December 2011
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Applied Geography Students are Victorious!
After three rounds competing against eighteen 3rd year student teams from across the Applied Sciences portfolio plus one School Academic team – the winners of the 2011 Applied Sciences School Challenge are Ruzina Begum, Rhys Edwards, Oli Pitkin and Tom Huntley from Applied Geography. Congratulations! Well done to our other two semi-finalists from Applied Biology [...]
Professor Tim Darvill’s lecture ‘Stonehenge and Merlin’s Magic Circles’ goes Stateside
On 7 December Professor Darvill will be presenting his lecture ‘Merlin’s Magic Circles: Stonehenge and the use of the Preseli Bluestones’ at the Penn Museum in Pennsylvania. Stonehenge’s history dates back to 3000BC when 80 pillars of Bluestone rock were transported 250km from the Preseli Hills in southwest Wales, to Salisbury Plain. In his lecture [...]
Dr Kate Welham interviewed by ITV Westcountry & Meridian
Dr Kate Welham was interviewed by the lovely Duncan Sleightholme today during an early morning visit to Stonehenge. She told him all about her new application, Google Under-the-Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge, which allows users to uncover the site’s exciting archaeology via a new layer in Google Earth. You can catch Kate from 18:30 this evening [...]
