UCL in the media
UK teenager wins battle to have body cryogenically frozen
Professor Barry Fuller (UCL Surgery & Interventional Science) comments on why researchers are still unable to freeze an entire human body successfully for preservation, while Dr Rob George (UCL Laws), who represented the girl who won a court case supporting her right to be cryogenically frozen, comments on the legal questions the court faced.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'World at One' (from 7 mins 11 secs), Read: CNN, BBC News, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, ABC News, Daily Mail, The Telegraph (2)Trump, Europe and global politics
Professor Kathleen Burk (UCL History) discusses Donald Trump's election, prospects for UK-US relations, as well as the elections in Bulgaria and Moldova of pro-Moscow leaders.
Listen: Monocle 24 Radio 'Midori House'DNA-editing breakthrough could fix 'broken genes' in the brain
Dr Helen O'Neill (UCL Institute for Women's Health) praises a new study finding a way to edit DNA.
Read: The IndependentSea Hero Quest: the mobile phone game helping fight dementia
Dr Hugo Spiers (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) is the lead author of a study commissioned by Deutsche Telekom in collaboration with Alzheimer's Research UK and game developers, that uses a mobile game to gain insight into age-related declines in navigational abilities.
Read: The Guardian, More: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 1 hr 5 mins 20 secs), BBC News, The Telegraph, Reuters, Daily MailOld boys network helps men from private school...but not women
Dr Alice Sullivan (UCL Institute of Education) comments on her research into the long-term impact that education can have on earnings, and how having parents with financial means can have an especially large impact.
Read: The TelegraphPopulism's hatred of diversity will kill prosperity
Professor Henrietta Moore (UCL Institute for Global Prosperity) writes about populist movements such as Donald Trump's campaign and Brexit, and how their insularity and rejection of diversity runs counter to data on the high levels of prosperity enjoyed by some of the world's most multicultural societies.
Read: Huffington PostComputer program ranks most influential brain scientists of modern era
An online program that expands on traditional citation analysis with machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision techniques to analyse 2.5 million neuroscience papers has determined that UCL researchers are the most influential researchers in the field. Professor Karl Friston, Professor Ray Dolan, and Professor emeritus Chris Frith (UCL Institute of Neurology) are first, second, and seventh on the list, respectively.
Read: ScienceBritain 'spends twenty times as much on junk food as on cancer drugs'
A report led by Professor emeritus David Taylor (UCL Pharmacy) criticises the amount of NHS funding for pharmaceuticals.
Read: The Telegraph, More: Daily MailPhilippe Sands wins the 2016 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction
Professor Philippe Sands (UCL Laws) has won the 2016 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for his book, East West Street, which draws on both his research and his own family's stories to discuss crimes against humanity. He is donating his £30,000 award to a refugee charity.
Read: The Guardian, More: BBC News, The Guardian (2)British Judges Can't Escape Brexit Turmoil, Even in Malaysia
Professor Jeff King (UCL Laws) comments on what he calls overblown criticism of U.K. Supreme Court Justice Brenda Hale, for a speech in which she mentioned some of the questions surrounding the referendum to leave the European Union.
Read: Bloomberg