News and events for the year 2006
December
- Natural products good for bones
- Henry Kelly Show, BBC Radio Berks
- Car share bid to cut the jams
- Speed woe
- Henry Kelly Show, BBC Radio Berks
- Henry Kelly Show, BBC Radio Berkshire
- Wheat, peanuts and rice under threat
- Climate change threatens staple food crops
- South Today
- Make it happen and bring about change
- Dream ticket
- Prions in soil - testing the fate of prions in soil takes another step forward
- Monsoon rainfall amount stable for decades
- The Best Of The Digital Download
- Suttons Seeds plants its roots at university
- BBC Breakfast news
- Reading to research new health and social care infrastructure – University of Reading
- Independent prescribing courses
- Rave on: a grand in the hand for social enterprise to expand – University of Reading
- 'We must put house in order to save exports'
- Insight into lost rural life to go on show at MERL – University of Reading
- Which antisocial behaviours are the British public most concerned about? University of Reading finds out – University of Reading
- Lecturer shares top award with Nobel prize winner – University of Reading
- London, New York..........Reading - ICMA Centre Expands Executive Education Courses – University of Reading
- Uni Boat Club Enjoys Waves Of Success – University of Reading
- University of Reading says happy birthday to Shostakovich in Autumn concert – University of Reading
- BBC News 24
- University of Reading statement regarding student robberies/assaults – University of Reading
- Vaccine to cure every strain of flu
- University car-share scheme to help cut traffic – University of Reading
November
- No conferring: University of Reading gets its fingers on the buzzer – University of Reading
- Climate change: "Cost of inaction to global economies is huge" warns Government's Chief Scientific Adviser – University of Reading
- Star finance student wins hedge fund prize – University of Reading
- Business school extension
- Scientist wins award
- Business school extension
- Unpaid workers
- Small firms gain the right to look before they lease
- Food science 'gap year' targets UK recruit crisis
- Crumbs: looking back on how biscuits built a University – University of Reading
- University of Reading to host major names in the battle against poverty – University of Reading
- Statement from Professor Gordon Marshall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading – University of Reading
- Dietary fat - friend or foe? – University of Reading
- Public lecture digs deep at Silchester Roman Town – University of Reading
- Top of the class for the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading – University of Reading
- University Council votes to close Physics – University of Reading
- Secrets and spies: espionage writer to visit University of Reading – University of Reading
- Henry Kelly Show, BBC Radio Berkshire
- Willow builds bridges - and sculptures - for museum and school – University of Reading
- Chemical reaction: Christmas children's lecture on chemistry sells out in days – University of Reading
- Excellence is extended with new plans for University of Reading – University of Reading
- Come fry with me: travelling foodies take to the road – University of Reading
- Wheat, peanuts and rice under threat from climate change – University of Reading
- Supermarket launches graduate scheme to whet the appetite
- Student drinking
- Extra drill for chippie off to Afghanistan
- Buy to Let Mapped out
- Henry Kelly Show
- Questions, Questions
- Vitality vs. vita-rexia
- A time of war and far away places
- Steel takes the honours
- The blond bombshell takes the campus by storm
- We've all had a drink
- The weather forecast: rain, storms,drought and floods
- Paying attention to detail
- Mick hopes his idea will put an end to superbugs
- Believe it or Not
- Jay Thomas Show
- 10 before 10
- New superfood cure for cancer
- Strategic Partnerships
- Buyer beware house valuations
- Freedom Pass
- Last nail in the coffin
- Did deep for history
- Wi-Fi made me sick
October
- Who wants to live forever?
- Cave Talk
- Mini models make a splash
- Breakfast news show on BBC Radio Berkshire
- New climate centre opens
- Joint bid to curb student drinking
- Heston Blumenthal: In Seach of Perfection
- EU strategy to protect soil from nutrient loss and erosion
- Uni archivist and town leader wins award
- How much are we prepared to pay for locally-produced food?
