25 May 2017
Damaging immune response may be cause of COPD infections
Researchers at the University of Dundee have made an important discovery about why patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suffer frequent chest infections, potentially paving the way for new treatments. The team, led by Dr James Chalmers, has shown that the behaviour of a type of white blood cell, called neutrophils, changes when patients have COPD. Normally neutrophils remove bacteria from the lungs by ‘eating’ them, a highly efficient process called phagocytosis that causes no damage to the lung. This study, however, shows that in patients with COPD, the ability to eat b...
24 May 2017
Dundee Writes uncovers University’s hidden creative talent
What do a Politics postgraduate from Nigeria, a Professor of chronic pain management in Dundee, a deep water salvage specialist from Fife and a graduate of International Water Law from New York have in common? The answer is that they have their work published in the latest edition of ‘Dundee Writes’, the University of Dundee’s magazine of creative writing. This is the eighth edition and will be launched in the University’s Tower Building tomorrow. Staff, students and alumni from across all Schools and departments in the University are eligible to submit their poetry and pros...
24 May 2017
Prisoner ‘mugshots’ help to challenge preconceptions over tea
A Graphic Design student exhibiting at this year’s University of Dundee Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show has used Britain’s love of tea as a way of highlighting the humanity of prisoners, regardless of their crimes. Monica Dunne (21), originally from Alloa, created ‘Mugshot’ in response to a brief to explore a stigmatised community. Monica visited prisons and probation centres across the UK to speak with offenders about their life over a cup of tea. From there, the idea of using the mugshot, one of the images most readily associated with criminals, and flipping it to allow ...
23 May 2017
Couple renew their own vows for University’s 50th anniversary
George and Sunita Thomson, who met and then tied the knot at the University of Dundee in 1987, returned to campus at the weekend to renew their marriage vows in front of fellow alumni. The couple met at the University’s Medical School in the 1980s when Sunita was studying for one of her subsequent three degrees from the University. Together they returned to campus for the 50th Anniversary Alumni weekend and renewed their vows in a ceremony with the minister who married them almost three decades ago, Rev Bob Gillies. Sunita said, “George and I were considering renewing our vows on our 30th ann...
22 May 2017
Degree Show packed during opening weekend
More than 10,000 visitors flocked to this year's University of Dundee Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show during its opening weekend. Degree Show is Dundee’s largest annual exhibition of art and design. It sees Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design transformed into Scotland’s largest exhibition space and the beginning of the 2017 run saw its two buildings and fourteen floors throng with art lovers, employers, gallery owners, industry professionals and members of the public. This year’s Degree Show features the work of around 350 of the UK’s brightest emerging...
