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August 2005 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
23 August 2005	Accessible Design in the Digital World Conference	Over 80 delegates from around the world will be in Dundee to attend the first 'Accessible Design in the Digital World Conference', taking place at the Apex Hotel on 24-25 August 2005.
23 August 2005	Fire safety DVD	The University of Dundee will officially launch a new fire safety DVD on Thursday 25 August. Copies of the DVD, which aims to prevent fires and save lives, will be presented to representatives from Dundee City Council as well as the fire and ambulance services.
22 August 2005	Appointment of Director of Strategic Planning	The University of Dundee is delighted to announce the appointment of Graham McKee as Director of Strategic Planning. Graham, currently Senior Director of Operations at Scottish Enterprise, will take up the new post on September 1st.
19 August 2005	Exhibition opening	A new exhibition that features work from Chinese and Korean students from the University of Dundee's art and design foundation programme will open at the University next week.
18 August 2005	Access Summer School	Over 100 students will celebrate their successful completion of the University of Dundee Access Summer School.
16 August 2005	Dundee International Book Prize 2007	The Dundee International Book Prize 2007 aims to discover exciting new writers whether they live on the Tay or the Tiber and give them the platform they need to break in to the book world.
12 August 2005	Dundee student gets things moving	An enterprising University of Dundee undergraduate has done some creative thinking "inside the box" to solve an age-old problem for students.
11 August 2005	Dundee hailed as world leading centre for diabetes research	Dundee was hailed today as a world-leading centre for research into diabetes by the recently appointed head of the UK's largest charity dealing with the disease.
2 August 2005	Drug screening project nets £1.5 million	A new facility based at the University of Dundee which will allow drug targets discovered in Scottish universities to be tested against up to 100,000 chemicals has been awarded almost £1.5 million from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council.
1 August 2005	Dundee named most cost-effective Scottish City for study	Dundee has been named the most cost-effective place to study in Scotland in a new survey carried out by the Royal Bank of Scotland.