Aberystwyth University

Aberystwyth University is a public research university in the coastal town of Aberystwyth on Cardigan Bay in west Wales, and it was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales.阿伯里斯特威斯大学是英国威尔士西海岸卡迪根湾畔同名滨海城镇的一所公立研究型大学，也是已经解体的威尔士大学联邦的创始成员院校之一。

Founded in 1872 as University College Wales and known in Welsh as Prifysgol Aberystwyth, the university teaches 8970 students through three academic faculties and 17 departments on sites at Penglais, Llanbadarn Fawr and Gogerddan.该校 1872 年以威尔士大学学院之名创办，威尔士语校名为 Prifysgol Aberystwyth，现按三个学术学部下设 17 个学系，在彭格莱斯、兰达恩巴达恩法尔与戈格丹三处校区开课，在校学生 8970 人。

Its annual income for 2024-2025 was 124.8 million pounds, of which 19.2 million pounds came from research grants and contracts, and it sits in the 801-850 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校 2024-2025 年度总收入为 1.248 亿英镑，其中来自科研经费与合同的收入为 1920 万英镑，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 801-850 位。

History

• In the middle of the nineteenth century eminent Welsh people were pressing for a university in the principality, and the campaign owed much to Thomas Nicholas, whose 1863 book Middle and High Class Schools, and University Education for Wales influenced educated Welshmen.十九世纪中叶，威尔士知名人士持续推动在本公国兴办大学，此项运动深受托马斯·尼古拉斯影响，其 1863 年所著《威尔士的中等与高等学校及大学教育》被认为对受教育的威尔士人影响巨大。

• The college was paid for by public and private subscriptions, with five regional committees in London, Manchester, Liverpool and North and South Wales guaranteeing the running costs for its first three years.学院的办学经费来自公私募捐，伦敦、曼彻斯特、利物浦以及北威尔士与南威尔士五个地方委员会联合担保其前 3 年的日常开支。

• University College Wales opened in October 1872 with only 26 students, and its first principal was Thomas Charles Edwards, a minister elected by the founding committees before teaching began.威尔士大学学院于 1872 年 10 月开学，首批学生仅 26 人，首任院长为牧师出身的托马斯·查尔斯·爱德华兹，由创办委员会在教学开始前推选产生。

• In October 1875 the chapels of Wales collected the next tranche of subscription money, and more than 70,000 contributors answered the appeal that kept the young college open.1875 年 10 月，威尔士各地教堂募集到下一批捐款，超过 7 万名捐助人响应了这一维系这所新建学院生存的募捐号召。

• Applicants to Aberystwyth sat the entrance examinations of the University of London until 1893, and the college admitted women from 1884, well before it held any charter of its own.在 1893 年之前，报考阿伯里斯特威斯的学生须参加伦敦大学的入学考试；该院自 1884 年起招收女生，远早于其取得自身特许状之年。

• A fire in 1885 damaged the building now known as the Old College, Aberystwyth, and in 1897 the university bought the first 14 acres of what became the main Penglais campus above the town.1885 年一场大火损毁了今称阿伯里斯特威斯老学院楼的建筑物，1897 年大学购得后来成为主校区的彭格莱斯校区首批 14 英亩土地。

• The institution was incorporated by royal charter in 1893 and is recorded as a founder member of the federal University of Wales in 1894, when it took the name University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the two federal dates differing by one year across accounts.该校依皇家特许状于 1893 年取得法人地位，并记载为 1894 年威尔士大学联邦的创始成员，同期改名为阿伯里斯特威斯威尔士大学学院；两份校史材料就加入联邦之年分别记为 1893 年与 1894 年，相差一年。

• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, was installed as chancellor in 1896, the same year the college awarded an honorary degree to William Gladstone, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom.威尔士亲王阿尔伯特·爱德华于 1896 年就任名誉校长，同年学院向英国前首相威廉·格莱斯顿授予荣誉学位。

