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News Archive

News and events for the year 2005


  • December

    • £50,000 award for philosopher
    • The Biology and Business of Stroke – University of Reading
    • Student's green code for goods
    • Uni star Benton at double
    • Human rights session at uni
    • Distinguished award for Reading philosopher – University of Reading
    • Step forward for European genes and diet research programme – University of Reading
    • Public Lecture Series 2005/2006 continues – University of Reading
    • Ure Museum inspires local children – University of Reading
    • School students get to grips with Human Rights issues – University of Reading
    • University awards top honours to former lecturer – University of Reading
    • Young scientists produce manifesto to combat climate change – University of Reading
    • University statement concerning the Department of Sociology – University of Reading
    • Jitsu Gold for Reading – University of Reading
    • Tired of feeling tired?
    • Facelift for pharmacy
    • Farm Business Data 2006 - Report on Farm Incomes in the Reading Province* – University of Reading
    • You can make a real difference
    • Glimpse into robo-future
    • Say adieu to ho-hum offices
    • Researchers are keen to take on age old problems
    • Oar inspiring
    • Nurses prescribing concerns
    • Rape oil benefits
    • Research prize
    • There's more to life on Earth
    • Prizes single out spirit of innovation
    • Flu jab that comes in a tablet
    • Stroke experts discuss research
    • Doctor delight
    • Pupils learn about ancient Greeks
    • Human rights on the agenda
    • Farming Today
    • Bovine TB
  • November

    • Countdown
    • Why can't we make more flu vaccine?
    • Student snapshot
    • How William Shatner changed the world
    • Shape of the future
    • Winning GAPs
    • Daleks feature in robot talk
    • Historic day at museum devoted to country life
    • £1m high-tech theatre opens to public
    • A fine accolade
    • Rural battleground
    • Youngsters help firms with blue sky thinking
    • The Ghosts of Christmas Future: Robots and Cyborgs – University of Reading
    • Help us make this a caring Christmas
    • Climate change
    • Weather en Francais
    • Meet Reading's new PCSOs – University of Reading
    • Spellbound: Examining the phenomenon of Harry Potter – University of Reading
    • Lord Carrington thanks supporters of the new £11m MERL – University of Reading
    • Reading rowing for the Earthquake Appeal – University of Reading
    • British police officer murder
    • Knowledge Transfer project scoops top Computing Award – University of Reading
    • Meteorology receives Queen's Anniversary Prize – University of Reading
    • Children's Christmas Lecture is a sold out success – University of Reading
    • DEFRA publishes Reading TB report – University of Reading
    • Thirteen new bright sparks – University of Reading
    • Drawing the thin blue line on campus
    • The nightmare zone
    • Heston helps to cook up all the big ideas
    • Archaeologists go digital
    • Prizewinning chef for thought lab
    • Saying it with flowers
    • Animal Engineering
    • With interest: planting the seeds for compromise
    • Reality check
    • Compute the cost of digital dermatitis
    • Farmers' strike
    • Gunpowder and God
    • Science event on plant disease risk
    • Nutri-brain
    • Getting your goat
    • Storm clouds build for Blair
    • Greenhouse gas cuts still needed
    • Accommodation in Reading
    • Speak Out
    • CS Lewis: The literary lion of Narnia
    • No-demerits speed plan
    • £11m revamp donors visit museum
    • Green power
    • It's wizard fun for Potter fans
    • All pulling together
    • Old ideas shimmy in flashy clothes
    • Blown away by fantastic plastic
    • TB review claims badger cull may worsen matters
    • Enterprise Week at the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • First public performance at new £1m theatre – University of Reading
  • October

