1 Aug 2014
Know Sugar Shop: Dundee’s world first on how to live a low-sugar lifestyle
Dundee’s Wellgate Shopping Centre is to host the first pop-up shop focused on raising awareness of Scotland’s ticking health time bomb. For two days - 8th and 9th August - the Know Sugar Shop will open to test an idea that has the potential to change our nation’s relationship with sugar. The prototype will challenge Scotland’s collective sweetie tooth and highlight the amount of hidden ‘bad’ sugars we consume every day. Often cast by its own mainstream media as the modern ‘sick man of Europe’, Scotland is a nation hooked on its love of sugar, with around 22...
1 Aug 2014
Old Steeple provides birds eye view of buildings set to open doors
The organisers of one of Dundee’s biggest annual community celebrations will next week climb to the top of one of Dundee’s best-known landmarks for a panoramic view of the dozens of building set to open their doors to the public in September. Doors Open Days 2014 takes place on the weekend of 13th and 14th September. Hundreds of people will be allowed access all areas at a record 40 buildings not normally open to the public as well as taking part in events, tours and talks for all ages. Initiative partners will meet at the Old Steeple in Nethergate on Monday, 4th August for the official launc...
1 Aug 2014
Scientific and cultural heritage heralded at conference
Dundee’s scientific and cultural contribution will be invoked at a major international conference held in the city this month. From Monday 11th to Friday, 15th August, the Scottish Word and Image Group (SWIG) at the University of Dundee will be hosting the Triennial Conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI). Dundee will be the first UK destination for the Triennial, following previous conferences in Montreal, Philadelphia, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Zürich. This year’s theme is ‘Riddles of Form: Exploration and Discovery in Word and Ima...
31 Jul 2014
‘A Tale of Two Penguins’ – Café Science Summer Special on 6th August
The tale of two penguins that came to reside in Dundee will be told at a Café Science Summer Special event next week. The D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee holds two penguin specimens that each has extraordinary stories to tell, connecting Dundee’s whaling industry with pioneering Antarctic exploration. Matthew Jarron, Curator of Museum Services at the University, will explain how these penguins came to be in D’Arcy Thompson’s collection and how a Dundee student became part of the first expedition in the world to reach the South Magnetic Pole when h...
30 Jul 2014
University to help mark centenary of WWI at major BBC event
The University of Dundee will be heavily represented when the BBC World War One At Home Tour reaches the city later this week. The BBC is working alongside the Great War Dundee (GWD) Partnership, Dundee City Council and Leisure & Culture Dundee to deliver a free, family friendly commemorative event at the City Square on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd August. University historians Dr Billy Kenefick and Dr Derek Patrick co-founded the GWD project and, with partner groups, are coordinating the city-wide approach to commemorate the conflict. The pair, along with Caroline Brown, from the University’s A...
