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As a result, I became the first rower from Cardiff University to win the Championship During my first year, I was selected to © Alden Jason Men’s Single at BUC’s regatta and was again Newsrepresent Team GB at the 2012 Paralympics. selected to compete for GB at the U23 World Rowing Championships. JENNY MCLOUGHLIN (PHILOSOPHY 2011-) TOM BARRAS (BSC 2015) CHANGING THE BRITISH PARALYMPIAN TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE U23 ROWER, TEAM GB AWARDS STUDENT WORLD My athletics career began in 2006, when From there, I went on to represent Wales at I am currently training hard in order I had just competed at the Junior World ALUMNI I joined Cwmbran Harriers at the age of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New to achieve selection for the Rio 2016 Rowing Championships when I began 14. I had always enjoyed running but this Delhi – I was delighted to come away with Paralympics in September. My current applying for university. I wanted an institution Simon Blake (BA 1995) has been was my first experience of formal coaching a 100m silver medal. routine consists of track sessions and that would satisfy both my academic appointed National Union of Students and competitions. Shortly after, I was twice-weekly strength and conditioning and sporting ambitions. I hadn’t really chief executive, representing the In September 2011, I commenced my scoutedAadarsh by Disability Mishra Sport(Mechanical Wales and sessions. I follow a strict diet that has considered Cardiff but my careers advisor UK’s seven million students. Philosophy course at Cardiff University. 16.0mm 16.0mmaskedEngineering to join their 2014-) Athletics has Academy. been been tailored to ensure my nutritional encouraged me to attend an open day 16.0mm 16.0mm Combining a degree with an athletics elected Fellow of the Royal intake supports my physical schedule. – and I was very pleasantly surprised. 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A SWEET by Claude Debussy. in a bid to combat high dropout rates great potential has been lost. Professor Chris MacLeod from Cardiff’s understanding of the Earth’s structure. amongst the country’s future scientists. School of Earth and Ocean Sciences has Remarkably, the next part of the program is Dr Robert Wilson (GCert 2007), Director Yet as my final year approached, I was DISCOVERY The University has scooped four recently led an expedition to drill into also being led by a Cardiff scientist. The University’s Phoenix Project teamed of Learning and Teaching at Cardiff’s worried about combining my rowing and my NATURE prizes, including University of the the Earth’s mantle for the first time. Head of School Professor Ian Hall (MD 2004) up with the University of Namibia to School of Mathematics, said: “The aim studies. However, the support provided by Year, at the Insider Business and is supervising a separate expedition in South Cardiff researchers have discovered a offer a two‑week mathematics course to is to provide a refresher in essential Theboth international the School of team Healthcare of scientists Sciences set Education Partnership Awards. Africa to study the impact of one of the ‘Welsh Manuka honey’ in an amateur its science students, who must pass a mathematical topics and also to increase sailand forthe the Sport Indian department Ocean as was part incredible. of the world’s strongest ocean currents on global beekeeper’s garden in Gwynedd. The University’s National Software mathematics qualification in their first confidence and reduce the maths anxiety prestigious International Ocean Discovery Although I am now ranked as the top U23 climate change. Both expeditions have the Academy has been awarded year. A lack of maths knowledge has that some students may have.“ Program with the aim of testing a In a joint study with the National Botanic sculler in the UK, I feel Rio 2016 may potential to have profound implications for the Collaborative Partnership 100-year-old theory that supports our current Garden of Wales, researchers from Cardiff’s come a tad too soon. Rowing is still one our current understanding of the planet. School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Prize at the fourth annual of Great Britain’s top performing sports, Sciences analysed honey created by bees ESTnet Awards in recognition and following their successes at last year’s from over 200 different Welsh hives. of its close collaboration with RESTORING World Championships, the selectors will This led to the discovery of the two hives leading businesses in Wales. be hoping to keep their team consistent. VISION MAKING MUSIC HISTORY in beekeeper Chris Hickman’s garden, Optometry graduates from the HEALTH Despite this, I feel that the system in place whose bees have created North Welsh ALUMNI University are significantly ahead at Cardiff University has pushed me closer to honey with antibacterial power as potent Scientists from Cardiff’s School of Study co‑author Professor Andrew Quantock of the national average in gaining achievingSir Karl Jenkins my dream (BMus of being 1966, selected Hon for the musical genres. One of his best-known as New Zealand’s renowned Manuka. their professional qualifications, Optometry and Vision Sciences, in said: “Our work not only holds potential Olympic2005) has Games. become I’m thehoping first that Welsh in