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News Archive

News and events for the year 2007


  • December

    • Uni in world biodiversity study
    • Is criticism dying, or is that just your view?
    • Keep on flying
    • Scientists create a new prebiotic with the capacity to make a major impact on human health
    • This decade breaks records in table of world's hottest years
    • Uni students in litter clean-up
    • Minister grilled by university students
    • Fighting aids with greater awareness
    • Student Union launches campaigns to tackle safety and environment issues
    • Interview - Dr Annie Campbell
    • Climate role for professor
    • A renaissance comes to Reading
    • How to beat the boxing day bloat
    • Interview - Dr Graham Crampton
    • Outlook Europe: The end of a boom
    • Neighbourhood police making a difference
    • Both sides cite science to address altered corn
    • Uni in project with primaries
    • Letters to the Editor
    • New role for University of Reading Professor forges climate links with Imperial College – University of Reading
    • Taking the hits without flinching
    • Interview - John Madejeski
  • November

    • Synchrotron radiation illuminates how babies' protective bubble bursts – University of Reading
    • Unravel Egypt's golden past
    • Community News
    • The name's Mason..James Mason
    • There's also success for Reading Uni boys
    • growth and social infrastructure in spatial planning
    • Keeper of records
    • Who's afraid
    • How a fetus hides from its mother
    • Report on Engineering Award
    • Glenn Gibson - The One Show
    • NMC Shut out?
    • London poised to cement leading position
    • reading this may just save your life, if cancer experts are right
    • Cadbury sweetens the conservation pill
    • Professor Alan Evans - studio appearance
    • Are British waters getting warmer?
    • how clean is your mouse?
    • Will computers rule the world? – University of Reading
    • John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, to meet with University of Reading students – University of Reading
    • Tiny world brought to life at University Museum – University of Reading
    • University comes up with right recipe to get most out of staff – University of Reading
    • Scientists appeal for world's biodiversity records to be digitised to track the global impact of climate change – University of Reading
    • 1950s foot and mouth film to be shown at MERL – University of Reading
    • The placenta really does act like a parasite, Reading research suggests – University of Reading
    • Journalism with a passion
    • Uni professor's breakthrough could reduce miscarriages
    • University team wins award for excellence
    • Rowers make big waves
    • strands of hair could be key to unsolved murder case
    • campaign raises awareness about debt
    • Uni up for £50,000 award
    • free business talks at uni
    • Small scale big draw
    • farming ants are master herders
    • event sparks interest in chemistry
    • worldwide exposure for our university cheerleaders
    • Interview - Mark Broughton
    • Interview - Professor Susan Edwards
    • Interview - Sally Pearman
    • Government urged to invest in climate change technology
    • How do you stand working with all these old people
    • Practice trends: ancillary relief
    • Winter rations with protected fats could raise yields
    • GM crops are the only way to solve Briton's diet failings, say scientists
    • Management innovations: how important are they for business success?
    • Professor Kevin Warwick
    • Interview - Professor Kevin Warwick
    • Training your gut
    • Interview - Professor Paul Croll
    • Can uni believe it? A recycling vending machine
    • Powerful new X-ray could save babies
    • University announces termination of strategic partnership with ANGLE plc – University of Reading
    • Bird flu cull of turkeys in Norfolk jeopardises Christmas poultry sales
  • October

