Other News
Latest News
How our unconscious visual biases change the way we perceive objects
As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But while we can appreciate that others might hold different opinions of objects we see, not many people know that factors beyond our control can influence how we perceive the basic attributes of these objects. We might argue that something is beautiful or ugly, for example, but we would be surprised to learn that the same object is perceived as a sphere by one person but as a cube by another.
This article by Beverley Pickard-Jones, PhD Researcher, at the School of Psychology is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Publication date: 15 January 2019
Bangor University placed in the top 10 of global green league
Bangor University is ranked eighth in the world for its commitment to sustainability according to an international league table of environmentally friendly institutions.
The University is one of four UK universities appearing in the Top 10 of the UI Green Metric, a league table of the world’s greenest universities.
Publication date: 15 January 2019
Investigating why oak trees are dying is helping scientists understand how infectious diseases work
British oak trees are under threat from a disease known as Acute Oak Decline. Mainly affecting mature trees, it can kill them within four to five years of symptoms appearing. However, while researchers like myself have been looking into what causes it, and trying to find a way to prevent it, our work has been hindered in part by the fact that we have to follow a set of scientific rules known as Koch’s postulates.
This article by James Doonan, Postdoctoral Research Officer, School of Natural Sciences is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Publication date: 14 January 2019
Assessing the value of dementia support groups
New ageing and dementia research at Bangor University will soon be underway, with a team from the Bangor Institute of Health and Medical Research in the School of Health Sciences being the only university in Wales to be awarded funding as part of the ESRC-NIHR Dementia Research Initiative 2018.
This programme of work, led by partners at University College London, centres around people living with rare dementias, and will involve the first major study of the value of support groups for people living with or caring for someone with a rare form of dementia.
Publication date: 10 January 2019
Bangor University Venom Day attracts world-leading experts
Toxin enthusiasts from around the globe gathered in North Wales for an annual event organised by Bangor University students.
Leading academics, world experts and a TV star joined over a hundred people for the unique Venom Day conference in Bangor to discuss toxicology and venomous species.
Publication date: 10 January 2019
Why foraging for free is food for the soul
In the past few years, there’s been a resurgence in the idea of foraging for food. The practice of hand gathering plants and animals for bait, money or the table has long taken place, but more recently top chefs have been popularising the idea, while urban foragers have told of the lengths they go to to find wild food in big cities.
This article by PhD candidate at the School of Ocean Sciences, Elisabeth S. Morris-Webb, is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Publication date: 10 January 2019
Holocaust Memorial Day Service at Bangor University
A service to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2019 will be held at the Prichard-Jones Hall, Main Arts Building, College Road, in Bangor on Monday, 28 January, from 10:30am to 11:30am.
The theme of this year’s service is ‘Torn from Home’ and will feature music and readings from local schools, members of the local community and council, the Students Union, The Chaplaincy Team, and University Staff.
The service, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Prichard-Jones Hall, Main Arts Building, and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Publication date: 9 January 2019
“For services to tackling poverty abroad and to education in Derby”
Dr Daljit Singh Virk, a Senior Research Fellow at Bangor University is to receive the OBE.
The award recognises the impact of Dr Virk’s scientific contributions as geneticist and plant breeder as well as his leading role in establishing the Sikh faith Akaal Primary School, in Derby in 2015. The free school was established under the Academies Act.
Dr Virk has been at the heart of one of Bangor University’s most impactful research projects, which has contributed to improved food security and livelihoods for millions of households in some of the most impoverished countries.
Publication date: 8 January 2019
Archive of the Month – January 2019: George Hartley Bryan (1864-1928)
George Hartley Bryan was Professor of Pure & Applied Mathematics at Bangor from 1896 until his retirement in 1926. In 1911 he published ‘Stability in aviation; an introduction to dynamical stability as applied to the motions of aeroplanes’, a book that established Bangor at the forefront of new scientific advances.
Publication date: 7 January 2019
Lynette Roberts: Welsh poet who fused touch and sight into sound
The name of Lynette Roberts may not be the first that springs to mind in the history of Welsh writing in English, possibly because her futuristic poetry of World War II still sounds new and strange. In her epic poem Gods With Stainless Ears she imagines postwar humans in a technologised, ecologically damaged landscape:
This article by Zoë Skoulding, Reader in English at the School of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Publication date: 2 January 2019
Bangor Education Degree leads to further success for educational entrepreneur
The Winner of a national Entrepreneurial Award attributes her success to a Bangor University School of Education Masters course.
Ms Ayan Aliyeva, of Baku, Azerbaijan, has been awarded the British Council Entrepreneurial Alumni Award for Azerbaijan.
Publication date: 21 December 2018
Almost half of all students studying a degree through the medium of Welsh, do so at Bangor University
Recent statistics have revealed that almost half of all students studying a degree through the medium of Welsh now do so at Bangor University. In addition, the largest number of lecturers teaching through the medium of Welsh is at Bangor University.
Publication date: 14 December 2018
Teaching Fellow awarded to President of MDIS
Bangor University has awarded a prestigious Teaching Fellowship to Dr Eric Kuan, President of the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) at a special ceremony.
Publication date: 14 December 2018
Four Bangor University students compose 100 poems in 24 hours
On this year’s National Poetry Day, four Bangor University students took up Literature Wales’ annual challenge to compose 100 original poems in 24 hours.
Publication date: 5 October 2018