• The coat of arms dates from the 1880s and puts two red dragons and an open book on the shield, while the eagle or phoenix above a flaming tower is held to signify the college's rebirth after the 1885 fire.校徽可追溯至 1880 年代，盾徽绘有两条红龙与一本摊开的书，火焰塔上方的鹰或凤凰被解释为象征学院在 1885 年大火后的重生。

• The university motto, Nid Byd, Byd Heb Wybodaeth, is Welsh for a world without knowledge being no world at all, and it has stood over the institution since that armory was adopted.校训 Nid Byd, Byd Heb Wybodaeth 为威尔士语，意为「无智之世不足为世」，自上述纹章启用以来一直作为该校格言。

• In the early 1900s the curriculum widened into law, applied mathematics, pure mathematics and botany, following the separate physics department created in 1877 under F. W. Rudler.二十世纪初课程扩展至法律、应用数学、纯数学与植物学，此前物理学科已于 1877 年在 F. W. 鲁德勒主持下独立建系。

• Teaching of modern languages at Aberystwyth dates from 1874, and the department still runs French, German, Italian and Spanish at both beginners' and advanced levels within a research-active environment.阿伯里斯特威斯自 1874 年起开设现代语言教学，该系至今仍在研究活跃的学术环境中于初级与高级两个层次教授法语、德语、意大利语与西班牙语。

• The Department of International Politics was founded in 1919 shortly after the First World War, and the university describes it as the oldest department of international politics in the world.国际政治学系于第一次世界大战结束后的 1919 年创建，校方称其为世界上第一个国际政治学系。

• That 1919 foundation, intended to further political understanding of the world so as to avoid such conflicts again, led directly to the creation of the Woodrow Wilson Chair of International Politics.1919 年设系的宗旨是增进对世界的政治理解以避免战事再起，这一目标直接促成了伍德罗·威尔逊国际政治讲席的设立。

• By 1977 the academic staff included eight Fellows of the Royal Society, among them the zoologist and parasitologist F. Gwendolen Rees, the first Welsh woman elected to that fellowship.至 1977 年该校教师中已有 8 名英国皇家学会会员，其中包括动物学家与寄生虫学家 F. 格温多琳·里斯，她是当选皇家学会会员的第一位威尔士女性。

• The college changed its name in the mid-1990s to become the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and on 1 September 2007 the federal University of Wales ceased to be a federal university, making Aberystwyth independent again.二十世纪九十年代中期该院再度改名为威尔士大学阿伯里斯特威斯；2007 年 9 月 1 日威尔士大学不再作为联邦大学存在，阿伯里斯特威斯重新成为独立大学。

• Students entering from the 2009-10 academic year were offered the choice between a University of Wales degree and a degree awarded in the name of Aberystwyth University itself.自 2009-10 学年起入学的学生可选择领取威尔士大学颁发的学位，也可选择以阿伯里斯特威斯大学名义颁发的学位。

• In 2011 the university appointed a new vice chancellor under whose direction academic departments were restructured into larger subject-themed institutes, and in 2022 it marked the 150th anniversary of its 1872 foundation as the University College of Wales.2011 年该校任命的新副校长把学术学系整并为按主题学科组建的更大研究所；2022 年学校以 1872 年创建时的威尔士大学学院之名庆祝建校 150 周年。

• Dame Nicola Davies took up the office of chancellor in January 2025, while the university's visitor, an appointment made by the privy council under the royal charter, has been Sir Roderick Evans since July 2014.尼科拉·戴维斯女爵士于 2025 年 1 月就任名誉校长；该校监察员由枢密院依皇家特许状任命，自 2014 年 7 月起由罗德里克·埃文斯爵士担任。

Academics

• Academic departments sit within three faculties together with the Aberystwyth Arts Centre, the International English Centre and the Music Centre, so the cultural and language units form part of the same structure that carries 8970 students.各学术学系编入三个学部，阿伯里斯特威斯艺术中心、国际英语中心与音乐中心亦在同一架构之内，这一建制共承担 8970 名学生的教学。

