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  • Technocamps delivers first workshop in Pembrokeshire to aspiring young technologists.
  • What do you call 50 employers in a tent? A great opportunity for Swansea students!
  • Newport Byelection is Still Relevant Today
  • Anglo-Spanish Society rewards Swansea University Spanish “Scholars”
  • Theology Lecture Programme: Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living
  • Rhodri Morgan to make major speech on children's rights
  • A head start in tough times – local employers urged to offer students a “Week of Work”
  • What do you call 50 employers in a tent? A great opportunity for Swansea students!
  • Professor’s inaugural lecture on Sir William Jones – “one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time”
  • Cancer research student running for charity
  • Over 4000 young people are learning vital computing skills that will benefit the future digital economy.
  • Wales Ireland Solar Energy Initiative launched
  • The Scandal of Welsh Writing in English: Caradoc Evans and the Consequences
  • Going for Gold: Performing Under Pressure in Sport
  • Marketing students prepare to pitch their campaign ideas
  • Swansea Distinguished Lectures in Computer Science
  • In Conversation with David Miliband
  • The Dean of St Albans visits Swansea University
  • Swansea University swimmers excel in British championships
  • College of Science hosts 10th annual Glamorgan Recorders’ Forum
  • Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas:Is A Carbon Free Wales Possible?
  • Welsh and English students go head to head in Twickenham clash
  • Scottish Guardianship Pilot Service’s first annual evaluation report published
  • Seminar Series: The Ethics and Legalities of Applying ICT to Care Needs
  • Swansea University Professor consults on major new BBC series and engages students about the history of Wales
  • Swansea University Rugby player handed first regional contract with the Ospreys
  • Discovery project runner up in prestigious youth work awards
  • DACE lecture: Is the state responsible for our children?
  • DACE lecture: Emily Bronte and the Mother World
  • Battle of the Brains
  • Public lecture: Personality change as a result of brain injury
  • Swansea Women: “Because they’re worth it”
  • Professor John Harries: Science in Wales – an update
  • Year 12 students see how physics saves lives
  • University of Wales O’Donnell Lecture 2012
  • DACE lecture: Monica Lewinsky and Me
  • April Swansea Science Cafe: The Fermi paradox, organised by Wales Gene Park
  • College of Science: Physics Seminar by Professor William D Phillips, Nobel Laureate
  • Theology Public Lecture Series: “Can the gospels be trusted?"
  • Research blog – Seismic Spring: A geophysical field campaign on Storglaciären, Sweden
  • Centre’s review into female asylum seekers’ Country of Origin Information published
  • Grant awarded for child refugee research
  • University receives Big Lottery Fund for student sex worker project
  • NERC highlights Swansea's New Green Revolution
  • Swansea Physicists’ historic anti-matter breakthrough
  • Novel research examining the effects of solar radiation
  • Climate Change: Researchers report dramatic changes in North Atlantic biology
  • ‘Fraudulent’ Disability in Historical Perspective
  • Grant to help reduce animal testing in cancer research
  • University scoops double award for research in Science and Engineering
  • Ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939
  • New handbook on Environmental Change
  • Computer Science in Action: Project Demonstration Fair
  • ASTUTE networking breakfast: ‘Advanced Manufacturing Support in Wales’
  • Professor of Welsh Gives First Public Lecture on Saunders Lewis at Swansea University
  • Multicultural Festival 2012
  • Rugby stars wish Varsity teams well
  • Discover! Club: Girls get hands-on in Science and Engineering
  • Let the battle begin...............
  • Arts and Humanities PhD Studentships at Swansea University
  • College of Science: five full-time postgraduate scholarships
  • Swansea University appoints former Government Minister as its Strategic Adviser.
  • Dewch i Siarad! (Let’s Speak!)
  • Swansea University congratulated on exemplary student appeals and complaints management.
