Staff win recognition for work
Research staff at Dundee University have been awarded a clutch of UK and international appointments
The Courier 21.03.03
University staff gain top positions
As above
Press & Journal 21.03.03
Donations boost heart research
Three charitable trusts have pledged donations of cash totalling nearly £400,000 towards the Institute for Cardiovascular Research (TICR) at the University of Dundee - the first institute of its kind in Scotland
The Courier 21.03.03
Universities welcome increase in funding
Scottish Higher education institutions will receive a total of £765 million for teaching and research in 2003-04 - a 5% increase on current levels - the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council announced yesterday. Dundee University is among the major beneficiaries in the individual awards, achieving the largest percentage increase of the Scottish universities, while other local institutions also fared well
The Courier 21.03.03
Awards given for doing the business
The strength and variety of the Perth and Kinross commercial sector was underlined by successes at the inaugural Tayside Business Awards.
Perthshire Advertiser 21.03.03
Lockerbie images come to life at DCA event
The challenges faced by the unofficial artist-in-residence at the Lockerbie trial in the Netherlands were outlined in Dundee last night
Press & Journal 21.03.03
Lockerbie trial challenges
As above
The Courier 20.03.03
Artist's lecture
As above
Evening Telegraph 19.03.03
Magic microbes are fatal to insects
In a talk at Dundee University last night, a Cambridge professor outlined how research into the strange habits of microbes could cure Scotland's midge problem and even cancer
The Courier 20.03.03
Thousands say no to fluoride in water
Thousands have raised objections to any move by the Scottish Executive to introduce what has been described as mass medication. Among those in favour was Graham Ogden, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Dundee University dental school, who, in a "get fluoride into water" call, demanded "an end to the arrant nonsense peddled by antifluoridationists"
The Herald 20.03.03
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A fourth year student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, has won the sponsor's prize at the Royal Scottish Academy Students' Exhibition
The Courier 20.03.03
Arts prize for Sarah
As above
Evening Telegraph 19.03.03
Environment: Demands for strong water laws meet resistance
Patricia Wouters wants the international conference here to call for strong water laws, but she is up against many environmentalists who oppose them.
Kyoto, Japan 19.03.03
£15m funding for Dundee scientists
Scientists at Dundee University have secured a £15 million grant which is being hailed as the largest ever industrial research deal signed in the UK
The Scotsman 19.03.03
£15million drugs research deal is a Dundee University record
As above
Press & Journal 19.03.03
University's £15 million research boost
As above
The Courier 19.03.03
£15 million research boost for university
As above
Evening Telegraph 18.03.03
Dundee University in £15m deal with drugs groups
As above
Financial Times 18.03.03
Tayside waste plan targets doubling of recycling rate
Reduce, reuse and recycle rubbish is the message for Tayside's residents and businesses. The Tayside Area Waste Plan was launched at Dundee University yesterday
Press & Journal 19.03.03
Learning the three (new) Rs
As above
The Courier 18.03.03
Tayside area waste action plan launched
As above
Evening Telegraph 18.03.03
Winning over the slippery slope of life
For Dundee resident Nigel Brockton life has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows. After contending with cancer twice by age 21, Nigel is now poised to win the World Speed Skiing Championships
The Courier 18.03.03
Bid to enhance Scots' poor life expectancy
Scotland may have one of the lowest life expectancy rates in Western Europe but things are improving, according to Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe of Dundee University
The Courier 18.03.03
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The annual Scottish Embu championships were held at Dundee University on Saturday
The Courier 17.03.03
Is history a thing of the past in school?
