28 Jan 2015

Seeing Double: The Colour Blind Test Series – Dundee Arts Café on 3rd February

The next Dundee Arts Café event will see graphic designer and artist David Lyons discuss his practice creating work intended to be experienced differently by colour blind and normally sighted people. ‘Seeing Double: The Colour Blind Test Series’ takes place at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum on Tuesday, 3rd February. David Lyons lectures on Media Design at the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland and is a PhD researcher at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD). His research focuses on the idea that artwork can be tailored to one’s visual ...

Seeing Double: The Colour Blind Test Series – Dundee Arts Café on 3rd February

27 Jan 2015

‘Hack the University’ – inaugural event seeks to change the future

Students from all corners of the University of Dundee are being called upon to help improve the institution at its inaugural ‘Hack the University’ session. The event takes place over Thursday 29th and Friday 30th January at Matthew Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), part of the University. Using skills and perspectives from different disciplines, students will come together to develop and build services for several University services, including Dundee University Students’ Association (DUSA), Library & Learning Centre, IT and the Institute for Sport a...

‘Hack the University’ – inaugural event seeks to change the future

26 Jan 2015

Evelyn signs up as 50,000th volunteer to `SHARE’

SHARE (The Scottish Health Research Register) is a unique project which aims to make it easier for researchers in Scotland to carry out ground-breaking medical research and uses blood left over from testing to help improve treatments for diseases such as cancer, diabetes and asthma.  Every day in Scotland around 70,000 samples of blood are discarded after routine clinical testing. Researchers are asking the public across Scotland to allow them access to that spare blood. The SHARE project is pioneering an easy way for people to help the fight against disease. It only takes one minute to sign up to S...

26 Jan 2015

Dundee’s unique ‘window on the world’ reaches 40th anniversary

The Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, which receives and archives thousands of detailed images of planet earth, is celebrating a 40th birthday this month, January 2015. University of Dundee Electrical and Electronic Engineering lecturers Peter Baylis and John Brush oversaw the installation of the Station’s first dish type tracking antenna on the roof of the University’s Ewing Building in 1975. Although Baylis and Brush retired a few years ago, the original dish is still used for one of the current antenna systems. It is a part of a five-strong network of tracking antennas mounted on buildin...

25 Jan 2015

Dundee ranked 7th in UK for impact on global health

The University of Dundee is ranked 7th in the UK for its impact on global health in a new league table launched at the January 2015 meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health. Compiled by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and Medsin-UK, the ranking criteria considered levels of innovative research activity and free access to online research information. The All-Party Parliamentary Group is chaired by Lord Nigel Crisp, former NHS Chief Executive and now member of the House of Lords. “The group is particularly interested in the level of investment in global health ...