• The Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, known as IBERS, brings together staff from the Institutes of Rural Sciences and Biological Sciences and from the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research.生物环境与乡村科学研究所简称 IBERS，由乡村科学研究所、生物科学研究所与草地环境研究所的人员合并组建。

• Around 360 research, teaching and support staff at IBERS conduct basic, strategic and applied research in biology, working from the Penglais teaching campus and from a rural research hub at Gogerddan.IBERS 有约 360 名科研、教学与辅助人员，从事生物学的基础、战略与应用研究，工作据点为彭格莱斯教学校区与戈格丹的乡村研究基地。

• The Department of Computer Science, founded in 1970, researches automated reasoning, computational biology, vision, graphics and visualisation and intelligent robotics, and placed 17th in the United Kingdom and first in Wales in the 2008 research assessment with 70 percent rated world-leading or internationally excellent.计算机科学系创建于 1970 年，研究自动推理、计算生物学、视觉图形与可视化以及智能机器人，在 2008 年研究水平评估中列全英第 17、威尔士第一，70% 的成果被评为世界领先或国际优秀。

• The Department of Geography and Earth Sciences was formed in 1989 from the geography department established in 1918 and the geology department, houses the E. G. Bowen map library with 80,000 maps and 500 atlases, and was rated in the British top twelve for geography in 2008.地理与地球科学系于 1989 年由始设于 1918 年的地理系与地质学系合并而成，内设藏图 8 万幅、地图集 500 册的 E. G. 鲍恩地图图书馆，2008 年评估中其地理学科列全英前 12 名。

• Aberystwyth was the first British geography department to offer single honours degrees in both human and physical geography, drawing its research strength from the merged school rather than from either predecessor alone.阿伯里斯特威斯是英国首个同时提供人文地理与自然地理单一荣誉学位的地理系，其研究实力来自合并后的整体系而非任何一个前身。

• The College of Librarianship Wales was founded at Llanbadarn Fawr in 1964 after the Bourdillon Report of 1962 asked for bilingual librarians, and it developed into what it claimed was Europe's largest institution for training the profession.威尔士图书馆学院于 1964 年在兰达恩巴达恩法尔创立，起因是 1962 年布尔迪永报告提出培养双语馆员；该学院后自称发展为欧洲规模最大的图书馆员培训机构。

• That independent college merged with the university in August 1989 to form the Department of Information Studies, taking over teaching in archives administration and modern records management and moving to Penglais a quarter of a century later.这所独立学院于 1989 年 8 月并入大学组建信息研究学系，接手档案管理与现代记录管理教学，并在并入约四分之一个世纪后迁入彭格莱斯校区。

• The Department of International Politics has more than 700 students from 40 countries at undergraduate, master's and doctoral level, scored 95 percent for satisfaction in the 2016 National Student Survey, and had 40 percent of its 2008 research rated the top grade, placing it in the British top three.国际政治学系有来自 40 个国家的 700 余名本科生、硕士生与博士生在读，在 2016 年全国学生调查中取得 95% 满意度，其 2008 年研究成果 40% 获评最高等级，列全英前三。

• Its academic staff have included E. H. Carr, Leopold Kohr, Andrew Linklater, Ken Booth, Steve Smith, Michael Cox, Michael MccGwire, Jenny Edkins and Colin J. McInnes.该系历任教师包括 E. H. 卡尔、利奥波德·科尔、安德鲁·林克莱特、肯·布思、史蒂夫·史密斯、迈克尔·考克斯、迈克尔·麦格怀尔、珍妮·埃德金斯与科林·J. 麦金尼斯。

• The Department of Law and Criminology was founded in 1901, the oldest law faculty in Wales and one of the oldest in Britain, and it is based in the Hugh Owen Building on the Penglais campus after returning there in September 2018 from Llanbadarn Fawr.法律与犯罪学系创建于 1901 年，为威尔士最古老、英国历史最悠久的法律院系之一，2018 年 9 月自兰达恩巴达恩法尔迁回彭格莱斯校区的休·欧文楼。

