Reading in the news - Wed 12 Aug
12 August 2020
#UniForReading: reaffirming our role as a civic university – find out more.
- Reading students are helping charities and young people across the town, the Reading Chronicle reports. Read our news story.
COVID-19: expert comment on the coronavirus outbreak
- Dr Simon Clarke (Biological Sciences) comments on findings that Stockholm had a similar level of covid cases to London, despite different lockdown measures. BBC News, Daily Mail, Newsweek, and multiple other outlets.
- Dr Clarke interviewed by Sky News and RT News about a new Russian-developed covid vaccine.
- Dr Clarke interviewed by BBC 5 Live on a study showing older children more likely to transmit covid that primary school pupils. Also quoted in the Guardian and MSN News
Other news:
- Professor Ed Hawkins (Meteorology) quoted in a Wired article on the heatwave and climate change. BBC Weather reports that our weather station on campus was the hottest in the south.
- Professor Parveen Yaqoob told Heart Radio that student life will feel different at first when students return to campus this autumn.
- Reading’s team defeated on University Challenge on BBC Two – perhaps our defeat was because we were up against the quiz’s ‘hottest contestant ever’ suggests the Daily Mail.
- More coverage of study co-authored by the University of Reading to predict the Arctic may be sea ice-free by 2035, in the Independent and Yahoo News. Read our news story.
- The Reading Chronicle reports on how the University Library helped its counterpart in Hiroshima after World War II.