    • Interview - Dr Sheila MacIntyre
    • University to consult public, students and staff on campus redevelopment – University of Reading
    • the Game Boy racers taking over our roads
    • aspiration without perspiration
    • experts predict more windstorms across Europe in the long term
    • Diary, why do I drink so much?
    • Grand plans for university unveiled
    • An unusual silence
    • So how much do you think you know about the University of Reading? – University of Reading
    • University of Reading Safety Week 2007 – University of Reading
    • Technology to reduce deaths urged
    • Press office closure Tuesday October 16 – University of Reading
    • interview - Professor Andy Goodwyn
    • The University of Reading Public Lecture Series 2007-2008 – University of Reading
    • Apple Day at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • University of Reading's contribution to the IPCC process – University of Reading
    • Halloween at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • Half Term Fun at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • University of Reading forges new partnership to shape the future of real estate – University of Reading
    • University students to be disciplined – University of Reading
    • University shortlisted for top award – University of Reading
    • Synchrotron radiation illuminates how babies' protective bubble bursts – University of Reading
    • art events prove a big draw
    • Reading Goes "Up Our Street" – University of Reading
    • The kilo? take it with a grain of salt
    • Interview - Melissa Stepney
    • Great expectations
    • On the move
    • Common words 'less likely to change'
    • Uni costs impact of weather on business
    • Refurbed lab at uni
    • fresher week
    • CCTV to outwit Jason Bourne
    • top award for student
    • Uni scheme to help chemistry student
    • DVD to keep students safe
    • It's no tall story, a few extra inches can make all the difference in life
    • a warm welcome for climate change expert
    • RCGP voices concerns over plans to extend controlled drug prescribing
    • University scientists scoop peace prize
    • Aiming high in Maths
    • taking the next step
    • Hallowe'en horror tales
    • clinical focus - falls in older people
    • Karen scoops careers award
  • September

    • The Big Draw Goes Green at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • University Short Courses Open To The Public – University of Reading
    • Students to benefit from Wokingham-based semiconductor giant – University of Reading
    • Walker Institute joins forces with Deloitte to advise on the impacts of climate change on business – University of Reading
    • New Route to Chemistry Degrees Offered – University of Reading
    • Spotlight on student safety – University of Reading
    • Satisfied students give Reading the thumbs up – University of Reading
    • Satisfied students give Reading the thumbs up – University of Reading
    • Uni Professor awarded top atmospheric science prize – University of Reading
    • Uni conference to examine Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party – University of Reading
    • One size doesn't fit all for functional foods, say scientists
    • Uni hails 'loyal friend'
    • How green is our borough?
    • workshop shows how to improve the lives of elderly
    • talk like an Egyptian
    • Second homes face price fall
    • Evil rivalry of the odd couple
    • Students' stunts in aid of charity
    • Farmers brace themselves for further turmoil
    • Original Cyborg Warwick Firmly On Cutting Edge
    • New late-night bus for students
    • Interview - Professor Peter Lansley
    • Time for a fresh look at a few old problems
    • Town versus gown
    • Vaccination dilemma for the livestock industry
    • The rough and the smooth
    • Cracks in the foundation
    • Shrine of the times
    • Working with parents who have a learning disability
    • Fascist Mosley subject of conference at uni
    • Developing Human Capital Measures
    • Looking for a career? Look here
    • Professional resources - worth a look
    • New courses on offer to adults
    • Borrowing from nature
    • why a simple DNA test can save your life
    • Students give Reading the thumbs up
    • HTA researches carbon footprint
    • The twilight of talent
    • Giant seabed plumbing scheme 'can save us from global warming'
    • Uni scientists find 3 'possible new plant types'
    • Prof praised for weather work
    • Students have noise licked
    • Medieval lending
    • Uni bans student initiation parties
  • August

    • Studies in green
    • Girls entering puberty by the age of six - but are drugs the answer?
    • Interview - Dr Tony Wilsmore
    • Foot and mouth: Farmers warned of 'virus cloud' from suspect laboratories
    • Falls prevention in older people
    • Science and the 'C' word
    • Visitors to rural museum can see how crafts are adapting
    • Asia's brown clouds heat the Himilayas
    • 10 natural remedies for everyday ailments
    • Ancient church to be revamped
    • University law school welcomes new chair
    • Top green campaigner to speak
    • Placement uni graduate scoops job
    • Interview - Dr Peter Barker
    • Explore museum's archives at open day
    • Interview - Dr Jeremy Spencer
    • On a rare weekend of warmth, blame the summer on La Nina
    • A taste of university
    • New chair for Law School – University of Reading
    • MERL announces the first winner of its steam colouring-in competitions – University of Reading
    • Uni gut feeling
    • Museum of English Rural Life offers behind-the-scenes tours to celebrate Heritage Open Days and the Archive Awareness Campaign – University of Reading
  • July

