Aberystwyth University
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Get our latest news by following us on the channels listed in the pinned post below. Cymraeg: @Prifysgol_Aber
Joined January 2009
👋 Hello from one of our new Alpacas!
🦙 Baby alpacas born at upland research centre 🦙. A herd of alpaca at @AberUni's upland research centre welcomed two new arrivals during the #Covid19 lockdown. 🖱️📰 Full story: #Pwllpeiran #Alpaca
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🏆Aberystwyth is the best university in the UK for teaching quality and student experience, according to the The Times / The Sunday Times Good University Guide🏆. Full story:
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Thank you to HRH Prince Charles for officially opening the new @AberUni School of Veterinary Science today. #Diolch also to our staff, students, donors, and all our partners who have enabled us to begin training vets in Wales for the first time. @ClarenceHouse
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🏆 Welsh University of the Year 2024 🏆. 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Aberystwyth University has been named The Times and The Sunday Times’ Welsh University of the Year 2024. 👉 Read the full story:
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We are pleased to confirm that we are planning to bring students back to campus in September 2020. More details:
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🗓️🧳 Two days until a new wave of Welsh speaking students come to live in this special place. 🏴 Wales' most famous hall transformed. #Pantycelyn2020 #CaruAber #LoveAber
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We were delighted to welcome Sir Brian May to the @VetHub1 Centre of Excellence of Bovine TB today to discuss our research. 🖱️More: @DrBrianMay
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🎉 Aberystwyth voted one of the best universities in the UK for student satisfaction 🎉. Aberystwyth is one of the UK’s top universities for student satisfaction, according to @nss_ipsos which is published today. 🖱️📰 Full story: #NSS2020 #LoveAber
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What a day – the first ever cohort of nursing students to start here in Aberystwyth.
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We've climbed 36 places in the 2019 #GuardianUniversityGuide and are the second highest university in Wales in @guardian league tables published this morning 🎉. University league tables 2019 | Education | The Guardian. #LoveAber #CaruAber
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We were delighted that many of our students, staff, alumni, donors and special guests could join us at the official opening of the new @AberUni School of Veterinary Science today. @ClarenceHouse
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Happy 147th Birthday to us😀🎉. A taste of our Founders’ Day celebrations this morning👇. Thank you to everyone who came to kick the bar!🚶♂️🚶♀️
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⚽Fantastic to see @JessFishlock receive her Fellowship today. Thank you for inspiring women in Wales and across the world! 🏳️🌈. @FAWales. #AberGrad24
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For those who missed out on the glorious sunshine in #Aberystwyth over the weekend, here's a photo from the seafront on Friday evening 🌞😍❤️ #LoveAber
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Aberystwyth top university for student satisfaction in Wales🎉 . … . #NationalStudentSurvey #NSS2018 #LoveAber
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Season’s greetings from all of us at Aberystwyth University ❄️
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New Year brings new life to Old College: One of Wales’s outstanding Grade I buildings awarded almost £10 million by @HeritageFundUK and £6m by @WelshGovernment to help in its renovation and secure its long term future
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Aberystwyth University to provide refunds on accommodation for students who can’t return. More information here:
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Lovely spring morning in #Aberystwyth today, here's the view of the town and sea from the steps of @NLWales #LoveAber 🌞❤️
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Editor @thesundaytimes Good University Guide on why @AberUni is Uni of the Year for Teaching Quality #LoveAber
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Full house in the Old Hall as we celebrate the @HeritageFundUK £10million and @WelshGovernment £6million funding to help renovate and secure the long term future of the Old College as a centre for culture, heritage, discovery, learning and enterprise #OldCollege
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Another very busy day and we are ready to welcome a new generation of students to Pantycelyn, the heart of the Welsh speaking student community @AberUni #Pantycelyn2020 #CaruAber #LoveAber
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🏆Aberystwyth University is the best university in Wales for teaching excellence and student satisfaction, according to The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023. 🖱️Full Story:
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Season’s greetings from all of us at Aberystwyth University ❄️
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🩺 Wales’ first School of #Veterinary Science opens its doors to students for the first time today at @AberUni 🩺. 🖱️🗞️ Full story:
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🏢 A building on our Penglais campus has been set aside as a screening centre and a clinical space 🏢. We are doing all we can to support the #NHS through the challenges posed by #Covid19 🏥👏. 🖱️📰 Full story: #WeAreTogether #SafwnFelUn
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👏🏆 Delighted to be this year's winner of the Whatuni Student Choice Awards Postgraduate category! #WUSCA #WUSCA2020 #postgraduate #studentreviews.
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Beautiful day today! Here’s the view from the top of #Aberystwyth’s tallest building: @AU_DGES’s Llandinam Building #LoveAber #FridayFeeling
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UK universities are doing all they can to support the #NHS through the challenges posed by #Covid19. NHS staff working at Bronglais Hospital are being provided with accommodation on our Penglais campus 🏠🏥. 🖱️📰More: #WeAreTogether #WorldHealthDay
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The University is taking a significant step towards its ambitious goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030, with the announcement of plans for a major renewable energy project. ☀️.@_energyservice #renewableenergy #solarenergy #sustainability
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👏🏆 Aberystwyth University is this year's winner in the best for international students category #Whatuni #WUSCA #internationalAber #internationalstudents #studentreviews #universityawards #WUSCA2020.
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Looks like the grey clouds from earlier today have cleared! Here’s the view from the footbridge that crosses from Pentre Jane Morgan to our Penglais Campus with panoramic views of #Aberystwyth and Cardigan Bay 🌞.#LoveAber
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Best wishes to Gill Parry from the Design and Print Team retiring today after 57 commendable years of service to the University👏🌟. Thank you and all the best Gill.