  • Swansea University and Soochow University sign Memorandum of Understanding
  • Response from LCRI Marine to First Minister's Energy Statement
  • Swansea University’s Innovative project awarded UK grant
  • Swansea University's statement regarding recent Twitter comments
  • Copperopolis - world copper project comes to Swansea
  • Swansea Varsity team row for charity
  • Swansea University’s Sustainability is “up to speed”
  • Swansea University student achieves sword of honour award
  • Varsity fever grows as Holley looks to give Swansea the edge ahead of Varsity
  • Giving students a head start in tough times - new Employability Academy launched
  • Swansea University students selected for GB squads
  • Swansea, Turkey, Kurdistan: visit will strengthen vital links
  • Statement regarding twitter comments
  • Swansea hosts European Diabetes Epidemiology Conference
  • Universities Week report shows impact of universities’ research and sport development
  • Is all love divine?
  • Europe Day 9th May: Flying the flag for Europe
  • UK MS Register given boost at MS Life
  • Swansea University’s Innovative Library Service project wins Marketing Award
  • Swans100: Swansea City Centenary Project Roadshow Sunday 1st April
  • Researchers look for help to refine online healthy lifestyle tool
  • Major social science conference travels to North Wales
  • Theology Lecture: An Evening of Poetry
  • Statement regarding recent Twitter comments
  • Evolution and how the Universe became self-aware: what are the theological consequences?
  • Oxford Academic Evaluates ‘A Real Economic Meltdown: The End of Roman Britain’
  • Theology Public Lecture: The Future of Christian Theology
  • Swansea University Professor receives Honorary Fellow
  • Copper load of this!
  • Contract Awarded to Manage Wales’ First Dual Purpose Water and Beach Sports Centre in Swansea
  • New award to recognise Welsh writing in English
  • March Swansea Science Cafe: Molecular Gastronomy
  • DACE Lecture: History - What's the point?
  • DACE Lecture: Wales and the Welfare State
  • February Swansea Science Cafe – Life in the Universe, an introduction to astrobiology
  • DACE Lecture - Natural History: Life on the Sea Shore
  • Discovery shortlisted for prestigious youth work award
  • Home-grown neuroscientist leads the way for national Epilepsy charity
  • Lecture Cancelled: “Traumas of the Mediated Society"
  • Traumas of the Mediated Society: Cinema and Technological Narratives
  • Swansea research showcased at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival
  • It's RefuTEA time in Llandeilo!
  • Enthusing next generation of learners in Wales timetabled for teaching conference
  • GwyddonLe 2012 Highlights
  • Science Fun at the Urdd Festival
  • Swansea University to expand its Welsh language provision
  • Swansea University sprints up UK University League
  • ‘Latin in the Park’ to raise funds for schools literacy project
  • Bryn Tawe pupils taste University life
  • Prestigious Engineering Enterprise Fellowship for Swansea University Professor
  • Swansea University Professor appointed advisor to Welsh Language Commissioner
  • Swansea set to become global medical technologies and nanohealth hub with new award
  • Swansea university student awarded prestigious post with Welsh Government
  • Latest news from IT Wales
  • Swansea University students excel in undergraduate awards
  • Health Minister opens NHS Wales Informatics Research Laboratories
  • Swansea University new Learned Society Fellows elected
  • Battling Swansea do University proud in Varsity game
  • Swansea University team flies high in aircraft design competition
  • Ancient History reaches out to pupils through Olympics-themed visit days
  • Swansea University makes a Green Impact for Wales
  • From Belgrade to Brynmill - Serbian careers experts visit Swansea
  • ABMU ‘Why your local NHS needs to change’ campaign and YouTellUs™ web forum launched
  • Inspiring Innovation into commercialisation
  • Statement from Swansea University following conclusion of disciplinary proceedings involving Twitter posting student
  • University’s HR team scoop performance excellence award
  • Premier League produce - growing veg on the pitch
  • Swansea University genetics expert inspires Wales
  • Swansea University linguistics expert wins prestigious grant funding award
  • MP re-launches book on Spain
  • Excellence in Learning and Teaching Conference
  • The Higgs Boson, the Big Bang, the Universe and Everything
  • Graduation 2012 - Honorary Awards
  • Welsh Medium Modern Languages Research Conference
  • Summer Degree and Award Congregations celebrate student achievement
  • Campus upgrade
  • Business forum: ‘Adding Value from Printable Electronics’
  • Minister for Education and Skills sees "state of the art" research centre
  • Ministerial prize-giving marks national HE STEM programme success
  • More Than Musty Mummies
  • Part-time Degree student Mark scoops second Learner Award
  • Inspirational student Mark wins HE Learner of the Year Award
  • Learner Award Success for Mother and Daughter
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian to Lecture at Swansea University
  • Swansea University on BBC Learning Zone
  • 'Broken Hallelujah': M Wynn Thomas award winner
  • Swansea University wish to appoint new Welsh language tutors
  • Lithuanian Ambassador visits Swansea University
  • ‘Research as Art’ Competition 2012
  • Swansea University’s ‘Writers’ Day 2012’
  • Welsh medium Olympic themed day for Ystalyfera pupils
  • From dribbling to scribbling!!!
