Reading in the news - Fri 17 Feb

#PlanetPartners: working with global partners to protect the environment

• Professor Giles Harrison (Meteorology) is quoted by the  (and in print) and  on the use of weather balloons.
• publishes an article on how to reproduce Professor Ed Hawkins' (Meteorology) climate stripes with python, and  reports that restaurant foodservice supplier, Brakes, has launched the UK's first zero-emissions electric transport vehicle. It carries Professor Ed Hawkins' (Meteorology) climate stripes.
• Professor Richard Allan (Meteorology) is quoted by  predicting Europe's summer forecast and expecting extreme weather events to persist as a result of global warming.

Cost-of-living crisis: The support that the University is offering students hit by the cost-of-living crisis.

• Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor PeterMiskell (Education and Student Experience) was interviewed by BBC Radio Berkshire on the financial support that the University is offering students.
• Sheldon Allen (RUSU President) was interviewed by BBC Radio Berkshire on the University's affordable breakfast initiative entitled Warm Welcome. 
• BBC Radio Berkshire reports on the launch of the University's student opportunity fund.

Food and farming:

• Professor Jeremy Spencer (Food) was interviewed by Channel 4's Food Unwrappedon the University's research on the health benefits of flavanols found in cocoa pods. 

#UniForReading: our role as a civic university  

• Greatest Hits Radio reports that, in response to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the University's Turkish Society has raised more than £2,000 for relief efforts in the first few days of fundraising. Read our new story.
•  reports on an upcoming choir performance celebrating the King's Coronation to be held in the University's Great Hall. 

Other Coverage:

• , , and  mention the University's early research in 2010, discovering CBD's medical potential to reduce epileptic seizures. 
• Jon Foster-Pedley and Rashika Padarath (both Henley Africa) are quoted by  on the opening of Henley Business School Africa's new branch in Cape Town.
• Dr Dominic Lees (Film, Theatre, and Television) is quoted by  on a 'deepfake' that was made of President Joe Biden making extra-terrestrial claims about foreign weather balloons over the US.
• Professor Jonathan Passmore (Henley Business School) wrote an article on coaching trends and it is published by . 
• Dr Chris Dalton (Henley Business School) wrote an article on expectations in management and leadership and it is published by .
• University student, Ben Holder's (Law) article on London's commercial court is shortlisted for an award by as among the best journal contributions to be published on their site.
• Reading Chronicle (in print) reports on complaints against 'for sale' signs outside student homes in Reading. 

Alumni:

•  and  report that an online community that Reading alumnus, Dr Peter Ogudoro, has founded is to appoint an award for the 'best Nigerian teacher'. 
• reports on Reading alumnus and provost Sammy Wainaina's political stance on keeping the church and politics separate. 
• reports on the appointment of Reading alumna, Susan Boyd, to Harris Lamb's business rates and lease advisory teams.
• reports that Reading alumnus, Professor Vara Prasad, has been named in the top one percent of the world's influential and highly cited researchers for 2022.