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News: February 2020

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission scholarships available for MSc Tropical Forestry at Bangor University. Apply now!

Bangor University has secured 10 Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) scholarships to award to exceptional international scholars to study MSc Tropical Forestry (distance-learning) starting in September 2020.

Publication date: 25 February 2020

‘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.