Pupils are leaving school without a basic grasp of Scottish history, university lecturers and teachers claim. Dr Sydney Wood, a history lecturer at the University of Dundee, called for the introduction of set Scottish history texts
The Scotsman 17.03.03
Historical failure
As above
The Scotsman 17.03.03
Lecturer awarded £13,000 for Mafia claims
After death threats and a five year ordeal through the Italian courts, a Scottish lecturer who teaches at the University of Verona has been awarded £13,000 damages plus costs in a defamation case. During a fight for equal pay for foreign lecturers David Petrie, 51, from Dumbarton and a graduate from University of Dundee, was accused of saying that Italy was run by the Mafia
The Scotsman 17.03.03
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Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, one of the major Japanese industry newspapers 17.03.03
Scots to make up one-fifth of UK gene bank
Scots are set to form a major part of the world's biggest medical research gene bank - part of a new bid to fight illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. The group includes the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen
Sunday Herald 16.03.03
College reform scheme dropped
Radical plans for reform of higher-education sector set out by Wendy Alexander when she was lifelong learning minister have been shelved by her successor, Iain Gray. Criticising the mooted centralised planning of universities, the source said that Dundee University would not today have a world-class biomedical centre, generating groundbreaking research and spin-out companies, if it had accepted directions from a previous university-funding body
The Scotsman 15.03.03
SCRI and university join research forces
The Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie and the faculty of life sciences at Dundee University yesterday announced they are entering into a joint strategic partnership, with four university research groups to be located at SCRI
The Courier 15.03.03
Estuary issues under scrutiny
Around 30 delegates gathered in Dundee yesterday for the annual conference of the Tay Estuary Forum (TEF)
The Courier 15.03.03
Plans for haven of tranquillity
A £100 million plan to transform Dundee's water-front area into a central haven of tranquillity was outlined by the city's planning and transportation director yesterday
The Courier 15.03.03
Dundee research team says elderly better off at home
A research team led by a Dundee professor is calling for investigations into the medical care given to old people across the UK, after they found evidence of drugs and other treatments being misused
Evening Telegraph 14.03.03
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Around 30 delegates gathered in Dundee today for the annual conference of the Tay Estuary Forum
Evening Telegraph 14.03.04
Funding into diabetes research
The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee has become one of only four UK bodies to receive special funding to carry out new research into diabetic complications and improve the well-being of diabetes
Scottish Primary Care March 2003
Headache v heartache
The popular pain killer ibuprofen can knock out the positive effects aspirin has in preventing heart attacks and strokes when patients take both medicines say doctors at the University of Dundee
Scottish Primary Care March 2003
Cell of the month
An image showing two human cancer cells caught up in the very final act of the cell division cycle, captured by a scientist at the University of Dundee, has been named "Cell of the month" in the international science journal Nature Cell Biology
Scottish Primary Care March 2003
New screening for cystic fibrosis
A new screening scheme for babies that will ensure early detection of cystic fibrosis has been launched after years of campaigning by a doctor at the University of Dundee
Scottish Primary Care March 2003
MS research gains international recognition
University of Dundee scientists are playing a major role in an international study which has just won half a million Euro to further its groundbreaking work to understand multiple sclerosis (MS)
Scottish Primary Care March 2003
Babywalkers are dangerous
Baby walkers slow down children's development, that is the message from a student nurse at the University of Dundee.
Scottish Primary Care March 2003
War on Iraq
Dr Norrie MacQueen, University of Dundee Politics department comments on the war on Iraq
Radio Tay 20.03.03
Care of elderly not up to standard
Researchers at the University of Dundee, Scotland, have been looking at the quality of medical care in a group of 698 people aged 65 or older. Of these, 172 lived in a nursing home and the rest were at home.
HealthandAge.com 20.03.03
U. of Dundee Gets £15 Million in Renewal of Proteomics Collaboration with Pharma
MNEW YORK, March 18 - The University of Dundee said today it had renewed a proteomics research collaboration with big pharma that will net it £15 million ($23.4 million) over five years-the largest research funding award ever for the Scottish academic center.
genomeweb.com 18.03.03
Star Light, Star Bright, Do Your Planets Have Oxygen Tonight?
According to Ray Wolstencroft of the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, and John Raven of the University of Dundee, Scotland, plants prefer blue light not only for the efficiency of the wavelengths, but also because blue light played an integral role in the origin of photosynthesis.
space.com 18.03.03
Everybody needs good neighbours
Stella McCartney, who will be awarded an honorary degree by the university of Dundee in July, is likely to have yet more neighbour trouble when she opens her Mayfair store next month.
vogue.co.uk 17.03.03
College forges link with university
Successful students at Perth College on a range of courses can look forward to guaranteed places on degree programmes at the University of Abertay in Dundee, thanks to new closer links between the two institutions
The Courier 21.03.03
Threats to NHS outlined
The spread of HIV remains a "ticking time bomb" under the NHS, the chief executive of NHS Tayside warned last night
The Courier 20.03.03
World-first for Dundee bike designer
A Dundee graduate has become the first female motorcycle designer with Italian giants Ducati
Press & Journal 18.03.03
Degree courses 'must improve'
Universities have been warned that they are on trial and must raise their game by improving performance if they are to avoid government intervention
The Scotsman 21.03.03
Students to have a say over standards
Students in Scotland are to join a panel reviewing university standards as part of a new system that signals another shift from the rest of the UK in higher education policy
The Herald 18.03.03
University 'open to all'
The principal of Edinburgh University has scotched rumours that he plans to bring in quotas for the number of places awarded to applicants from fee-paying schools
The Scotsman 15.03.03
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