UCL in the media
Why a dose of confidence is key to showing humility
Healthy self-regard comes from finding strengths, working on them and building a skills base. It involves dedication and resolve. And from that investment flows self-esteem, says Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Health Psychology).
Royal Society's summer science exhibition
What part of the brain makes us laugh and in what manner? For the next few days Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) has taken her laughter lab to the Royal Society's summer science exhibition.
75 years of the UCL Institute of Archaeology
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with a programme of events and activities celebrating the past, present and future of the institute.
Why Nick Clegg's Senate is seriously flawed
Sensible changes to the House of Lords are the answer - not a Bill that would create far more problems than it solves, says Professor Lord Kakkar (UCL Partners).
Rabbits kept alive by oxygen injections
In the late nineteenth century, US doctor John Harvey Kellogg experimented with oxygen enemas - an idea that has been revived in recent decades in the form of bowel infusers - says Professor Mervyn Singer (UCL Clinical Physiology).
U.K. Seeks House of Lords Overhaul
The chances are good that the latest measures get defeated in the House of Commons, says Dr Meg Russell (UCL Constitution Unit). "When members of Parliament really don't want to do something, parties can't make them do it," she said.
Fifth of care homes failing to meet medication standards
The findings chime with a 2009 report by Professor Nick Barber (UCL School of Pharmacy), which found on any given day seven in 10 care home residents have a medication error.
Finch's open-access cure may be 'worse than the disease'
Professor David Price (UCL Vice-Provost, Research) comments on the recommendations that authors pay fees to make their articles open access, helping to increase access to publicly funded UK research.
'Smoking vaccine' blocks nicotine in mice brains
"The technology underpinning gene therapy is improving all the time and it is encouraging to see these preliminary results that indicate it could be used to address nicotine addiction," says Dr Simon Waddington (UCL Reproductive Medicine).
In the grand sweepstakes, Cambridge takes top spot
UCL has come joint seventh in the THE's Table of Tables.