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October 2004 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
29 October 2004	Female Rabbi on leadership	Scotland's first female Rabbi will address the history of women in Judaism and explore issues of women's leadership in religion in the annual Margaret Harris lecture.
29 October 2004	AHRB and EPSRC Appoint New Initiative Director	The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are pleased to announce the appointment of an initiative director for their first collaborative initiative, Designing for the 21st Century.
29 October 2004	Diabetes UK donation	A donation from Diabetes UK will help fund a project at the Division of Medicine and Therapeutics that will investigate new treatments for the prevention of heart disease in diabetes.
28 October 2004	Pupils lay the bricks	School children will discover more about the construction industry and the variety of careers in construction from engineer through to bricklayer.
27 October 2004	Re-Tracing exhibition opening	Samuel Penn's 'Re-tracing' is the continuation of a photographic exhibition that started in Berlin earlier this year.
26 October 2004	Students buy new grand piano	The University of Dundee, with the help of some of their music loving graduates, have just bought a new grand piano.
22 October 2004	Sought after designers show work to industry	Third year students who are already securing internships and commercial contracts for their interactive media design are exhibiting their work in a showcase exhibition next week.
21 October 2004	Top prize for engineering student	Alexandros Feretzakis, who graduated in civil engineering, has been awarded first prize in a national competition run by the Institution of Structural Engineers.
21 October 2004	Deputy Principal and Jazzman retires	Professor Ron Elder, former Deputy Principal and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Workis retiring this week.
21 October 2004	Dundee graduates head for Amsterdam catwalk	Scotland's up and coming fashion designers will show off their latest creations on the international stage when they take part in a fashion show in Amsterdam.
20 October 2004	Ongoing research unveiled	Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design PhD students will present an update on their specialist areas of research at an exhibition opening on Friday.
20 October 2004	Brazilian Ecosystem to Benefit from Study	Scientists from the University of Dundee and the University of York hope to improve the long term sustainability of certain ecosystems after being awarded a £359,422 grant from the Natural Environment Research Council.
19 October 2004	Caribbean event in Dundee	A flavour of the Caribbean will come to Dundee when renowned poet E A Markham and the crime writer and broadcaster Mike Philips give readings from their works in two days of seminars about the Caribbean, black culture and history.
19 October 2004	University welcomes prized piano soloist	One of Scotland's most exciting young solo pianists, Joseph Fleetwood will hold a piano master-class for local schoolchildren before he performs in the first of the University of Dundee's evening concert series.
18 October 2004	Dundee launches new university press	A bold venture bringing together leading players from academia and publishing has established a new university press in Scotland. Dundee University Press Ltd (DUP) will be devoted to quality academic books with wider audience appeal.
14 October 2004	Discovering medical devices	Engineers who have responded to the needs of surgeons and doctors and produced the latest in medical devices including a "surgeon's Swiss Army Knife" will show their devices to interested manufacturers.
12 October 2004	Poets launch new collections	Colette Bryce, current creative writer in residence at the University of Dundee and Kathleen Jamie, previous writer in residence, who has just won the Best Collection of Poetry Forward Award in London for her book 'The Tree House' will both give poetry readings at their book launch party.
11 October 2004	Collaborative project between Allahabad and Dundee	Professor Janak Pandey of the University of Allahabad, India will visit the Dept of Psychology to finalise details of a new intensive course that will run in India next year.
8 October 2004	Lorraine Kelly supports TICR ball	The TICR annual ball 'Carnaval de Cuba' will take place at the Apex City Quay Hotel in aid of the University of Dundee's £3.5m appeal to establish the Institute for Cardiovascular Research (TICR).
8 October 2004	New Engineering research centre opens	A new centre which will research prevention of landslips and establish the best procedures for the construction industry, one of the largest industries in the UK, is opening at the University of Dundee.
8 October 2004	Faculty of Life Sciences prize giving	Over sixty students from the School of Life Sciences who have demonstrated outstanding academic performance will be congratulated at the annual prize-giving ceremony.
7 October 2004	Cell Signalling gets £1.87 million for Disease Research	University of Dundee Professor, Peter Downes has been given another boost with the award of £1.87 million from the Medical Research Council to develop his research on cell signalling.
6 October 2004	Distance Learning Centre accreditation	The National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) visit to the University's Distance Learning Nursing and Palliative Care Unit to reaccredit a number of its nursing degrees made available to students outside the UK.
5 October 2004	Ronnie Gurr in Dundee	Ronnie Gurr, the music industry trailblazer and brains behind the launch of Boy George's Culture Club will be giving a public talk this evening.
4 October 2004	Jamaica: Worldwide forensic expert to observe autopsies of August Town killings	Derrick Pounder, a Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Dundee, will be observing, on behalf of Amnesty International, the autopsies of Sandra Sewell & Gayon Alcott.
4 October 2004	Dundee Centre seeks women for preventing breast cancer trial	Scientists based at the University of Dundee are today calling for women help them take the next big step towards preventing breast cancer.