14 May 2015
Green vehicles help University cut carbon and make savings
The University of Dundee has taken delivery of three new electric vans, an electric car and 12 electric bikes that will help to cut its carbon footprint and promote green transport amongst staff and students. Funding of almost £70,000 from Transport Scotland enabled the University to purchase the vehicles. Its clean energy fleet now stands at seven all-electric vans, one electric car and one hybrid flatbed truck. The electric bikes, funded by a grant from TACTRAN, can be accessed by staff and students through Drive, the campus cycle-hire shop. It is anticipated that using the electric and hybrid ve...
13 May 2015
University to honour leading figures
Leading figures in the worlds of literature, cinema, science and the media will be honoured by the University of Dundee at its summer Graduations in June. Ten honorary graduates will receive the degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University. They are: Brian Taylor, one of the Scotland’s most respected political commentators Seamus McGarvey, Oscar-nominated cinematographer (`Atonement’ & `Anna Karenina’) Dave Gibbons, graphic novelist and artist, illustrator of the classic `Watchmen' Justin Fletcher, BAFTA-winning actor and children’s television presenter Roddy Doyle...
12 May 2015
PAMIS to lead PMLD Awareness Week
University of Dundee-based charity PAMIS will next week host their first Profound and Multiple Learning Disability (PMLD) Awareness Week. Events will take place across Scotland as part of the programme, which aims to raise awareness of both the difficulties that people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and their families face and also the ways they can be helped to be more active and valued members of society. PMLD Awareness Week begins with a mass tweet using the hashtag #SpotlightOnPMLD at 10am on Monday, 18th May. Thereafter the Tayside, Fife, Grampian, Greater Glasgow & Clyde and S...
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...
