Below is a selection of stories which reached regional, national and international audiences:<\/p>\n
Research by Bashir Lwaleed<\/a> into berries that may strengthen the effectiveness of a chemotherapy drug received wide spread coverage, appearing in BBC News<\/a>, The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, Yahoo News<\/a>, The Scotsman<\/a>, ITV News<\/a> and a large number of regional newspapers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BBC News<\/a>, Sky News<\/a>, New Scientist, The Daily Mail<\/a> and The Huffington Post<\/a>, as well as a number of other major news outlets, covered a study by Gareth Dyke<\/a> examining the evolution of birds from dinosaurs.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A new study into carbon emissions from aircraft received coverage in a number of national news outlets such as\u00a0The Times<\/a>,\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>,\u00a0The Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Independent<\/a>,\u00a0as well as\u00a0The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, The Belfast Telegraph<\/a>,\u00a0ITV Meridian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0BBC South.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n University academics contributed 14 opinion pieces to The Conversation during August and September. These articles had a total readership of 413,805 and were republished on popular websites including IFL Science, Business Insider and The Huffington Post.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other top articles included \u2018Invasion of the strange sailor jellyfish \u2013 what are they, and will they sting\u00a0us?\u2019<\/a> \u00a0by Cathy Lucas, \u2018How small birds evolved from giant meat eating\u00a0dinosaurs\u2019<\/a> by Gareth Dyke<\/a> and \u2018Debate education efficiency, but don\u2019t rank countries on\u00a0it\u2019<\/a> by Daniel Muijs<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Documentaries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Research into the role of women behind the camera in the film industry has been highlighted in the BBC programme\u00a0The Film Review<\/a>. Professor\u00a0Linda Ruth Williams<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr Shelley Cobb<\/a>\u00a0were recently awarded a grant to investigate the subject.<\/p>\n The RJ Mitchell Wind Tunnel featured prominently on Channel 4\u2019s Gadget Man programme, with comedians Richard Ayoade and Tim Vine testing weather resistant gadgets in the tunnel, while Bill Keevil <\/a>appeared on BBC television\u2019s The One Show, discussing his research into using copper to combat MRSA in hospitals.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n If you have a story, or are undertaking research that you think might be of interest to the press, please contact us on press@soton.ac.uk<\/a>. You can also view a more comprehensive listing of the University\u2019s latest media coverage at www.soton.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/news\/in_the_news\/current.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the latest edition of the University media roundup\u00a0which covers major media appearances during August and September 2014. During that time, media appearances relating to the University created\u00a0over 66 million opportunities\u00a0to view and hear stories via print, broadcast and online outlets. The advertising equivalent value of these appearances in print and via commercial broadcast…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[710788,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-digest","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Chokeberry3](\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2014\/09\/Chokeberry3-MD.jpg\")
<\/a><\/strong>Cancer research<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Birds evolved from shrinking dinosaurs<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Air Craft Emissions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>The Conversation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/span>Archaeology has featured in two major documentaries in the same week on US and UK television. The\u00a0Portus Project<\/a>, led by\u00a0Professor Simon Keay<\/a>, was part of\u00a0Ancient Impossible<\/a>: Extreme Engineering, which aired on the\u00a0History <\/strong>Channel\u00a0in America. Meanwhile,\u00a0James Miles<\/a>‘ research into the Easter Island statue of\u00a0Hoa Hakananai’a<\/a>\u00a0featured on the\u00a0More4\u00a0programme\u00a0Treasures Decoded<\/a>.<\/p>\n