News: June 2020
Masters of Education to be delivered in Singapore
In a new collaboration, Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) and the School of Education and Human Development at Bangor University have created a new Master's in Education programme.
Publication date: 19 June 2020
Undergraduate research published in a scientific journal
James Edwards has seen his final year dissertation work at Bangor University published in Acupuncture in Medicine . James, now 23 and studying dentistry, researched the effectiveness of acupuncture for nerve pain in the face. He compared treatment outcomes for acupuncture against drug therapy and surgery.
Publication date: 10 June 2020
Brexit reveals new findings on minorities & mental health
Being part of a minority group, whose identity is important to you, could negatively affect your mental health. That’s the conclusion of a piece of research offered up by the Brexit referendum and published in the journal Social Science and Medicine. ( Mental health consequences of minority political positions: The case of Brexit )
Publication date: 8 June 2020
Coming of age in 2020 – the summer without exams or school proms
The transition from childhood to adulthood is marked by humans in a wide variety of ways across the world. Many of these “coming of age” celebrations are held at puberty. For instance, the filing of front teeth in Bali is said to ease the “sad ripu” or six evils of lust, greed, wrath, pride, jealousy and intoxication. In contrast, the Jewish bar mitzvah marks the point at which children are deemed to be responsible for their own actions. This article by Isabelle Catherine Winder , School of Natural Sciences and Gwyndaf Roberts , and Vivien Shaw , School of Medical Sciences is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article .
Publication date: 8 June 2020
A green university choice
With many young people wanting to reduce their environmental footprint, students looking for a ‘green’ university can be assured that if they choose Bangor, they will be studying at a university which is word-leading for its commitment to recycling and sustainability . Not only was the University recently placed 7th in the world for recycling and sustainability, measured against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the north Wales institution is also ranked 10th in the world for its green credentials according to the Green Metric World University Rankings .
Publication date: 5 June 2020
New insight into cancer drug resistance mechanism
Research from the laboratory of Dr. Edgar Hartsuiker at the Bangor North West Cancer Research Institute , School of Medical Sciences , has been published in the latest issue (29 May) of the high-ranking journal Science Advances . Many cancer drugs kill cancer cells by inhibiting the replication of their genetic material, the DNA. One of these drugs is Gemcitabine, used to treat, among others, pancreatic, bladder and lung cancer. Gemcitabine mimics one of the building blocks of DNA, the nucleoside deoxycytidine, and competes with it for integration into cancer cell DNA. Once integrated, it inhibits DNA replication and thus division of the cancer cell.
Publication date: 3 June 2020