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News Archive: October 2010
Bangor scientists contribute to global conservation review.
Conservation scientists at Bangor University have contributed data to the latest comprehensive conservation assessment of the world’s vertebrates.
Publication date: 28 October 2010
Bangor scientist to help protect Marine Biodiversity in the Caribbean
The School of Ocean Sciences collaborating with the Government of the Cayman Islands and US partner The Nature Conservancy have launched an £817,000 project to protect the marine biodiversity of the Cayman Islands, a UK Overseas Territory in the central Caribbean.
Publication date: 28 October 2010
Nature’s Backbone at Risk
The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according to a study launched today at the 10 th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD, in Nagoya, Japan.
Publication date: 27 October 2010
Transferring knowledge of psychology to the workplace
People are the heart of successful businesses – and Bangor University’s School of Psychology is inviting people to discover how psychology can be used in the workplace to unleash potential and fulfill individual ambitions.
Publication date: 22 October 2010
Bangor Pontifical on the Web: Phase One Complete
The Bangor Pontifical Project, launched exactly one year ago as a partnership between the University and the Cathedral to ensure the long-term preservation of Bangor’s most precious medieval manuscript, has just reached its first significant milestone. Completion of phase one, funded by a Welsh Assembly grant, has enabled conservation and rebinding of the Pontifical and digitization of its 340 pages. The manuscript was photographed by the cutting-edge Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) last spring, and viewers may now zoom in on the excellent high-quality images via the open access Bangor Pontifical Project website .
Publication date: 20 October 2010
New DNA Sequencing reveals hidden communities
Half a bucket full of sand from an unassuming beach in Scotland has revealed a far richer and more complex web of microscopic animals living within the tiny ‘ecosystem’ than have previously been identified.
Publication date: 19 October 2010
Sweet William- A portrait of Shakespeare and his art
In his brilliant one man show Michael Pennington combines his performance skills with textual scholarship and practical knowledge to give us well rounded a portrait of Shakespeare and his art as you could hope for in two hours…Whether as the boy Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale , Mistress Quickly or the senile Shallow and Silence in Henry IV , he embraces the infinite variety found in Shakespeare’s world
Publication date: 19 October 2010
Major European Grant Success for Law School
Bangor University Law School’s Professor Dermot Cahill and Ceri Evans have just successfully led a €4 million research grant bid ( the WIT project ), a collaboration with Dublin City University’s Strategic Procurement Unit led by Paul Davis of DCU Business School. This major award, announced last week against stiff international competition, will be funded until the end of 2013 by the European Union’s Ireland/Wales INTERREG Innovation & Competitiveness programme. Bangor University Law School will be the Lead Partner.
Publication date: 15 October 2010
Our City: Reflections from Bangor’s young people
Bangor University’s Pontio project/Gwynedd Arts Forum are proud to announce the appointment of popular local artist Catrin Williams to lead a special visual arts project, Ein Dinas (Our City). This project will work with the young people of Bangor to create a huge mural on the wooden hoardings surrounding the building site of the new Arts and Innovation Centre on Deiniol Road in the centre of the city.
Publication date: 15 October 2010
First Modern Welsh Historian commemorated
A historian who changed the face of modern Welsh history is to be commemorated with a biennial Public Lecture in his name at Bangor University. The inaugural J. E. Lloyd Lecture will discuss J.E. Lloyd’s own reinterpretation of Welsh history. The Lecture takes place at 6.15 on Friday 22 October at Bangor University’s Main Arts Lecture Theatre and is open to all.
Publication date: 12 October 2010
Opening of Exhibition of Jewish Life - With Kosher Reception
Dr Nathan Abrams and Dr Sally Baker from Bangor University’s School of Creative Studies and Media and School of Social Sciences respectively, in collaboration with Esther Roberts of Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, have been awarded £19,000 by Beacon for Wales to hold a touring exhibition of Jewish life in North Wales. Through this exhibition, local people have the opportunity to learn about Jewish history in North Wales. Jews have been resident in North Wales for at least the last one hundred and fifty years and have played an important part in its history. For example, Isidore Wartski was mayor of Bangor and the first Jewish mayor in Wales. The exhibition will be held at a combination of university and public venues across North Wales. A series of workshops at the university, local venues and schools will be held. On November 1st at 2-50pm, Sally and Nathan will also be giving a presentation to the staff and students of Coleg Menai Bangor Campus, in particular the religious studies A level class, who are currently studying Judaism.
Publication date: 6 October 2010
Welcome Week 2010
A big WELCOME to all our new students, and WELCOME BACK to all those returning from the Summer Break. If you're a new student don't forget to keep an eye on what's on by visiting the University Welcome Week 2010 website .
Publication date: 4 October 2010
Bangor University graduate wins Nobel Prize
Bangor University graduate Professor Robert Edwards FRS has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Publication date: 4 October 2010
Professor’s ‘Visceral Mind’ Course Attracts Bright Brains to Bangor
The first of a series of prestigious International Summer Schools was held in the School of Psychology at Bangor University from 6-10th September attracting 40 students from 13 countries as far a field as Argentina, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Israel and India. The Visceral Mind course was made possible by a donation in excess of £100K from the James S McDonnell Foundation. The one-week course in functional gross neuroanatomy was based almost entirely on hands-on practica: case conferences, brain dissection, scan reviews and image analysis labs. The course was designed to provide an opportunity for young, bight cognitive neuroscientists from across the world to come to Bangor to increase their knowledge of neuroanatomy under a collection of world-renowned academics from Bangor and beyond.
Publication date: 4 October 2010
Into Africa ‐ Welsh Sustainable Development
Welsh experts have been sharing their experience with African entrepreneurs in a course on renewable energy and sustainable development. It is hoped that the entrepreneurs will take their experiences from Wales back to Africa to find solutions to the global climate challenge. The 15 participants in the programme were encouraged to develop their own solutions to the African challenge of sustainable development.
Publication date: 4 October 2010
Schools in North Wales beat the Stock Market
Students at Prestatyn High School took on 23 other young fund management teams from regional schools in Stock Market Challenge and came out on top.
Publication date: 1 October 2010
‘Incredible Years’ to open Health & Wellbeing Lecture Series
‘Incredible Years’- an award winning programme which supports young children and their families, and the research into its effectiveness provides the subject for a public lecture which takes place at 6pm on Tuesday, the 5 th October at Venue Cymru, Llandudno. This is the first in a Health & Wellbeing Lecture Series of lectures that are open to all and are organised by Bangor University in partnership with Coleg Llandrillo Cymru.
Publication date: 1 October 2010