15 Jul 2015
Starry sponsorship deal for School of Business
Dundee will have an extra Star in the city this year after the University of Dundee and the ice hockey team Dundee CCS Stars renewed their innovative sponsorship deal. The University, through its School of Business, will be sponsoring an international player by offering a scholarship on the MSc in Management programme, meaning the player will have the opportunity to earn a degree while they are with the Stars. “We are delighted to continue our association with the University, which makes a real difference to the quality of player we can attract to Dundee,” said Steve Stirton, Sponsorship and ...
14 Jul 2015
Research project to lay foundations for offshore wind farms
The University of Dundee is to lead a major research project to determine whether cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and more effective foundations can be developed for the offshore renewables industry. The project, funded by a £1million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, will look at the use of screw piles for offshore installations. These are foundations which are screwed into the ground and are widely used onshore, one example being to support motorway signs and gantries. “The UK has challenging targets for expansion of energy from renewables with the p...
13 Jul 2015
Dundee International Book Prize 2015 finalists announced
The Chicken Soup Murder by Maria Donovan, Devil Take the Hindmost by Martin Cathcart Froden and Rainbirds by Clarissa Nathania Goenawan will compete for the top spot in this year’s Dundee International Book Prize, which attracted almost 500 entries from four continents. Maria, Martin and Clarissa’s novels will now go before this year’s all-star judging panel comprising broadcaster and former Rector of University of Dundee Fred MacAulay, award-winning writer Denise Mina, Creative Scotland’s Jenny Niven, Dundee Honorary graduate Danny Wallace and literary agent Ed Wilson. The judges...
13 Jul 2015
Breakthrough in fibre optics opens up possibility of better understanding of disease and communication revolution
A new study from the University of Dundee could open up a new era of superfast communications technology and lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of medical conditions such as Alzheimer’s. Particles of light can, in principle, carry and deliver an unlimited amount of information between two remote places. The information can be encoded into the shape of photons, which then travel through a communication channel and are decoded at the end point. A problem arises, however, when the information encoded to the photon shapes gets scrambled as the fibre is looped or bent or when the fibre suffers by ev...
9 Jul 2015
Residents work a breath of ‘Fresh Air’
A new exhibition at the Centrespace gallery in Dundee Contemporary Arts showcases work created during year-long residencies at art colleges in Scotland. ‘Fresh Air’ is an exhibition of new and exciting jewellery and silversmithing work from artists in residence (AIRS) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, part of the University of Dundee, Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. This exhibition aims to bring practices, materials and makers from different Scottish cities together and four of the 14 exhibiting artists – Sheila Roussel, Alana Peden, Rosie Kimber an...
