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9 unusual facts about University of Reading


2005 Bali bombings

The chief suspect was Azahari Husin, a member of JI who was an engineering expert and former academic with a doctorate from University of Reading (late 1980s).

Conny Czymoch

She gained her A-levels in 1977, and subsequently was awarded a BA in International Relations and Economics from the University of Reading, UK in 1980.

David Trim

Additionally, Trim was a senior research fellow in the History department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and has been, since 2003, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Ian Serraillier

The "Papers of Ian Serraillier", held at the University of Reading, largely comprise manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs, including Fight for Freedom, The Clashing Rocks, The Cave of Death, Havelock the Dane, They Raced for Treasure, Flight to Adventure and The Silver Sword.

John F. Pollard

John Pollard completed his PhD at the University of Reading with Doctoral thesis on fascism - 'From the Conciliazione to the Riconciliazione: The Church and the Fascist Regime in Italy, 1929 to 1932'.

John Linsley Hood

He was educated at Reading School, Acton Polytechnic, the Royal Technical College (Glasgow) and after world war two, at Reading University.

Peter Kruschwitz

Peter Kruschwitz (born 1973) is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.

University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

The British Council has also established academic link programme between FUNAAB and the University of Reading, and the University of Edinburgh, primarily, though not exclusively, in the areas of Plant and Animal Breeding and Seed Technology and Genetics, respectively.

Welsh Agricultural College

The College had young lecturing staff, (including.... Wyn Jones and...), in contrast to the established institutions in England (Wye College, Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, Harper Adams, University of Reading etc.).


Adrian Bradshaw

He was educated at Bloxham School, the University of Reading (BSc, 1979) and King's College London (MSc Defence Studies, 1991; MA International Relations, 2005).

Bicester Community College

The University of Reading, Coventry University, the University of Southampton, Oxford Brookes University and Nottingham Trent University are also popular destinations for former students of the school.

FISEC

1990, May 5: As a result of that cooperation FISEC is founded at the ESB in Porto by the following six universities: University of Reading, UK; University of Milan, Italy; Wageningen University, Netherlands; ESB Porto, Portugal; ENSIA, Massy and ENSBANA, Dijon, France.

Geoffrey R. Denton

He served as Director of Wilton Park, and formerly as Reader in Economics at the University of Reading (from 1967) and Professor and head of economics at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Job Edward Lousley

He died in 1976 at Streatham Common and his herbarium was donated to the University of Reading, and some of his notebooks, photos, papers, letters and the manuscript of the flora of Scilly are held in the archives of the Isles of Scilly Museum.

Jonathan M. Gregory

He is currently a senior scientist in the Climate Division of NERC's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS-Climate), located in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading; and a Research Fellow in climate change at the Met Office Hadley Centre.

Keith Browning

Keith Browning is a British meteorologist who worked at Imperial College London, the Met Office and University of Reading department of meteorology.

L. R. G. Treloar

Leslie Ronald George Treloar graduated in Physics from University College, Reading, in 1927 and subsequently joined GEC.

Long Man of Wilmington

Recent archaeological work done by Professor Martin Bell of the University of Reading, in association with Aubrey Manning's Open University programme Landscape Mysteries, has strongly suggested that the figure dates from the Early Modern period – the 16th or 17th century AD.

Nan Youngman

A collection of her correspondence and papers relating to her work of promoting art through education are held by the University of Reading Library.

Paolo Costa

Before entering politics he held numerous posts in Planning and Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Reading, U.K., and New York University.

Patricia Symmonds

She was educated at Queen's College, Barbados, and travelled to the United Kingdom to study at the University of Reading and the Institute of Education.

Patrick Parrinder

Patrick Parrinder (born 1944) is an academic, currently Professor of English at the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, having been educated at Leighton Park School before going on to King's College, Cambridge.

Publishers Licensing Society

Later that year, the Publishers' Association (PA) convened a Committee chaired by Lord Wolfenden, formerly Vice Chancellor of Reading University and Director of the British Museum, to look at the implementation of the Whitford proposals on licensing.

Roger James Elliott

He was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952–3, then at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment until 1955, when he was appointed to a lecturership at the University of Reading.

Rolv Petter Amdam

He has also been a guest scholar at the University of Reading, the University of Toulouse, the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales, the Nanyang Technological University and the ISM University of Management and Economics.

Trudy Stevenson

She obtained a BA degree (French and Italian, joint honours) from the University of Reading and a Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Zimbabwe.

United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols model

It is a collaboration of the Met Office with the University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, University of Oxford, University of Reading, University of East Anglia, and Lancaster University in the UK and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand.

UTC Reading

The University of Reading, Reading College and Oxford and Cherwell Valley College are the lead education sponsors of UTC, while business partners include Agilent Technologies, CGI Group, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Network Rail.

Vincent Connare

Connare studied at Milford High School in Milford, Massachusetts and the New York Institute of Technology, and gained a master's degree in Type Design at the University of Reading.

Yasmin Bannerman

She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Cheltenham before beginning a degree in modern European literature at the University of Reading.


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