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Press Cuttings – September 22 – September 28

Press Cuttings – September 22 – September 28

International
Arab Times
- Andrew Easton, Life Sciences, comments on the out-break of a new SARS-like virus
Also in Daily Mail
Economist
74+ sources

Economic Times
- Lord Bhattacharyya, WMG, comments on the working culture of Tata
Also in Hindu Business Line
Sunday Times

European Cleaning Journal
- Dr Andrew Marsh, Chemistry, has shown that nanodiamonds enhance the abilities of surfactants in detergents

Virtual Jerusalem
- Research by Warwick has looked at what salaries people would be happy earning, in relation to their friends and colleagues

National
Alpha Galileo
- Professor Greg Challis, Chemistry, has lead a project that looked into how an enzyme that causes potato scab could help create new biocatalysts

BBC
- Professor Martin Underwood, WMS, has found that taking too many painkillers can cause more headaches
Also in Express and Star
30 other sources

BBC
- Professor Mark Knights, History, contributes to a feature on the history of the world

City AM - Professor Nick Crafts, Economics, is mentioned in an article on how technology is only useful if people know how to use it

Courier
- Professor Roger Green, Engineering, is developing optical wireless systems, where data travels through beams of light

Daily Mail
- A WBS student comments on the fear of being on the Monarch flight which missed the runway at Birmingham Airport

Daily Mail
- Article previewing Coventry City Football Club's match against Arsenal. The new Coventry manager has been to Warwick to watch a youth football competition
Also in Coventry Telegraph

Dazed Digital
- Review of Katherine Angel, English, new book Unmastered

Environmentalist
- Warwick is to host a new research unit to develop batteries for electric vehicles
Also in Engineering and Technology
Machinery Market

Guardian
- Figures revel dramatic inequalities in resources between universities. Warwick has the tenth highest

Huffington Post
- Warwick features highly in a list of various subjects for top salaries earned by graduates

Independent
- Professor Chris Grey, WBS, has been on Radio 4 this week

MODUS
- Comment piece by Professor Keith Grint, WBS, on the history of leadership

New Scientist
- Professor Ian Stewart, Maths, is mentioned in an article on the importance of maths

Teaching Times
- Professor Susan Bassnett, English, has accused some universities of seeing international students as cash cows
Also in Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph

Gulf News
8 sources

TES
- Dr Sean Neill, Education, comments on the need for teachers to master the art of body language

THE
- Professor Robin Ball, Physics, has won the Physics Ig Nobel Prize for research into the shape and movement of a human ponytail
Also in Times

THE
- Professor Andrew Coats has been appointed as academic vice-president and director of the Monash-Warwick Alliance strategy
Also in Coventry Telegraph

THE
- Former Registrar Jon Baldwin comments in an article about why some universities are better at producing education leaders than others

THE
- Warwick is looking at how existing internet technologies can be employed systematically to provide evidence for the impact of research communicated online

Yahoo UK
- Professor Wyn Grant, Politics, comments on the on-going 'pleb' row in UK politics
Also in Arab Times
5 sources

Local
Business Desk
- Professor Mark Taylor, WBS, comments on the importance of degrees in a recession

Business Desk
- Professor Irene Ng, WMG, has been appointed as Director of IIPSI

Coventry Observer
- Graduate Dr Lynnette Kelly has been selected as a Labour candidate for Warwick and Leamington
Also in Kenilworth Weekly News
Leamington Courier

Coventry Telegraph
- Professor Louise Campbell, History of Art, has written a new book on architect Sir Basil Spence

Coventry Telegraph
- Warwick has helped host the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire County Festival
Also in Nuneaton News

Coventry Telegraph
- Professor Siobhan Quenby, WMS, has been shortlisted for clinical leader of the year by the Health Service Journal Awards

Coventry Telegraph
- Students are arriving back for the start of the new academic year

Coventry Telegraph
- Professor Jane Barlow, WMS, has warned that the NHS lacks the capacity to support mothers suffering postnatal depression

East Riding Mail
- Student Freya Bryson comments in an article on bullying in schools

Insider Media
- Lord Bhattacharyya, WMG, comments on the idea of a new business bank being developed by the government

Kenilworth Weekly News
- Professor David Whitehouse, Engineering, has been awarded the Pierre Nicolau Award of CIRP for 2012
Also in Leamington Courier

Lancashire Telegraph - Scientists at Warwick are testing the spice level of a new sausage in Lancashire

Stratford Observer - Article on the RSC and its partnership with Warwick

Yorkshire Post - Student Erin Dunn is paddling across the English Channel for charity