Aberystwyth University

A new entrance and atrium at the rear of the Old College will unlock the vast potential of the historic grade 1 listed building according to Lyn Hopkins from project architects Lawray. Extending over seven floors and providing easy…

Aberystwyth Arts Centre is part of the new National Contemporary Art Gallery for Wales, designed to widen access to publicly owned art collections and support artists in Wales. Aberystwyth Arts Centre at Aberystwyth University, is one of…

Aberystwyth University’s world-renowned plant research has been boosted by a prestigious European Union-funded research fellowship. The esteemed award has been given to Dr Jaykumar Patel, whose work will explore how to make the cereal…

The Royal Welsh Agriculture Society’s annual Sustainable Grass and Muck Event will be held at Trawscoed farm at the end of May. The event is part of Ceredigion’s year as the society’s feature county. With 150 acres put aside for…

Aberystwyth University scientists will help to develop sustainable microbial foods as part of a new £14m project. IBERS researchers at Aberystwyth will contribute to the work of the new Microbial Food Hub which has been funded as part of…

‘Time’ is the theme for this year’s three-day science festival (12 – 14 March) which is being hosted by Aberystwyth University this week. How flowers keep time, how rivers change over time and how animals spend their time underwater, and…

Aberystwyth University academics are visiting Svalbard in the Arctic to investigate the night life of microbes. Led by Aberystwyth University, three experts will visit Arctic glaciers to study microbial life during the area’s ‘light…

Scientists have solved the mysterious absence of star-shaped dunes from Earth’s geological history for the first time, dating one back thousands of years. The study by Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck and UCL academics is the first to…

Four new oat varieties bred at Aberystwyth University have received top level approval after being recommended to farmers by the government’s industry board. The Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette, a statutory government body, publishes…

A book exploring the natural phenomenon of darkness and the way that it fires our imagination has been published by an Aberystwyth University academic today. The work of creative writing lecturer and critically acclaimed author Dr…