    • Roadshow to give students advice on avoiding crime
    • £5m boost for uni
    • Material World
    • Greek displays given fresh look
    • Business-ready degree on offer
    • The speakers' shrinking corner
    • As predictable as the weather
    • Scientists make human vaccine for H7N1 bird flu virus
    • You're being bugged
    • Planning permission
    • Four Corners
    • The diary that helped an archive win star status
    • Material world
    • New grant for entrepreneurial academics – University of Reading
    • Global warming
    • Major investment in the ICMA Centre – the Business School for Financial Markets at the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Successful teaching course to run again – University of Reading
    • Public Lecture Series 2005/2006 – University of Reading
    • Professor Allan Buckwell gives Memorial Lecture – University of Reading
    • South East students seek to Yomp home – University of Reading
    • Livestock Guru helps make poverty history – University of Reading
    • Launch of the new-look Ure Museum – University of Reading
    • First Reading Pharmacy postgraduates earn certificates – University of Reading
    • Heston Blumenthal to open the University's new Innovation Lab – University of Reading
    • Beckett Collection receives national recognition – University of Reading
    • A grand new home for Reading's School of Law – University of Reading
    • Herbal medicinal products for treating gynaecological complaints in women
    • Voluntary sector projects of the year
    • Cattle farmers given computer aid
    • Consumer talk
    • Power 100 of the countryside
    • Vaccine failure could lead to flu pandemic
    • Three share chemistry Nobel Prize
    • ICMA donates £5m to University of Reading financial markets building project
    • A familiarity problem
    • Reading student's work gets national recognition
    • Housebuilding needs 165,000 extra workers
    • Super foods!
    • Concert at uni for hospice cash
    • New IT degree aims to bridge gap
    • Beth savours Ashes win
    • Uni ranks 35th in league table
    • You and Yours
    • Winter flu
    • Lost Decade
    • Avian flu
    • On the move...
    • Scientists aim to jet propel sailors to Olympic glory
    • Bt cotton perceptions, impacts documented
    • Global response against possible bird flu pandemic gathering force
    • The little red book
    • Aurora seen from South
    • Pension funds could stake out real estate
  • September

    • Efforts underway to improve weather data gathering
    • Simple steps can put an end to unnecessary suffering
    • Exciting find at Garioch prehistoric burial site
    • Zulu remedy for traditional British sniffles goes on sale
    • Now the CAP no longer fits, it is time to desist from defending it
    • A review of the science presentations
    • Gurus to share their secrets with budding entrepreneurs
    • Cricket bowls 'em over
    • Uni gets £8m research laboratory
    • Keep colds at bay
    • New Director of Music appointed – University of Reading
    • Universities to protect subjects
    • Entrepreneur events
    • Labour Party Conference
    • Adult education for all at the University of Reading
    • Korean Embassy delegation visits Systems Engineering – University of Reading
    • New study shows that the house building industry can deliver increased supply – University of Reading
    • Reading student is 'Most Enterprising Student 2005' – University of Reading
    • Multi-million pound BioCentre research facility opens – University of Reading
    • A new academic year, a new series of Interviews &ellipse; – University of Reading
    • New, less toxic treatment for skin cancer being developed – University of Reading
    • Implant is very handy
    • Eczema is more than skin deep
    • Reading student wins prestigious national food, nutrition and health award – University of Reading
    • It's about maths, stupid!
    • Reading Safety Week – A crime to miss it – University of Reading
    • What makes you think that's funny?
    • Spot on
    • If flood nightmare happened here ...
    • Harry Potter course on university's prospectus
    • Philosophy lecture series on natural moral law
    • Conferences and courses
    • Sparkling epitaphs
    • BBC Radio 4
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Worried? You bet, say the odd couple with an ocean to cross
    • Enterprising student trio fight for competition glory
    • Food facts
    • The 'cure' for cold? Friendly bacteria
    • Representing the hood
    • £8m research unit opening at university
    • How to make sure you stay in the comfort zone
    • Bursaries attract more students to profession
    • BBC Radio Solent
    • Warning over high doses of vitamin B
  • August

