Director appointed to the Mid Wales Regional Language Centre
31 August 2006
Siôn Meredith, Manager of Tearfund in Wales since 1993, has been appointed Director of the Mid Wales Regional Welsh Language Centre which is to be based at UWA. The contract to run the Centre has been awarded to the School of Education and Lifelong Learning by the National Assembly.
World's first robotic 'welly wanger'
21 August 2006
Computer scientists at Aber have developed the first welly throwing robot which has been built to take part in Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge.
Preparations for lunar collision
23 August 2006
On Sunday 3rd September the SMART-1 space craft is set to crash-land on the moon. Profesor Manuel Grande from the Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences is one of the mission's principal investigators.
Top five for student satisfaction
24 August 2006
With a 90% rating Aberystwyth climbs to number 5 in the UK National Student Satisfaction survey, and the best in Wales by far.