30 Sep 2015
Satellite image shows almost cloud-free UK
The Indian summer being enjoyed by most of the UK is captured in a stunning satellite image received by the University of Dundee today. The image, relayed at the University's Satellite Receiving Station at 12.51pm today, Wednesday September 30th, shows an almost completely cloud-free UK. Roddy Isles Head of Press TEL: 01382 384910 MOBILE: 07800 581902 E-MAIL: r.isles@dundee.ac.uk...
30 Sep 2015
Cate’s footprints feature in sculpture walk
Cate Newton has become the sixth Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design student to see her work installed at the growing sculpture walk at Moncrieffe Hill near Perth. The Woodlands Trust has been working with the college, part of the University of Dundee, over the past six years to award a sculptural commission to the Year 3 Fine Art student whose designs are judged the best in an annual competition. Students visit the site, speak with the Woodlands Trust staff and view the previous winning sculptures. They then produce ideas for a piece of outdoors-based artwork and the successful entrant is in...
30 Sep 2015
Culture and arts to complement science at world’s major addiction conference
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design will stage a major programme of events helping to examine alcohol and drug misuse as part of the world’s leading scientific conference on addiction medicine, which will be hosted by the University of Dundee next week. The University’s School of Medicine will host the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Annual Meeting between Sunday 4th and Thursday 8th October. ISAM Dundee 2015 will also incorporate the Culture and Arts Festival, a programme of exhibitions, artists’ talks and workshops to engage with both the 450-plus delega...
29 Sep 2015
£1.1million AI grant to mine arguments and analyse opinion
University of Dundee researchers are to bring the work of ancient Greek and Roman scholars together with cutting-edge technology to solve an Artificial Intelligence challenge that offers potentially huge benefits for stock market analysts, academics, the PR industry and political parties. They have been awarded funding for a project worth more than £1.1million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop new tools to carry out argument mining, a relatively new field of AI and one regarded as having exceptional academic, commercial and cultural potential. They will wor...
28 Sep 2015
‘The Gap of Time’ – celebrated author Jeanette Winterson to visit Dundee
Award-winning writer Jeanette Winterson will discuss her latest book, ‘The Gap of Time’, in a special event ahead of this year’s Dundee Literary Festival. The event takes place at the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, on Wednesday, 7th October and will also see the author talk about her glittering career, which began with the publication of the celebrated ‘Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit’ in 1985. Over the past three decades she has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d’argent at Canne...
