Week Ending 25 December 2009 -
Synopsis number 884
University of Dundee News
Top position for Perth cardiologist
A Perth Royal Infirmary consultant cardiologist has been elected the new president of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh it was announced yesterday. Dr Neil Dewhurst, an honorary senior lecturer in medicine at Dundee University, will take on the three-year role in March.
The Courier 23.12.09
Dundee pupils' artwork will leave lasting impression
A project began yesterday which will see senior pupils at a Dundee local school shape their local environment. S6 pupils from Morgan Academy had their first session in the collaborative scheme with sculptors from the city's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
Press and Journal 22.12.09
Academy pupils to create sculptures
as above
Press and Journal 21.12.09
Card players, casinos try to counter each other
A couple of University of Dundee, United Kingdom, researchers have developed an automated system to help casinos root out card counters more quickly.
newsok.com 22.12.09
China's Long Arm
The opening of China’s giant gas pipeline from Central Asia reinforces Beijing’s escalating political influence in the region, analysts say.
Philip Andrews-Speed, a China energy expert at Scotland’s University of Dundee is quoted.
fra.org 21.12.09
Phoebe Caldwell wins Times/Sternberg Award for pioneering autism treatment
A woman aged 76 who has transformed the lives of thousands of families affected by autism has won this year's Times/Sternberg Award.
She was nominated by Suzanne Zeedyk, of Dundee University's school of psychology, whose students analysed every frame of one of her films to produce empirical evidence on her technique, known as intensive interaction.
The Times 21.12.09
Who is left to fly the flag?
With the collapse last week of FlyGlobespan, Scotland's biggest airline, plans are now in chaos.
At Dundee university, 58 third-year geography students were due to fly to Alicante for a field trip and had booked with FlyGlobespan. University officials are trying to rearrange the trip for later in the year but the students fear the disruption will impact on their studies.
The Sunday Times 21.12.09
Dundee students hot by airline collapse
as above
The Courier 22.12.09
Students battle for design title
Design students from throughout Scotland battled it out to be named designer of the year by a global technology company yesterday.
Christopher McNicholl, of Duncan of Jordanstone College, was selected as the winner.
Press and Journal 19.12.09
The men seeking immaculate preconceptions
Women's fertility anxiety has long been exploited by publishers, self-help gurus and others. Now they have men in their sights too.
On a visit to a clinic in Atlanta in the US recently, Christopher Barratt, professor of reproductive medicine at the University of Dundee, was shocked to find all the male patients were already taking supplements to optimise their health and sperm quality. 'There wasn't a single one that wasn't on something. They had got them off the internet.'
The Guardian 19.12.09
TV images 'put people off nursing'
Television images of nurses as 'brainless, sex-mad bimbos' are putting young people off a career in nursing.
NHS Tayside's director of nursing, Professor Liz Wilson, presented research carried out by Dundee University when she spoke at today's meeting of NHS Tayside's staff governance committee at King's Cross Hospital, Dundee.
The Courier 19.12.09
Put off nursing by TV portrayal
as above
Evening Telegraph 18.12.09
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