16 Mar 2018
Chinese students’ Scottish wedding after finding love in Dundee lab
They came from China with a passion for studying biotechnology but two University of Dundee students were celebrating yesterday after completing a lesson in love. Yuting Ling, 28, and Kanheng Zhou, 27, tied the knot in the city’s Registrar’s Office after meeting as PhD students at the University’s School of Science and Engineering. The newlyweds – two of more than 800 Chinese students currently studying at Dundee - said “I do” surrounded by their friends and family, many who had travelled more than 5,500 miles from Shanghai and the nearby city of Nantong, where the cou...
16 Mar 2018
Finding love in a Dundee lab
They came from China with a passion for studying biotechnology but two University of Dundee students were celebrating this month after completing a lesson in love. Yuting Ling, 28, and Kanheng Zhou, 27, tied the knot in the city’s Registrar’s Office after meeting as PhD students at the University’s School of Science and Engineering. The newlyweds – two of more than 800 Chinese students currently studying at Dundee – said, “I do” surrounded by their friends and family, many who had travelled more than 5,500 miles from Shanghai and the nearby city of Nantong, where...
16 Mar 2018
Masterpiece by composer-jute baron rediscovered
The first performance in over a century of work by a highly successful local composer, who combined his creative endeavours with running the family jute dynasty, will take place in Dundee next week. University of Dundee Music Society are currently busy rehearsing ahead of their performance of ‘King Arthur’, a dramatic cantata composed by John More Smieton, at the Caird Hall on Sunday 25 March. Smieton, an accomplished contemporary of Gilbert & Sullivan, lived at Panumare Villa (most recently known as Armistead House and currently an at-risk building) at a time when Broughty Ferry famously...
15 Mar 2018
Swathes of superheroes set for DeeCon
One of the country’s largest animation, gaming and cosplay conventions will take place at the University of Dundee next month as thousands of fans gather for the city’s biggest geek-off. Anime characters, stormtroopers, supervillains and video game stars will bring a splash of colour to campus when DeeCon 2018 takes place on Saturday 7 April. This year’s event will feature talks by industry professionals and gamers, a dedicated video gaming hub with virtual reality tournaments, and a Kids Cosplay masquerade with prizes for under 12 year-olds in their homemade cosplay costume. One of th...
15 Mar 2018
Argument technology helping to combat fake news
Cutting-edge argument technology developed at the University of Dundee will be used by thousands of school pupils across the UK this month as part of a major BBC initiative supporting young people to identify real news and filter out fake or false information. The Centre for Argument Technology (ARG-tech) at the University of Dundee is a world leader in developing technology which can dissect and analyse argument and debate. Among other projects, ARG-tech researchers have collaborated over the past decade with the BBC Religion & Ethics team who produce Radio 4’s `Moral Maze’ programme. No...
