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Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • Talis Aspire / Primo integration (old UI)

    • Preamble Making use of the ELTA it is possible to add tabs to a Primo results page. The original ELTA waited for each call to EXLTA_addTab() to finish and blocked the page from loading smoothly. We've extended the original functionality to allow the evaluator to run asynchronously. This does mean that tabs will appear after a short ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – March 2018

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored - Mawrth 2018

  • Interview with Quilliam Society Founder Ross Paton

    • Aberystwyth Quilliam Society logo by (provided by the society). by Heather Crumpton Last December I had the opportunity to speak with Ross Paton, a second year International Politics student at Aberystwyth University. Throughout the first semester he had been busy founding and promoting the Aberystwyth Quilliam Society. The society is loosely based upon the Quilliam Foundation, ...more

  • Netball 7s

    • The Uni has many different sports and societies that have been created to share the passion of that activity between like-minded people in Aber’s Students Union. As part of a club or society in Aber you will take part in the Raising and Giving month (RAG). This is where all of Team/ Tîm Aber comes ...more

  • Refurbishment of Hugh Owen Level D 

    • At Aberystwyth we are committed to bringing the best out of our student’s, particularly their studies. We create space’s that suit all student’s needs and methods of studying to help their student’s study experience improve. The Hugh Owen Library has been undergoing a huge refurbishment of the level D area since summer to create a brighter and more welcoming area for students to study. This January, the work ...more

  • Superteams

    • Superteams is one of my all-time favourite events that Aber Student’s Union hosts and it is incredibly popular (usually selling out in less than a minute). It’s an all weekender event that involves twenty-eight women’s and twenty-eight men’s teams of ten battling it out to see who the best team is. Everyone creates their team ...more

  • Pam Aberystwyth?

    • ’y Coleg ger y lli.' Nid yn unig mae dewis Prifysgol yn bwysig o ran yr addysg a derbyn gradd, ond mae yn bwysig dewis Prifysgol ar sail y gymuned hefyd. Yma yn Aberystwyth, mae’r gymuned Gymraeg yn gryf iawn ac mae pawb yn teimlo fel un teulu mawr. Fel rhan o UMCA rwyf wedi cael ...more

  • Llyfrgelloedd a chyfleuoedd astudio

    • Yma yn Aberystwyth, rydym ni am roi bob cyfle posib I fyfyrwyr, a’r cyfleuoedd gorau hefyd. Nid yn unig rydym yn cynnig un llyfrgell, ond rydym yn cynnig tri llyfrgell ar y campws: Lleolir Llyfrgell Thomas Parry ar Campws Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth. Mae’n cefnogi gofynion Staff a Myfyrwyr yr Athrofa Reolaeth, y Gyfraith a Gwyddor Gwybodaeth. ...more

  • Awgrymiadau adolygu

    • Mae ceisio adolygu yr adeg hon o’r flwyddyn yn anodd. Mae’n amser ‘dolig a phawb yn dechrau ymuno yn hwyl yr ŵyl a’r peth olaf sydd ar eich meddwl yw’r arholiadau sydd rownd y gornel. Ond, dyma rai awgrymiadau adolygu... Man astudio. Heb os, mae popeth ac unrhyw beth yn medru tynnu ein sylw adeg arholiadau ac mae’n ...more

  • Taith Snapchat o Adran y Gymraeg ac Astudiethau Celtaidd

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYC8twAcCPw&feature=youtu.be   Mae’r Adran hon yn un ddelfrydol ar gyfer astudio iaith, llenyddiaeth a diwylliant Cymru, yn ogystal ag Astudiaethau Celtaidd a hynny mewn cyd-destun Cymreig a rhyngwladol. Mae Aberystwyth yn cynnig cyfleoedd unigryw i fyfyrwyr ddysgu Cymraeg a Chymraeg Proffesiynol yn ogystal â Llydaweg, Gwyddeleg, a Gaeleg yr Alban. Yn ogystal â chynlluniau BA mewn Cymraeg a ...more

  • Cymdeithas Gymraeg Aberystwyth.