  • Professor contributes to discussion on separate legal jurisdiction for Wales
  • £1 million Celtic alliance to deliver major healthcare advances
  • New scheme to help bolster employment opportunities for students
  • NERC Planet Earth Online: Size matters for ocean acidification effects
  • Swansea scientists’ work featured in marine climate change review
  • Beijing-Swansea Workshop on Stochastic Processes
  • Innovation through refugee children’s participation
  • 21st Century technology sheds light on medieval treasure
  • New book examines relationship between Wales, Israel and Palestine
  • IMPACT researchers are putting the bite on midges
  • Swansea University to help forecast the future of the UK’s coastline
  • From Albanian to Yiddish - how does Shakespeare translate?
  • New study suggests ocean’s plankton under greater threat from acidification
  • Swansea academics publish major book on membrane modification technology
  • Lecturer to lead the Gorsedd
  • Having a ball at Swansea University Summer Ball 2012
  • Cyfrwng Media Wales Conference
  • Welsh language film gives a glimpse of Greenland’s disappearing ice at GwyddonLe
  • Study for a fully-funded Doctoral Award or Masters in Arts and Humanities
  • The Olympic light shines on Swansea University
  • Tribute to Capt Stephen Healey
  • Earliest Swansea football song - from 1913 - unearthed in library
  • Bloodhound top dog on Eisteddfod maes
  • Swansea University makes the grade in university green awards
  • Message in ancient bottle ?
  • Swansea academic seeking global solutions to pollution problems
  • Volunteer ‘mum’ wins mummification award
  • Adain Avion - art space in a plane, landing in Swansea
  • Online first for the Egypt Centre’s Ancient Egyptian Artefacts
  • Swansea University genetics expert wins UK young scientist award
  • Launch of Free Community Media Technology to Bridge the Digital Divide
  • The International Brass Band Summer School comes to Swansea
  • Celebrate with Swansea University at the Eisteddfod
  • Research as you’ve never seen it before – competition winners announced
  • John Hefin honoured for his lifelong contribution to broadcasting
  • £3million boost for Digital Literacy and Computer Science in Wales
  • Swansea University team wins another national award for HR
  • Swansea University scoops Constructing Excellence awards
  • Students helping hundreds of local children to read - through English and Latin
  • ‘360’ – at the centre of beach and water sports in Swansea Bay.
  • The Higgs Boson, the Big Bang, the Universe and Everything
  • Schools across Wales compete in first Technocamps LEGO Competition at this year’s Big Bang Cymru
  • Crime does pay!
  • Modern languages more relevant than ever
  • Need to network in Welsh
  • Egypt Centre Summer Holiday Workshop 2012
  • High fliers swoop on high tech display
  • Cyfrwng Award awarded to John Hefin
  • Swansea academic to edit new Dylan Thomas edition
  • Swansea University genetics expert wins UK young scientist award
  • Bloodhound Professor Honoured
  • Swansea University Tutors Win Prestigious Literary Awards
  • Paralympic teams pass on top tips to would-be stars of the future
  • Discovery receives commendation from the WCVA Wales-Africa Community Links group
  • Swansea University Health Science Lecturer awarded prestigious National Teaching Fellowship
  • Swansea University’s Unsung Hero
  • Paralympic Torch to light up the Wales National Pool
  • Paralympics - Swansea supplies athletes for Team GB and training camp for Mexican team
  • Sport Takes Centre Stage on Eisteddfod Stand
  • Creative writing student wins BBC place
  • Top prize for child physical activity study
  • Knowledge exchange: a winning formula for High Performance Sport innovation
  • Welsh SME business leaders top of the class again
  • Engineering students accelerate into the fast lane !
