24 Jan 2014
'A taste of Scotland' for international students
Photo opportunity: From 7pm, Friday January 24th West Park Conference Centre 319 Perth Road, Dundee Students from around the world will be given a traditional Scottish welcome to Dundee tonight. The University of Dundee's January intake of students has seen them arriving from as far afield as Tasmania, Brazil, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and across Europe and North America. Tonight the 'A Taste of Scotland' welcome party will give around 150 of them their first experience of traditional Scottish culture including Burns poetry and a ceilidh. 'We have students arriving from all over the world and the welcome p...
24 Jan 2014
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing visits Dundee site of breast cancer Tissue Bank
Alex Neil MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, visited the Dundee site of the UK's first national breast cancer tissue bank today, Thursday 23 January. Professor Alistair Thompson, Chair of Breast Cancer Campaign's Tissue Bank Management Board and Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Dundee, and Dr Lisa Wilde, Director of Research at Breast Cancer Campaign, met with Alex Neil MSP and told him how this ground-breaking initiative sees four centres around the UK working together as one national resource to house the multi-million pound Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank. Polly Jones...
24 Jan 2014
Six figure funding boost for V&A at Dundee
V&A at Dundee has secured £100,000 from players of People's Postcode Lottery to enable it reach out to local communities ahead of building work commencing on site. The international design museum has been granted the funding to work with people in surrounding areas and across Scotland. Sarah Saunders, Head of Learning and Engagement for V&A at Dundee, said the money will enable the project to develop its community activities and encourage widespread participation as part of its core outreach programme. 'This generous contribution will provide a significant boost to our plans to engage comm...
24 Jan 2014
Tayside volunteers wanted for falls study
A University of Dundee study looking to develop a fresh approach to reducing falls among people in old age is asking for volunteers throughout Tayside. The PREFACE study (Preventing Falls with ACE inhibitors) is looking at whether a group of commonly prescribed drugs known as ACE inhibitors, which are used for heart problems, may also improve muscles and balance and thus help reduce susceptibility to falls. 'One in three older people in Tayside falls at least once each year, incidents which are worrying for them and their families and can have serious consequences like injuries, fractures, disability, an...
24 Jan 2014
'Dundee - the resilient city' - Engage Dundee lecture on Thursday, 30th January
The resilience of Dundee in the face of post-industrial realities and what this means for the future will be explored at a public lecture next week. Dr Deepak Gopinath, a lecturer in Town & Regional Planning at the University of Dundee, will look at the concept of resilience before discussing this in the context of contemporary Dundee at the Dalhousie Building on Thursday, 30th January. It comes at a time when the city is undergoing its biggest construction project for a generation - the £1billion Waterfront regeneration - and attempts to grow and attract new industries that will form the basis...