Date | Title |
Details |
30 May 2005 |
Launch of writers' "Time Lines" exhibition |
Some of Dundee's rich history - from its jute mills to the
early days of Liff Hospital - has provided a source of inspiration for students on a writing
course at the University of Dundee's Department of Continuing Education. |
27 May 2005 |
University of Dundee named best for teaching |
The University of Dundee has been named top in the United
Kingdom for teaching quality in the newest set of university league tables, published in The Times
Higher Education Supplement and The Times. |
27 May 2005 |
Dundee Scientist Receives Highest UK Honour |
Professor Colin Watts, an internationally renowned
immunologist working in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has been elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of London. |
27 May 2005 |
500 Scottish mothers and children sought for new study |
Researchers at the University of Dundee are seeking 500
Scottish mothers and their children, all of whom were patients at Neonatal units around the country
during the years 1999 to 2001. |
26 May 2005 |
Cricket committee present cheque |
The Dundee University Cricket Club committee will present a
cheque for £1,040 to the Dundee Disabled Children's Association (DDCA) on Friday 27 May, at the
building site of the DDCA's new purpose built facility. |
25 May 2005 |
FILM LAUNCH - "Recovering Lives: Mental health, gardening and the arts" |
A new film which shows how involvement in gardening and the
arts can help improve the mental health of people who have had severe and enduring problems will
be shown for the first time at DCA. |
25 May 2005 |
Award for University researchers |
Researchers at the University of Dundee are among a team who
have been awarded the 2004 Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)/Boots The Chemists
Research Paper of the Year Award. |
20 May 2005 |
Maths master class |
Local primary school children who have completed this year's
maths master classes at the University of Dundee will be presented with certificates from the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. |
20 May 2005 |
Serious business plan winners |
Marking the end of the University of Dundee's Serious
Business Plan Competition 2005, students from the university will be awarded over £4000 worth of
funding and prize money to take their innovative business ideas a step further. |
19 May 2005 |
Degree Show 2005 |
This year's degree show at the University of Dundee promises
to be an exceptional visual experience. |
18 May 2005 |
Street furniture to help smokers quit |
Twenty-one-year-old, Paul Monteath decided to create a piece
of street furniture which would 'welcome' smokers to use it, while at the same time encourage them
to kick their habit. |
16 May 2005 |
DJCAD's longest painting at Degree Show |
At 35-feet long, fine art student, Francis Glancy has
created the longest painting ever to come out of the University of Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art and Design. |
12 May 2005 |
Major Public artwork in Dundee |
DCA is delighted to announce the temporary installation of a
major public artwork by renowned Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson returns to Dundee, site
of his first ever exhibition in the UK in 1999, with an impressive sculptural waterfall. |
12 May 2005 |
Dundee Scientists on road to cure for "Butterfly Children" condition |
Scientists in Dundee have embarked on a major research
programme funded by the charity DebRA which it is hoped will ultimately lead to a successful
treatment for a previously incurable genetic skin condition. |
12 May 2005 |
Dundee Life Scientists Share £12m Proteomics Technology Grant |
Ten scientists based in the 3 major Scottish Life Sciences
Centres of Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow have scooped the UK's Interdisciplinary Research
Collaboration in Proteomic Technology (IRColl) grant. |
11 May 2005 |
Student creates video documentary of Black Watch |
Twenty-five-year-old Louise Davidson from Arbroath has spent
her final year at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee creating a documentary
on the Black Watch, which will be on display at this year's Degree Show. |
10 May 2005 |
SWIG Conference 2005 |
The Twelfth International Scottish Word and Image Group
(SWIG) Conference, hosted by the University of Dundee's Department of English, will include two
major public lectures examining the subject of the built environment of Dundee and the effect it
has had on the city. |
10 May 2005 |
Hands-on approach for architecture students |
In a daring project, architecture students at the University
of Dundee are bringing their drawings to life by actually constructing an environmentally friendly
timber frame pavilion to house their own work. |
10 May 2005 |
A new approach to prevent cancer |
Scientists at the University of Dundee have identified a way
of inactivating a naturally occurring human protein, a development which could offer new routes to
developing cancer prevention treatments. |
9 May 2005 |
Dundee Cancer Forum 2005 |
Senior clinicians and researchers working in cancer research
at the University of Dundee will gather at the city's Apex Hotel on Thursday May 12 for the 2005
meeting of the local Cancer Forum. |
9 May 2005 |
Conferment of honorary degree upon Baroness Greenfield |
The University of Dundee will confer the Honorary Degree of
Doctor of Laws (LLD) upon Baroness Susan Greenfield, one of Britain's leading psychologists,
at a ceremony in the Bonar Hall. |
9 May 2005 |
Unique 18th century correspondence collection on show |
Parts of the remarkably well-preserved collection of
correspondence from Carl Linnaeus - "The Father of Modern Botany" - will be placed on show at the
University of Dundee tomorrow. |
6 May 2005 |
The University of Dundee appoints its first Professor of Biotechnology |
Julie Frearson, the Director of Biology at BioFocus plc,
Cambridge, has been appointed to the first Chair of Biotechnology in the School of Life Sciences
at the University of Dundee. |
5 May 2005 |
Launch of Discovery Days 2005 book |
World class research across topics as diverse as the
treatment of diabetes and the economic crises of the 1970s is contained in a new book launched by
the University of Dundee, "The Discovery Days 2005". |
4 May 2005 |
Microbiology Detectives - Who Started the Epidemic? |
When there's a spread of an infectious disease, one of the
most important things to discover is where the infection started. |
4 May 2005 |
University of Dundee honorary degrees |
The University of Dundee will confer honorary degrees on
eight outstanding individuals at the 2005 summer graduation ceremonies. |
3 May 2005 |
Nobel Laureate to Deliver Lecture |
Sir John Sulston, one of the UK's most distinguished
scientists will deliver the Peter Garland Lecture in the School of Life Sciences at the University
of Dundee at 4pm on Friday, 6 May. |
1 May 2005 |
EMBL's fourth Director-General, Dr Iain Mattaj, takes office |
Dr. Iain Mattaj today took over the leadership of the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), a prominent basic research and training institute
with laboratories in France, Germany, Italy and the UK. |
