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April 2010 Press Releases

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29 April 2010	Computing students show off honours projects	A piano that corrects the player’s mistakes, a South Pole Lunar Lander system, technology to help dementia sufferers, and multi-touch systems that assist radiographers are among the innovative projects on show from final-year computing students at the University of Dundee next week.
29 April 2010	Gem of a design sees students earn top prize	A jewellery student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) will this Sunday receive an illustrious award from the Scottish Gemmological Association.
28 April 2010	School to launch new Islamic finance course at Conference	The University of Dundee’s School of Accounting & Finance is preparing to launch a new course in Islamic accounting and finance at a major conference on the subject.
28 April 2010	New Scottish guidance launched to help dentists and families prevent and manage dental decay in children	New guidance for the dental profession in Scotland is launched today by the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP). ‘Prevention and Management of Dental Caries in Children’, provides clear and consistent advice to support the dental team to improve children’s experience of dental care and children’s oral health.
23 April 2010	Call for 1000 older adults to help in technology research	The University of Dundee’s Social inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE) project is looking to recruit 1000 volunteers to help them research the extent to which older adults are excluded from, or linked into, the rapidly changing world of technology.
22 April 2010	School sponsors conference ahead of new Islamic finance course	The University of Dundee’s School of Accounting & Finance is preparing to launch a new course in Islamic accounting and finance at a major conference on the subject.
22 April 2010	'The development of pattern and form' - Saturday Evening Lecture Series continues	The 150th anniversary of D'Arcy Thompson's birth will be celebrated next week when Professor Lewis Wolpert delivers the latest instalment of the University of Dundee’s popular Saturday Evening Lecture Series.
21 April 2010	'Prototype: Craft in the Future Tense'	It may not be immediately apparent what an artist has in common with a biomedical engineer or what links an architect with a business innovator but it should become clearer at a major symposium being held at the University of Dundee this summer as part of a nationwide celebration of craft in Scotland.
20 April 2010	Landmark meeting of Scottish Plant Biologists in Dundee	One hundred and thirty plant scientists, representing all major plant research centres in Scotland, will meet in Dundee tomorrow (April 22nd) to present their latest research findings at the 2010 Plant Biology Forum.
20 April 2010	Dundee University Students' Association rated Scotland's No.1	Dundee University Students' Association (DUSA) has been ranked Scotland's top students' union and one of the world's best in a new survey of universities across the globe.
20 April 2010	Top business leader to head up V&A at Dundee	The V&A at Dundee, the project to develop an international centre of 21st century design at the heart of Dundee’s waterfront, has been boosted by the appointment of a leading business figure to chair its board.
19 April 2010	Launch of 2010 Dundee Literary Festival	Alastair Urquhart, whose memoir of his time in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp, The Forgotten Highlander, has sold more than 20 million copies across the globe will tomorrow launch the 2010 Dundee Literary Festival.
19 April 2010	Launch of New Writing Dundee Five	An anthology of new writing from Dundee and across the globe is published today.
19 April 2010	2010 Tay Estuary Forum Annual Conference	Offshore wind farms, sustaining dolphin tourism and the role the RNLI play around our shores are among the wide variety of issues which will be discussed at the 2010 Tay Estuary Forum annual conference at the University of Dundee this week.
16 April 2010	Supporting parents to engage in their children's learning - the 4th Bell Lecture	The ways in which high-quality parenting can enhance a child’s wellbeing and performance at school will be examined at a public lecture taking place at the University of Dundee next week.
15 April 2010	Satellite image of volcanic ash plume	We have got an image showing the volcanic ash plume from Iceland to the north of the UK. Received from NASA's Terra satellite at 1139 UTC today - it's available at www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ftp/Icelandic_Volcano_Eruption_April_2010/.
15 April 2010	Physicians gather in Dundee	The 104th Annual Meeting of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Ireland is being held at the University of Dundee today and tomorrow (April 15th and 16th).
14 April 2010	Students take on national volleyball stars	The Institute of Sport and Exercise at the University of Dundee will host the Scottish Student Volleyball Challenge this Sunday, pitting the best varsity players against the full international squads.
13 April 2010	Graduates' Council 2010 'Discovery' Lecture - 'Vision and Ambition'	The economic power of design and its role in economic development will be explored at the Graduates’ Council Discovery Lecture at the University of Dundee this Saturday, April 17th.
13 April 2010	£4 million research boost for College of Life Sciences	Four scientists at the University of Dundee have been awarded research fellowships from the Wellcome Trust totalling almost £4million.
12 April 2010	Angus silver surfers celebrate their 10th anniversary	One of country’s longest standing and most active Silver Surfers groups, which started life in the kitchen of an Angus Bed and Breakfast, is marking its 10th anniversary with a party bringing together past and present members and supporters.
12 April 2010	Researchers to develop ‘green’ cement from rice husk	Researchers from the Universities of Dundee and Bath are working with collaborators in India to develop environmentally friendly cement using waste materials such as rice husks.
12 April 2010	From Brunel to Wallace and Gromit - The changing public image of the engineer. Saturday Evening Lecture Series continues	The names of great British engineers and inventors trip off the tongue - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, George and Robert Stephenson, Barnes Wallis, 'Q' from the Bond series and Wallace, of Wallace and Gromit fame.
10 April 2010	Dundee factory is the unlikely setting for a drive-in Saturday	A taste of 1950s Americana will come to Dundee this weekend when the large Michelin factory plays host to a special, one-off, drive-in cinema event as part of a project to take art directly to the workplace.
8 April 2010	Dundee graduates enjoy success at RSA New Contemporaries exhibition	Graduates from the University of Dundee have won prizes totalling almost £4,000 at this year’s prestigious RSA New Contemporaries exhibition.
8 April 2010	Dundee rated one of the best places in the world for postdocs to work	The College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee has once again been voted as one of the top international institutions for postdoctoral researchers to work in.
7 April 2010	Art students set for study tour of Florence	Two Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design students have received scholarships to enable them to undertake extensive study tours in Florence.
7 April 2010	Charity cricket challenge is a marathon effort	Neither rain nor bad light will be allowed to stop play when a group of fundraising students from the University of Dundee embark upon a 24-hour hour cricket marathon this weekend.
6 April 2010	New book analyses exciting new forensics tool	The old adage that 'you are what you eat' has never been truer, as a Dundee scientist has shown in the first book written about a new forensic tool used in a range of fields from human identification to counter-terrorism.
6 April 2010	Student makes money in design competition	Financially strapped students may dream of one day using their talent to make money, but one University of Dundee undergraduate is already doing exactly that.
5 April 2010	Don & Low join the DRIVE team	University of Dundee students who have developed their own Formula-style racing car have been given the backing of local industrial textiles company Don & Low.
2 April 2010	Burger van experience led to law graduate owning successful catering business	A University of Dundee graduate, who saw his dreams of a career in law suffer a recession-linked setback, used the experience of working in a burger van at T in the Park as the springboard to start his own catering company.
1 April 2010	Scottish Cup to come to ISE	The world’s oldest domestic football trophy will visit the University of Dundee on this weekend when the Active Nation Scottish Cup goes on display at the Institute of Sport & Exercise.
1 April 2010	Research-based approach to teaching leads to national award	A postgraduate Psychology student from the University of Dundee has had her innovative approach to teaching recognised with an illustrious national award.
1 April 2010	Drug breakthrough in fight against neglected diseases	Scientists from the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) at the University of Dundee - working together with partners at the University of York and the Structural Genomics Consortium in Toronto - have made a major breakthrough in identifying new treatments for a fatal disease which infects tens of thousands of Africans each year.