Top award for IBERS in Aberystwyth
IBERS, the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University, has won one of the first ever Excellence With Impact Awards from the BBSRC - the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The winners and runners up were announced at a business networking event in London by Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts MP. The Award recognises the greatest culture change achieved by a university department during the BBSRC Excellence With Impact scheme, which ran from 2008 -2010, with 20 university departments UK wide participating in the competition. It was developed to reward and esteem those university departments most active in embedding a culture that recognises and values the achievement of impact alongside excellent research. IBERS was established in April 2008 following the merger of the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, formerly part of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Coun...