    • Game plan for a successful career
    • Dispatches
    • BBC South Today
    • Retired police join anti-terror fight
    • How much animal testing is done?
    • Reading students compete to be the country's 'most enterprising' – University of Reading
    • The invisible items
    • Clearing 2005
    • Looking to the past
    • Visitors dig history
    • Newsnight
    • Animal and plant school for Uni
    • Mars lift-off
    • Appointments
    • Research grant boosts future of chocolate supply
    • Drop in and learn – University of Reading
    • The storm hunters
    • Laying the final taboo to rest
    • Weatherwatch
    • Gifted pupils cheer on school hols
    • Laughing gas story proves C&I has a taste for news
    • Honorary degree for Fat Duck chef
    • Survival of the fattest
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Top marks in job hunting
    • Creative Genius
    • Successful managing has got to be taught
    • Training the nutritionists of the future – University of Reading
    • Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910 – University of Reading
    • Understanding the East German Dictatorship – University of Reading
    • Academics help museum go back to the future – University of Reading
    • Advising the life sciences professionals – University of Reading
    • Clearing 2005 at the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Northern Lights shift further northward – University of Reading
    • World's best chef to receive Honorary Degree – University of Reading
    • Howzat for community relations – University of Reading
    • Many children make post-GCSE choices by age of 11, study suggests – University of Reading
    • Sunday slot
    • Clearing 2005
    • Classical musician moves to new post
    • Dates for your diary
    • New Director Of Music At The Uni
    • Getting inside the minds of the bombers
    • Education choices made early in life, study shows
  • July

    • Honorary degrees for distinguished pair – University of Reading
    • Global warming deal
    • Pupils take stock of finance
    • Wonderland of human fish and snotties
    • The London bombings
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Iron: good or bad?
    • BBC 5-Live
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • University gives boost to sciences
    • Grid takes dig into the future
    • Academics hold Harry Potter talks
    • Roddick to talk on water crisis
    • A warm Atlantic linked to hot summers over Europe and US – University of Reading
    • Cybernetics professor speaks to businesses going for gold – University of Reading
    • American pianist headlines new Reading event – University of Reading
    • Berkshire schools take on Stock Market Challenge – University of Reading
    • Silchester, a site to behold – University of Reading
    • Stained glass window is a Friendly donation – University of Reading
    • Reading Sings! – University of Reading
    • Laughing gas makes better chocolate – University of Reading
    • UNISON's 'time team' dig for knowledge – University of Reading
    • Starvation is the norm for birds and mammals, study suggests – University of Reading
    • Ten new academic staff drive School of Pharmacy forwards – University of Reading
    • New School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Pane is a pleasure
    • Come along and put your voice to the test
    • Seize a chance to touch Roman relics
    • UK to buy bird flu vaccine stocks
    • Doors set to open on rural museum
    • 10 who could strike gold for Britain in 2012
    • Deadly virus spreads to migratory fowl
    • Clubbing cavemen really rock
    • Students prove to be a class act
    • Robot hand performs remote breast checks
    • Digging in the rain
    • Food scientist shortage damaging UK's R&D future
    • Blair, political 'Houdini', rides high with Olympics win, G-8
    • 'Concern' over Whitley teens' low uni chances
    • A new home for old collections
    • Dig at Roman town opens to public
    • Cholesterol significantly impacted by genes, rather than lifestyle
    • G8 and climate change
    • It's all Greek to us
    • Attacks on taxonomy
    • Investment funding advice
    • Master class from prof
    • Natasha gets GB call-up
    • Laughing gas makes chocolate more fun
    • Christianity vanquished in Britain?
    • Moved by the music
    • Moves
    • Harry Potter conference – University of Reading
    • New weapons, old wars
  • June

