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Where do you go to find a neuroscientist at UCL? The answer might not be as straightforward as you think.

His friend and colleague Professor Raymond Macallister (UCL Division of Medicine) pays tribute to his varied and groundbreaking work in the fields of cardiovascular medicine, alcohol studies and his close involvement with the local community.

Italy should prepare for the possibility of earthquakes larger than last year's disaster at L'Aquila and take steps to reinforce poorly constructed buildings.

Researchers from UCL have developed a digital tool that allows people to attach memories to objects in the form of text, audio or video.

Following a number of meetings last week, UCL and the UCU (in consultation with UCL's two other campus trade unions) have reviewed progress in achievement of this year's 6% budget improvement.

The articles engage with a wide range of topics, from literary ethics to immunisation policies, to the hunt for extraterrestial life on Mars, to name but a few.

As the general election approaches, UCL staff and students share their wishlist for policies from the next government affecting a range of aspects of life, from human rights and science to crime, the environment, and more.

This spring, UCL Communications ran the 'My Green Idea' video competition for students and staff at UCL and the Union to submit their ideas for how they can cut carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.

Just one five-minute screening test of the lower colon and rectum for people aged between 55 and 64 could reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer by a third and prevent thousands of deaths from the disease, scientists have found. Their findings were based on a trial published today in The Lancet , in a paper co-authored by Professor Jane Wardle (UCL Epidemiology) and Professor Wendy Atkin (Imperial College London).

It brings together 160 research groups from several faculties, specialised hospitals and institutes across UCL, including the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), with a common interes

'We hear a lot about the severe impairments that autism brings but we mustn't forget that there are also some extremely interesting qualities in the mind of the autistic person that bring great strength and indeed talent.

PhD student Carina Fearnley (Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre) assesses the lessons learned from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano and the chaos it caused to European air travel.

A researcher from UCL is part of a US-led team investigating how the brain and its microcircuitry react to physiological changes and what could be done to encourage its recovery from injury.

A UCL-led team of researchers has won a grant worth more than £850,000 to develop a new model of energy consumption.

Dr Stephanie Schorge (UCL Institute of Neurology) describes how smells, colours and balls inspired London schoolchildren in a day of scientific discovery last month.

PhD student Carina Fearnley (Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre) says the disruption caused by Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano conceals a success story.

It is easy to understand why CJ Lim, Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, has a special insight into the emotions of international students contemplating life at UCL.

Professor Bill McGuire (Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre) discusses the eruption of the Eyjafjöll volcano in Iceland, which has sent a huge cloud of ash toward the UK and disrupted air traffic.

A world-leading clinical expert in bone research and a pioneer in the emerging field of nanomedicine, Professor Michael Horton has sadly died from cancer, aged 61.

?The 200 visitors to the Gower Street Quad were met by the mounted division of the City of London police and scenes-of-crime officers of the British Transport Police, as well as police motorbikes and cyclists.

Researchers at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory led the team which designed and built the Electron Spectrometer, part of Cassini's CAPS instrument, which continues to make invaluable discoveries. In this video PhD student Sheila Kanani takes us on a journey aboard Cassini-Huygens to Saturn and its moons, and explains why space scientists regard them as the most intriguing destinations in the Solar System.

Jackal skulls, mice skeletons, microfossils and volcanic rocks all feature in 'A Crucial Difference', a new exhibition at UCL.

A UCL-led satellite mission designed to monitor changes in polar ice cover launched successfully on Thursday 8 April from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Selected papers will be presented and discussed at a symposium, 'Glass half empty' Urban water poverty halfway through the Decade of Water for Life', on 10 June 2010.

UCL Occupational Health Service is supporting Mental Health Action Week 2010, running 4?11 April. Each spring the Mental Health Foundation uses Mental Health Action Week to raise awareness of mental health issues across the country.

Links UCL Pension Services Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL) On 1 May, UCL is introducing a PensionsExchange scheme for the benefit of staff that are currently paying in to the USS or SAUL pension schemes.

UCL?s Professor John Butterworth, who led the UK development of one of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors, explains the significance of the record-breaking particle collisions achieved today.

Professor Nora De Leeuw (UCL Chemistry) has won £1.1 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to lead a project that aims to produce a catalytic reactor that

In this scenario, Professor Hazell explained, ?Gordon Brown, the incumbent prime minister, will remain in office as prime minister after the election, until it becomes clear who can command confidence in the new Parliament and form the new government ?