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University supports Council to provide community swimming sessions

Swimming sessions set aside for the community are being provided by Aberystwyth University as work continues at Plascrug Leisure Centre following its decommissioning as a COVID-19 hospital.

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BeachLab robot event moves to Penglais Campus

BeachLab, the annual mid-summer celebration of all things robotic, returns this Saturday, 19 June, as Aberystwyth University celebrates UK Robotics Week (19-25 June).

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Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meeting in 2011, during the Obama presidency. Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE

Biden and Putin’s first meeting won’t reset US relations with Russia

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics discusses the Biden Putin Summit, suggesting that the presidents’ first meeting will be symbolic rather than substantive, but that there could be grounds for cautious optimism.

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Cranogwen. Picture by the National Library of Wales

University helps to fund statue of remarkable Welsh woman Cranogwen

The University has pledged financial support to the campaign to commission a statue of trailblazing poet and journalist Cranogwen, in the Ceredigion coastal village of Llangrannog.

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Lecturer at Wales’ new Vet School wins top award

A lecturer at Wales’ new veterinary school at Aberystwyth University has won an award for making a significant impact on the profession.

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Online engagement event set to encourage Girls into Geoscience

Young female and nonbinary people across the UK and Ireland are being encouraged to consider a career in geoscience with a virtual event day in June.

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Dr Rachael Gillibrand, who is searching for historical links between disability and technology.

Fellowship funds search for historical links between disability and technology

In an age when mechanised prosthetic limbs have achieved remarkable levels of sophistication, an Aberystwyth University historian is embarking on a summer-long search for evidence of devices made over the past 700 years.

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Aberystwyth Arts Centre to reopen later this month

Aberystwyth Arts Centre will reopen to the public on 21 June 2021.

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Aberystwyth Arts Centre secures additional recovery funding

Aberystwyth Arts Centre has secured additional funding of £605,365 following a successful bid to the second round of the Welsh Government’s Cultural Recovery Fund.

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'Showing true colours: the changing politics of race equality in Wales'

Racial equality in Wales will be the focus for the 2021 Centre for Welsh Politics and Society Annual Lecture that takes place on Zoom on Tuesday 8 June 2021.

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African Penguins in Namibia, a hint of courtship ©J Kemper

New health research to help save African penguins from extinction

Research involving Aberystwyth University academics is investigating the part disease and pollution are playing in the decline in the African penguin population, a species which faces extinction within the next thirty to eighty years.

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Why are there so many text scams all of a sudden?

Writing in The Conversation Dr Gareth Norris and Alexandra Brookes from the Department of Psychology discuss the resurgence of text scams and how learning about them can help stamp them out

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Hemp research could open up new animal disease treatments

Research on using hemp as a cure for animal diseases has begun at Aberystwyth University.

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Sarah Wydall, Principal Investigator on the Dewis Choice project and Director of the Centre for Age, Gender and Social Justice

Dewis Choice awarded funding by Moondance Foundation

Researchers Sarah Wydall, Rebecca Zerk and Elize Freeman have been awarded £105,000 by the charity Moondance Foundation to support the Dewis Choice Initiative, which works with older victim-survivors of domestic abuse.

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The sun's atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface – here's why

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Marianna Korsos and Dr Huw Morgan from the Department of Physics discuss how Alfvén waves, first proposed 80 years ago, could explain why the sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface.

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International Politics, Aberystwyth University

Roman Protasevich: dissident Belarus journalist whose defiance enraged Europe's last dictator

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Jenny Mathers from the Department of International Politics discusses how young blogger Roman Protasevich has enraged Alexander Lukashenko, and helped to ensure that the world knows about the pro-democracy movement in Belarus.

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