• Within that department sits the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs, and both the International Journal of Biosciences and the Law and the Cambrian Law Review are edited there, while all academic staff of the department are engaged in research.该系内设有威尔士法律事务研究中心，《生物科学与法律国际期刊》与《坎布里安法律评论》均在此编辑出版，全系教师均从事研究。

• The School of Management and Business was created in 1998 by merging the Department of Economics founded in 1912, the Department of Accounting and Finance founded in 1979 and the Centre for Business Studies.管理与商学院于 1998 年由 1912 年设立的经济系、1979 年设立的会计与金融系以及商业研究中心合并组建。

• In 2013 the school moved with information studies and law to a new campus at Llanbadarn Fawr, in 2014 it was shortlisted for Times Higher Education Business School of the Year, and in 2016 the renamed institute left Aberystwyth Business School and Aberystwyth Law School.2013 年该学院与信息研究学系、法律学系一同迁往兰达恩巴达恩法尔新校区，2014 年入围泰晤士高等教育年度商学院评选，2016 年改组后的研究所下辖阿伯里斯特威斯商学院与阿伯里斯特威斯法学院。

• Physics research moved from electrical conductivity and quantum theory in the 1900s to thermal conductivity and acoustics, the department hosted the Faraday Centenary Exhibition in 1931, and E. J. Williams, appointed to the chair in 1938, used a cloud chamber on sub-atomic particles.物理研究在二十世纪初由电导率与量子理论转向热导率与声学，该系 1931 年承办法拉第百年纪念展览，1938 年出任讲席的 E. J. 威廉斯以云室研究亚原子粒子。

• After the Second World War the physics department worked on mechanical and nuclear physics and then on air density, experimental rocket launching equipment and radar, having first been housed in the south wing of the Old College before moving to the Physics Building at Penglais.第二次世界大战后物理系先从事力学与核物理研究，其后转向空气密度、实验性火箭发射装置与雷达；该系早期设于老学院楼南翼，后迁入彭格莱斯的物理楼。

• Psychology began in 2007 as a Centre for Applied Psychology inside the politics department, gained joint honours degrees in September 2007 and single honours in 2009, moved to Penbryn 5 by 2011, and now teaches over 550 undergraduates on degrees accredited by the British Psychological Society, with an MSc in Behaviour Change and a Department of Sports and Exercise Science established in 2000 nearby.心理学于 2007 年先以应用心理学中心形式附设于政治学系，2007 年 9 月开设联合荣誉学位、2009 年开设单一荣誉学位，2011 年前迁入 Penbryn 5，现有 550 余名本科生修读经英国心理学会认证的课程，并设有行为改变硕士；运动与锻炼科学系亦已于 2000 年设立。

• Drama, film and television studies is among the largest departments of the university and opened a BBC studio on site in 2001, with 30 percent of its research rated world-leading and 30 percent internationally excellent in the 2008 assessment.戏剧电影与电视研究系是全校规模最大的学系之一，2001 年在校内建成一座英国广播公司演播室，2008 年评估中其 30% 研究被评为世界领先、30% 为国际优秀。

• Modern-language research in Aberystwyth includes the Anglo-Norman Dictionary, based in the town since 2001 and published online from 2005, while music teaching remembers the Gregynog professorship held by the composer Sir Henry Walford Davies.阿伯里斯特威斯的现代语言研究以《盎格鲁-诺曼词典》为代表，该项目自 2001 年设在本镇、2005 年起在线发布；音乐教学则留有作曲家亨利·沃尔福德·戴维斯爵士曾任的格雷格诺格讲席之名。

Campus

• The main Penglais campus stands on Penglais Hill at latitude 52.41548 and longitude 4.08292 west, overlooking the town and Cardigan Bay, and holds most university buildings, the Arts Centre, the students' union and many residences.主校区彭格莱斯校区位于彭格莱斯山，坐标为北纬 52.41548、西经 4.08292，可俯瞰城镇与卡迪根湾，校内集中了大部分教学楼、艺术中心、学生会以及众多宿舍。