    • Different prebiotics go head to head in new study
    • Sparkling epitaphs
    • School's out for science
    • What the Dickens?
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Dramatic licence
    • Flash floods
    • Robot professor shows his mettle
    • Praise for class act students
    • Neanderthal man 'sang and danced'
    • Explore the distant past in study day
    • Whitfield Solar attracts further investment
    • Students' garden to stimulate senses of dementia patients
    • Leading Edge
    • University spin-out company secures further funding – University of Reading
    • Where they train the City hotshots
    • Crime Watch – University of Reading
    • A summer of Music Making in Reading – University of Reading
    • New £1 million high-tech studio theatre opens – University of Reading
    • University's range of business services on display – University of Reading
    • Impartiality and Partiality in Ethics – University of Reading
    • The Ancient World through Artefacts – University of Reading
    • Energy conference success – University of Reading
    • Students do the University proud – University of Reading
    • Attacks on taxonomy
    • Serving up a healthy food chain – University of Reading
    • Cyborg Engineering – the Widening Participation Summer Lecture – University of Reading
    • The Museum of English Rural Life to re-open its doors – University of Reading
    • University wins £200,000 grant to probe ethics
    • University announces £2,000 Scholarship plans – University of Reading
    • 'Soviet-style' planning hits homes
    • Reading Graduates - Where are you now?
    • Students to aid malaria research
    • Newsnight
    • Water shortages
    • Opera treat
    • Questions & Answers
    • Climate change sceptics out in the cold
    • Legal aid Q&A
    • Live8
    • African query wins top prize for university
    • Tackling problems with teamwork
    • Home costs await peak amid worry worldwide
    • Curtain raised on student theatre
    • Tech boost for arts
    • Obituaries
    • Leadership is the way forward
    • Teachers unite for a musical medley
    • Ocean freshens up
    • Firms to profit from B2B event
    • £2,000 pay-out for best students
    • Have bosses the appetite for seconds?
    • Britain to fund two environment projects in India
    • Climate evidence finds us guilty as charged
    • DEFRA assesses the value of the badger
    • A coo and giggle can mean so much more
  • May

    • MALAWI: Phasing out inputs programme will hurt poor - Oxfam
    • Election 2005
    • Behaviorist seeks what divides us
    • Hockey success
    • Archives a hit Down Under
    • Climate change is attributable to human activities
    • UBD set to hold major facultative conference
    • Degas, Sickert, and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris
    • Rural museum selected for award
    • Uni marks end of war anniversary
    • The art of texture
    • Glad you asked
    • Where to study statistics
    • Set course: Rural management
    • The appliance of science
    • Cleaner air makes brighter skies
    • Knicked on film
    • How will history judge cloning?
    • Which election issues matter to students?
    • Rowing success
    • University sets itself a challenge: making chemistry fun
    • Projects boost study of languages
    • Exit the man who turned Shakespeare on its head
    • Questions answered
    • Clone rangers give the hard cell
    • University statement concerning the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road planning proposal – University of Reading
    • First researchers to MERL's new reading room visit from Australia – University of Reading
    • Triumph for Reading's hockey players – University of Reading
    • Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – University of Reading
    • TVLSN: Securing intellectual property – University of Reading
    • MERL shortlisted for the 2005 Conservation Awards – University of Reading
    • University supports Adult Learners – University of Reading
    • UK sees endowments rise
    • Were you an evacuee during the Second World War? ResCEW NEEDS YOU! – University of Reading
    • Our subconscious Savanna – University of Reading
    • Water way to raise some money – University of Reading
    • Reading rows to Championship success – University of Reading
    • Uni aid on lifelong learning
    • Equipping employees for a Brave New World – University of Reading
    • Reality check
    • Lebrecht Live
    • Bird flu virus
    • Were you a child evacuee in the war?
    • Panel to assess quality of university research
    • How do you make a truly black flower?
  • April

