UCL in the media
Feeding hungry children without food banks
An article about food poverty among children during school holidays mentions a study by PhD researcher Edwina Prayogo (UCL School of Pharmacy) and Dr George Grimble (UCL Medicine) which found the Trussell Trust's emergency food bank parcels are 'nutritionally adequate'.
Read: Guardian'Vanity Fair' tv series holds up a mirror to class in Britain
Professor Philip Horne (UCL English Language & Literature) commented that 'social ambition was intrinsically linked to marriage and thus to love,' when discussing class and social mobility ahead of a new tv adaptation of the novel.
Read: Telegraph (£)More than half millennial women don't identify as feminist, poll finds
Dr Katherine Twamley (UCL Institute of Education) commented on a recent US survey of young women, saying that many people may affiliate the term feminist with 'man-hating'.
Read: IndependentThe sophisticated home life of Neanderthals
Dr Matt Pope (UCL Archaeology) will argue that the caricature of prehistoric cave men couldn't be more wrong at New Scientist Live 2018 this September.
Rotavirus vaccine cuts Malawi's infant mortality
Rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhoea deaths by 34% in rural Malawi, according to a major new study by Dr Carina King (UCL Institute for Global Health).
Read: Daily Telegraph (£), More: Guardian, UCL NewsArtificial intelligence equal to experts in detecting eye diseases
An artificial intelligence (AI) system, which can recommend referrals for over 50 eye diseases as accurately as experts, has been developed by a team led by Dr Pearse Keane (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) in collaboration with DeepMind Health and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Read: Independent, More: New Statesman, ITV News, BBC News, Guardian, Evening Standard, New Scientist, UCL NewsHow daily prescription pills can drain the body of vital vitamins
Side-effects of daily medication can contribute to iron deficiency and other health complications, Professor Toby Richards (UCL Surgery & Interventional Sciences) comments.
Read: Daily MailUnravelling a 1000-year-old riddle
Dr Hannah Fry (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) explains how Alcuin of York's famous river crossing puzzle is an early example of a branch of mathematics called combinatorics.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Science Stories' (from 17 mins, 30 secs)NASA's Parker Solar Probe sets off to the sun
Professor Lucie Green and Professor Louise Harra, (both UCL Space & Climate Physics) comment on the NASA solar probe which will go closer to the sun than any previous space mission.
Listen: BBC World Service 'Newshour' (from 8 mins, 12 secs), More: Channel 4 News (from 2 mins, 1 sec)All change as millennial parents turn to cloth nappies
Dr Charlotte Faircloth (UCL Institute of Education) comments that it is often middle class parents who are most concerned about natural styles of parenting.
Read: Observer