• Immediately below the Penglais campus is the National Library of Wales, one of the five legal deposit libraries of Britain, giving the university a national collection within walking distance.彭格莱斯校区正下方即威尔士国家图书馆，它是英国五所法定送存图书馆之一，使该校步行可达一座国家藏书机构。

• The landscaping of Penglais is listed at Grade II star on the Cadw and ICOMOS register of parks and gardens of special historic interest in Wales, and one section was designed by the landscape architect Brenda Colvin.彭格莱斯校区的园林在卡德维与国际古迹遗址理事会威尔士历史园林名录中列为二级星等，其中一片由风景园林设计师布兰达·科尔文设计。

• One mile east of Penglais the Llanbadarn Centre looks west over the town and bay with the Cambrian Mountains behind it, hosting the business school, the law school and the Department of Information Studies alongside the Aberystwyth branch of Coleg Ceredigion, a further education college that is not part of the university.兰达恩巴达恩中心位于彭格莱斯以东约一英里，西望城镇与海湾、东靠坎布里安山脉，容纳商学院、法学院与信息研究学系，并与塞雷迪金学院阿伯里斯特威斯分部同址；后者属继续教育机构，并非大学的一部分。

• At Gogerddan on the outskirts of the town the university keeps its principal centre for research in the land-based sciences and the main site of the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences.镇郊的戈格丹设有该校陆地科学研究的主要中心，也是生物环境与乡村科学研究所的主址。

• The School of Art occupies the Edward Davies Building between Penglais and the town centre, a listed structure originally built as the Edward Davies Memorial Chemistry Laboratories and considered one of the finest pieces of architecture in Aberystwyth.艺术学院设于彭格莱斯与镇中心之间的爱德华·戴维斯楼，这座登录建筑原为爱德华·戴维斯纪念化学实验室，被认为是阿伯里斯特威斯最出色的建筑之一。

• The Old College, standing on the site of the original 1872 foundation, is the subject of the New Life for Old College project intended to turn it into an integrated centre for heritage, culture, learning and knowledge exchange.老学院楼坐落在 1872 年的原始校址上，现正推进老学院新生改造计划，拟将其建成集遗产、文化、学习与知识交流于一体的中心。

• On Penglais the halls provide 503 places at Cwrt Mawr, 350 at Penbryn, 336 at Rosser, 200 at the Welsh-speaking Neuadd Pantycelyn refurbished in 2020 and 147 at Trefloyne, plus 60 postgraduate flats at Rosser G after the 2011 expansion.彭格莱斯校区宿舍中克尔特毛尔有 503 个床位，彭布林 350 个，罗瑟 336 个，2020 年整修的威尔士语包膳楼潘蒂凯林 200 个，特洛伊恩 147 个，2011 年扩建后另设罗瑟 G 研究生公寓 60 个。

• Off campus the student village of Pentre Jane Morgan holds 1,003 students in almost 200 houses, Fferm Penglais supplies 1,000 studio and en-suite places including a Welsh-speaking area, and privately owned seafront flats add 361, the original Plyn and Caerleon halls having been destroyed by fire in 1998.校外潘特里简摩根学生村以近 200 栋独立住宅容纳 1003 人，弗费尔姆彭格莱斯公寓提供 1000 个工作室与独立卫浴床位并设威尔士语生活区，私营海滨公寓另有 361 个床位，原有的普林与卡利恩两馆已于 1998 年毁于火灾。

• The university opened an overseas campus in Mauritius in 2015, registered with the Tertiary Education Commission of Mauritius, but stopped admitting students two years later, and fewer than 200 enrolled against capacity for 2,000, and the venture cost the university more than a million pounds.校方 2015 年在毛里求斯开设海外校区并向毛里求斯专上教育委员会注册，两年后因招生不足停止录取；实际在读不足 200 人而校区容量达 2000 人，该项目使学校损失逾 100 万英镑。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Aberystwyth University is placed in the 801-850 band, the position on which this entry is written, while the same table listed it at 432nd in 2019 against the 481-490 band of the previous edition.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中阿伯里斯特威斯大学列第 801-850 位，本条目即据此档位收录；同一榜单 2019 年版曾记其为第 432 位，上一年版为第 481-490 位。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 701-800 band, although the 800-institution table had earlier put it at 301-350, then an improvement on the 351-400 range of the preceding year.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 701-800 位，而该榜在收录 800 所院校的早前版本中曾将其列于第 301-350 位，当时优于前一版的第 351-400 位。

