7 Oct 2014
University of Dundee Advancing Healthcare locally, nationally, globally
Dundee’s Lord Provost Bob Duncan will hold a civic reception in The McManus on Wednesday October 8th to welcome around 100 healthcare professionals from 20 countries who have decided to pursue specialist postgraduate degree programmes at the University of Dundee. In key areas of medicine, dentistry and nursing, the University has 350 postgraduate students, with 112 joining in September 2014. They come from all corners of the world, including China, Canada, the Middle East and Brazil, to focus on areas such as orthopaedics, public health, sports injuries, oral health, medical education and clin...
6 Oct 2014
Major exhibition to celebrate influential German artist
The first major UK exhibition of work by the late German conceptual artist Anna Oppermann will take place at Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) later this month. ‘Anna Oppermann: Cotoneaster horizontalis’ will see the artist’s celebrated 1982 ensemble Cotoneaster horizontalis (Anticommunication Design) exhibited at Cooper Gallery along with drawings, prints, collages, documentary films and archival material. The exhibition opens with a Preview Evening on Thursday, 16th October and runs until 13th December. Composed of hundreds and often thousands of ...
6 Oct 2014
‘Is Equality Good for us?’ – public talk on 8th October
Assumptions about the meaning and benefits of equality will be challenged this week at a public engagement event led by the University of Dundee’s Philosophy programme. Dr Beth Lord, from the University of Aberdeen, will ask ‘Is Equality Good for us?’ at the Oxfam bookshop, Reform Street, at 6pm on Wednesday, 8th October. “In general terms, people see equality as a good thing,” said Dr Lord. “Equality seems to be in the news every day, from Thomas Piketty's bestselling book about economic inequality to the introduction of gay marriage legislation to arguments for bette...
3 Oct 2014
Comics hero celebrates Literary Festival with giant Cow Pie
Organisers of the Dundee Literary Festival will next week meet up with one of the city’s most famous fictional characters to serve up a special helping of his favourite food. Desperate Dan is renowned for his love of Cow Pie and Literary Dundee’s Anna Day and Peggy Hughes will offering up a near 3ft-diameter dish to the statue of The Dandy star in the city’s High Street on Monday, 6th October. Model-maker Roderick Nixon initially carved the pie out of foam, moulded it in silicon then cast it in acrylic fibreglass before it was finished with a tail, authentic horns and colouring. It feat...
3 Oct 2014
‘Cystic Fibrosis: The Lung Ranger Project’ – Café Science Extra on 8th October
A team of Dundee students who are developing a device to help combat some of the effects of cystic fibrosis will talk about their work at the next Café Science Extra event in the city. The iGEM team spent the summer developing the `Lung Ranger’, which they hope will allow faster and more targeted treatment of infection for CF patients, and will talk about their work at Dundee Science Centre from 6pm on Wednesday, 8th October. Cystic fibrosis is the most common inherited disease in the UK, affecting over 10,000 people. About 1 in 25 of the population in the UK carry a mutation in a gene calle...