Reading in the news - Tue 3 Dec

Hospital professors: highlights new titles awarded to hospital consultants via the Health Innovation Partnership. From our story: Professorships awarded to Royal Berkshire consultants.

Food and farming:

• and features Professor Gunter Kuhnle (Food and Nutritional Sciences) emphasising that additives must pass safety tests by UK and EU food authorities before approval. Republished by , , and .

• features the 色狗导航 as the #1 UK university to kickstart a career in agriculture.

• Business and society:

• highlights research from the University suggesting that college students using AI for homework and exams face less than a 10% chance of detection. From our story: AI generated exam answers undetected in real world test.

• , and feature a study led by Professor Billy Wong (Education) emphasising the dominance of white, male role models in technology.

Other coverage:

• and highlights a study co-authored by Professor Chris Venditti (Ecology) that challenges traditional views on brain evolution.  From our story: Brains grew faster as humans evolved, study shows.

•  places Reading among top UK institutions with higher graduate job rates.

• , and report that a lorry crashed into a wall beside the University’s London Road campus on Monday.

• and report on the Toy Run event, with organisers thanking the University for support in securing a new start point at Thames Valley Science Park.

• highlights a solo exhibition by former Art lecturer Carole Hodgson.

Alumni:

• and report the engagement of Malaysian actor and Reading law graduate Koe Yeet, who returned to her acting career after briefly working in law.

• , and (Romania) highlight the background of Anamaria Gavrila, the leader of the new POT (young people’s party) in Romania, including her 2009 MSc in Real Estate Finance from Reading.

• reports that Vara Prasad, who gained his PhD in crop science at Reading, has been named one of the world's most influential researchers in the 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list.