    • Debate on sustainability at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • Universities find success with spin-off companies
    • A lack of sunshine can make you ill
    • Pragmatics
    • Farm animals and flatulence: University of Reading scientists have a solution – University of Reading
    • Ure Museum gets into the Greek groove – University of Reading
    • Universities join forces to help local schools rise to the stock market challenge – University of Reading
    • Reading tops the University league for supercomputing in UK – University of Reading
    • Reading climate researcher joins the crucial Crucible
    • Ben Law at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • Summer Spectacular at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • Interview - Professor Alan Evans
    • What happened to the summer of 2007? – University of Reading
    • How do I become a meteorologist?
    • Model behaviour
    • Interview - Dr Roland Fox
    • Expert opinion
    • Royals chief Madejski set to become university figurehead
    • Open days at Roman site
    • Your chance to hear the views of eco-friendly house builder Ben Law
    • Uni expert in research project
    • College of Estate Management
    • In the eye of the storm
    • Pupils put stock in lesson
    • Helping hands are rewarded
    • Interview - Professor Sir Brian Hoskins
    • letters - climate science right
    • Will supplements stave off illness?
    • Professor Kevin Warwick - The One Show
    • Scientists unravel feeding habits of flying reptiles – University of Reading
    • Interview - Dr Irene Mueller-Harvey
    • Move to cut methane emissions by changing cows' diet
    • Interview - Ann Westgarth
    • Students join green scene
    • A disaster with the footprints of mankind stamped on it
    • The blade runner generation
    • Sustainability theme for expert debate
    • Money talks in the classroom
    • Super-computer boost for uni
    • Students set off on the trip of a lifetime
    • Interview - Professor Will Hughes
    • Professional status on offer
    • Filming at Graduation
    • How one young rower provided an answer to a weighty problem facing politicians
    • Interview - Professor Paul Sharkey
    • Queen honours ex-county Scout
    • Prizes for plastics
    • Dig up a unique summer activity
    • Students to war with cybernaughts
    • Work on business school to start
    • Museum events have a green theme
    • Interview - Professor Anthony IIlingworth
    • Weather forecasts? Outlook uncertain
    • Winning smiles
    • Taking on a youth challenge
    • Herbal remedy for hayfever
    • Health Checklist
    • Arable farming attempts to retain students
  • June

    • And now for something completely different
    • Titration techniques in the food industry
    • New Research Awards for University staff – University of Reading
    • We're digging it: Silchester Roman Town Open Days 2007 – University of Reading
    • University seeks to regenerate town centre brownfield site – University of Reading
    • Androids Advance Challenge: the UK's first humanoid robot championship! – University of Reading
    • Lamb in full flower
    • Letters
    • Shakespeare and co
    • Community-spirited students honoured – University of Reading
    • Summer music concert at the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Going Green: Sustainability Past and Present at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • Nurse prescribers still use CMPs
    • Whales (Mostly) Win at Whaling Commission Meeting
    • Reward for uni student helpers
    • Millions at risk from flooding
    • The campaign to develop a super patriot
    • Currency: a European overview
    • After school menu has all ingredients for success
    • Bosses meet profs for golf
    • Interview - Professor Glenn Gibson
    • Chinese teachers sound out British education
    • Off to Glastonbury
    • Jab could beat all types of flu for rest of your life
    • Arise Sir Brian of Pangbourne
    • Fine Art degree shows
    • Linguist retraces his footsteps to open uni's centre
    • Paper work in museum show
    • All the elements of a great day
    • Weatherwatch
    • Top professor joins uni's climate change centre
    • On the trail of art and crafts
    • Why global warming may be a mist opportunity
    • Interview - Professor Alan Swinbank
    • Interview - Martin Andrews
    • Falklands War special
    • Britain faces 20-year house boom that will split nation, says report
    • Garden party celebrates the valuable work of volunteers
    • Will climate change make us all strawberry fools
  • May

