7 Nov 2017
Comics Laureate to discuss career at Dundee talk
The UK’s Comics Laureate Charlie Adlard, best-known as artist of The Walking Dead, the comic that spawned the hugely successful television series, will visit Dundee this week to discuss his career. He will be appearing at Dundee Comics Creative Space (DCCS) at 6pm on Friday 10 November. The Q&A session will be chaired by Chris Murray, Professor of Comics Studies at the University of Dundee, and is free and open to all. In addition to his work on The Walking Dead, Charlie Adlard has also worked on comics such as 2000AD and The X-Files as well as various titles for both Marvel and DC Comics, the ...
7 Nov 2017
University to honour leading figures at Winter Graduation
The University of Dundee will confer honorary degrees on three outstanding individuals at its Winter Graduation this month. The honorary degrees will be awarded to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Dr Frederik Paulsen and Helen Jones. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist, best known for her discovery of pulsars — rotating neutron stars that appear to ‘pulse’ since the beam of light they emit can only be seen when it faces the Earth. Her observation, made together with her supervisor, Antony Hewish, is considered to be one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the twentieth cent...
6 Nov 2017
Royal Arch, and other lost monuments, brought back to life for NEoN
Artists from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design have used the latest technology to bring Dundee’s much-missed Royal Arch back to life for this year’s NEoN Digital Arts festival. Dr Alice Watterson and Dr Kieran Baxter combined their archaeological and animation skills to recreate the Arch in digital form. The meticulously reconstructed models can be viewed on the site of the original Arch at Slessor Gardens by anyone who downloads the Zappar app on their mobile device and then scans the engravings in the paving slabs marking the original footprints of the Arch. NEoN Digital Art...
1 Nov 2017
Students to display work inspired by D’Arcy Thompson
He has already inspired generations of scientists, artists and thinkers including Alan Turing, Richard Dawkins and Claude Levi Strauss. Now the work of biologist and mathematician D’Arcy Thompson, has prompted a new exhibition of work from the new generation of Graphic Design and Illustration students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. ‘Exponential Growth’ will open in the Tower Building Foyer on Saturday 4 November and is in place to celebrate 100 years since D’Arcy Thompson’s influential book, ‘On Growth and Form’ was first published. He held...
1 Nov 2017
Dundee-China links strengthened with guest professorship
The University of Dundee has formed a new link with China, with Professor Daan van Aalten from the School of Life Sciences being appointed a guest professor at Xiangya Hospital at Central South University in Changsha, China. Professor van Aalten is a Wellcome Trust Investigator in the Division of Gene Regulation and Expression in the School of Life Sciences. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on the role of the enzyme O-GlcNAc transferase in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. He is an author on over 170 scientific papers, the latest being a major breakthrough in identifyin...