    • Sefydlwyd UMCA nol yn 1973 ar gyfer gwarchod hawliau a buddiannau ac ymgyrchu dros fyfyrwyr Cymraeg yn y Brifysgol. Cynrychiolai UMCA ei haelodau o safbwynt cymdeithasol, ieithyddol ac addysgol. Daw aelodau UMCA o bob cwr o Gymru a thu hwnt gan greu cymuned unigryw a chlos, sydd yn ffynnu ac esblygu yn flynyddol. Mae blynyddoedd Prifysgol ...more

  • Successful PhD Defence on High Through-put Screening of Schistosoma

    • On January 16, 2018, IBERS-funded PhD student Kezia Whatley successfully defended her thesis entitled: “Synergistic application of high-throughput screening (HTS) and high content imaging (HCI) technologies with in silico drug repositioning techniques to identify new chemotherapeutic targets in Schistosoma mansoni”. Supervised by Prof. Karl Hoffmann, Kezia helped set up a HTS platform based on a ...more

  • Social Media Scientific Collaborations?

    • My only foray into social media during my scientific career has been limited to one platform involving the use of 140 characters at a time. I use no other social media platforms. Since I joined in 2014 I have gradually engaged to greater extent. During this time I’ve found the small snippets ...more

  • Potential class of HIV-1 integrase inhibitors

    • Cameron Garty is currently completing an MPhil in natural product drug discovery and medicinal chemistry in Dr Shah’s research group. To date, seventy-eight million people in the world, have become infected with HIV and over thirty-five million deaths have resulted from HIV/AIDs and related diseases. Currently, there are between thirty-six million people living with HIV, of ...more

  • A biologist playing the numbers game

    • A biologist playing the numbers game Biologists generally dislike numbers, as a rule. Probably because numbers require you to do all the work before anything interesting happens. Numbers don’t metabolise, or synthesise, or secrete, or replicate. They don’t behave in different ways under the same conditions. They are, in a word, reliable. We like what they ...more

  • The wonderland of academic research @Aberystwyth University

    • There is nothing more exciting in the world of academic research than elucidating the answers for our investigations and further disseminate that particular knowledge. As researchers, we have all been participating to events, symposiums and international conferences and we often been given the opportunity to claim our 15 minutes of fame via the means of ...more

  • Gwneud cais i’r Brifysgol

    •   Mae gwneud cais i’r Brifysgol yn brofiad llawn emosiynau gwahanol. Hyd yn oed os wyt ti’n gwybod yn union pa gwrs i’w astudio, mae cymaint o brifysgolion sy’n cynnig opsiynau gwahanol neu’n addysgu mewn dulliau eraill. Gall hyn ei gwneud hi’n anodd iawn i benderfynu ar y cwrs delfrydol. Ond, paid â phoeni! Dyma ychydig ...more

  • LLEFYDD DEFNYDDIOL I WYBOD AMDANYNT

    • Er i mi fod yn fyfyriwr yma am dair blynedd, dwi dal ddim wedi bod ym mhob cilfan yn Aberystwyth ac mae na rhai llefydd bydden i wedi hoffi gwybod amdanynt yn gynt. Un peth wnaeth fy synnu yw faint o lefydd gwych sydd yma i astudio ynddynt, a faint o gyfleusterau diddorol sydd ar ...more

  • Y Gymraeg yn Aber

    • Mae Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn gweithredu’n ddwyieithog ac yn cynnig gwasanaethau i hyrwyddo’r Gymraeg i fyfyrwyr, staff a’r cyhoedd yng Nghymru. Adran o fewn y Brifysgol sy’n hyrwyddo ac yn cynorthwyo bywyd Cymraeg y Brifysgol yw Canolfan Gwasanaethau’r Gymraeg. Mae ei gwaith yn cynnwys cefnogi adrannau academaidd i ddatblygu prosiectau drwy’r Gymraeg, darparu gwasanaeth cyfieithu, cynnig a ...more