10 Aug 2016

Record levels of student satisfaction see Dundee ranked in UK’s top 10

  Dundee rises seven places in 2016 poll Ranked number one in the UK for Personal Development DUSA once again top students’ union in Scotland   The University of Dundee has been ranked 8th in the UK in the 2016 National Student Survey (NSS) after receiving its highest ever scores in the survey. The University recorded overall satisfaction of 91 per cent, up one per cent on last year and well above the sector average of 86 per cent. This figure represents Dundee’s best ever NSS result and led to a seven-place rise in the UK league table, while Dundee University Students&rsquo...

3 Aug 2016

‘Take me to the Bridge!’ marks 50 years across the Tay

The University of Dundee’s Gair Dunlop has brought together work from local artists and writers for a publication marking the Tay Road Bridge’s upcoming 50th anniversary. Irreverent yet celebratory , ‘Take me to the Bridge!’ is a 24-page artists’ newspaper enabling members of Dundee and Fife’s creative community, including several writers and artists from the University, to explore what the bridge means to them and the region. Contents include Eddie Summerton’s investigation of rumours of royal skulduggery, Janice Aitken speculating that a well-known Japanese mon...

2 Aug 2016

Appendix and tonsil removals lead to higher pregnancy rates, study shows

Women who have their appendix or tonsils removed when they are young are more likely to get pregnant, and do so sooner, than the rest of the population, a new study led by the University of Dundee has shown. The study examined the anonymised medical records of hundreds of thousands of women in the United Kingdom. Pregnancy rates were significantly higher among those who had had an appendectomy (54.4%), tonsillectomy (53.4%) or both (59.7%) than those in the rest of the population (43.7%). Time to pregnancy was also shortest among those who had both an appendectomy and tonsillectomy, followed by appendect...

1 Aug 2016

Dr Hadwen Trust grant to boost Thiel training

The University of Dundee’s pioneering work with the Thiel embalming method means that those who bequeath their remains for research and education will soon be helping to teach doctors potentially life-saving surgical interventions and validate the testing of new medical devices. A £311,409 grant from the Dr Hadwen Trust will enable staff from the University’s School of Medicine and Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) to develop a programme for training senior medics. Heart, stroke, kidney and liver patients are among those who will benefit from the training clinicians und...