11 May 2015
Hippotherapy study looks to help children with cerebral palsy
Can horse riding reduce the effects of spasticity in the limbs of children with cerebral palsy? A medical student at the University of Dundee has embarked on a research study with a local riding school to see whether patients can gain significant benefits from therapeutic horse riding, known as Hippotherapy. Student Janie Giraudon has been working with the Brae Riding School in Dundee to see if there are any positive changes in pressure distribution in children with Cerebral Palsy during therapeutic horse riding. Her research is examining whether muscle spasticity is reduced due to Hippotherapy. This inv...
11 May 2015
Legends of the stage to be celebrated in exhibition and lecture
The University of Dundee will this week celebrate the actors, plays and playwrights who have made British theatre among the most vibrant in the world with an exhibition of stage icons and a visit from one of the leading figures in the UK’s arts industry. Ian McKellen, Ingrid Bergman, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave and Lawrence Olivier are among those who feature in “And the Winner is…”: Celebrating the best in British Theatre and Film’, an exhibition of stunning black and white photographs from the University’s Peto Collection that o...
11 May 2015
University students `PopDundee’ with Overgate shop
Dundee shoppers will have the chance to buy work from some of the city’s brightest young creatives throughout this week as students from the University of Dundee set up their pop-up `POPDUNDEE’ shop in the Overgate Centre. POPDUNDEE has been set up by 2nd- and 3rd-year students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, part of the University, with the support of the Overgate Centre. It will be in place close to the Costa café at the west end of the Overgate Centre from today (Monday 11th) to Friday 15th, selling prints, jewellery and crafts. “This is a fantas...
8 May 2015
What did plants ever do for you?
Whether you have green fingers or not, every breath you take, every meal you eat owes a debt to plants. From one little seed, planted into soil, many green lives can arise - from small herbs up to big trees, or from ornamental flowers to substantial crops which all animals and mankind need to survive on this planet. As part of a Europe-wide celebration, the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute are taking part in the annual Fascination of Plants Day, to be held at the Botanic Garden Dundee, on Saturday 23rd May, from 10am to 4pm. This is the Garden’s annual open event designed t...
6 May 2015
‘The University at War’ – new exhibition opens on 9th May
A new exhibition exploring the effect the First World War had on the institution that became the University of Dundee opens this weekend. ‘The University at War’ tells the stories of staff and students from what was then University College Dundee who fought on the front line, or undertook important wartime research. The exhibition, which opens at the Tower Foyer Gallery on Saturday, 9th May, also describes the effects of the war on those who stayed in Dundee to continue their studies and reveals the names of students and staff who perished but who were not commemorated in the University’...
