UCL in the media
He Named Me Malala: the ordinary life behind an extraordinary girl
Dr Alison Macdonald (UCL Anthropology) looks at how the documentary 'He Named Me Malala' tells the story of Malala Yousafzai while shining a light on a global injustice.
Read: The ConversationMedical chief to lower safe alcohol limits
Professor Rajiv Jalan (UCL Liver & Digestive Health) says damage to health could be caused by men drinking just three units of alcohol a day - which is within the current government limits.
Read: Sunday Times (£)Stars of David on the headstones, shrapnel on the ground - how a generation came face to face with WWI
The First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme, which is run by the UCL Institute of Education, aims to enable teachers and pupils from every state-funded secondary school in the country to develop a deeper understanding of the Great War.
Read: Jewish Chronicle, More: Sec EdThe science of colour
Dr Helen Czerski (UCL Mechanical Engineering) discusses her research into the physics of ocean bubbles and her new documentary series on the science of colour.
Watch: Channel 4 'Sunday Brunch' (from 21 mins 45 secs)Baby girl is first in the world to be treated with 'designer immune cells'
A team of researchers from Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL, including Professor Waseem Qasim and Professor Adrian Thrasher (both UCL Institute of Child Health), have developed a new treatment that uses 'molecular scissors' to edit genes and create designer immune cells.
Read: Guardian, More: Telegraph, Times (£), Financial Times, Huffington Post, ITV News, New Scientist, Science, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Zealand Herald, Listen: BBC Radio 2 'Jeremy Vine' (from 1 hour 43 mins)How did Mars lose its habitable climate? The answer is blowing in the solar wind
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) explains how the solar wind has stripped Mars of its atmosphere, making it a lot less habitable than it once was.
Read: The Conversation, More: Discover MagazineDickensian lung disease is back
A report by Professor Jeremy Brown (UCL Internal Medicine) has found that the number of people diagnosed with bronchiectasis, a lung condition thought to be a 'disease of the past', has risen considerably in the past decade and now affects more than 1% of UK pensioners.
Read: Times (£), More: UCL NewsMyanmar's 2015 general elections
Professor Marie Lall (UCL Institute of Education) explains the underlying issues relating to the upcoming Myanmar general elections on 8 November.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 50 mins)We've tested seven-year-olds in schools before - here's why we stopped
In an opinion piece, Dr Mary Richardson (UCL Institute of Education) says that a decade after they were phased out, the government could reintroduce national tests for seven-year-olds.
Read: The ConversationLife in the pedestrian fast lane is no life at all - let's slow our cities down instead
Professor Nick Tyler (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) suggests that we should create spaces that cause people to want to slow down, rather than designing cities to accommodate fast walkers or force people to slow down.
Read: The Conversation