4 Feb 2014
Data experts to drive home security message
Locking away your data is just as important as locking your house when you leave in the morning. That is the message that some of the UK's leading experts in information security will be passing to staff and students at the University of Dundee next week. The University is hosting an Information Security Week to raise awareness of how data can be best protected in an age of tablets, smartphones, laptops and the 'cloud'. 'Information security is as relevant to our everyday lives now as physical security,' said Paul Saunders, Chief Technology Officer for the University. 'In the same way that we take care t...
4 Feb 2014
'Untold Story' of family's Holocaust experience wins Pawel award
Image shows Pawel with his award. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) graduate Pawel Grzyb has won the prize for Best Undergraduate Factual film at the Royal Television Society Scotland's Student Television Awards. Judges considered entries from students at City of Glasgow College, DJCAD, Edinburgh College of Art, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, University of Stirling and University of the West of Scotland before naming Pawel as the category winner for 'Untold Story'. The film saw Pawel retrace the experiences of his grandfather, who survived the horrors of the Auschwitz concen...
3 Feb 2014
Experts gather for world cancer day
The role that physical activity and weight management can play in preventing cancer will be discussed by many of Scotland's leading experts on the disease on World Cancer Day tomorrow, Tuesday February 4th. The Scottish Cancer Prevention Network conference will bring together experts working in all of the major areas of cancer, including representatives from cancer agencies, Government, public health and cancer care professionals. 'In the year when the Commonwealth Games are being held in Scotland we thought it appropriate to focus on physical activity and weight management in cancer prevention and in pe...
3 Feb 2014
'Melt' - new exhibition from CECHR artist in residence
Photo opportunity: 2.20pm on Friday, 7th February at Tower Foyer Gallery, Tower Building. BGS scientists will join Jean Duncan for the opening of 'Melt'. An exhibition of paintings by Jean Duncan, artist in residence at the University of Dundee's Centre for Environmental Change & Human Resilience (CECHR), that shows the effects of climate change on globally important glaciers, will open later this week. 'Melt' features drawings inspired by a recent trip to the British Geological Survey (BGS) observatory at Virkisjokull in Iceland, and will be on display at the University's Tower Foyer Gallery from Fr...
31 Jan 2014
BBC seeks expert advice from Scottish historians
History researchers at the University of Dundee and Edinburgh Napier University have been selected as national academic experts for the BBC as part of the broadcaster's World War One at Home project. Dr Derek Patrick and Dr Billy Kenefick, who were instrumental in setting up the Great War Dundee Commemorative Project 2014-2019, and Professor Alistair McCleery, from Edinburgh Napier University, will make up a three-strong team of academic advisers in Scotland. Similar appointments, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), have been made in Wales, Northern Ireland and England. The World ...