NASA satellite

Today, the University’s satellite station receives data from the latest NASA satellite, Terra, which is helping scientists monitor the environmental impact of man on sea, land and the atmosphere. Dr Steve Parkes, Director of the receiving station, is involved in several aspects of the European Space Agency’s unmanned mission to Mercury. The simulated surface of Mercury he and his team have created will be used to test the automatic pilot computer vision system on board the space probe. His team has developed the stringent specification for computer networking - spacewire - used on board ESA and other spacecraft.

Wanli

The Wanli Project is a partnership agreement which aims to enable Chinese diploma students to complete their work for a degree at the University of Dundee by giving them direct entry into third year for both general and honours programmes. Currently seven departments are involved and by October 2002 at least 150 students are expected through this programme.

Nursing Education

The Centre for Medical Education, a pioneer in distance learning, has become the first non-American provider to gain access to the lucrative U.S. market (estimated at $5 billion) for nursing education. Nearer home the first of a new breed of specialist practitioner nurses graduated from the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Advising the World

The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy is offering its training expertise around the world: China - the reform of the electricity power sector Spain and Latin America - regulating key sectors of the economy South Africa - reforming the country’s mining laws post-apartheid.

Albania
The massive haemorrhaging of Albania’s population is the subject of a major study by politics lecturer Dr Gabriella Lazaridis and colleagues.