the next pieces, The Armed Man, is still performed The discovery was only made possible according12.0mm to the Research collaboration with Osaka University in for developing cells for treatment of other couplecomposer of years, to receive with aa bitknighthood. more experience more than a 100 times a year around the 12.0mm Japan, have successfully grown human areas of the eye, but could set the stage for because Wales is amongst the first Excellence Framework results. underSir Karl my was belt, awarded I can break this honourinto the for line-up. his globe since its original performance in 2000. eye tissue and restored vision in rabbits future human clinical trials of anterior eye countries to DNA barcode all 1,143 dedication to composing and crossing of its indigenous flowering plants. following stem cell transplantation. transplantation to restore visual function.” Find out more: cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-connect 424 CARDIFF CONNECT SPRING 2016 255

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The place with longer texts it is a question The discovery shed new light on the third trimester of pregnancy – that 0.79mm 1.58mm 14.12mm a good day, the Bristol Channel) spread out beneath went in deep and in ways that are difficult to calibrate. 2.66mm 1.33mm Walk in Roald Dahl’s footsteps as of picking the right moments. role of the Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 could prove hugely significant in the youDewi – take Pws Danescourt takes you onWay an and follow it round past Dahl’s relation to Wales is as complex and intricate (DISC-1) gene in the early development future treatment of schizophrenia Heol Aradur to Rachel Close. Resist the charms of as the Celtic knotwork on his father’s headstone. interactive tour around Cardiff, In Matilda, Bruce Bogtrotter of the brain. The study, led by Professor and other neurological diseases. the newly refurbished Radyr Court Pub and cross where Dahl’s imagination Roald Dahl: Cardiff boy. With the blessing eatsof the a pieceRoald of chocolate cake Kevin Fox and Neil Hardingham, found into the still peaceful acre of St John’s church. Professor Jeremy Hall, Director of comes to life. when he is not supposed to. He Dahl Estate, 2016 will see the capital city become the that if DISC-1 signalling is disrupted Neurosciences & the Mental Health undergoes the punishment of Once islanded by meadows, the church is now global focus of centenary celebrations that promise during a specific window of time during Research Institute, feels that as well Land of Song © Quentin Blake 1997 having to eat a whole chocolate surrounded by modern housing, which makes the visit to tap into Dahl’s brand of radical unruliness and early growth, it provokes a lifelong as providing important insight into cake in front of the whole school, faintlyJune uncanny. 2016 Continue to the west boundary wall unsettling oddness, and harness his commitment lack of synaptic plasticity in the schizophrenia, this new discovery and of course he is supposed to of theCardiff churchyard, Bay and you’ll find a granite wheel-head to emancipating young readers’ imaginations. barrel cortex. As an adult, this could opens up opportunities to look at the cross, pink-brown in colour, taller than the surrounding conk out half way through. But the Wales Millennium Centre is helping But how can Cardiff claim Dahl? In so many ways, Dahl cause problems in perception that development of other conditions and monuments. Its Celtic decoration is weathered. It is the little blighter finishes it, and that schoolchildren across Wales learn resists any attempt to pigeonhole him. A master of are symptomatic of schizophrenia. discover pathways to treatment. grave of Harald Dahl and his beloved daughter Astri. awful headteacher, the Trunchbull, songs inspired by Dahl’s writings for a comedy (of various hues), he experienced a series of lifts the plate and crashes it over Whilst the influence of DISC-1 has long Diseases currently under the spotlight Forcelebratory some reason, performance I feel closer in Juneto Harald’s for son, Roald Dahl personal traumas from the early 1960s whose magnitude his head (although by then he been the subject of scientific debate, include dementia, and its most common (whomboth I childrennever met, and but adults with alike.whose books I grew up), in makes his achievement all the more remarkable. He was is anaesthetised with chocolate it is the pinpointing of a key period of variant, Alzheimer’s disease – a key this spot than anywhere else in Cardiff, where the author both a successful writer of adult fiction and children’s cake, he is beyond pain really). development – which equates to the area of research at Cardiff University. – nowInside known Stories as ‘the world’s number one storyteller’ – author extraordinaire (indeed, it is more accurate to say wasJuly–November born on 13 September 2016 1916 (in Villa Marie, Llandaff, he blurred those categories in innovative ways).I thought, He youwas have to hold back to beNational precise). Museum Dahl’s Wales official biographer, Donald Sturrock, the Shell employee in Tanganyika who soon– that became wonderful a end belongs to remarksThis popular that the exhibition bold Celtic will cross be marks “perhaps a fighter ace in the skies above Greece, Iraqthe and author. 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