9 May 2017

Budding gamers to ‘Minecraft’ University birthday building

The University of Dundee is seeking Minecrafters to design and build an iconic University building in a virtual Dundee later this month. Gaming enthusiasts, budding architects and designers are invited to register teams of five for a 50-hour long design jam during the 50th Anniversary weekend at the University. The teams will vie against one another to craft a brand new building in Minecraft on the Xbox One with support from 4J Studios, who have previously built Edinburgh Castle, the Forth Rail Bridge and the V&A Museum of Design, Dundee in the virtual world. Professor Sir Pete Downes, Principal a...

8 May 2017

Professor Kate Storey elected to Academy of Medical Sciences

The University of Dundee’s Professor Kate Storey has been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. The Fellows have been elected for their contribution to biomedical and health research, the generation of new knowledge in medical sciences and its translation into benefits to society. This year's elected Fellows have expertise that spans women’s health, immunology, public health, infectious disease and embryonic development, among many other fields. Kate Storey is Professor of Neural Development and Head of the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology at the ...

8 May 2017

‘The Dundee Years: Dr Saleyha Ahsan’ – 13th May

Dr Saleyha Ahsan, a Dundee medical graduate whose career has taken her to our TV and film screens will return to the University to give the last of this year’s Saturday Evening Lectures. Dr Ahsan graduated from the School of Medicine at Dundee in 2006 after serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Bosnia. In fact she was the first British Muslim woman to graduate from the royal military academy Sandhurst as an army officer. As well as her work as an A&E doctor Dr Ahsan has forged a career in television, having appeared on ‘Trust Me I’m A Doctor’ and ‘The One Show&rsq...

8 May 2017

University earns renewed Athena SWAN award

The University of Dundee’s work in advancing gender equality across the institution has earned another Bronze Athena SWAN award from the Equality Challenge Unit for the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Nursing & Health Sciences. The Athena SWAN Awards recognise commitment and success in developing practices to support gender equality in academia. ECU’s expanded Athena SWAN Charter now covers Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) and Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business and Law (AHSSBL), subjects, academic, professional and support staff, and trans...

5 May 2017

Independent films from China to get Dundee screening

A selection of films by award-winning Chinese filmmaker Zhao Dayong are to be screened by the University of Dundee. The Centrespace Gallery will be showing four of Dayong’s internationally celebrated films from Monday, 15th May. The screenings of Street Life (2006), Ghost Town (2008), The High Life (2010) and Shadow Days (2013) have been curated by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design’s Cooper Gallery as part of the city wide cultural festival, Ignite Dundee 2017. Sophia Hao, curator of Cooper Gallery said, “Zhao Dayong’s work in documentary and feature films explore t...