- Pupils' perfect poetry
- Back from the brink - one man's battle with mental illness
- Crackdown on campus crime pays dividends
- Sutton Seeds exhibtion
- Security and safety top priority at the University of Reading – University of Reading
- Memorial Lecture to be given by land quality expert – University of Reading
- Upgrading Humans – Technical Realities and New Morals – University of Reading
- Senate Comments on Proposed Closure of Physics – University of Reading
- New Award to Stimulate Cutting-Edge Biomimetics Research – University of Reading
- How much more are we prepared to pay for locally produced foods? – University of Reading
- James Bond-style inventions protected secret war intelligence, new research reveals – University of Reading
- University archivist wins top international prize – University of Reading
- Meningitis case – University of Reading
- University of Reading to be 'Borissed' – University of Reading
- New Climate Institute at the University of Reading contributes to Stern Review – University of Reading
- Unity and diversity - New insights into the origin of species suggest that biologists disagree less than they thought they did
- Seeing the Museum of English Rural Life through new eyes – University of Reading
- University urges cold turkey on student drinking promotions – University of Reading
- First class welcome for Sama
- University Chancellor to reveal perils of diplomatic dining – University of Reading
- Home truths? How America's housing boom may be coming to a tricky end
- Student uncovers top-secret history of OUP
- Inspired by Nature
- Tory Boris will give talk at university
- New term, new students
- Embedded chips not getting under shoppers' skin
- New Reading degree to boost sector skills
- Good reputations can be bad investments
- Alumni celebrates 106th birthday
- Rural life exhibition will celebrate bulbs company
- University head calls for cheap drinks ban
- University calls time on cheap drinks
- New desiccant can be moulded
- Brownfield Squeeze
- Dr Rampaul's journey to excellence
- Student research into war secrets of Oxford University Press
- Warm autumn gives exotic bees a buzz
- Student numbers up at University
- University asks landlords not to sell cheap drinks
- 'Stop giving our students free alcohol'
- Hit the young with alcopop tax - minister
- Student drinking
- Putting the boot in to celebrate Beckett
September
- Finding the Alternative
- Farmers' Weekly Academy
- Buy to let good for economy, and is good for housing
- Obituary - EHH Green, former lecturer
- Stirling work to boost men's sex lives
- Bird Flu Vaccine
- Sick cyclamen
- Open Days Will Open Your Mind! – University of Reading
- Stressed-out Britons are running low on vitamins
- Go behind-the-scenes at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
- Sutton Seeds plants its roots at university museum – University of Reading
- Museum of English Rural Life Inaugural Lecture – University of Reading
- What will become of the landscape in 2050? – University of Reading
- Universities win £5 million to invest their knowledge – University of Reading
- ICMA Centre at the University of Reading recognised as CFA Program Partner Institution – University of Reading
- Common garden plant threatened by climate change – University of Reading
- University Museum gets £50,000 Heritage Lottery win – University of Reading
- Companies tap into wealth of student talent – University of Reading
- University of Reading passes the test to become recognized by the Skills Council – University of Reading
- Landscape's the setting for tackling climate change, obesity and quality of life – University of Reading
- Police give students crime reduction lesson – University of Reading
- University statement concerning the Department of Physics – University of Reading
- Beckett Centenary celebrated in 21st Century style – University of Reading
- University Guide 2006
- Peek behind the scenes at museum
- Going Green with Embarrassment
- Broaden your horizons - join adult learners
- Stay of execution
- Monsoon Britain
- Passengers' chat will be recorded to foil hijackers
August
- Time to fetch the severed head
- Most colleges 'set to sign technology transfer deals'
- Greece is the word
- Sichester Roman Town
- Climate change at Reading
- Granny Cool
- Spotting the terrorist
- Clearing 2006
- Farmers fail to reap rewards
- Gut instinct
- Getting a head for numbers
- Landscape conservation – who pays? – University of Reading
- Children in War – University of Reading
- My, Haven't We Grown!
- Students give University top marks – University of Reading
- The Medieval military – how professional was it? – University of Reading
- Providing a health check on Planet Earth - the UK's first national centre for Earth observation – University of Reading
- Satisfaction guaranteed as Reading passes the university challenge
- Angle exports IP deals to US
- University's research cash
July
- Is my office space really shrinking?
- Suppose we all ate a healthy diet... – University of Reading
- Spot Her Maj - at the uni
- Learning curve for moguls
- Digging for history with the time team
- First turf cut for new £6.4m Student Services Centre – University of Reading
- University and law firm collaborate on family law – University of Reading
- Budding entrepreneurs to take their ideas to full bloom – University of Reading
- 'Globalfocusing': the next stage in the development of globalization – University of Reading
- Roman Britain opens to visitors – University of Reading
- Germans set up an apartheid-like society in Britain – University of Reading
- Wild bees and the flowers they pollinate are disappearing together – University of Reading
- ANGLE plc announces 20-year strategic partnership with the University of Reading – University of Reading
- Families become Greek Olympians for the day – University of Reading
- On the origins of warfare
- Reindeer thrive in warmer world
- Why was Alexander so Great? – University of Reading
- Water waste on our hottest July day ever
- A broad week of history
- Can't chat now, there's a storm
- Global warming: Crisis for Earth?
