Gut golly: Healthy volunteers sought for bacteria study
Fancy participating in a scientific study for cash? Jan Luff at the University of Reading is looking for healthy volunteers to help “evaluate the effects of different breakfast cereals on beneficial faecal bacteria”. Here’s the digest:
It has long been known that the bacteria in the human gut can infuluence health; in particular eating fermented foods [...]
Vote tally points to Sally
“Don’t dilly dally, vote for Sally” urged Reading University Students’ Union presidential candidate Sally Pearman. And dilly dally they did not, for Sally has been named 2007/8 President by students.
According to current RUSU President Dave Lewis, Sally will be their 14th female President.
Well done Sally!
Reading ‘just right’ for students
According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of the brilliant book Blink:
When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions.
Two seconds.
In those first two seconds, students [...]
From biscuits to brains
University of Reading lecturer Dr Tony Corley is to give a free public talk on how funding from biscuit makers Huntley & Palmer resulted in the founding of the University in 1846.
The lecture will be held at 6pm on Wednesday 6 December at the University’s Wolfgang van Emden Theatre. Biscuits will be provided at 5.30pm.
How [...]
Explosive decision to close Physics Dept
Opposition grows to Reading University’s proposal to close its Physics Department. In an open letter, the University’s Vice-Chancellor explains
the number of physics students that have been sent by their school to Reading University during the past (say) 10 years. In each case this would have been a number very close to zero…In any case, [...]
Victory is sweet for student scientist
Super Reading Uni student Vanessa Clark has won the Cadbury Schweppes Award for the Best Food, Nutrition and Health Student at the 2005 Science Engineering & Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards (like the chocolate, that’s a bit of a mouthful!).
Vanessa, who is now studying for a PhD at the University’s School of Food [...]
SE Asia’s most wanted man: a former Reading Uni student
It has emerged that an al Qaeda-linked extremist thought by Indonesian and Malaysian security officials to have masterminded last weekend’s Bali atrocities had been a student at Reading University. The three suicide bombings on Saturday 1 October killed 22 people and injured 135.
Malaysian Dr Azahari Bin Husin, suspected leader of militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah [...]