    • Top climate scientist backs global warming claims – University of Reading
    • Impact of climate change on crops worse than previously thought – University of Reading
    • University caterers' recipe for success – University of Reading
    • Visit strengthens Reading's international links – University of Reading
    • An Evening with Professor Richard Dawkins – University of Reading
    • Historical crop samples link changes in wheat disease to air pollution – University of Reading
    • Salters' Festival of Chemistry 2005 – University of Reading
    • £11m to make new MERL a major Reading tourist attraction – University of Reading
    • Climate change warning over food production
    • Improving childcare skills in the Thames Valley – University of Reading
    • Big, tragic events and media power work together to stoke mass mourning
    • Library fun is pure genius
    • More than a gut feeling: 'bacteria drinks don't work'
    • Six of the best
    • Crop archive shows pollution link
    • The green room
    • Degree course launched
    • Beat the careers Catch 22
    • Mountain tales
    • Building begins
    • Scientific conclusion
    • Beware new age labour
    • Meridian Tonight
    • On the parish
    • Chance to quiz top prof
    • Medicine management services - barriers remain
    • Election 2005
    • Diplomats sent back to university
    • Reading top for agriculture
    • Uni hopes for a good reaction
    • Attempts to find 'lost abbey' will continue
    • Election 2005
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Award for uni caterer
    • Rural museum backers raise £11m
    • University guide
    • Just a lonesome traveller, the Great Historical Bum
    • Pope's illness
    • Driver fatigue is re-occuring theme
    • Shipman legacy leaves patients to scared to take diamorphine
    • Sports round-up - Rowing
    • The Arts Programme
    • Museum gets a boost to help roll back the years
    • Snakes and ladders: sun finally sets on the Mediterranean retreat
    • Bring them in on your coat-tails
    • General Election date announced
    • Two decades after lost little bird's rediscovery, radio to the rescue
    • Tempora mutantur
    • Childcare staff get career boost
  • March

    • MERL on the move
    • Richard Dawkins to speak at uni
    • Supporting research for longevity and well-being – University of Reading
    • Know who is sometimes more important than know how – University of Reading
    • Science and art make the perfect partnership – University of Reading
    • Mousemat discusses the Perspex Machine
    • Cybernetics Robot Rally – University of Reading
    • Speed skills
    • MP: Uni leads way in science
    • Musical feast
    • University bursaries package approved
    • Meridian Tonight
    • The good house price guide
    • Woman's Hour
    • RICS European Housing Review 2005 – University of Reading
    • Another Latin triumph for Minimus the Mouse – University of Reading
    • University lays on a classical music feast – University of Reading
    • University pledges £1.3 million to support disadvantaged students – University of Reading
    • Japanese robot Expo will wow the crowds
    • FSA probiotics research published – University of Reading
    • Uni to look at needs of OAPs
    • Making light work of cataracts and related topics
    • Bacteria, anyone?
    • Take care in eastern Europe, property investors warned
    • Wales Tonight
    • GM crops threat to wildlife examined
    • PIFs unlikely to conflict with buy-to-let
    • Momentous day for museum as it loads up its exhibits for the big move
    • Record entry as crews battle it out on the Thames
    • Britain reveals flu pandemic plan
    • All in the mix
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Probiotics - do bacteria survive in people's digestive system?
    • Mugabe accuses Moyo of coup plot
    • Students' enthusiasm for science has been fired up at a Greenwich school
    • Where do I begin?
    • Neanderthals sang like sopranos
    • Meridian Tonight
    • Species list reaches half-million mark
    • Ploughing for charity
    • It is official: Women are better drivers
    • 5,000 are expected at Uni conference
    • Local foods
    • £1.3m pledged to poorer students
  • February

