16 Jan 2015
University helping to deliver `transformative’ V&A Dundee
Significant economic benefits of an £80.11 million project to construct the V&A Museum of Design Dundee will be discussed by Dundee City Council’s policy and resources committee on Monday January 26. Work could start in March this year, with the main building completed by the end of 2017 and opened to the public before June 2018. A report outlining a fixed price tender and a proposed funding arrangement details how the construction of the V&A Museum of Design Dundee will create hundreds of jobs and inject millions of pounds into the economy. The museum will be located at the heart of ...
15 Jan 2015
HRH The Princess Royal opens the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research
HRH The Princess Royal today (January 15th) formally opened the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research at the University of Dundee. The Farr Institute is a state-of-the-art facility for research based on health-related data. The University of Dundee has been a pioneer in this approach, and enjoys an international reputation for health informatics research. Use of health related data, routinely collected by the NHS, and associated collections of biological samples, provides a very powerful tool for medical research that allows important advances in health care to be made. To support this type...
15 Jan 2015
Transatlantic Notes to celebrate 400 years of music
Four centuries of musical tradition and innovation spanning the Atlantic will be celebrated at the University of Dundee on Thursday January 29th. `Transatlantic Notes - Scotland and America's Shared Musical History’ will feature an illustrated lecture from Nancy Groce of the Library of Congress in Washington, and a musical performance from Brian McNeill. The Fulbright-Scotland Legacy event is being hosted by the University’s Centre for Scottish Culture, in conjunction with the Arts & Humanities Research Institute and the Centre for Archive and Information Studies. Professor Graeme M...
13 Jan 2015
£2.4million to decode a new genetic enigma
Finding the solution to a new level of genetic complexity could help unlock the secrets of the DNA code in plant and human genomes. Scientists at the Universities of Dundee and Nottingham have been awarded more than £2million to investigate part of the process in which DNA is copied and modified. Two grants have been awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to Gordon Simpson, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Dundee, and colleagues. All life on Earth uses three types of biological molecules that serve critical functions in the cell. Prot...
12 Jan 2015
Stephen Fry Award 2015 shared by Five Million Questions and FIRST team
The University of Dundee's Five Million Questions (5MQ) initiative and the FIRST team led by Alyson Leslie have been named as the joint winners of the Stephen Fry Award for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research 2015. They received their awards as part of the University’s annual Discovery Days event at the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill on Friday, 9th January. The FIRST: Fatality Investigation and Review Studies team have created the Ruby Review, a unique system that brings together multiple agencies to review the circumstances of every child’s death. The system, named in memory of a...
