10 Mar 2017
‘Breastfeeding – What Has That Got To Do With Science?’ Café Science on 13th March
A University of Dundee expert will explore the science behind breastfeeding at the next Café Science event. The introduction of milk substitutes has led to a huge decline in breastfeeding rates worldwide. This has resulted in heated debates about public health, nutrition, attachment, sexuality and choice. Professor Mary Renfrew, from University’s the School of Nursing & Midwifery will be at Avery & Co on Monday, 13th March to talk about these issues. Professor Renfrew said, “Babies have been breastfed since the dawn of the human race. However, since the early 20th Century arti...
8 Mar 2017
Professor Dame Sue Black inducted among ‘Outstanding Women of Scotland’
The University of Dundee’s Professor Dame Sue Black has been named as one of the Saltire Society’s ‘Outstanding Women of Scotland’ for 2017. Professor Black, an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist, is among 10 Scottish women from the fields of the arts, culture, politics, activism and science who were honoured at a special ceremony at Glasgow Women’s Library on Tuesday, 7th March. The 2017 inductees join the likes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, J.K. Rowling and Annie Lennox in the Outstanding Women of Scotland community. Since the initiative was launched in ...
6 Mar 2017
Universities collaborate on drug discovery in stem cell therapies
Research teams based at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh are looking to partner with the pharmaceutical industry to better understand the biological processes that could allow the development of new drugs to support tissue regeneration or repair. The National Phenotypic Screening Centre (NPSC) at the University of Dundee and the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centrefor Regenerative Medicine (CRM) at the University of Edinburgh have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that commits them to work more closely together as they strive to translate novel biological discoveries into new stem cell t...
6 Mar 2017
Lost film footage of 1970s Dundee discovered
Remarkable footage from the 1970s, a time when the hair was longer and the trousers wider, has been discovered in the University of Dundee archive and now made available as part of the University’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Depicting the wide range of student experience at the heart of the University in 1977, the video recovered from the University Archives highlights a great deal of what has and hasn’t changed in Tayside over the last 40 years. It captures many of the student traditions on campus, some of which are still alive while others have passed into history. The film also shows h...
3 Mar 2017
Latest Cooper Gallery exhibition to close with live performance event
An exhibition, at the University of Dundee’s Cooper Gallery will conclude with an afternoon of live performances this weekend. ‘Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?’ will close on Saturday, 4th March with performances from legendary artist Anne Bean, preeminent Chinese performance artist He Chengyao and the ‘She Town’-based Siôn Parkinson. There will also be a film screening of work by artists Rose English and Monica Ross along with a participatory collective reading conceived by Annabel Nicolson. ‘Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?&r...
