17 Apr 2014
Triple retirement of esteemed civil engineers
Photo opportunity: 3pm on Friday, 18th April at the Dalhousie Building. Three esteemed members of the Division of Civil Engineering at the University of Dundee will tomorrow retire following a combined service of more than 80 years. Friends, family and colleagues of Professor Malcolm Horner, Dr Ken Peebles and Professor David Muir-Wood will gather at 3pm on Friday, 18th April to recognise their contribution to the University and wish them a long and happy retirement. Professor Horner joined the University in 1977 after several years in industry. He established the Construction Management Researc...
17 Apr 2014
Business leaders to debate Independence issues
The economy has been consistently identified as a prime issue for voters in the independence debate but does the referendum present a risk or opportunity for businesses in Scotland? A panel of leading business figures from both sides of the debate will discuss the how the referendum is impacting businesses now and what the result will mean for the future of our economy at a 5 Million Questions event at the University of Dundee next week, held in collaboration with Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce. `Independence – a risk or an opportunity for business?’ takes place at 6pm on Tuesday ...
15 Apr 2014
Long-lost penguin on show in Zoology Museum
The University of Dundee’s D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum will this weekend celebrate Easter by introducing the public to a recently rediscovered emperor penguin. Photographs of the original museum established by Thompson, Dundee’s first Professor of Biology, taken around 1900 show a splendid emperor penguin on display. Despite it taking pride of place in the pictures and surviving the demolition of the old museum in the 1950s, the specimen was misplaced during the intervening decades. By the 1970s the penguin had been adopted by the Biology Society as their unofficial mascot and was re...
14 Apr 2014
'Sports Drinks: Performance in a Bottle or the Perfect Placebo? – Wednesday 16th April'
The consumption of sports drinks by everyone from Sunday-league footballers to gym-goers to Olympic athletes has become commonplace in recent years, but where has this popularity come from and do they actually work? Those are the questions that Dr Shaun Phillips from Abertay University will be asking at the next Café Science event held in Dundee. ‘Sports Drinks: Performance in a Bottle or the Perfect Placebo?’ takes place at Dundee Science Centre on Wednesday, 16th April. “Sports drinks are now ubiquitous at every level from public parks and gyms to top-level performance centres,...
11 Apr 2014
Professor Sir Philip Cohen elected Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science
Professor Sir Philip Cohen has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science, one of only 27 scientists from around the world to hold the honour. Sir Philip, Professor of Enzymology and Deputy Director of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) at the University of Dundee, was recognised for his outstanding contributions to the life sciences. The list includes two Nobel Laureates, while Sir David Attenborough is one of the eight Corresponding Members from the UK. The Australian Academy of Science describes them as persons eminent by reason of their sc...