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Another stunning aurora display over Aberystwyth last night!🌠 Thank you to our postgraduate students Liam Edwards and Bethan Burnett for the photos😍
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👩💻🌍 Girls into Geoscience goes virtual.🌍👩💻. Female scientists from across the UK and Ireland will convene virtually for the largest #GirlsIntoGeoscience event which takes place today. 🖱️📰 Full story: #GiGCymru
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Kicking the bar en-masse to celebrate our annual Founders Day. 146 years since #oldcollege opened its doors in October 1872 #caruaber #loveaber
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🦙 Baby alpacas born at upland research centre 🦙. A herd of alpaca at @AberUni's upland research centre welcomed two new arrivals during the #Covid19 lockdown. 🖱️📰 Full story: #Pwllpeiran #Alpaca
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🔬 A researcher @AberUni has developed a method of identifying potential hotspots in the Coronavirus, which could help develop vaccines and drug treatments. 🔬. 🖱️📰 Full story: #WeAreTogether #SafwnFelUn
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🌟 #Pantycelyn welcomes a new generation of students 🌟. 🔑🚪 Wales’ most famous student hall of residence has doors once more today as students return to @AberUni for the beginning of the new academic year. 🖱️📰 Full story:
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🌟New Head of Wales’ first School of Veterinary Sciences speaks of ‘nation’s golden opportunity’🌟. The new head of Wales’ first School of Veterinary Science has said the development is a golden opportunity for the nation’s next generation. 🖱️📰Full story:
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🧑⚕️ A £500,000 grant from the @WelshGovernment will help fund new facilities for our nursing courses which will start for the first time in September this year. 🧑⚕️. 🗞️🖱️ Full story:
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Cartoonist and comedy writer Harry Venning was awarded an Honorary Fellowship today. Congratulations @harrymvenning ! #AberGrad.
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👏Congratulations to Professor Neil Glasser @NeilNfg, Professor of Physical Geography & Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences on being formally admitted as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales @LSWalesCDdCymru @AU_CfG @AU_DGES
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Actor, singer and former mayor of #Aberystwyth, Sue Jones-Davies, has been awarded an Honorary Bachelor of Arts Degree from Aberystwyth University. #LoveAber #AberGrad #MontyPython @aberystwytharts @AberystwythTFTS @JohnCleese @PythonJones @EricIdle
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Fantastic photo of the town of #Aberystwyth and the sea from the walk bridge over Penglais Hill. Photo by Cody Jackson. #LoveAber. For more images, follow us on Instagram:
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An Aberystwyth graduate who contributed to the breaking of the German Enigma code during the Second World War has left over £3m to her former University. 🖱️More:
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Women in computing pioneer Dr Hannah Dee recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to ‘Technology and to Women in the Information Technology Sector’
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The Old College looking stunning all aglow ❤️ #LoveAber. For more images, follow us on #Instagram: #FridayFeeling
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Wow, our campus sure looks stunning in the sunshine today 🌞.Why not come along and visit us during the #AberOpenDay on Tuesday 10th July and see why our students #LoveAber! ❤️. Book your place today
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🏢🔑 Handover signals the completion of the new Aberystwyth Innovation and Enterprise Campus 🔑🏢. It includes a new Biorefining Centre, Seed Biobank and Processing Facility, Future Food Centre, Advanced Analysis Centre and Innovation Hub. 🖱️📰 Full story:
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🥳It was great to welcome so many to kick the bar this morning as we celebrate our 150th anniversary this weekend!. . #Aber150 #Foundersday #LoveAber
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Enfys: Aberystwyth University to develop new infrared spectrometer for ExoMars as UK Space Agency funds work to replace Russian components on Mars rover. 🖱️More:
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Where better to unwind after a busy day of lectures than with a stroll on #Aberystwyth's beautiful seafront! 🌊😎🍦#LoveAber. There's still time to apply to Aberystwyth University for September 2018!.Find out more: #WednesdayWisdom #WeAreInternational
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Read all about it! Aber is Welsh University of the Year and a top two university in the UK for Teaching Quality and Student Experience. This and much more in today’s @thesundaytimes #GoodUniversityGuide2020 #LoveAber
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🌟 Major award to uncover secrets of medieval seals 🌟. A historian @AberUni has been awarded a prestigious Major Research Fellowship by the @LeverhulmeTrust to investigate what seals can reveal about life in medieval times. 🖱️📰 Full story:
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Everyone is delighted to be part of this historic day – our first nursing students have started here in Aberystwyth.
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It doesn’t look like we’re getting a white Christmas in #Aberystwyth this year; so here are some images of the snow on campus from the beginning of the month taken by some of our students ❄️☃️ #LoveAber #Christmas
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On behalf of his former University, warmest congratulations to King Charles III on the occasion of his coronation.
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🔨 We are delighted to announce the appointment of @AndrewScottLtd as the construction company for our ambitious project to bring new life to the iconic Old College 🔨. 🖱️🗞️ Full story:
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We will observe a minute's silence at 9.15am today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. #RememberAberfan
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Today Aberystwyth University has joined organisations around the world in declaring a climate emergency and has taken steps to reduce its investments in fossil fuels.
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He organised 50 humanitarian missions from #Aberystwyth to Bosnia, Croatia, Belarus, Romania – and at today’s @InterpolAber #AberGrad ceremony, we were proud to award an Honorary Bachelor Degree to retired fire station manager Eric Harries #LoveAber.
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