UCL in the media
Funding boost for university science departments
Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, has announced substantial government grants to UCL to help turn research into business.
Read: ITV News More: MSN The EngineerA crash course in Danish for fans of The Killing
Jesper Hansen (UCL Scandinavian Studies) gives a crash course in Danish for fans of detective Sarah Lund and the cult Danish police drama The Killing.
Watch: GuardianAlzheimer's tied to mutation harming immune response
Dr Rita Guerreiro, Professor John Hardy (both UCL Institute of Neurology) and colleagues have identified a rare gene defect that triples the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Read: NY Times More: Daily Mail WSJ Times of India Huffington Post Reuters AFP UCL NewsHumans Ate Grass? Early Hominins In Africa Did 3.5 Million Years Ago, Study Says
The results imply that at least one species of hominin had already become a generalist that had adapted to a broader diet, foraging opportunistically in more open terrain for a wider range of foods than chimpanzees preferred, says Professor Christopher Dean (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology).
Read: Huffington PostTaking the measure of entrepreneurs
Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) and colleagues have devised a psychometric test that they reckon can identify and measure the entrepreneur in everyone.
Read: FT (£)Mind-reading the meaning of words
"This type of pattern recognition approach is a very exciting scientific tool for investigating how and where knowledge is represented in the brain," says Dr Zoe Woodhead (UCL Imaging Neuroscience).
Read: New ScientistIs RCUK's open-access cash a 'reckless' road to ruin?
Professor David Price (UCL Vice-Provost, Research), says that the exclusion from the funding formula of PhD studentships - which did not necessarily correlate with direct labour costs - was "clearly contrary to any sensible policy in terms of helping researchers build their careers and publishing record".
Read: THEStop The War Coalition to stage UCL protest ahead of 'secretive' Tony Blair speech
The event is being held to mark the launch of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies.
Read: Independent More: Guardian Guardian II LBC Camden News Journal Guardian III Scotsman Morning Star Guardian IV Socialist WorkerUnhealthy developments as burden of disease shifts
Professor John Yudkin (UCL Medicine) argues that companies have pushed too far with a focus on costlier innovative drugs such as insulin analogues, especially in developing countries.
Read: FT (£)China's love affair with England
A 2010 study of nine- to 12-year-olds in Hangzhou, led by Professor Therese Hesketh (UCL Institute for Child Health), found that one in three children questioned exhibited the 'physical symptoms' typical of stress.
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