20 Jun 2014
Dundee launches Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Scholarship
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee will be presented with an honorary degree at the University of Dundee on Friday 20th June. On the same day the University will launch the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa Scholarship. The scholarship will offer one African female student, from Liberia, Nigeria or Ghana, the opportunity to undertake a one-year Masters degree at the University of Dundee fully sponsored for both tuition fees and living expenses, up to a total of £20,000. “We are delighted to offer this educational opportunity to women from Africa for the next five years,” said Profess...
19 Jun 2014
Five University students and graduates among Scotland’s brightest social innovators
The University of Dundee has provided five of the 33 winners of the Young Innovators Challenge 2014. The competition is organised by the Scottish Institute for Enterprise, the body which encourages students across Scotland to start their own businesses. The winners have been awarded up to £2,500 in cash to further develop their concepts. The Young Innovators Challenge 2014 focused on social innovation to help address issues which affect our communities and entries were welcomed in three categories – health and wellbeing, green and sustainable energy, smarter communities and infrastructure. Th...
19 Jun 2014
Dundee researchers to trial project aiming to improve function in heart disease patients
Researchers at the University of Dundee have been awarded a prestigious grant by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to develop a potential new treatment for heart disease patients. The BHF has awarded a grant of £251,542 to Professor Chim Lang and colleagues at the Division of Cardiovascular & Diabetes Medicine to explore how the anti-diabetic drug metformin could help people with heart disease. They will conduct a trial to see whether metformin reduces thickening of the heart muscle wall, known as left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Reducing thickening is known to help reduce the risk of futur...
18 Jun 2014
Graduation caps perfect year for Felipe and Marcela
When they get married, couples pledge to share every experience – something husband and wife Felipe Correa Rozo and Marcela Trujillo Villa from Colombia did today when they graduated together from the University of Dundee. Felipe (30) and Marcela (29) were sponsored by their respective employers in Bogota to undertake postgraduate studies and chose Dundee because of its reputation for law programmes. Felipe graduated with a LLM National Resources Law and Policy while his wife received her LLM International Law. The couple only married last year and have spent the first year of their marriage in Sco...
18 Jun 2014
Family and films fill the life of graduand Michal
During his time at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), Michal Zagorski has won awards, had work screened at prestigious film festivals, established a production company and made music videos for bands but he is in no doubt about his greatest achievement – his baby daughter Aniela. Michal, originally from Krakow in Poland, will graduate with a degree in Time Based Art and Digital Film at the University of Dundee’s ceremony on the afternoon of Thursday, 19th June. Typically given the hectic schedule he has kept up over the past few years, he will be unable to attend his Grad...
