Boxing Clever
A Dundee University boxer has claimed the title of British Universities Light Heavyweight Champion
Evening Telegraph 05.12.02
Mark is champ
As above
The Courier 06.12.02
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Fifteen first year students at Dundee University yesterday received a boost to their studies as the Royal Bank of Scotland presented them with £1000 each and promised them the same every year of their degree programme
The Courier 06.12.02
Dundee Concert
Dundee University's Christmas concert took place last night in St Mary's Parish Church
Press & Journal 06.12.02
Results vindicate choice of venue for concert
As above
The Courier 06.12.02
Protein Phosphorylation-Based Therapeutics the Focus of New Conference to be held in San Diego, CA, March 3-5 2003
The keynote addresses will be given by Professor Philip Cohen, Ph.D. from the University of Dundee, Tony Hunter, Ph.D. from the Salk Institute, and Benjamin Neel, M.D from Beth Israel Deaconess
PR Newswire 06.12.02
Researchers apply genome study findings
The sequence and analysis of more than 95% of the mouse genome is to be published for the first time in the journal Nature today. It shows that for almost every human gene there is a mouse equivalent. One of the first to capitalise on this information is Dr Paul Crocker, a principal investigator at the school of life sciences at Dundee
The Courier 05.12.02
Man or mouse? Mostly mouse, it seems.....
As above
The Scotsman 05.12.02
Mouse 'book of life' may provide cures for human diseases
As above
The Independent 05.12.02
International Economy - Scientists find likeness between mice and men
As above
Financial Times 05.12.02
News - Men are mice - thereby hangs a tail
As above
The Daily Telegraph 05.12.02
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A public lecture by textile artist Richard Box is to take place at the Tower Extension Lecture Theatre at Dundee University tomorrow
The Courier 05.12.02
Scientific trials vital for GM crops
Letter to editor from Peter Lachmann (President, Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998-2002), John Cunningham (Professor of Experimental Gastroenterology, University of Dundee) et al
The Times 05.12.02
Health Watch - Health Briefs
Dr Vance Spence Senior Research Fellow at the University of Dundee and scientific advisor to the NI Campaign for ME/CFS Healthcare has been chosen to present three papers to the prestigious 6th International Conference on ME/CFS hosted in Washington by the American Association of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in January next.
Belfast News Letter 05.12.02
Promoting Wimsey's return
Booker Prize shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh was in Dundee last night to promote her latest novel, which was co-written by a woman who died over 40 years ago
The Courier 04.12.02
Website built to last
Dundee University is amongst the contributors to a unique website that was launched in Glasgow yesterday
The Courier 04.12.02
Gene therapy holds key to child cancers
Treatment for children with cancer may be revolutionised through gene therapy, a leading Dundee scientist, Professor Sir David Lane, claimed yesterday
The Courier 03.12.02
Exhibition celebrates images of bygone Dundee
Art lovers can step back in time and see Dundee depicted in paintings and photographs spanning the last 300 years at a new exhibition in the city
Press & Journal 03.12.02
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An international festival was held last night at the University of Dundee's Chaplaincy Centre to celebrate the rich diversity of cultures to be found on campus
The Courier 03.12.02
Creative Business - 100 years together - AMV - how it all began - Fab Four photos - Film fireworks
Something of a flurry grips the publishing world after the discovery of about 500 unknown photos of The Beatles from the Help! era, among a collection bequeathed to Dundee University by photographer Michael Peto in 1970
Financial Times 03.12.02
Prep school choir entertains
The lunchtime concert at Dundee University chaplaincy yesterday was given by the senior choir of Craigclowan Preparatory School, Perth
The Courier 30.11.02
Steel says Holyrood building project is carefully managed
Sir David Steel denied yesterday that the management of the Scottish Parliament building project at Holyrood was out of control. He insisted in a speech at Dundee University that the project was being "carefully managed" in spite of the recent controversy over the soaring cost and a delayed completion date
The Scotsman 30.11.02
Steel sings praises of our pricey Parliament
As above
Press & Journal 30.11.02
University scheme yields first success
The first graduates from the newly-forged partnership between the universities of Dundee and St Andrews have graduated with a postgraduate research degree in environmental biology
The Courier 30.11.02
Rise - What happened next?
