29 Nov 2017
Threats and opportunities for ‘Renewables After Brexit’
Delegates at a major University of Dundee conference later this week will hear how Brexit has the potential to derail Scotland’s prospering renewable energy industry. The warning will come from Professor Peter Cameron, Director of the University’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, when he addresses the ‘Renewables After Brexit’ event at the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, on Friday 1 December. Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond will deliver a keynote speech at the conference, which will see experts from the renewables, legal, financial and poli...
29 Nov 2017
New comic tells the story of fibromyalgia
A series of comics designed to inform the public about common but poorly understood conditions launches this week with the first edition focusing on fibromyalgia. Writers, comic artists and health professionals from the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside will celebrate the publication of ‘Fibromyalgia and Us’ this Friday. The new comic explores the long-term condition which can often cause intense pain and/or fatigue all over the body and the impact it can have on individual patients and their families. Written by those living with this condition, in collaboration with a doctor and physiot...
24 Nov 2017
University staff raise five-figure sum at Bollywood bash.
Staff from the University of Dundee have raised over £14,000 for medical research by hosting a Bollywood Ball in the city. The money raised at the Apex City Quay Hotel on Saturday 4 November will be used to help to fund research for diabetes, cancer, neurology and cardiovascular conditions. Attendees were treated to a three-course meal and entertainment was provided by the Dance Ihayami group from Edinburgh, who had the crowd up dancing like Bollywood stars. Organiser Shobna Vasishta said, “This was my 20th fundraising charity ball and I had a fantastic team working with me to make this a su...
24 Nov 2017
Leaders go into forensic detail
Key figures in the multi-million pound Tay Cities Deal bid have visited the University of Dundee’s Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science to find out more about the proposed JustTech project. As part of the bid’s drive to exploit the area’s strengths in digital innovation and to create, stimulate and protect jobs it is seeking investment to support a Forensic Science Catapult Centre and a new innovation cluster at the University. Dundee currently leads the UK in Forensic Science research and has an opportunity through Tay Cities Deal support to rapidly step-change to global lea...
23 Nov 2017
University offers £25,000 to up-and-coming entrepreneurs
£25,000 is on offer to support new business ideas among students, staff and recent alumni as the University of Dundee launches the Venture Competition 2018. The competition is now open for applications, with seven specific categories for: Undergraduate Student Award, Early Stage Idea (£2,500 prize fund, sponsored by Business Gateway and the University of Dundee, Centre for Entrepreneurship) Business School Student Award, for any Business School student currently studying or who graduated within the last 2 years (£2,500 prize fund sponsored...
