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September 2007 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
27 September 2007	Literary Festival Shortlisted	The Dundee Literary Festival has been shortlisted for a prestigious Times Higher Education Supplement Award.
27 September 2007	International Exhibition Opens	'I Gave You Life' brings together four women artists who explore society's inhibitions or the lack of them, through the series of characters they create.
27 September 2007	Major New Funding for Eczema Drugs	The Medical Research Council has awarded a grant of £1.3 million to professors from the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews to develop new drugs to combat eczema.
25 September 2007	`Romance’ - A conference in honour of Victor Skretkowicz	International experts in Renaissance literature will gather at the University of Dundee next month in honour of Dr Victor Skretkowicz, who is set to retire at the end of October.
24 September 2007	Vicki Hanson appointed Leverhulme visiting professor at Dundee	Vicki Hanson, one of the world’s leading researchers on computing technologies for older and disabled people, has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust grant to become a Visiting Professor at the University of Dundee.
21 September 2007	International Student Reception	The new intake of international students at the University of Dundee will be welcomed to the city on Tuesday evening with a special reception.
21 September 2007	40 year celebration for Couple and University	A couple who married at the University of Dundee chaplaincy the year the University was opened will celebrate their Ruby wedding anniversary tomorrow (SAT) at the University.
21 September 2007	Law School prizegiving	The School of Law at the University of Dundee will hold its annual prize-giving on Thursday September 27, 2007.
21 September 2007	Professor Richard Wiseman to give Drever Lecture 2007	Professor Richard Wiseman, one of the UK’s leading psychologists, will lead an investigation into the paranormal and why people believe in such phenomena as ghosts when he gives the 2007 Drever Lecture at the University of Dundee next month.
20 September 2007	Your words and my mouth	Your Words and My Mouth is a two-day exhibition and live arts event which will be held at Hospitalfield House, Arbroath on the 22 and 23 September, 2007, from 2-10pm each day.
19 September 2007	New book launches with art exhibition	The latest book from Dundee University Press, Circles, by Professor Nick Wade has been launched together with an exhibition of art work connected with the new book.
19 September 2007	50th Reunion for Dental class of ‘57	A group of dentists who graduated from Dundee Dental School are returning to the city for a class reunion 50 years after they finished they completed training.
18 September 2007	Big boost to science research at University of Dundee	The biomedical research base at the University of Dundee - already one of the largest in the UK - is to undergo another significant expansion through a multi-million pound investment which includes new laboratories for Professors Sir David and Birgit Lane.
17 September 2007	International Spacewire Conference	Over 100 spacecraft design engineers from across the world will join the inaugural International SpaceWire conference that starts today, Monday 17 September 2007, in Dundee. Representatives from the major space agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Roscosmos will be attending as well as delegates from across Europe, Russia, Israel, Japan, USA, Canada and Argentina. The three day SpaceWire conference, which is being hosted by the University of Dundee, will contribute approximately £100,000 to the local economy.
12 September 2007	Dundee welcomes National Student Survey results	The University of Dundee has welcomed the results of the 2007 National Student Survey which places the institution 13th in the United Kingdom according to overall student satisfaction.
12 September 2007	Huge boost to diabetes research campaign	The University of Dundee’s Diabetes Research Campaign has received a huge boost with pledges totalling £800,000 from two of the country’s leading charitable trusts.
11 September 2007	Dundee medical students to work in Malawi	Medical students and staff from the University of Dundee have established a new programme of placements in Malawi which will see them contribute to frontline medical care in the African country.
10 September 2007	Visit of High Commissioner of Malawi	Dr Francis Moto, High Commissioner of Malawi, will visit the University of Dundee on Tuesday September 11th.
10 September 2007	Dundee academics publish guides to university success	The nuts and bolts of succeeding at University - writing good essays, passing exams, completing dissertations and project reports - are laid bare to all students in a series of new academic guides from two University of Dundee experts.
8 September 2007	Dental student survey raises issues of NHS workforce planning	A survey of senior dental students has found that 18% of them plan to work exclusively within the private sector while only 3% intend to work wholly within the NHS.
6 September 2007	Leading medics from around the world fly back to Dundee to mark 40th anniversary	Former medical students from the University of Dundee - many of them now leading figures in their fields - have returned to the city to join the institution’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
6 September 2007	Learning technologist of the year	Hannah Whaley of the University of Dundee has been named winner of the inaugural Learning Technologist of the Year award.
3 September 2007	New Chair of Reproductive Medicine	Professor Chris Barratt, one of the world’s leading experts in his field, has been appointed a new Chair of Reproductive Medicine at the University of Dundee.