Digest

Engineering Innovations

The wide range of innovative work being carried out by students and researchers on the University's engineering courses were highlighted at a recent exhibition.

Projects dealing with everything from developing the latest flat panel displays which could replace LCD and plasma screens, to robotic units which can carry out minimally invasive surgery, to innovative methods of drug delivery were among those on display.

Understandable Accounting

Professor John Burns and Dr Gudrun Baldvinsdottir of the Department of Accountancy and Business Finance are involved in a project to investigate how management accounting innovations and fads can be better understood.

The research is one of three projects being funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants to advance awareness and understanding of how the finance area can manage organisations more effectively.

Eco Design

Environmental literacy and ecological design were the topic of a recent presentation by internationally renowned ecological design thinker, Professor David Orr.

Professor Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, and Chair of the Environmental Studies Programme at Oberlin College, Ohio, US.

Java online success

The second group of school pupils, college students, teachers and lecturers trained under a pioneering new computing course which allows distance learning and part-time study have receive their award certificates.

The six-week course teaches programming in Java. Unusually, all the teaching and learning materials are delivered online, via the University's virtual learning environment, Blackboard.

Dundee grad presents Linda Tosh Memorial Lecture

Dundee graduate Dr Ruth Woods returned to the University in May to present the Linda Tosh memorial lecture, held in honour of the psychology graduate who died in 1980.

Dr Woods spoke about understanding aggression in boys and what motivates boys to act in an aggressive manner.

Scholarship

Travelling scholarships worth a combined total of more than £2000 have been awarded to two Dundee postgraduate students by the Scottish International Education Trust.

Civil Engineering research student Alexandros Gasparatos was awarded £14000 to travel to Rome and Siena. Mathematical Biology PhD student Heiko Enderling was awarded £950 to travel to North Carolina, USA.