• Aberystwyth is ranked 1298th in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities table, a standing markedly lower than its positions in the British national guides over the same period.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中阿伯里斯特威斯列第 1298 位，明显低于同期其在英国国内指南中的名次。

• The university does not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, so no ARWU position is recorded for it in that edition's main list of 1000 institutions.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜的 1000 所院校名单中未见该校，故该版软科未为其记载名次。

• At subject level the Times Higher Education guide ranks the Aberystwyth law department 300th in the world, while the Guardian University Guide 2018 placed the same subject 69th among United Kingdom institutions.学科维度上，泰晤士高等教育指南将阿伯里斯特威斯法律系列为世界第 300 位，《卫报大学指南 2018》则列该学科在全英第 69 位。

• Its measurable scale is best counted from finance and population rather than bibliographic data: income of 124.8 million pounds for 2024-2025 with 19.2 million pounds of grant and contract income, expenditure of 130.3 million pounds, 8970 students, 17 departments and about 360 staff in IBERS alone.其可量化规模宜依财政与师生数字而非文献计量得出：2024-2025 年度收入 1.248 亿英镑，其中经费与合同收入 1920 万英镑，支出 1.303 亿英镑，学生 8970 人、学系 17 个，仅 IBERS 即有约 360 名人员。

• The university stands in the British top 40 in the main national rankings, reached 38th of 132 institutions in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, and was the first university ever to win the University of the Year award for teaching quality in two consecutive years, in 2018 and 2019.该校稳居英国主要国内榜单前 40 名，《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》优秀大学指南 2023 年版在 132 所院校中列其为第 38 位；它亦是首所连续两年荣获年度教学质量大学奖的高校，获奖年份为 2018 年与 2019 年。

• Its hardest honour counts are one Nobel Prize association, through the 1921 chemistry laureate Frederick Soddy, and eight Fellows of the Royal Society among the staff by 1977, while no Turing Award or Fields Medal affiliation is recorded for the institution.该校最硬的荣誉计数为 1 次诺贝尔奖关联，即 1921 年化学奖得主弗雷德里克·索迪，以及 1977 年在职教师中的 8 名皇家学会会员；机构层面未见图灵奖或菲尔兹奖关联。

• It ranked in the national top ten for overall student satisfaction in the 2016 National Student Survey, was shortlisted in four categories at the 2015 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards, holds an Athena SWAN Charter award, and was put equal 49th by employers in a 62-place British graduate employability ranking in 2015.该校在 2016 年全国学生调查中列全英总体学生满意度前十，在 2015 年泰晤士高等教育领导与管理奖中入围四个类别，持有表彰推进女性科技与医学事业的雅典娜奖章程奖，并在 2015 年雇主就业能力榜单的 62 所英国院校中并列第 49 位。

• Its environmental record improved from 97th of 106 in the 2007 Green League table and unranked positions in 2012 and 2013 to an EcoCampus Silver Phase award in October 2014 and, in October 2015, the Green Flag Award won by Penglais as the first university campus in Wales to receive it.其环保记录自 2007 年绿色联盟榜 106 所院校中的第 97 位、2012 年与 2013 年未获评级，改善为 2014 年 10 月取得生态校园银阶段认证，并在 2015 年 10 月由彭格莱斯校区成为威尔士首所获绿旗奖的大学校园。

Student life

• Undeb Aber, in English the Aber Union and formerly the Aberystwyth Student Union, is the university's students' union, overseeing more than 100 student-run groups and providing independent advice to students.学生会名为 Undeb Aber，英文称 Aber Union，前身为阿伯里斯特威斯学生会，统管由学生自办的 100 余个社团，并为学生提供独立咨询服务。