Politics student Daniel Hartley was in his final year at the University of Dundee when his fellow undergraduates elected him vice-president of the student' association. But what does he do now?
The Guardian 30.11.02
Expert's doubts
A top radiation expert has cast doubt on Government studies into cancer rate among A-bomb veterans. The Government-funded NRPB said the blood cancer cases had been left out the latest study because it had been unable to find them using its own methods. It has ignored a further 19 cases uncovered by Dundee University medical researcher Sue Rabbit Roff
The Sunday Mirror 01.12.02
Mouse genome project
Dr Paul Crocker talks about the genome project he has been involved in
Radio Tay 05.12.02
Mouse genome project
As above
Channel 4 news 05.12.02
Mouse genome project
As above
BBC Radio 4 05.12.02
Mouse genome project
As above
BBC News at 10 05.12.02
Jill Belch interview with Edi Stark
BBC Radio Scotland, Stark Talk 01.12.02
Early Christmas present for student centre
The University of Abertay Dundee's project to build a new student centre, received an early Christmas present today thanks to a donation of £51,000 from the W M Sword Charitable Trust
Evening Telegraph 05.12.02
Christmas comes early for student centre bid
As above
Press & Journal 06.12.02
Trust weighs in with boost for student centre
As above
The Courier 06.12.02
University a partner in Angus project
The digital creative industries in Angus are set for a major boost following the signing of a landmark agreement
The Courier 04.12.02
Two-tier plans for universities condemned
One of Scotland's senior academics, Professor Bernard King, Principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Abertay, yesterday condemned proposals to create a two-tier university system in the UK and branded as "simplistic" the recently-floated idea of making students pay top-up fees of up to £15,000 to help meet the costs of their education
The Courier 30.11.02
New translation of art critic's book
Professor Peter Read of the University of St Andrews has published a new English translation of the French writer Guillaume Apollinaire's book The Cubist Painters, which was first published in 1913
The Courier 06.12.02
Degree honour for Ferguson
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was among three famous Scots honoured yesterday by St Andrews University to mark its contribution to the Saint Andrew's Week festival celebrations in the town
The Courier 30.11.02
BBC's pledge to improve coverage
A Top BBC man last night gave a commitment to improve coverage of events in Tayside and Fife
The Courier 06.12.02
Top-up fees should 'rise as high as universities need'
Universities should be free to charge whatever they like for degree courses, an influential body of business leader and vice-chancellors said yesterday
The Times 06.12.02
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Dundee Theatre group Act IV presented cheques totalling almost £10,000 to six local groups last night. bringing its fundraising total over the years to an impressive £220,000
The Courier 05.12.02
Brankin's new lesson
Headteachers should be paid by results and teachers given bonuses to work in difficult schools, according to a leading Labour Party figure
The Scotsman 04.12.02
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Sculptor Steve Paterson presents a £150 cheque, raised by auctioning a Dennis The Menace bronze cast, to Dr Jacqui Wood of Ninewells Cancer Campaign
The Courier 04.12.02
Dundee set for research boost
Dundee is expected to be named next week by First Minister Jack McConnell as the site of one of three new Intermediary Technology Institutes in Scotland being launched in a bid to commercialise more and more university research and development north of the border
The Courier 03.12.02
University language courses under threat
Fears for the future of modern language teaching in Scotland's universities have increased after it emerged two departments are under threat
The Herald 03.12.02
Introducing an extraordinary biotechnology entrepreneur
Spiro Rombotis, Cyclacel's CEO, is helping guide the company in its pioneering research into the treatment of cancer
The Scotsman 03.12.02
Student loans face £38m hitch
Ministerial plans to introduce a graduate tax may fall foul of problems at the Inland Revenue, which would be required to collect the money
Sunday Times 01.12.02
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