November 2003 Press Releases

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28 November 2003 Scottish election observers leave for Russia Five Scottish MPs and MSPs and a University of Dundee expert in Russian politics will leave for Russia on Tuesday 2 December to act as official election observers as voters elect members to the national parliament.
28 November 2003 Joint graduates The Universities of Dundee and St Andrews will graduate their second batch of joint graduates in the St Andrews day graduation ceremony today
28 November 2003 Fittest and fastest battle for gold The fittest and fastest students from around Scotland will gather at Camperdown Park, Dundee for the 2003 Scottish University Cross-Country Championships.
27 November 2003 The Creative Mind Humans' ability to generate ideas and explore what is new and unfamiliar is a defining characteristic of the species - yet many aspects of the creative process are still shrouded in mystery.
26 November 2003 Working in Health Access Project In 2002 just over 10% of all applications to Scottish Medical Schools were from those described as coming from a 'Manual' background - skilled or unskilled.
25 November 2003 University voted best in UK The University of Dundee has been voted the best UK scientific institution to work in and the third best outside the USA.
24 November 2003 Dundee student swimmer scoops gold Karen Rigby, a second year Economic Studies student at the University of Dundee, came 1st in the 50m butterfly at the British University Championships in Weston-Super-Mare at the weekend.
24 November 2003 Lord Provost tours new TICR building Dundee's Lord Provost John Letford will tomorrow be given a tour of the new wing of TICR at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, to view progress on the site.
21 November 2003 Having the heart to get a grip Are boys stronger than girls? Thirty school pupils will take part in experiments at the University of Dundee tomorrow to answer this controversial question.
20 November 2003 Politician's lab visit Dr David McGivern, a scientist at the University of Dundee will welcome Ernie Ross MP for Dundee West to his lab on Monday 24 November to show him a day in the life of a scientist.
20 November 2003 Dundee leads Europe in parenting A Dundee parenting project has been short-listed for the prestigious European Alcuin Award - one of only five nominations across the continent - and the winner will be announced in a ceremony in Vienna on Saturday.
20 November 2003 Quiz on the loo A group at the University of Dundee who work to improve life for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities is launching a fundraising drive to install a fully accessible toilet in their research unit.
18 November 2003 Dundee set for sporting success Dundee University Sports Union skiers came 1st in the women's Giant Slalom and 3rd in the women's Slalom this weekend at a universities' league competition held in Edinburgh, taking them well on the way to nationwide success.
18 November 2003 New laboratories opening New laboratories housing "state of the art" scientific equipment costing £3.5 million will be opened on Thursday 20 November at the University of Dundee.
17 November 2003 Sir Philip in Biochemistry "Hall of Fame" This evening at the London Marriott Hotel in Grovesnor Square, Mayfair, a gala dinner will be held in honour of Sir Philip Cohen who is being made an Honorary Member of the British Biochemical Society.
17 November 2003 Healthy donations for heart campaign Dundee Lord Provost John Letford may have had a triple heart bypass earlier this year, but that didn't stop him striding out in a sponsored trek to raise funds for the University of Dundee's TICR campaign.
17 November 2003 The new Dundee cake Flapjacks manufactured by a Dundee baker could revolutionise the diagnosis of a symptom associated with Diabetes, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and AIDs that impairs the body's ability to absorb and metabolise medication to treat these conditions.
14 November 2003 Lecturer appointed to European Parliament Dr Annalu Waller, a lecturer in Applied Computing at the University of Dundee, just returned from the European Parliament having been appointed to the European Parliament of Disabled People on behalf of the Cerebral Palsy European Communities Association.
14 November 2003 First Scot to win prestigious medal Dr Caroline MacEwen, head of the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Dundee has been awarded a very prestigious medal in New Zealand for her work on watery and sticky eyes in children making her the first ever Scot to be awarded this prize.
14 November 2003 MRC roadshow in Dundee Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive Officer of the Medical Research Council is in Dundee today to take part in an open forum to explore medical research priorities in Scottish Universities.
14 November 2003 Scottish coalition politics under scrutiny Ross Finnie MSP and Minister for Environment and Rural Development will give a public lecture at the University of Dundee today on coalition politics.
12 November 2003 Space technology briefing A researcher at the University of Dundee will give a public briefing today on his new technology for communicating in space.
12 November 2003 Chemistry and cancer A visiting lecturer from the US will give an insight into the chemistry of cancer today at the University of Dundee.
11 November 2003 Human rights campaigner at University of Dundee An anti-gun campaigner from Montenegro will describe the devastating effects of small arms proliferation in a public talk hosted by the University of Dundee.
11 November 2003 Cycling Cash for new Research Centre The pedal power of fourteen cyclists has raised £3,159 for the new Centre for Interdisciplinary Research currently under construction at the University of Dundee.
10 November 2003 Rector takes to the stage University Rector Fred MacAulay plays the part of a drunken prison warder Frosch in this week's Tayside Opera production of Die Fledermaus.
7 November 2003 Watch Your Mouth A visit to the dentist may not be everyone's idea of fun - but it could save your life. This is the message that Professor Graham Ogden and his team at the University of Dundee will be promoting during mouth cancer awareness week (MCAW) 9-15 November.
7 November 2003 Queen takes centre stage for University of Dundee campaign The Northern Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra (NSPO), the Dundee Choral Union and the National Youth Choir of Scotland - Dundee Children's Choir, will perform a musical spectacular tomorrow at the Caird Hall, Dundee, in aid of the University of Dundee's Ninewells Cancer Campaign.
7 November 2003 Major Scottish artist on US tour Calum Colvin, renowned Scottish artist and Professor of Fine Art photography at the University of Dundee will embark on a major lecture tour of the United States this weekend.
6 November 2003 Parenting scheme boosts local SMEs Following the success of the University of Dundee's pilot PLATO networking scheme - the first in Scotland - a recruitment drive for is now under way for the launch of PLATO 2 in the new year.
5 November 2003 Sweating it out for TICR Twenty-three members of the Sweaty Sloggers hill-walking group have raised over £1000 for the University of Dundee's TICR campaign.
4 November 2003 University of Dundee set to revolutionise research Preventing art fraud, designing individually-tailored prosthetic limbs and developing new surgery techniques in orthopaedics are just some of the possible applications of a new £700,000 facility at the University of Dundee.
3 November 2003 Keynote lecture Author, journalist and scholar Godfrey Hodgson will deliver a lecture on the development of anti-Europeanism in the USA and the concurrent rise of Anti-Americanism in Europein the wake of the Iraq conflict.
3 November 2003 about you and your fears University of Dundee researcher Pernille Spence's piece Kinaree is part of about you and your fears at McManus Galleries, Dundee.
2 November 2003 Shadow Minister's support for TICR Shona Robison Dundee East MSP and Shadow Minister for Health will lend her support to the University of Dundee's TICR campaign with a tour of the Department of Medicine at Ninewells Hospital.