    • Scientists discover 'reading' molecule at Reading
    • Towards a truly clever Artificial Intelligence – University of Reading
    • The World this Weekend
    • Rural convoy off to new museum
    • A history of the colour indigo
    • Rowing
    • US to test bird flu vaccine
    • Cutting to the chase
    • MERL on the move
    • Government likely to stay hand on rent reviews
    • Tiny Arab nation fanciful land rushes reshapes geopgraphy
    • Our Light Materials – University of Reading
    • New Professor of Pharmacy appointed – University of Reading
    • University French play makes a welcome return – University of Reading
    • Liberty and Justice for All – University of Reading
    • Reading's student careers programme wins top award
    • Babies can learn words before their first birthday – University of Reading
    • Indigo: from medieval biotechnology to denim jeans – University of Reading
    • Museum of English Rural Life on the move – University of Reading
    • Reading boat race will be an oarsome spectacle – University of Reading
    • Kilogram needs a new definition, experts say – University of Reading
    • Government publishes much-anticipated report into commercial property lease negotiations – University of Reading
    • A sporting chance for school pupils – University of Reading
    • University Concert will put a spring in your step – University of Reading
    • Woman's Hour
    • Who's winning the battle for quality staff?
    • Calcium queries
    • University Challenge
    • Lecture explores world of polymers
    • Course for music teachers
    • Viagra ... for flowers
    • Look into your eyes and save your life
    • Towards a truly clever Artificial Intelligence
    • Second home seekers look further afield
    • The overlooked and the unpaid
    • Of secrets and lives
    • Is a balanced diet the best defence - or does the body need help?
    • Canoe believe it - 125-mile four-day race
    • Grant for Nano
    • University's double in excellence
    • My word, babies are just brilliant
    • Mixed zone: Flood still seeking high water mark
    • Graduate debt? Do a runner...
    • My affair lady
    • US law expert to lecture on his toughest cases
    • Games of Chance
    • In Touch
    • Leading edge
    • TV producer trounces financial experts
    • Moves
    • Corporate Values
    • Pope's power limited, despite global recognition
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • Newsnight
  • January

    • Climbing commercial property ladder
    • Have you heard the one about...?
    • Upgrading university's research facilities
    • Why send me home after all you've done?
    • Labour told to replace upward-only reviews
    • Pandemic warning
    • Look who's talking
    • Brainwave puts student in top 10 young engineers
    • Teachers take centre stage
    • On a higher plain
    • Uni awards for consultants
    • UK research live & kicking at Reading University
    • High notes of the singing Neanderthals
    • You and Yours
    • Hair, there and everywhere
    • Finding out about flu
    • Twelve good women and true
    • Work on £5.3 million livestock research facilities begins – University of Reading
    • UK-Japan Collaboration: Climate Science for the 21st Century – University of Reading
    • Students' cartoon capers aid relief effort – University of Reading
    • Molecular tweezer decodes polymer sequences: 'reading' molecule discovered at Reading – University of Reading
    • Town and gown in health alliance – University of Reading
    • New Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) at The University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Reading's student careers programme wins top award – University of Reading
    • Cascade Fund invests in Reading's nanoscience technologies – University of Reading
    • New Chief Executive for the Natural Environment Research Council – University of Reading
    • Are you in hot flush hell?
    • Krakatoa
    • Fervour to put down roots lies in Exodus
    • Language courses
    • Flirty wife so full of strife
    • Redgrave at Uni for Chechen talk
    • Microbes brave briny basins
    • Managing minor illnesses
    • Fats and the X factor
    • Yoga at uni for appeal
    • Honking, speeding: that'll be the lady driver
    • A priceless pictorial record of agriculture
    • The code for best practice on mobile network development
    • "Science proves there is a God"
    • They're on the A List
    • Man has a brain in here...
    • On the move...
    • Go ahead likely for wartime evacuees database
    • Cartoons come to life for tsunami
    • £5.3m revamp for dairy research
    • New prescription
    • Launch of the new School of Pharmacy – University of Reading
    • Set course: Diplomatic studies
    • Helping Aids-hit Kenya
    • BBC Radio Berkshire
    • University professor to head research into climate change
    • Hefce takes aim at RAE gameplaying
    • 'Sting jet' blamed for winds
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