    • Business leaders to speak at Reading conference – University of Reading
    • MERL Celebrates Volunteers – University of Reading
    • Build your own weather station
    • Uni restores rare engine
    • Interview
    • Proposed charter of rights
    • Crusades historian to provide expert guidance in Holy Land
    • Businessman's Red Cross garden day
    • Uni celebrates links with the business world
    • Bloc-voting proves that,on Eurovision night, everybody needs good neighbours
    • Forgetsuper foods, you can't beat an apple a day
    • Full steam ahead for train pictures
    • Uni students in bid to cut noise
    • Month of rural delights at uni museum
    • Reflective work
    • Garden paradise at the university
    • Group to help meet climate challenge
    • Service without a smile
    • Schemes use property as contingency
    • Chelsea Flower Show main awards
    • Smart cameras" to tackle abandoned luggage alarms
    • University saves rare agricultural steam engine from scrapheap
    • MPs' Eurovision Concerns Unfounded – University of Reading
    • Business and Academia Alliance Celebrated – University of Reading
    • Interview with James Ferryman
    • 'Arresting architecture recognised
    • Meeting to focus on Chinese emergence
    • Designer brightens up her display with live models
    • Uni Prof joins Olympic panel
    • Saturday Live Show
    • Golden moments at Chelsea show
    • Take part in scientist's study of cats' killing habits
    • Why the NHS still needs more matrons
    • Taking careful steps to lesson risk of falling
    • No such thing as fair shares in the NHS
    • Uni scientist in exhibition
    • Can we win Eurovision again? The answer's purely academic
    • Royals volunteer to launch website
    • Uni lecture from Italian ambassador
    • Interview with Dr Alan Howard
    • Interview - Kevin Warwick
    • Radio - John Cottingham
    • Vandals in Roman Britain
    • How can I get some decent career-related work experience?
  • April

    • Find the secret of happiness
    • Rare open day at university garden
    • Mummy we learnt all about Egyptians
    • MURSs: achieving the right balance
    • On the record
    • Climate change - why don't we believe it?
    • Greatest gift we all can give
    • Chimp denied a legal guardian
    • News
    • Prehistoric volcanoes heated Earth
    • Robo-humans
    • Uni traders scoop a top 10 spot
    • Childhood obesity is a major problem
    • Help keep count of town foxes
    • Mum-of-three latest to spot the Wokingham wildcat
    • Archaeology experts' forum
    • Top chemical experts at Uni
    • Asking for Money Is So Appallingly American, Dahling
    • Geography widens pupils' horizons.
    • Specialising is crucial for business success
    • Interview
    • Groups, politicians for urgent action
    • Uni climate change experts' Oz link
    • Animal methane production on climate change agenda
    • For the love of lecturing
    • Over £56bn held in UK's property schemes
    • Students and business make most of initiative
    • Hockey
    • University press office opening hours during the Bank Holiday – University of Reading
    • Pharmaceutical industry leaders to talk at University conference – University of Reading
    • UN IPCC Climate Change Impacts Report - statement from the Walker Institute at the University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Should primary school children be routinely screened for obesity? New research suggests not – University of Reading
    • Uni hosting 'top brains' conference
    • Wild man hands out eco awards
  • March

    • Using the appliance of science to make ice cream..and slime
    • Food matters
    • Growing together
    • University of Reading Business School to host international conference – University of Reading
    • Scientists join forces in international fight against impact of climate change
    • The nightmare of Iraq - in a room at Reading University
    • Awesome twosome win top uni banking prize
    • We're all going to the Zoo Day
    • reading is for the 'nerds' say children
    • Are food additives all that bad?
    • Dinosaur Genomes Rather Small
    • News
    • Uni lecturer one of top UK scientists
    • Interview
    • Is this a future MP for town
    • Scholarships awarded to the best university freshers
    • Snakes alive - working with deadly venom
    • University don turns biographer
    • One Million Species Catalogue of Life launch – University of Reading, March 29 2007 – University of Reading
    • Music@Reading celebrates Friends' 80th year – University of Reading
    • HARD RAIN - MARK EDWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL SLIDE SHOW – University of Reading
    • News
    • Signing off racism
    • Shaping beef production
    • Housing law update for landlords
    • Magnificent seventh for ladies
    • Independents' day
    • Learn all about the Science of Slime
    • Millionth species os logged
  • February