- New laser lab
- 7/7: the Chief Rabbi speaks
- Honorary degrees
- Work starts on uni student centre
- Blood, lore and legend
- Vital help with start-up costs
- Rowers face Swiss test
- Getting the best out of raw materials
- Police call for tracker chips in paedophiles
- Eating trends in Britain
- Increasing the consumption of healthy fats
- Apartheid-like society in Anglo-Saxon Britain
- Flowers dwindle with plight of the bee
June
- Bug Fest
- Science ethics
- Queen's honours
- Life among the fixed stars
- New war demands new training for troops
- Speak out
- Art trail leads to Reading
- Film project is a gas for graduates
- Pupils play a leading role in CSI: Reading
- Organic opportunities are going begging
- Breaking new ground
- Beckett, as read by the stars, is irresistible at charity event
- Bird flu fatalities almost triple, spurring need for treatments
- Smart uni student wins £500 first prize
- Review of methods to stop novel gene spread
- Clients are more demanding
- Philosophers are finding fresh meanings in truth, beauty and goodness
- Four elements in the struggle for world power
- Young people's ownership called into question
- Rape conviction 'less likely if victim has been drinking'
- Announcing the end of an era
- Take care through the Masters maze
- Indulge in festival launch party fun
- It will be all Greek for youngsters at Ure Museum
- Science Fiction inspiration
- Reading course
- Greater efforts needed to stimulate demand for organic products
- Big pharma's new code of practice
- Reading students reach final
- Tents moments
- Skills shortage poses no threat to building projects, say experts
- Financial literacy: how can it be improved and who foots the bill?
- Forensic detectives
- Night flights and climate change
- Omega 3 farm feed to benefit humans
- Ladybird invasion
- Students do the University proud – University of Reading
- University celebrates success of celebrity Beckett charity evening – University of Reading
- Cutting night flights could reduce aircraft's impact on climate change – University of Reading
- Student honoured in science award competition – University of Reading
- World's best chef and Oscar-winning director receive honorary degrees – University of Reading
- Duke Ellington still rules at Sacred Concert – University of Reading
- Celebrating 30 years of Clinical Language Sciences at Reading – University of Reading
- Insect excitement at the Cole Museum – University of Reading
- Brave New World: Ageing research at Reading – University of Reading
- Greater efforts needed to stimulate demand for organic products – University of Reading
- Forensic detectives visit the University of Reading – University of Reading
- University and Deloitte train entrepreneurs of the future – University of Reading
- Statement concerning the suspension of industrial action – University of Reading
- Exploring new ways to increase consumption of healthy polyunsaturated fats – University of Reading
- Regeneration is good for all of us, says Labour advisory group – University of Reading
May
- Risk-taking is fine, gambling is not
- Thomson Scientific ranks UK research
- Standpipes threat as consumers fail to turn off the taps
- High-flyers spread their wings
- Laser lab will shine a new light on physics
- Experts aiming to put city on the map
- A safety lesson at uni
- Petra's quality ideas for better towns are winners
- Decent health care for older people
- How to smell good naturally
- Digging for misery
- Scholars suggest improved regime
- A matter of life and death: who gets to choose?
- Infants are brighter sparks
- Caracalla
- University's weather centre celebrates 40th anniversary with two days of events
- Systems of traditional medicine from South and South East Asia
- Scientists think thin to help save millions
- Where does creativity come from?
