Other Research at Reading
Biology Department --
We just glued a fish to a human and kept the professor standing in a tank with the fish below water for six hours. Proving once and for all that a human fish hybrid can breath water! We had a much better experiment planned, but all the good research money is going toward cyborg experiments.
English Department--
Not being considered an actual science department, we have mostly stuck to analyzing folklore for our papers. But then we realized that students have been experimenting with memory upgrades. Several of our professors have now recalled that they originated enhancing memory of classics by scribing notes on their hands and other body parts.
"We never realized that we were doing cutting edge experimentation with the direct implantation of knowledge to humans. We just thought that we were, uh... cheating."