    • Photographic exhibition documents lives of young farmers – University of Reading
    • Broader role for Professor Tony Downes - and reappointment of Professor Dianne Berry – University of Reading
    • entrepreneurs of the future gather at Reading – University of Reading
    • Final University of Reading public lecture takes an in-depth look at Fascism – University of Reading
    • University pairs up with financial regulatory services heavy-weight – University of Reading
    • Book Launch - Flowering Plant Families of the World – University of Reading
    • James Cracknell opens new sports facility – University of Reading
    • Walker Institute contributes to UN climate change report – University of Reading
    • The Falling Sky Lands at Reading – University of Reading
    • Prescribing error alert system for GP's computers
    • News Item
    • Competent Advice
    • Uni hopes to build new four-star hotel
    • Property boom hits Poland as European investors go east
    • Reading gets a deputy
    • Buy-to-let 'harming first-time buyer prospects'
    • Tight spots top tips
    • Half-Term fun at the Museum
    • Masters at helping charity
    • Lectures via iPOds at the Uni
    • BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - 'Bionic Woman'
    • BBC Radio Berkshire breakfast show - Homeschooling
    • Public Lecture
    • The Insider
    • National accolade for varsity archive
    • Oxford, Cambridge...Reading
    • Beijing opera company to star at uni
    • Science students run event for future chemists
    • Reach for sky at uni
    • Focus on young farmers
    • How to be a spearmint smoothie
    • New gym is oar-some
    • The I-Wasp Generation
    • Don't let your diet ruin the big occasion
    • book launch
    • German diplomat pays visit to uni
    • To the lab and beyond: chemists of the future invited to open day at University of Reading – University of Reading
    • Can olive leaves help to beat cancer
    • Simply Oarsome
    • The science of baby talk explained; next in the University of Reading public lecture series – University of Reading
    • Chinese Theatre Troupe down to Reading – University of Reading
    • Half-term event: Greek mythology comes to life at University of Reading museum – University of Reading
    • Biomimetics - In Pursuit of Natural Sources
  • January

    • Can you believe the weather. Forecasting is getting better all the time – isn't it? Michael Brooks can't be sure
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    • Time Team
    • Painting by Uni professor snapped up at auction
    • Sainsbury's Gap Year
    • One cereal to keep watching
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    • University relaunches horticulture degree
    • Teenagers need breakfast too
    • Henry Kelly Show
    • Killer cocktails
    • Employers sign up against racism
    • Accessibility navigation
    • Ashley X
    • Radio 5 Live lunchtime News, BBC World Service and R4's Have Your Say
    • Fat Lot of Good
    • Floodgates open
    • Rare evacuee film to be screened for historians
    • Spice up your life for a healing glow
    • Major shifts in the weather patterns over the Indian and Pacific Oceans disrupt El Nino – University of Reading
    • Glaciers and climate change - the next University of Reading public lecture – University of Reading
    • Sweltering summers will become the norm, according to Walker Institute scientists – University of Reading
    • £5m grant for uni monsoon probe
    • Walker Institute leads joint UK/India project to predict the Indian Monsoon and the effects of climate change – University of Reading
    • Half Term Fun at the Museum of English Rural Life – University of Reading
    • James Cracknell to open new University sports facility – University of Reading
    • Our survey says..........good gut feeling puts Reading top of the pile – University of Reading
    • We have a winner! New prize to develop biomimetics research awarded – University of Reading
    • Warning from scientists over biodiversity in the UK – University of Reading
    • Major Saharan dust storms can block out the Sun, Walker Institute reveals – University of Reading
    • Uni hosts half-term art workshops for children
    • Grand boost for Rave aid
    • Lab opens with a bang
    • ELS not working , Defra warned
    • Blown together by winds of change
    • Hero returns
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