meltdown
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Scientists expected to wave magic wand
    • Bovine TB levy would hit hard
    • A walk on Jekyll's wild side
    • Is this the earliest sign of human culture?
    • Climate change is conference topic
    • How common is the common buzzard, Buteo buteo?
    • The Today Programme
    • Farming Today
    • Gardeners to see the light
    • Moves
    • Cod liver oil: the facts
    • 'Wit is not a weapon' says humour expert
    • Hit all the right buttons or just flash the cash
    • Academics blame VAT for holding back internet publishing
    • Inbox
    • BBC Six O'Clock News
    • Catering staff clean up
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Thumbs up?
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • The mother of all discrimination
    • Undue power seen in Rome
    • Pupils win top university science quiz
    • A brighter future on its way out to Africa
  • March

    • Launch of the "UK Mars Station Network" – University of Reading
    • Predicting the world's climate in 2050 – University of Reading
    • Water wise students win water efficiency award – University of Reading
    • "Your starter for 10 is &ellipse; " – University of Reading
    • Restoring the Tyntesfield estate – University of Reading
    • The future of secondary school science teaching – University of Reading
    • Sitting and thinking, or just sitting? – University of Reading
    • Young sports volunteers trained at leadership conference – University of Reading
    • New business club drives investment opportunities – University of Reading
    • University Business School brings hi-tech support to Uganda – University of Reading
    • Feeding a healthy heart with fish oils – University of Reading
    • Sovereign State? – University of Reading
    • Artichoke - the vegetable with a good heart – University of Reading
    • New Distance Learning MSc Programme Launched – University of Reading
    • Authors and scholars unite for International Women's Day – University of Reading
    • Online household appliances and an Interplanetary Internet - the future of the Web explained – University of Reading
    • Cole Museum of Zoology opens its doors – University of Reading
  • February

    • Does the European Union need a Constitution? – University of Reading
    • Children compete in University School Science Challenge – University of Reading
    • King Sturge awards sponsorships to Business School students – University of Reading
    • Knowledge boost for research into ageing – University of Reading
    • Researchers could use bacteria to halt spread of crop-destroying pest – University of Reading
    • The Hidden United Kingdom – University of Reading
    • Impacts of climate change on the forecasting of crop yields – University of Reading
    • Ure Museum wins AHRB funding for redevelopment – University of Reading
    • Hitler to Saddam: the quest for international criminal accountability since 1945 – University of Reading
    • TVLSN launched to facilitate partnership in growth sector – University of Reading
    • Hundreds of rowers make a splash on the Thames – University of Reading
    • Bach, Beethoven, Bourgeois, Faure and Schubert – University of Reading
    • The Question of Europe – University of Reading
    • Herbarium database provides global access for researchers – University of Reading
  • January

    • When was The Kingdom United? Town Hall Lectures 2004 – University of Reading
    • Science education today and for the future – University of Reading
    • Meteorologists discuss changing weather and climate extremes – University of Reading
    • Public Lecture – Has the ozone layer been saved? – University of Reading
    • Launch of TVLSN - the Thames Valley's first dedicated life sciences business network – University of Reading
    • International agreement takes Catalogue of Life forward – University of Reading
    • Ceremony celebrates multi-million pound museum development – University of Reading
    • University appoints visiting fellows to Business School team – University of Reading
    • Chemicals used as preservatives detected in human breast tumours – University of Reading
    • World famous poet gives special reading at University – University of Reading
    • Brave New World or Brand New World? – University of Reading
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