31 Jul 2015
Prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award for Professor Kate Storey
University of Dundee scientist Professor Kate Storey has been appointed one of 19 new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders. The prestigious award provides five-year's support for outstanding scientists to help them continue their ground-breaking work. Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract science talent from overseas and retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential. Professor Storey is Chair of Neural Developmen...
30 Jul 2015
First Minister visits first showcase of Scotland’s contemporary art in China
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has visited the first major showcase of Scotland’s internationally renowned contemporary art scene while on her trip to China. While she was in Shanghai the First Minister saw the CURRENT project, a collaboration between the University of Dundee’s Cooper Gallery and Shanghai Himalayas Museum and see exclusive performances by the CURRENT Artist and Writer in Residence. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said, "Scotland's culture is rich and we are looked upon as a country of fantastic design and art. “We share this reputation with China a...
27 Jul 2015
`Thankerton Man’ face revealed at Biggar Museum
The face of a young man dating from the Copper Age, whose skeleton was discovered at Boatbridge Quarry in Thankerton, has been recreated by experts at the University of Dundee. The face of Thankerton Man is on show to the public at the newly opened Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum. His skeleton was found in a stone cist at Boatbridge Quarry, Thankerton in 1970. He was unusually tall, thought to be aged between 18 and 25, and found lying in a crouched position. The remains were radiocarbon dated to between 2460BC and 2140BC. The cist contained a finely-decorated Beaker which had held food or drink fo...
24 Jul 2015
Fleet work gives Dundee graduate a window on Edinburgh
If you happen to be in Edinburgh before the end of August, walk along Princes Street, glance at Edinburgh’s prestigious Jenners department store and you can be forgiven for thinking of a saga of land, sea and sky of the far North. Ten of the large windows in Jenners are alive with original art and jewellery from Orkney. Waves sweep and curl and the land stretches below a long blue sky of clouds into a sunset of glowing red colours. Look closer and you’ll see the Old Man of Hoy, Orkney’s famous monuments... and a Workshop by the sea. Orkney’s well-known jewellery designer, Sheila ...
24 Jul 2015
Records broken at 23rd Summer School
A summer of hard work ended this week for a record breaking 170 students who graduated from the DUAL and OSS Access Summer Schools at the University of Dundee. The University’s Summer School programme is now in its 23rd year, having first been offered in 1993 as a means of encouraging able students from all backgrounds and circumstances to prove their ability to qualify for study through a special targeted course. Since then, around 2000 students from a diverse range of backgrounds have taken part. Whilst some arrive having just left school, others are making a return to study, including talented c...