• Undeb Myfyrwyr Cymraeg Aberystwyth, the Welsh Language Students' Union, was founded in 1973 with the purpose of keeping the Welsh language and its culture a key part of university life.威尔士语学生会 Undeb Myfyrwyr Cymraeg Aberystwyth 于 1973 年成立，宗旨是使威尔士语及其文化继续成为校园生活的重要部分。

• Its most celebrated campaign preserved the Welsh-speaking hall Neuadd Pantycelyn against closure, and the university refurbished the hall in 2020 and kept it in residential use, and a quarter of the Fferm Penglais accommodation is likewise set aside for Welsh learners and fluent speakers.该会最著名的行动是保住威尔士语宿舍潘蒂凯林楼免于关闭，校方于 2020 年整修该楼并继续供住宿；弗费尔姆彭格莱斯公寓亦划出区域专供威尔士语学习者与流利使用者居住。

• The Debating Society was one of the first student groups founded in 1872 and is recorded as the oldest debating society in Wales.辩论社是 1872 年创校之初最早成立的学生团体之一，记载为威尔士历史最悠久的辩论社团。

• Every residence carries wired access to the university's computer network and a support network of residential tutors, with provision running from traditional catered halls to en-suite self-catered flats and budget rooms up to studio apartments.各校舍均接通大学有线计算机网络并配驻楼导师支持体系，住宿形态从传统包膳大厅到带独立卫浴的自营膳食公寓、从平价房间到工作室单元不等。

• In autumn 2024 students protested the cutting of opening hours at the Hugh Owen Library as a cost measure, arguing that the university had still advertised a 24/7 library at recent open days, and the university first met to discuss restoring the hours but then refused further meetings or negotiation.2024 年秋季学生抗议校方以削减休·欧文图书馆开放时间作为节约手段，指学校近年的招生开放日仍宣传二十四小时图书馆；校方先会面讨论恢复时间，随后拒绝进一步会面与协商。

• The 2013 dispute was sharper still: the University and College Union alleged bullying by managers and said staff feared for their jobs, the president Sir Emyr Jones Parry declared he did not recognise that picture, the economist John Cable resigned his emeritus professorship, and the singer Peter Karrie gave up his honorary fellowship in protest.2013 年的争议更为尖锐：大学与学院工会指控管理层欺压员工并称教师担忧生计，校长埃米尔·琼斯·帕里爵士表示不认同这一描述，经济学家约翰·凯布尔辞去荣休教授，歌手彼得·卡里亦放弃荣誉研究员头衔以示抗议。

• Alumni life is organised through the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association, founded in 1892 and documented to 1992, an association the university's 150th-anniversary programme in 2022 brought back into public attention.校友事务由阿伯里斯特威斯老生会组织，该会创办于 1892 年、记录编年迄于 1992 年；2022 年的建校 150 周年活动使该会重获公众关注。

Notable people

• Frederick Soddy, who studied at the college before his research career, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921 and remains the institution's single Nobel-affiliated scientist.弗雷德里克·索迪曾在此学院求学而后从事研究，1921 年获诺贝尔化学奖，至今仍是该校唯一具诺贝尔奖关联的科学家。

• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, accepted the chancellorship in 1896 and later became King Edward VII, while Charles, Prince of Wales, is listed among the university's royal alumni, and William Gladstone, former prime minister, took an honorary degree in the same 1896.威尔士亲王阿尔伯特·爱德华于 1896 年接受名誉校长之职，其后即位为 Edward VII；威尔士亲王 Charles 列在该校王室校友名单中，前首相威廉·格莱斯顿亦于 1896 年获授荣誉学位。

• Thomas Charles Edwards, the founding principal of 1872, and Sir Hugh Owen, the educationist and pioneer of Welsh schooling remembered in the Hugh Owen Building, mark the university's non-denominational and Welsh-speaking origins.1872 年的创院院长托马斯·查尔斯·爱德华兹，以及以休·欧文楼留名的教育家与威尔士教育先驱休·欧文爵士，标示出该校不分教派并使用威尔士语的起点。

