UCL in the media
The Millennium Bug
Professor Anthony Finkelstein (UCL Engineering Science Faculty Office) says there were various reasons why there were no serious problems as a result of the so called Millennium Bug.
Listen: BBC World Service 'Witness' (from 1 min 55 secs), More: BBC World Service 'Outlook' (from 51 mins 29 secs)Listeners' science questions
Dr Helen Czerski (UCL Mechanical Engineering) helps to answer listeners' science questions.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Science'Smoking
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) provides expert advice on smoking cessation.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'You and Yours'The Early Years
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) explains how neuroscience research from the 1950s emphasised the importance of the first three years of life for learning.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'School of Thought' (from 2 mins 20 secs)New Year Honours 2016
Professor Georgina Mace (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment), Professor Henrietta Moore (UCL Institute for Global Prosperity), Professor Wendy Carlin (UCL Economics), Dr Sue Black (UCL Computer Science) and Elizabeth Jamieson (Head of Dyslexia at UCL) are among those from the UCL community recognised in the New Year Honours list.
Read: THE (£), More: Times (£)See decades of space debris swarm the Earth in 60 seconds
Dr Stuart Grey (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) has created a video that visualises decades of space debris as it accumulates around the Earth.
Read: Daily MailAVG's Web TuneUp put millions of Chrome users at risk
Dr Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) says the discovery that AVG's Web TuneUp software was overriding safety features built into Google's Chrome browser should serve as a warning.
Read: BBC NewsChildren brought up by both parents far less likely to suffer mental ill-health
Analysis of data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a longitudinal study run by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies based at the UCL Institute of Education, has found that children brought up by single parents and in step families are three times as likely to suffer from mental health problems.
Read: Telegraph, More: Daily MailA third of Londoners are born abroad
Explaining the growth in population of London, Professor Michael Batty (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) said: "It went down from about 8m to 6.6m over a period of about 30 years and the main reason was suburbanisation - suburban growth, people getting cars, changing transport and also slum clearance".
Read: Daily MailHow cities grow: the age of houses - mapped
A series of maps created by Oliver O'Brien (UCL Geography) for the Consumer Data Research Centre uses new data on England and Wales from the Valuation Office Agency to plot the different patterns of growth experienced in cities such as London, Coventry and Milton Keynes.
Read: Guardian, More: Express & Star