  • Félicitations, felicidades, and congratulations to Swansea’s prize-winning linguist Sophie
  • Engineering student has what counts !
  • Seminar celebrates 25 years of facial rehabilitation
  • ‘Green Growth for Business’:Swansea University and local businesses lead the way
  • DACE Community Lecture Series 2012-2013
  • Nothing ventured, nothing gained: Forum facilitates investment opportunities for healthcare companies
  • Swansea University Appoints Welsh Learners Ambassador
  • September Swansea Science Café: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN
  • Department of Adult Continuing Education (DACE) Part-time Study 2012-2013
  • New research could save coral reefs from extinction
  • Barcode project puts Wales Number 1 in the world
  • Swansea academic’s research published in Science journal
  • Information Systems researcher’s productive decade
  • New findings shed light on ‘startle’ disease which can cause infant deaths
  • Theology Lecture Series 2012/13 “Judge Not ...”
  • Conference examines Medievalism in Wales
  • Welsh SME business leaders top of the class again
  • Hywel Dda Lecture: The City of London: Sinners or Saviours?
  • Going for Gold: Innovative Olympic school project nominated for award
  • Local Students Celebrate Summer University Success
  • New research examines masculinity and the financial crisis
  • Minister visits Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research
  • October Science Cafe - Adventures with oxygen: a “radical” perspective
  • DACE Community Lecture Series: 2012-13
  • The Future of the Library in the Digital Age
  • Canolfannau Cymraeg: The Next Step
  • Learning Welsh in the United States
  • Swansea University Strengthens Links with China
  • Bloodhound Set for Spectacular Test
  • Memorial Fund Established to Remember a True Welsh Great
  • High flier: Swansea academic wins award
  • Grant to help engineering research project
  • Leading Swansea University researcher awarded prestigious international sabbatical
  • New blood needed? Pioneering Swansea course means better care for patients who need blood transfusions
  • Teamwork - Swansea City FC and University sign deal for training facility
  • Great opportunities available at Swansea University
  • App Development Summer Bootcamps big hit with Swansea teenagers
  • Swansea University collaboration helps Olympic/Paralympic sailing teams leave opponents high and dry
  • Medals, Mexicans and a lasting legacy - Swansea at the heart of a summer of sport
  • Fans' memories of Swansea City - Swans 100 project
  • Green” manager scoops environment “gold” award
  • Celebrated CERN physicist opens College’s new £3m Science labs
  • Go Mango Go
  • Deciphering Health: New Swansea University Centre puts health records at the heart of UK medical research
  • Swansea retains its place in the world’s top 5% of universities in QS rankings
  • Major step forward for Swansea University campus redevelopment programme
  • Swansea University Excels in World Ranking Tables
  • Exploring The Enigma of Cyber Terrorism
  • Beach and Watersports centre opens its doors for business
  • Theology Lecture Series: Why not torture terrorists?
  • Do The Facts Tell The Truth? Research and interpretation in the playwright's craft.
  • Young People and Substance Use: Dispelling the myths – rising to meet new challenges
  • November Science Cafe:The Chemistry of Light
  • “How To Access European Funding?”
  • Omani celebrations come to Swansea
  • Geologists’ Association: The Douglas Bassett Memorial Lecture
  • Swansea University to host Learn English in Wales Conference
  • Public lecture – The Changing Face of Higher Education Institutions: Some International Reflections
  • Mapping: underpinning the World's decision-making
  • Swansea University Stresses Importance of Science through Welsh
  • Theology Lecture Series: On Writing Biography
  • Understanding the Migrant Experience
  • Lead Wales Programme Supports the Growth of Welsh Businesses
  • CREW Conference Discusses Legacy of Welsh Cultural Critic
  • Professor elected as AIAA Associate Fellow
  • Criminology department celebrates best practice award
  • Student scoops £1000 South Wales Materials Association work placement prize
  • Swansea University Student Shortlisted for Prestigious Prize
  • Talking point: The Richard Burton Diaries discussed at Cheltenham Literature Festival
  • Swansea historian wins ‘Outstanding Publication Award’
  • Aspiring Swansea students show they are a “cut above the rest”
  • 360 Beach and Watersports Centre Opens
  • Students Taste Modern Languages through Welsh in Capital City
  • Arts and Science celebrate the life of Alan Turing
  • ‘Dead’ Demons appear in the Egypt Centre!
