Study into broccoli's medicinal powers
Research at Dundee University will examine precisely how broccoli helps prevent cancer, with £123,000 funding from the Association for International Cancer Research (AICR)
The Scotsman 09.05.03
League tables
The universities league tables
Times Higher Education Supplement 09.05.03
University's heart health challenge
The Institute for Cardiovascular Research (TICR) at Dundee University is laying down the gauntlet to Scots to exercise their hearts and prevent themselves falling prey to Scotland's number one killer - heart disease
The Courier 09.05.03
Pitlochry walk in aid of good cause
As above
Press & Journal 09.05.03
Botanics garden plant sale
The friends of the University of Dundee Botanic Garden are holding their annual plat sale in the garden tomorrow from 10am to 1pm
The Courier 09.05.03
Audience sees passion playing at Bonar Hall
If there was ever a poll to determine the greatest composer of the piano sonata, Bethoven amd Schubert would be leading contenders for the top five
The Courier 09.05.03
Students happy with campus dining facilities
Dundee University students are happy with their campus dining facilities, despite a national report being published today which suggests they want cheaper food and larger portions
The Courier 08.05.03
Students crown year with jewellery raffle
Final year students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee are busy putting the finishing touches to some unique pieces of jewellery they are hoping will help kick start their careers
The Courier 08.05.03
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Dundee fitness guru Dorothy Dobson led over 900 senior citizens in Scotland's largest exercise class at the weekend
The Courier 08.05.03
Dundee students take prizes
A team of two University of Abertay Dundee students and one University of Dundee student picked up prizes in a nationwide business plan competition
The Courier 08.05.03
Scots universities win £5,000 competition
As above
The Scotsman 08.05.03
The top 100 universities
A table of the top 100 universities. The University of Dundee comes number 31
The Times 07.05.03
The piano
One of today's leading classical pianists, South Korean-born Young Choon Park is giving a recital at the Bonar Hall in Dundee this Thursday
The Courier 07.05.03
Students in final of business contest
Three teams of technology students from Dundee will battle it out with eight other teams from Scottish universities today and tomorrow for the top awards in a major competition organised by the Scottish Institute for Enterprise
The Courier 06.05.03
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Tayside Special Olympics received a cheque for £550 from the Dundee University Medical Students Review last night
The Courier 06.05.03
Scottish-Bulgarian society meets
The annual meeting of the Scottish-Bulgarian Society was held in Dundee University Chaplaincy
The Courier 06.05.03
Young artist launches first solo exhibition
An award-winning artist who left school last summer has become one of the youngest Scottish painters to stage a solo exhibition. Gordon Anderson, who is currently a first year student at Duncan of Jordanstone, has put together a 21-piece exhibition depicting poeple walking through the city
The Scotsman 05.05.03
Summer concert
St John's Episcopal Church in Forfar will welcome Dundee University Music Society this weekend to perform a summer concert
The Courier 05.05.03
Writing and reading celebrated at DCA
The Dundee Book Prize and the Scottish Arts Council joined forces to bring a unique celebration of writing and reading to Dundee Contemporary Arts on Saturday
The Courier 05.04.03
Dundee Book Prize judges are named
As above
Press & Journal 03.05.03
Launch of latest book prize celebrates city's literary status
As above
The Courier 03.05.03
Dundee's third book prize launched at DCA
As above
Evening Telegraph 02.05.03
Higher charges seem inevitable
Questionnaire provides clear indication of how the market will look in 2006 with most institutions expected to charge an extra £3,000. Sir Alan Langlands comments
Financial Times 03.05.03
Ensemble's captivating performance
The Montrose Academy Baroque Ensemble, a group of pupils whose average age is 14, played Vivaldi and Hoist at the lunchtime concert in Dundee University Chaplaincy
The Courier 03.05.03
Golfing pair put hearts into campaign
European tour golf star Alastair Forsyth may have had a few heart-stopping moments of the fairway - but now he is doing his bit to prevent others suffering that fate in everyday life
The Courier 03.05.03
Baltimore professor gives Neville talk
Dr Gerald Hart from John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, gave the 16th Adam Neville Lecture yesterday at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, Dundee University
The Courier 03.05.03
Edmonds talks at Dundee meeting
John Edmonds, general secretary of GMB union, last night visited Dundee to speak at the Dundee Trades Union Council annual Mayday meeting at Dundee University
The Courier 03.05.03
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Monifieth and District Rotary Club heard Charles McKean, professor of Scottish architectural history at Dundee University, give an illustrated talk about the architecture of Renaissance Dundee
The Courier 03.05.03
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The arts and social science faculty at the University of Dundee held a ball at the Queens' Hotel
The Courier 03.05.03
Students with campus dining facilities
Dundee University students are happy with their campus dining facilities
Radio Tay 08.05.03
What's Buffet doing sinking his teeth into opaque PetroChina
"Buffett's not betting on PetroChina becoming the next Shell or BP, though that may be their ultimate ambition," said Philip Andrews-Speed, an expert on China's oil industry at the University of Dundee in Scotland. "He's betting against energy-sector liberalization in China."
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/bizfocus/archives/2003/05/04/204650 04.05.03
Investors Ponder Buffett's Move Into China Oil
As above
http://www.nytimes.com 02.05.03
Student will learn secret of Tiger's success
The secret of Tiger Wood's success will be revealed to one student at Abertay University, Dundee, this weekend
Press & Journal 03.05.03
New jobs for Dundee as Axis-Shield relocates unit
Axis-shield, the Scottish biotech firm, is relocating a major production unit from Norway to its global headquarters in Dundee
The Scotsman 08.05.03
Fears that £3,000 top-up fee could be the norm
Students will face top-up tuition fees of a maximum £3,000 a year at most English universities, according to the first poll of vice-chancellors since ministers announced controversial plans to shake up the funding of higher education
Financial Times 03.05.03
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