UCL in the media
Brexit creates big challenges for government science advisers. Can universities help?
Professor Graeme Reid (Chair of the Campaign for Science and Engineering board) writes that improving university-policy collaboration is vital to keep regulations and policy efficient and effective post-Brexit.
Read: GuardianCambridge Analytica, Trump and Facebook - how data was used
In an article exploring how data firm Cambridge Analytica handled personal information, Michael Veale (UCL Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy) comments on sensitivities and regulations surrounding the use of personal data.
Read: New ScientistRemembering British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking
Dr Andrew Pontzen (UCL Physics & Astronomy) discusses memories of British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
Listen: BBC Radio 5 live (2 hours 5 mins)Brexit putting UK-led space missions ''in jeopardy''
Commenting on the future of the UK's ability to lead space missions, Professor Alan Smith (UCL Space & Climate Physics) says 'we are seeing there are these Brexit clauses appearing and we are being squeezed out of things in practice'.
Read: Yahoo! UK and Ireland, More: Sky NewsThe bot taking harassment complaints
Dr Julia Shaw (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology), co-founder of Spot, discusses how the online bot, which asks a harassment victim about their experiences, will help victims to more accurately report harassment.
Read: BBC Capital, More: The Conversation, Globe and MailStone tools push back dawn of thinking man by 20,000 years
Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) comments on new traces of the technological revolution in Kenya stating 'it is now clear that the shift to a harsher landscape had pushed ancient humans to adapt or die'.
Read: The Times (£)Britons have reason to be fearful after spy's poisoning
Commenting on news that a former Russian spy was probably poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent, Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) states that the level of toxicity of nerve agents 'is such that they are only to be manufactured in specialised facilities.'
Read: LA TimesWhy women with HIV are persistently invisible - and how we can challenge it
Visiting Professor Theo Gordon (UCL History of Art), writes that 'it was not until 1993 that AIDS, as defined by the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC), included opportunistic infections specific to womens' bodies.
Read: The ConversationWhy Putin is taking the chance to show his electoral muscle
Professor Pete Duncan (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) explains that Putin needs not just to win the election, as he will, but to make the population believe in the legitimacy of his election.
Read: The Times (£)Women's history month: The Slade's prize-winning women artists lost in the gaps of art history
A new exhibition at UCL Art Museum entitled Prize & Prejudice reveals how young female artists won all the prizes at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art in 1918 and curator Helen Downes explains why their work is worth celebrating.
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