The inauguration of the UCL Urban Laboratory. The UCL Urban Laboratory, established in 2005, is a university wide initiative to bring together the best urban teaching and research at UCL. Their activities build on the full spectrum of work at UCL across the arts and sciences ranging from civil...

Festschrift in honour of Professor Chris Frith, FRS. The topic of this prestigious international meeting was “Mind in the Brain. This two-day event, took place on 17 and 18 September 2008, hosts included Professors Ray Dolan, Paul Burgess, Jon Driver and Geraint Rees and was held at the Royal...

In the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films drew their inspiration from tales of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Bible. Professor Maria Wyke explains her attempt to collate and analyse them as a group – and why they remain so under-studied.

The interdisciplinary seminar offered varying perspectives on practical treatment issues in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Along with presenting her research findings, key speaker Professor Marie-Louise Newell of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies (seconded...

From 1975 to 1995, Professor Moncada worked at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, first as Head of Prostaglandin Research and then as Director of Research. He described the structure of prostacyclin, which acts as an effective vasodilator and also prevents blood platelets from clumping. In 1980...

UCL marks World TB Day with the symposium: ‘The challenge of TB: UCL’s contribution’. The event commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Hosted by the UCL Institute for Global Health,...

IIHS will create India’s first independent National Innovation University focussed on the challenges and opportunities of its urbanisation. Its academic programmes are aimed at building a new profession of urban practitioners, around a set of two dozen disciplines and practice areas central to...

Joel G. Breman, M.D., D.T.P.H., F.I.D.S.A., is Senior Scientific Adviser, Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dr. Breman's recent research has defined the considerable burden of malaria and development of policies and practices to conquer this disease. He was...

New understanding of human genetic variation pose significant scientific, social, ethical challenges. The application of such knowledge to the treatment of disease and to perceptions of community and individuality is developing rapidly in a diverse range of institutional and cultural contexts....

Lecture by Mary May Simon, President Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami about Inuit strategies to confront climate change. 16.00 on Thursday 3 December, 2009, British Museum, Stevenson/BP Lecture Theatre, A Beacon Programme for Public Engagement.

Songs can bring together music and words in powerful and lastingly memorable ways. Our records of song from the medieval period are tantalisingly incomplete, yet this does not prevent medieval song from captivating modern audiences and performers. But how can we be sure that our efforts at...

This year's UCL Lancet Lecture, entitled 'Overcoming Public Health Challenges: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals', was given by Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme Administrator. Helen Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in April 2009,...

This year's UCL Lancet Lecture, entitled 'Overcoming Public Health Challenges: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals', was given by Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme Administrator. Helen Clark became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in April 2009,...

The UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine held its Launch Event on Friday 24 April, 2009.

Ciro de Quadros, M.D., M.P.H., is the Executive Vice-President of the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute. A Brazilian national, he has dedicated his career to freeing the world of infectious diseases, especially those that disproportionately affect the health and social development of the world's...

UCL Special Collections are being used in innovative and exciting ways. The breadth and depth of these rare and unique materials offer an appeal to a wide range of users unmatched in other leading UK university libraries.

The second in a series of three lectures jointly organised by UCL and the Commonwealth Secretariat Speakers: Mr Ransford Smith, Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General, Professor Orazio Attanasio, UCL / IFS Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies; Chaired by Simon Robinson, Senior Editor,...

Professor Philippe Sands (UCL Laws) reveals that top echelons in the Bush administration put pressure on officials at Guantánamo Bay detention camp to devise new torture techniques that flout the Geneva conventions protecting prisoners’ human rights, in his book ‘Torture Team: Cruelty, Deception...

This lecture by Prof. WJT Mitchell aims at the convergence of three disciplines: 1) the law, with its entire edifice of judicial practice and political philosophy; 2) migration, as the movement and settlement of living things, especially (but not exclusively) human beings, across the boundaries...

Dr Rossetto describes her work on the Virtual Disaster Viewer, which is being used to direct the aid effort in the earthquake-stricken Caribbean island of Haiti

Fitness, particularly aerobic endurance fitness, is an excellent predictor of future health. As a population, are we getting less fit as we get more fat? The information we have indicates that this is the case, but the data are fragmentary. How easy would it be to hold a regular national fitness...

Over 320 people attended the UCL–China Research Festival, a showcase of the variety and volume of the university’s research collaborations with Chinese institutions held at UCL on 13 June 2008. Academics, students, businesspeople and members of the public were treated to a total of nearly 30...

