UCL in the media
Female pupils close gap in maths achievement
Dr Hannah Fry (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) comments on research finding there are more girls achieving top marks in mathematics than in previous years.
Read: Daily MailFrancois Fillon becomes Republican candidate for French presidential election
Professor Philippe Marlière (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) discusses former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon becoming the Republican Party's candidate for next year's presidential election.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hrs 48 mins)Students on life after Brexit vote
UCL President & Provost, Professor Michael Arthur and Professor Simon Marginson (UCL Institute of Education) comment on the impact of Brexit on universities' abilities to attract international students and researchers.
Read: The GuardianGCSE pupils make more spelling mistakes than their parents' generation
Professor emeritus John Sutherland (UCL English Language & Literature) comments on research finding that students writing GSCE English exams make more spelling mistakes than in previous years.
Read: Daily MailMajor tsunami could hit UK
Dr Simon Day (UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) discusses the risk of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canaries archipelago collapsing and causing a tsunami which could reach the UK.
Read: Daily StarAlzheimer's drug disappoints
Dr Julia Hill (UCL Institute of Neurology) discusses her research into new drugs to treat Alzheimer's at the Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, in a report on the failure of solanezumab in late-phase trials.
Watch: Channel 4 NewsThe uncertain future of US for-profit higher education under Trump
Dr Stephen Hunt (UCL Institute of Education) writes about the expansion of the for-profit higher education sector in the US, and how it could change under Donald Trump's presidency.
Read: THEDNA questions
Dr Matthew Powner (UCL Chemistry) discusses the origins of life and whether DNA could have formed on other planets, while Dr Vitor Bernardes Pinheiro (UCL Biosciences) discusses his research developing synthetic nucleic acids.
Listen: BBC Radio Cambridgeshire 'Naked Scientists' (from 32 mins 15 secs & from 50 mins 52 secs)AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague
Professor Dame Anne Johnson (UCL Infection & Population Health) discusses the HIV/AIDS epidemic and her early research into sexual behaviour.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Start the Week'Scientists predict if people are at risk of dying in next five years
Dr Archana Singh-Manoux (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) comments on her research into a blood marker that can detect the building blocks of cancer, chronic heart disease and other serious health conditions in the middle-aged.
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