4 Feb 2015
Impact of environmental research to be explored at symposium
Ways of increasing the impact of research into climate change and other environmental challenges will be explored at the University of Dundee next week. The University’s Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR) will hold its annual symposium at the West Park Conference Centre on Wednesday, 11th February. Dundee researchers and visiting academics will host a series of talks and facilitated discussions around the topic of the ‘Impact Agenda’. The issue is vital in academia as funding bodies and policymakers seek to ensure the maximum benefit is derived from research by...
3 Feb 2015
Climate change experts to launch SELS 2015
Climate change will be on the agenda at the University of Dundee this weekend when a panel of international experts on the subject launch this year’s Saturday Evening Lecture Series (SELS). The flagship series will begin its 2015 run on Saturday when Professor Karen O’Brien (University of Oslo), Professor Laura Lindenfeld (University of Maine) and Paul Ryan (Director of the Australian Resilience Centre) join Dundee’s Professor Ioan Fazey to discuss the ways in which societies can respond in order to deal effectively with climate change. SELS is Scotland's oldest continuous free public l...
3 Feb 2015
DUSA TV Launches Customer Safety Documentary
Dundee University Students’ Association (DUSA) has produced a short film documenting the work carried out by its Customer Safety team. Since the start of September, DUSA TV, the student-led online television channel, has been following and filming the organisation’s evening staff as they help keep students safe on nights out. The 11-minute documentary shows the work that goes into ensuring that DUSA remains the safest venue in the city. DUSA TV Manager Gillian Howieson said, “This short documentary was made to show that the Customer Safety team, which is made up almost entirely of stude...
2 Feb 2015
Bee brains and colony health jeopardised by pesticide exposure
Research at the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews has confirmed that levels of neonicotinoid insecticides accepted to exist in agriculture cause both impairment of bumblebees’ brain cells and subsequent poor performance by bee colonies. The contribution of the neonicotinoids to the global decline of insect pollinators is controversial and contested by many in the agriculture industry. However, the new research, published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, demonstrates for the first time that the low levels found in the nectar and pollen of plants is ...