  • From nanohealth to Richard Burton – researchers’ visit will strengthen Swansea University’s links with the USA
  • Revealing the ‘real’ Richard Burton – all welcome at a special event on 28 November
  • Encouraging the Study of Maths: Funding for a Secondary Schools Careers Roadshow ‘Maths Apps’
  • Swansea University Holds Master Classes
  • Swansea University Researchers Offered Place on International Academy
  • Billionaire entrepreneur Sir Terry Matthews returns to Swansea to pass on tips to students
  • Swansea University joins the EU ‘Master Class’
  • Christmas tunes transformed by technology
  • New Director of Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching Appointed
  • DACE community lecture: Charles Dickens – the man who re-invented Christmas
  • Swansea University Scholar to Edit the Works of Major Welsh Poet
  • Welsh Health Cloud technology to bring healthcare benefits to UK NHS
  • NERC Planet Earth Podcast: “Forecasting solar storms, fish personalities”
  • The Elizabeth Montagu Letters Project: two-day colloquium in London
  • Fungi could help control crane fly pest
  • Can charcoal help fight climate change? Funding for Swansea expert will help find answers
  • Swansea researchers work in pincer movement with EU partners to benefit prawn industry
  • Shakespeare in Albanian? New online tool explores why translations vary
  • The Student Sex Work Project launches website
  • Magic mushrooms! Button mushroom help manage planet's carbon stores
  • Fungi could control pine weevil pest
  • Cu @ Swansea 2012: Heritage and Regeneration
  • Black Skin, Blue Books: The case for comparing Wales and African America
  • Swansea - Siavonga Partnership strengthens due to Tutu visit
  • Bafta Awards for Honorary Fellow
  • Want to be a Nurse or Midwife ?
  • Innovation in Health Care Conference
  • Swansea University Expert On Migration Policy Appointed To Advise Parliamentary Committee
  • Swansea University Research Forum (SURF) Christmas Lecture: Chemistry and Light
  • What’s Happening: Lecture Reveals the Role that Language Plays in Political Involvement
  • Adventurer to open Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol campus event
  • £90 MILLION BOOST FOR SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
  • Government funding boost for world-leading energy research at Swansea University
  • Swansea soars in Sunday Times guide and student satisfaction survey
  • Actor Michael Sheen awarded honorary Swansea degree in New York ceremony
  • Business Secretary and First Minister kick-start 'Buildings As Power Stations' pilot production line
  • Swansea University awarded UK funding to spin-out research ideas and generate business opportunities
  • Teamwork for success - Ospreys and Swansea University agree working relationship
  • EU-backed investment will help more businesses exploit nano technologies
  • Swansea student wins travel competition
  • Georgia Davies wins gold in University Championships
  • Skulls, longbows, arrows ... and nitcombs! Science sheds light on life aboard Tudor warship
  • Innovation In Health Care
  • Obituary for Distinguished Swansea Physicist Professor David Olive
  • Time for an informed debate on migration to Wales
  • Demons under the spotlight: New grant to help ancient Egypt study
  • Research reveals breastfed babies less likely to overeat during childhood
  • Mary Rose yields its treasure, shedding light on life in Henry VIII's England
  • Leveson Inquiry: Psychology researcher’s contribution
  • Theology Public Lecture Series
  • Dewi Hopes for Successful Start to New Year in Edinburgh
  • Annual General Meeting of the Swansea University Court
  • Big rise in applications for Swansea University
  • Swansea University and China discuss collaboration
  • LEAD Wales Preview Day 23rd January 2013
  • Swansea University National Assembly Briefing
  • Swansea University welcomes go ahead for exciting campus development plans
  • Sports Scientists help to spread the Science and Practice of the Oval Game
  • Chinese hospital delegation to strengthen links with University’s College of Medicine
  • Swansea University Physics Graduate wins Million Dollar Prize
  • Welsh Language Students Awarded in Special Ceremony
  • Prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse awarded to Senior Tutor
  • Scientists remind Assembly of the importance of science in politics
  • EnAlgae project hosts Strasbourg reception
  • The Menna Collection

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