- School exams
- The Fezzan as a metaphor
- Mobile phone signals reveal rainfall
- University guide
- Brace yourself for the hayfever season
- Drought in Britain
- University's enchanting green secret laid open to all in charitable effort
- Reading students win O2 apprenticeship opportunity – University of Reading
- Foreign ownership of City property doubles in less than ten years – University of Reading
- Herbal remedy could help sufferers of type 2 diabetes – University of Reading
- 'Perfect Bouquet' decorated with Chelsea award – University of Reading
- Putting the fizz into chemistry – University of Reading
- University Rowing Club earns a BUSA boost! – University of Reading
- Cascade Fund invests in protein crystallography at Reading – University of Reading
- The Women's Library celebrates Women's Institutes' action women! – University of Reading
- Events programme at the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading – University of Reading
- Reading construction student wins international innovation award – University of Reading
- Report calls for major changes to planning controls – University of Reading
- Department of Meteorology celebrates 40 years – University of Reading
- Look a stone slimmer by tonight
- The magic of chemistry is a quiz subject
- Britain's food under threat: Buy now while stocks last
- May blossom is blood pressure cure
- Massive rise in foreign ownership of City property
- Out-of-date system is in need of revision
- Rivals fail to budge 'best employers' from the top
- Action Women
- Robot prof visits
- A natural pharmacy in your back garden
- The rise of the not-so-silent partner
- Solar energy provides the source of inspiration for award-winner Martyn
- ICMA course aims to mould generation of managers
April
- Easter family fun at the University museums – University of Reading
- Farm worker has bird flu
- The Fezzan
- New school aims to be among top five
- Stars turn out for Beckett
- The Politics Show
- Ancestors behaving badly
- New advisory board to help produce outstanding real estate graduates – University of Reading
- Reading Knowledge Transfer Partnership scoops DTI award – University of Reading
- Charlie Waller Foundation to part-fund new NHS psychotherapy post – University of Reading
- Researchers double the power of the price-earnings ratio – University of Reading
- Putting geography on the map in local schools – University of Reading
- Launch of new MSc in Investment Management – University of Reading
- Economic growth is no panacea for child labour, research suggests – University of Reading
- Perfecting industrial processes: scientists fuse human knowledge and technological data – University of Reading
- Infants can organise visual information at just four months – University of Reading
- New Reading laser lab shows fastest physical processes known – University of Reading
- Defra plans badger cull
- Long-term view doubles returns
- A land of plenty of bargains
- What are probiotics and prebiotics?
- Fishy tales
- Northern lights shine bright
- Limber up for role as flexible friend
- Masks may not help Londoners' lungs
- Bird flu outbreak
- Ancient adornment lesson
- Herd mentality tends to stampede the forecasters
- 80 years of excellence
- As easy as ABC?
- Specialists call for policies, laws related to social work
- Samuel Beckett Gala Evening
- Clear eyes
- Sorry, Maestro Barenboim. Music is for idiots and Neanderthals
- Good news? US-bashers aren't listening
- Chance to learn for free at uni
March
- Industries sign up for year-long prebiotics project
- We need a revolution in thinking about care for older people
- Malta contract
- Rise in the drug gangs that deal in violence
- A science to winning
- Primary care nurse prescribers face greater challenges
- Horse treatment hope for bird flu
- The needle in the haystack murder
- Farming Today
- On cavemen crooners, survival
- Clue to slow human bird flu jump
- Course recognises sector's maturity
- University launches unique food and health research programme – University of Reading
- Major research into diet at uni
- Cash and good ideas - the perfect match
- Potential link between aluminium salts in antiperspirants and breast cancer warrants further research – University of Reading
- Telecoms code review report published – University of Reading
- University researcher to present discovery to MPs – University of Reading
- Happy un-birthday Mr Mozart!: Spring concert 2006 – University of Reading
- Minghella directs Beckett gala evening for Macmillan – University of Reading
- Reading students triumph in prestigious international trading competition – University of Reading
- South – north shift for European house prices, research shows – University of Reading
- 80 years of excellence at the University of Reading – University of Reading
- Printed Ephemera, Tudor divorces and the English rural idyll – major history conferences at the University of Reading – University of Reading
- UK's Brown may shun tax increases in budget, analysts say
- How to get slim
- Parliament under threat
- Reading plays host to Samuel Beckett centenary celebrations
- Cantata help but celebrate Mozart
- Due to questionable controls, automatons go on ice-cream attack
- Oar-some uni race
- Antiperspirants and breast cancer
- Doctors make more errors, survey finds
- The technology dilemma in a global economy
- The Moral Maze
- Salters' Festival of Chemistry – University of Reading
- Agricultural education reaches crunch point
- Estonia is Europe's property hotspot
- Fundraising's such a drag, drag, drag
- Leading Edge
- Not just jam - WI shows radical side
- Jude Law and Lee Evans join cast for Beckett Gala Evening – University of Reading
- Report seeks code review for mobiles
- Uni man takes evidence to MPs
- Scientists hope it will be third time lucky as they try to unlock Mars's water secrets
- Survival Dance: How humans waltzed through the Ice Age
- Reading tribute to Beckett
- Seeking ferment
- Climate change
- Adverse reaction among the chemistry set
- University to mark 80th birthday
- Samuel Beckett: The Irish European press view – University of Reading
- Teaching practice
- University Boat Club has a March to remember – University of Reading
- University displays unpublished Beckett notebooks for the first time – University of Reading
February
- Global warming: the 'tipping point'
- Pandemic potential of H5N1 bird flu – University of Reading
- Links with Malta
- Agriculture and environment: How green was my subsidy?
