25 Mar 2014
DEE-CON 2014 set to be biggest yet
Gospel choirs, entertainers, martial arts exponents and DJs are among those joining artists and industry experts in celebrating Scotland’s largest free anime convention at Dundee University Students Association (DUSA) next month. DEE-CON will take place on Saturday, 5th April when film screenings, board and video game tournaments, stalls, exhibitions, demonstrations and industry presentations take place. Organised predominantly by students and alumni of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), DEE-CON is a fundraiser event with all proceeds going towards the animation degree show in ...
25 Mar 2014
Book aims to resolve tension between regulations and reality
University of Dundee academics and their national and international collaborators have produced a new book aimed at helping professionals to consider and address ethical dilemmas that can arise in contemporary professional practice. Although codes of conduct and ethics provide guidance, professionals have to exercise their own judgement in increasingly complex and demanding roles and work contexts when applying them to practice. At times, this can lead to conflict between personal, professional and interprofessional ethics due to the dynamics of the person-centred environment they function in. ‘Exp...
24 Mar 2014
Researchers cast new light on muscle wasting diseases
Image shows one of the message-carrying vesicles that may be damaged in SMA. It is visualised in cultured neurone cells by both fluorescence microscopy (in red), to allow analysis of their rapid movement in live cells, and superimposed on an electron microscope image (in grey) of the same vesicle to demonstrate their membrane structure.) Researchers at the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews have produced new insights into two muscle wasting diseases, including `floppy baby syndrome’ or Spinal Muscular Atrophy,the leading genetic cause of death in children. Their findings have ca...
24 Mar 2014
Universities support curriculum for excellence computing science
The Universities of Abertay, Dundee, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh Napier, Strathclyde, and Robert Gordon are pleased to announce that they will recommend Higher Computing Science for entry to the first year of undergraduate Computing programmes. This follows on from a successful meeting organised by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), which brought together school teachers, academics and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) to discuss the new curriculum. SICSA Director of Education Dr Karen Petrie (University of Dundee) commented, “This is further evidenc...
24 Mar 2014
University of Dundee Student Volunteering Awards
University of Dundee Student Volunteering Awards Photo opportunity: 6.30pm at Dalhousie Building on Tuesday, 25th March. Awards will be presented by Professor Downes. The efforts and successes of student volunteers will be celebrated tomorrow at the first ever University of Dundee Student Volunteering Awards. Professor Pete Downes, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, will hand out awards at the ceremony at the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, on Tuesday, 25th March. The awards are designed to celebrate student volunteering in general and also to reward specific volunteers fo...