UCL in the media
Active Hurricane Season Expected
On December 5, 2012, Tropical Storm Risk, a public consortium consisting of experts on insurance, risk management, and seasonal climate forecasting at UCL, issued an extended-range forecast predicting an above-average hurricane season.
Read: Curacao ChronicleCharity dog walk announced by mother with terminal cancer Sandra Hamilton
Sandra Hamilton and Carole Sobell have organised a charity dog walk around Kensington Gardens to raise money for the Cure Cancer charity at UCL.
Read: Local LondonClimate Change Future Suggested by Looking Back 4 Million Years
"This work on past climates is part of understanding the uncertainty of future climate. It can give us a heads-up of potential climates that we hadn't imagined possible before," said Dr Chris Brierley (UCL Geography).
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Dr Christina Pagel, lead author of the paper from the UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit, said: "The software tool that we've developed provides teams with a way of routinely monitoring their own risk-adjusted results, which they've not been able to do previously because of the complexity and diversity of their work."
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Will Hines (UCL Computer Science) is tackling the problem of paper receipts with the Clinton Global Initiative University Commitment to Action, Reseed. Reseed removes the need for paper receipts and allows users to instead access the records online. In turn, the retailer donates the money that would otherwise go towards printing costs to a tree-planting charity.
Read: Huffington PostWas Margaret Thatcher's ideology rooted in her experience as a scientist?
Thatcher's early work in industrial chemistry may have influenced her conversion to free market economics years later, writes Dr Jon Agar (UCL Science & Technology Studies).
Read: Guardian More: Evening Standard International Business TimesA brief cultural history of an auto giant: The Volkswagen Beetle
Dr Bernhard Rieger (UCL History) has written a new book, The People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle, which tells the story of the car and the advertising that made it an icon.
Read: Fast Co Create More: Foreign PolicyElephant Bird Egg Auction Inspires a Hunt
On April 24, Christie's auction house will give buyers a crack at nabbing an elephant bird egg. "Any whole eggs found today in Madagascar are legally the property of the Malagasy government," said Professor Mike Parker Pearson (UCL Institute of Archaeology). "So no more complete eggs will ever come on the open market, and that must make these very few eggs already in museum and private collections very valuable."
Read: National GeographicWho Really Runs Russia?
In her book How Russia Really Works and its sequel Can Russia Modernize?"Professor Alena Ledeneva (UCL Social Science) looks at the informal governing system that characterizes Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Read: AtlanticEvolution, Sex And Monogamy
Claire Holden and Professor Ruth Mace (UCL Anthropology) researched height difference between men and women in modern cultures.
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