UCL in the media
Violent Crime in the Capital
Professor Sonia Johnson (UCL Mental Health Science Unit) comments on violent crime in London this week.
Listen: LBC's Nick Ferrari (from 1 hour, 10 mins)Some DNA ancestry services akin to 'genetic astrology'
Professor David Balding and Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics Institute) warn that DNA ancestry tests are either so general as to be "personally meaningless or they are just speculation from thin evidence".
Read: BBC Listen: BBC World Service's World Update (from 47 mins) Watch: BBC London News (from 17 mins) More: Telegraph Daily Mail MSN Medical daily Telegraph BioNews Sense About Science guideHow Sweet It Is: Genes Show How Bacteria Colonized Human Teeth
Professor Francois Balloux (UCL Genetics Institute) comments on research suggesting that microbes colonised our mouths after humans invented farming 10,000 years ago.
Read: ScienceMale student runs for UCL women's officer
Kirk Sneade, a male student at UCL, has been criticised for his controversial campaign as a candidate for the women's officer position.
Read: Huffington Post More: Evening Standard Evening Standard (2) Marie ClareLuke Skywalker's house
Rä di Martino (UCL Slade School of Fine Art Alumnus) photographs three Star Wars sets in the Chott el Djerid desert in Tunisia.
Read: GuardianProf says his '13,000 EU migrants' report 'misinterpreted'
Professor Christian Dustman (UCL Economics) accuses MPs of misinterpreting his 2003 report on immigration to the UK from EU countries.
Read: BBCMaterial magic: Four objects with hidden talents
The Institute of Making, a new home for extraordinary matter, opens at UCL next week.
Watch: New ScientistBuilding delays to Swiss Cottage schools
Camden taxpayers have footed a £1million bill following a four-month delay to the completion of two new Swiss Cottage schools, including the UCL Academy. Private building firm BAM has been blamed for the delay.
Read: Ham & HighKevin Fong: Text massaging
Dr Kevin Fong (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology) writes about the process of writing a book.
Read: THEStudent visas not counted in immigration figures
Professor John Salt (UCL Geography) comments on Labour's claims that thousands of people entering the country on student visitor visas are not being counted in the immigration figures.
Listen: BBC Radio 5 Live's Shelagh Fogarty (from 1 hour 41 mins)