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‘The future of our oceans’ – public lecture at Bangor University by prominent scientist
The future of our oceans will be the focus of a public lecture at Bangor University on Wednesday, 4 March. The speaker is Jacqueline McGlade, Professor of Resilience and Sustainable Development at University College London, and an Honorary Fellow of Bangor University. The lecture will take place at 5.30pm in the Eric Sunderland Lecture Theatre of the Main Arts Building. Admission is free, and no tickets are required. All are welcome.
Publication date: 19 February 2020
Software Hut: where computing students work with companies
There is a real buzz every week; all second-year computing students meet with company representatives to discuss their group project.
Publication date: 18 February 2020
School hosts Masters and PhD Fair
On the afternoon of the 30th January 2020 the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering hosted a Masters and PhD Fair. Over thirty computing and electronic students interested in postgraduate courses came to the event.
Publication date: 10 February 2020
Tree diseases in forests: prevention is better than cure
New tree diseases are spreading to woodlands in Britain at an increasing rate causing greater damage to sustainable production of timber and the many other benefits that we get from our woods. This is a particular concern given the Government’s commitment to a rapid increase in the area of woodland. We don’t want to plant millions of trees that simply succumb to disease.
Researchers in the Universities of Bangor, Strathclyde, Cambridge, Glasgow and Warwick, as well as the James Hutton Institute, have just published a full formal review of all the published evidence from around the temperate world about which options for forest management are most effective against tree diseases (Frontiers of Forestry & Global Change 3:7. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00007). This has shown that measures taken after a pathogen has invaded a forest (such as felling diseased trees or those susceptible to infection) may only slow the spread of disease within the forest. They rarely stop it. Therefore, much the best approach would be to increase effective quarantine to reduce the rate of spread of new pathogens to a country or region, but this rarely seems to work. The spores of many pathogens, such as that causing ash dieback disease, can travel far blown by the wind.
Publication date: 10 February 2020
Public Procurement Expo
An ‘Expo’: Public Procurement and meeting the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act Goals at Bangor University’s Neuadd Reichel Hall on Tuesday 4 February, will bring procurement officers from across the north Wales public sector, academics and other leaders in public procurement together to collaboratively explore how public bodies can use more sustainably produced, local food and meet the Well-being Goals.
Publication date: 30 January 2020
Remembering Professor David Last
Publication date: 27 January 2020
Bangor Computing and Electronic Students win Hac Iechyd Cymru 2020 / Welsh Health Hack
Four undergraduate students from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, along with Dr. Franck Vidal (Senior Lecturer) entered and won the Hac Iechyd Cymru 2020 Welsh Health Hack competition.
Publication date: 27 January 2020
Could willow be the answer to better lamb growth?
A Woodland Trust media release
New research has shown willow trees could be used to optimise production in lambs because it has particularly high concentrations of cobalt and zinc.
The study sampled leaves from three native deciduous species – willow, alder and oak – from three sites across the UK and analysed their mineral, energy and protein content.
Publication date: 24 January 2020
Launch of a faster age at M-SParc
A 5G research centre, which will make Wales a global leader in the technology and change how the internet works, will be officially launched at M-SParc, Bangor University’s Science Park today (23.1.20).
The Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Centre is run by professors and researchers from Bangor University, who are working on speeding up broadband, and are playing a vital role in enabling true 5G. With partners including Huawei and BT, this is global work which could be world-changing.
Publication date: 23 January 2020