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• Queen's Anniversary Prize awarded at Buckingham Palace
  Thursday 18th February 2010
  Representatives from Aberystwyth University will be at Buckingham Palace on Friday 19 February to receive the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.
• Proposals to Restructure IBERS
  Friday 5th February 2010
  Professor Wayne Powell, Director of IBERS has announced proposals to restructure the Institute in order to deliver its vision to be a sustainable, world class institution. The announcement was made at a meeting of IBERS staff this afternoon.
• Waitrose Funds First Chair of Sustainable Agriculture
  Monday 14th December 2009
  As part of its long term commitment to British agriculture, Waitrose is supporting the creation of an academic post dedicated to food security, the first of its kind in the UK.
  The post of Chair of Sustainable Agriculture at Aberystwyth University will spearhead vital research designed to help secure the UK’s food supplies over the next few decades.
• In search of a greener biofuel
  25 November 2009
  Representatives of the farming industry, technology companies, fuel manufacturers and distributors are working with researchers at Aberystwyth University (AU) to develop a more sustainable method of producing biofuel.
  The three year Grassohol project is focusing on sugar-rich varieties of perennial ryegrass, developed at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), as a raw material for producing bio-ethanol.
• Queen's Anniversary Prize
  The Award acknowledges the work of scientists at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) who have successfully combined fundamental research on plant genetics with plant breeding techniques to develop commercially viable plant varieties that go some way towards meeting the challenges of food supply, water and energy security, and environmental sustainability which are facing communities across the world. 
• IBERS External Advisory Board
  Influential world renowned scientists visited IBERS on 21-23rd October as members of the new IBERS External Advisory Board. The Board will assist the Director and Management Team in the future strategic direction of the Institute.
• New IBERS Farms Advisory Board
  Following the merger of IGER into Aberystwyth University to form IBERS, the Institute’s research and commercial farm activities have also been merged into a single operation.
• Exciting new developments at IBERS
  £25 million will be invested over the next five years.
• IBERS at the Royal Welsh Show 2009
  Summer 2009 Newsletter, press releases, movies and pictures of this years event at Builth Wells. .
• International agreement for DNA barcoding the world’s plants
  An international team of scientists, including researchers at Aberystwyth University, has concluded a four–year effort to agree on a standard ‘plant DNA barcode’ to provide the foundation for the widespread use of DNA technologies to identify plants.
• Divided by a song: City birds shun their country cousins
  Great tits in cities respond more strongly to songs of fellow city dwellers than to their country cousins according to research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
• Ryegrass genome
  The Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding Division at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences has been awarded £1.6m to develop a physical map of the perennial ryegrass genome.
• CARAS Visit to IBERS
  A delegation representing the four royal shows throughout the UK visited IBERS in April.
• Low Input Farming
  IBERS has been awarded €226,000 as part of a €3m European project to measure the environmental benefits of low input farming.
• Aberystwyth student gets a Bronze at Equine Student World Finals
  Aberystwyth MSc Equine Science student Bea Meitiner came back from the SRNC (Student Riding Nations Cup) World Finals held in Luxembourg at New Year with a team and individual bronze medal. 
• IBERS urge farmers to crunch the numbers and take the credit
  20 November 2008
  “Make the numbers work for you” will be the message of IBERS, Aberystwyth University to farmers at this year’s Winter Fair as they  endeavour to juggle costs and make the appropriate winter feed management options.
• Worldwide acclaim for research
  11 November 2008
  Research that revealed how wobbly flowers attract more pollinators than do stationary ones has been selected as being amongst the most important recent science to be published.
• New text book
  23 October 2008
  The third edition of Dr Mina Davies Morel’s popular text book “Equine Reproductive Physiology, Breeding and Stud Management”, has just been published
• IBERS tops student poll
  25 September 2008
  Degree courses at IBERS have achieved top scores in the 2008 UK National Student Survey.
• Plant Power: fuel for the future or a load of “hot air”?
  10 September 2008
  A Liverpool bus, could run for a whole year on grass-derived ethanol grown on 11 hectares of grass will be the message of an Aberystwyth scientist at this year’s BA Festival of Science based in Liverpool from 6-11th September.
• IBERS at the Dairy Event
  5 September 2008
  Reducing environmental footprint is a step in the right direction for dairy and livestock farmers

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