- Body Worlds exhibit spurs surge in donation pledges
- Queen sees a UK medical first in action
- Cat dies after it is infected with bird flu
- Selling science to the future's entrepreneurs
- Union unveils the future – University of Reading
- University's 80th anniversary kicks off with special Sports Festival – University of Reading
- Non-standard errors add up to lack-of-confidence intervals
- Meteorology receives Queen's Anniversary Prize – University of Reading
- Queen death announcement plans caused strain between Britain and Commonwealth – University of Reading
- Reading triumphs in own sports festival – University of Reading
- University signs €1 million 'Twinning Project' agreement with government of Malta – University of Reading
- University Boat Club race is just ahead – University of Reading
- Monty's dig at God
- Queen death announcement plans
- Pandemics in the 21st century: how worried should we be? – University of Reading
- Maths graduate wins sudoku prize
- How to Survive a Robot Uprising
- Boost your energy
- Krakatoa's signature persists in the ocean
- The World Tonight
- Sports teams vie for varsity victory
- Cartoon protests
- R&D is key to the Thames Valley's future
- Town and country
- Do-gooders feel the pinch as business and profit mix badly
- Expert says we're not ready to fight bird flu
- The Violent Workplace
- Use your head: live off the land
- Blumenthal to get honorary doctorate
- All human life
- Inside Out
- Avian flu
- If you are saved from the thunder, spare a thought for Reading
- A cure for cocoa?
January
- Inclusivity rises up planners' agenda
- A capital degree
- Britain escapes the ice, so far
- Police changes
- Pressing home the importance of that old poster
- Helping robots test their mettle
- Quiz will be a real knockout
- Students get taste of life at the chalkface
- Elderly on the agenda
- Check out the cosmic clouds, man
- New supreme court will touch us all
- Ayurveda: introduction for pharmacists
- Does it work? Eating blackcurrants
- Experts discuss high-tech housing for older people – University of Reading
- Reading Student takes Taylor Woodrow Dissertation Prize – University of Reading
- New taxonomy book honours top Reading plant scientist – University of Reading
- Childcare staff given chance to boost career prospects – University of Reading
- 'Faces of the South Downs' exhibition comes to MERL – University of Reading
- Cosmic 'raise' in cloud – University of Reading
- Ancient lakes of the Sahara – University of Reading
- Children compete in University School Science Challenge – University of Reading
- £800 bursary on offer for Berkshire students who want to teach – University of Reading
- Learn about business, entrepreneurship and &ellipse; Australian pop music! – University of Reading
- Exhibition: Samuel Beckett - The Irish European – University of Reading
- First ever Master's in Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance – University of Reading
- No property bubble, says UK expert
- Six more feet for the campus beat
- 2006 Town Hall Lectures – Life, Earth and Happiness: An Evolutionary Tale – University of Reading
- Home Planet
- The unholy lust of scientists
- H5N1 could be adapting to us
- Development in Berkshire
- Doctor is fall guy
- Limits to work zero tolerance
- Association for Science Education conference
- Fine fare for Beckett fans
- Uni student fights for gold in Jitsu contest
- Scrap books
- Avian flu
- Falls, faints, fragility and fractures
- MTPP News
- Keeping an eye on the past
- A hard line from 'soft' scientists
- Church wants women bishops by 2012
- Not right
- Uni professor inspired book
- History team finds a lost civilisation
- Blood of bird flu victims to create vaccine
- MURs: how the picture is developing
- City to host meet on monsoon
- Degrees offered for child carers
- Expo puts rural faces in focus
- University unveils its new child development degrees
- Giving your daughter fish for tea will mean your grandkids are healthy
- The effect on patients' rights of private commissioning of NHS services
- Computer calculations help beat footrot
- Five make it into new Who's Who
- Convictions on record