Renowned South African judge and freedom fighter Albie Sachs launched his book 'The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law' with a public lecture in the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre on 26 October 2009. Justice Sachs as twice a refugee from South Africa to the UK. The first occasion, in 1966, followed his...

UCL, home to the George Orwell Archive, hosted the first staged reading of Orwell’s 'Burmese Days' on 4 and 5 November 2009. The reading marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Orwell’s first novel – a satire on the last days of British imperialism after the First World War, informed...

Dr Tadataka Yamada, President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Programme, delivered the 2007 UCL Prize Lecture in Clinical Science on ‘Perspectives of Global Health’ on 24 October 2007. Dr Yamada leads the foundation’s efforts to help develop and deliver low-cost,...

Predicting where burglaries are most likely to take place is harder than you might think, even for police officers. This lecture looks at how work at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science has shown that crime tends to follow the same patterns in time and space as communicable diseases,...

On 10th December 2008 four speakers presented a range of perspectives addressing ‘Human Rights & Disability: The missing 10% of the world’s population’. Professor Nora Groce, Director of the Leonard Cheshire Disability & Inclusive Development Centre, in UCL Epidemiology & Public...

Read-Right is a therapy and research application accessed over the internet. It has been developed by UCL Institute of Neurology and UCL Multimedia. The project is funded by The Stroke Association. The aims of the project are twofold: 1) to provide a web-based therapy for patients with hemianopic...

On 10th December 2008 four speakers presented a range of perspectives addressing ‘Human Rights & Disability: The missing 10% of the world’s population’. Professor Nora Groce, Director of the Leonard Cheshire Disability & Inclusive Development Centre, in UCL Epidemiology & Public...

UCL is a centre of research excellence that brings together academics at the forefront of your research area, exceptional facilities, a passion for pioneering cross-disciplinary research and world-class professional development training. Discover the perfect research opportunity for you at...

UCL is a centre of research excellence that brings together academics at the forefront of your research area, exceptional facilities, a passion for pioneering cross-disciplinary research and world-class professional development training. Discover the perfect research opportunity for you at...

UCL Special Collections are being used in innovative and exciting ways. The breadth and depth of these rare and unique materials offer an appeal to a wide range of users unmatched in other leading UK university libraries.

Charles Maier's lecture offers an explanation for the financial crisis that differs from most media accounts. While generating passionate disagreement, public debate has tended to attribute the current economic difficulties to discrete developments including the role played by improvident...

Charles Maier's lecture offers an explanation for the financial crisis that differs from most media accounts. While generating passionate disagreement, public debate has tended to attribute the current economic difficulties to discrete developments including the role played by improvident...

The UCL Environment Institute's writer and artist-in-residence, Richard Hamblyn and Martin John Callanan, talk about the launch of Extraordinary Clouds and A Planetary Order, a new book and a terrestrial globe.

In her lecture, the second in the series Global Perspectives on the Current Crisis organised by the Centre for Transnational History at UCL, Prof Stewart compares the current crisis with that of the 1980s, as well as setting up a comparison across countries. She argues among others that the...

Richard Sennett's lecture explores long-standing and problematic developments in the labour markets of the Anglo-American world that have been exacerbated in the recent dramatic economic downturn. He pays particular attention to a lack of investment in large parts workforce, a phenomenon that...

Speaking a number of different languages gives you the intercultural skills you need in today’s global world. Studying an alternative language, like Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian or Swedish, at UCL means you can learn a new language from scratch and get an insight into a culture not many...

Fifteen eminent personalities joined the ranks of UCL Fellows and Honorary Fellows at an inauguration ceremony on 17 June 2009. UCL Fellowships (for former students) and Honorary Fellowships (for those who are not UCL alumni) are awarded to people who have attained distinction in the arts,...

In this podcast Professor Sammy Lee (UCL Anatomy & Developmental Biology), Lord Robert Winston (Imperial College) and Professor Naomi Pfeffer (Historian and Sociologist, London Metropolitan University) debate the issue of Motherhood in the 21st Century and talk about the implications, both...

On 11th May 2009, the Research Computing Sub-Commitee hosted an event to mark the launch of service, in December 2008, on UCL's new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, Legion. The event attracted colleagues from across the UCL research community, who were joined by prominent members of the...