UCL in the media
Prince's charity lobbied government to water down homeopathy criticism
Draft guidance for the website NHS Choices warning that there is no evidence that homeopathy works was suppressed by officials following lobbying by a charity set up by the Prince of Wales. Correspondence from the Department of Health discussing the guidance was released under the Freedom of Information Act to Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Biosciences).
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Professor David Shanks (UCL Brain Sciences) tests Stephen Gibson's assertion that social psychology is vulnerable to poor research practices.
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It would be wrong for clinicians to try to derail consolidation of services where there was evidence it would deliver better care, said Lord Ajay Kakkar (UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences).
Read: Health Service JournalThe computer that never crashes
Dr Peter Bentley and Christos Sakellariou (UCL Computer Science) have developed a revolutionary new "systemic" computer in which data is married up with instructions on what to do with it.
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UCL Art Museum has been chosen by the BBC to highlight the Your Paintings project, which aims to digitalise the UK's collection of oil paintings.
Watch: BBC Culture Show (from 19mins 44s) More: UCL NewsUniversity College London Qatar and Georgetown University SFS co-host a lecture
UCL Qatar and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service co-hosted a lecture titles "Museums in the Gulf; What is their Identiy?"
Read: AMEUS legal scholar Ronald Dworkin dies in UK aged 81
The American philosopher and constitutional law expert Professor Ronald Dworkin (UCL Laws) has died at the age of 81.
Read: Guardian More: Miami Herald New York Times Washington Post Wall Street Journal Times (£) Huffington Post Independent THEBalance between Work and Life Misunderstood
Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) advocates the concept of work-life imbalance, examining the connection between workaholic stereotypes, careers and engagement.
Read: BuzzFeedCryoSat spots Arctic sea-ice loss in autumn
The dramatic recent decline in Arctic sea-ice cover is illustrated by new data from Europe's UCL-led CryoSat-2 mission.
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"Publisher profits will continue to be high at the expense of the public purse," said Professor David Price (UCL Vice-Provost for Research).
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