• E. H. Carr, the historian of Soviet Russia and a founder of the study of international relations as a discipline, taught in the Woodrow Wilson department, whose holders and members have included Ken Booth and Andrew Linklater, recorded as professor of international politics in that chair.俄国史学者、把国际关系作为学科奠基的学者之一 E. H. 卡尔曾在伍德罗·威尔逊讲席所在学系任教，该系成员包括肯·布思与安德鲁·林克莱特，后者记载为该讲席的国际政治教授。

• Leopold Kohr, the economist, political philosopher and critic of oversized states, worked in the same department, while the university's social-science alumni include the economist D. J. Davies, the political scientist Mary King and the sociologist Carl R. May.经济学家、政治哲学家与批评大国体制的利奥波德·科尔曾于同一学系工作；该校社会科学界校友包括经济学家 D. J. 戴维斯、政治学家玛丽·金与社会学家卡尔·R. 梅。

• Its science fellowship included the zoologist F. Gwendolen Rees, the mathematician, physicist and meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson, the mathematician Sir Edward Collingwood and the chemist Sir John Meurig Thomas, all Fellows of the Royal Society, and the historian and diplomat Sir Charles Webster and the geographer Emrys G. Bowen belong to the same generation of scholars.其皇家学会会员背景的理科教师与校友包括动物学家 F. 格温多琳·里斯、数学家兼物理学家与气象学家 L. F. 理查森、数学家爱德华·柯林伍德爵士与化学家约翰·梅里格·托马斯爵士；历史学家兼外交官查尔斯·韦伯斯特爵士与地理学家埃姆里斯·G. 鲍恩亦属同一代学者。

• Other recorded scholars of the institution are the ecologist Peter Dennis, the botanist Ernest Charles Nelson, the glaciologist Tavi Murray, a Polar Medal holder, and the classicists Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern and H. J. Rose.该校其他记载学者包括生态学家彼得·丹尼斯、植物学家欧内斯特·查尔斯·纳尔逊、获极地奖章的冰川学家塔维·默里，以及古典学者阿尔弗雷德·埃克哈德·齐默恩爵士与 H. J. 罗斯。

• Alan Cox wrote AberMUD, the first popular internet-based multi-user dungeon, while still an Aberystwyth student and later became a leading contributor to the Linux kernel, while Jan Pinkava, another graduate of the computer department, won an Academy Award for the animated short film called Geri's Game.艾伦·考克斯在学生时代编写了首个流行的互联网多人虚拟世界程序 AberMUD，后成为 Linux 内核的主要贡献者；同一学科的另一位毕业生简·平卡瓦凭动画短片《格里的游戏》获得奥斯卡金像奖。

• Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former president of Sierra Leone, is listed among the university's heads of state, and its graduates elsewhere include Nigel Thrift, who became vice chancellor of the University of Warwick, and the writer and professor of men's health Ian Banks.塞拉利昂前总统艾哈迈德·泰詹·卡巴列于该校国家元首校友之列；其毕业生中还有后任华威大学副校长的尼杰尔·思瑞夫，以及作家兼男性健康教授伊恩·班克斯。

• Welsh letters are represented by the poets T. Harri Jones, Waldo Williams, Twm Morys and Sir T. H. Parry-Williams, by the novelists Mihangel Morgan and David John Williams, and by the historians Kenneth O. Morgan, Sir Glanmor Williams and Sir Deian Hopkin, with the musician David Russell Hulme carrying the same tradition.威尔士文学传统由诗人 T. 哈里·琼斯、沃尔多·威廉斯、图姆·莫里斯与 T. H. 帕里-威廉姆斯爵士代表，小说家有米哈尼尔·摩根与大卫·约翰·威廉斯，史学家包括肯尼思·O. 摩根、格兰莫·威廉斯爵士与迪安·霍普金爵士，音乐学者大卫·拉塞尔·赫尔姆亦承此脉。