AN ABERYSTWYTH radio presenter, an MBE-awarded chemistry professor and an assistant headteacher at Ysgol Penglais were among those honoured at university graduation ceremonies.

BBC Radio One’s Aled Haydn Jones was awarded an Honorary Bachelor of Arts Degree from Aberystwyth University by Aberystwyth University Students’ Union president.

Aled began his career working on a hospital radio in Aberystwyth before making the leap to London to work for the BBC, where he has been for the last 20 years.

Aled oversaw the launch of the Chris Moyles Breakfast Show in 2004 and presented Radio One’s The Surgery giving advice to vulnerable teenagers for six years.

The late A J S “Bill” Williams MBE (1920-2016) was honoured as Fellow of Aberystwyth University.

In 2014, Bill was named as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 175 Faces of Chemistry, in recognition of the work he did educating more than 80,000 schoolchildren during his career at Aberystwyth University. Bill died in May 2016, aged 95 years. The Honorary Fellowship was collected by his brother Peter Williams in his memory.

Karina Shaw, an assistant headteacher at Ysgol Penglais, Aberystwyth, has been presented with an Honorary Bachelor of Arts Degree by Aberystwyth University.

Karina has a long history, having taught there for the last 16 years: after being a pupil at the school.

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