Some of the stories featuring University of Southampton staff and students that have been making the news in March.
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ITV Meridian (17 March), BBC South Today and BBC Radio Solent (18 March) featured research from academics at the School of Medicine into Alzheimer's Disease. (Dr Roxana Carare)
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Professor Andrew Lotery and his work into age-related macular degeneration made the front page of the Southern Daily Echo (17 March). He is using a new treamentfor an early form of the disease.
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Dr Simon Boxall, a physical oceanographer from the School of Ocean and Earth Science, appeared in The Daily Telegraph (16 March) when he gave his opinion as to the size of the world's biggest rubbish dump, the Great Pacific Waste Patch.
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Research by Professors Christian Ottensmeier and Peter Johnson, from the School of Medicine, was featured in The Sunday Telegraph (15 March).
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Our award-winning Science and Engineering Day (13 March) once again featured widely across the region’s media outlets. ITV Meridian and BBC Radio Solent both produced live broadcasts in the run up to the event, while BBC TV and The Daily Echo turned up on the day to capture the fun and excitement. The following weekend’s Ocean and Earth day also featured on BBC Radio Solent, including a live broadcast from RV Callista (18 March).
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Amy Williams talks about Rachel Blackburn's design input to her sled in a Daily Mail feature about her Winter Olympic gold medal win (12 March). The University's technological support for Amy was also mentioned in the Independent on Sunday (7 March), The Wall Street Journal and The Manufacturer.
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The Daily Telegraph (12 March) reported on a new study that suggested alcohol limits for overweight people should be reduced.
The study, which was reviewed by Professor Christopher Byrne from the School of Medicine, said that safe drinking limits should be reduced because the combination of obesity and drink act like a "double whammy" greatly increasing the risk of liver disease.
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The pioneering brain-to-brain communication research by Dr Christopher James of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research continues to attract national news coverage. The latest feature appeared in The Times and references the remarkable progress made by Chris in the area of BCI technology.
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A television feature about the University's supercomputer was broadcast on ITV1's Meridian Tonight (11 March). The report included contributions from iSolutions, the School of Humanities and the School of Engineering Sciences.
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A groundbreaking study into food additives by Professor Jim Stevenson was mentioned in the Daily Mail (8 March). It reported that Lucozade esd linked to hyperactivity.
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Research on the development of the World Wide Web in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) is featured in a new BBC season of programmes, Superpower, which began on 8 March and runs for two weeks. The BBC website also ran a feature on the new season. Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, of ECS, recently appeared in Virtual Revolution, a four-part television series on the Web, shown on BBC2, which is part of the SuperPower series. Professor Nigel Shadbolt of ECS also appeared in the series and acted as Series Consultant. Nigel Shadbolt and Professor Dame Wendy Hall of ECS featured on the Discovery programme on BBC World Service (10 March).
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British gold medallist Amy Williams said a big thank you today (Daily Echo, 4 March) to the Southampton scientists who helped her to Olympic gold. "I'm really grateful to all the scientists and engineers at the University of Southampton and BAE Systems who helped make me and Arthur such a successful team," said Amy.
Amy also appeared in a number of regional newspapers around the country, thanking the University for its work.
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News that University of Southampton students escaped the devasting earthquake in Chile was reported in the Daily Echo (2 March). Thankfully, all the students were safe and well and are even helping with the relief effort, with Vicki Robinson giving an exclusive interview to the Daily Echo (8 March).
Tim Henstock of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton also spoke to the New Scientist about why the Chile quake tsunami was smaller than feared (1 March).
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Professor in Latin American Studies in the School Humanities, Elizabeth Dore, has featured on BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight (11'40") and the BBC World Service speaking about how Chile is likely to cope in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. (1 March).
NB The broadcast will be available online until the end of Tuesday 2 March.
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