Creative unit winner

04 December 2012

Emerging designer Rose Wood has been selected as the University’s 2012 “Year in a Creative Unit” winner.

What’s going on in Greenland?

04 December 2012

Glaciologist Dr Alun Hubbard, will be speaking about his on-going research in Greenland and filming for Frozen Planet and Operation Iceberg on Wednesday 5 December.

An app for horses

06 December 2012

App launched to assist horse owners to accurately calculate how much feed to give and avoid nutritional-related health problems such as obesity.

New Chair in Rural Health

07 December 2012

Aberystwyth University, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Hywel Dda Health Board have joined forces to establish an innovative and unique chair in rural health.

Aberystwyth Book Festival

10 December 2012

Come and enjoy the Aberystwyth Book Festival which is being co-hosted today by Information Services, students from the Department of Welsh and Ceredigion Library.

Icy waters of Lake Ellsworth

14 December 2012

Aberystwyth scientists prepare to study mud cores from Antarctica’s Lake Ellsworth as the first mission to drill into one of the continent’s sub-glacial lake gets underway.

Record numbers study Maths and Physics

14 December 2012

Record numbers of students are studying Maths and Physics through the medium of Welsh in what has been an exceptional recruitment year for the Institute of Mathematics and Physics.

Christmas card winners

21 December 2012

Computer Science PHD student, Kevin Williams, is the winner of the University’s 2012 Christmas card competition with his image of Aberystwyth in the snow.

Britain’s youngest football manager

21 December 2012

Human geography student Dave Webber becomes the youngest manager of a senior football team in the history of British football.

Sunshine vitamin study

21 December 2012

Researchers study possible link between levels of vitamin D, which is also known as the sunshine vitamin, and sugar in the blood.