UCL in the media
"Medical exams need to be as rigorous as in the U.K."
Professor Jane Dacre (UCL Medical School) highlights some aspects of medical education that need reform in India.
Learning to smile for first time, the boy born with a frozen face
Adriaan Grobbelaar (UCL General Surgery) talks about a pioneering 12-hour operation in which he transplanted muscle tissue to the face of a boy with Moeibus syndrome.
A Child who lives in the shadows
Professor Julie Daniels (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) talks about keratopathy, and the role of the cornea in the eye.
Panic buyers set to spark a Christmas Eve shopping surge
Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Health Psychology) comments on the risks of leaving Christmas shopping too late.
The true toll of that festive tipple
Alcohol masks warning signals from other parts of your body, affecting your natural self-protection mechanisms, says Professor Paul Wallace (UCL Primary Care & Population Health).
University Challenge
UCL play the University of Manchester on the popular quiz University Challenge.
India to cut out animal dissection
Dr Anjali Goswami (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) comments on the phasing out of animal dissection in UK and US universities.
'We want to prevent people getting dementia'
Following a £20million gift from The Wolfson Foundation to establish a new neurodegeneration research centre, Professor Nick Fox (UCL Institute of Neurology) comments on the work it will carry out.
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Professor John Mullan (UCL English Language & Literature) on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and the distinction between a novel and a novella.
Inexplicable Particle: Why Even I'm a Higgs Bozo
Author Matt Ridley on Professor David Miller's (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Thatcherian Higgs Boson analogy, and quasi-political description of the Higgs field.