12 Mar 2018
Minister helps to launch new Graduate Apprenticeships
Joe Fitzpatrick, MSP for Dundee West and Minister for Parliamentary Business, helped launch new Graduate Apprenticeship courses at the University of Dundee when he visited campus today. Applications are now open for a total of six Graduate Apprenticeship programmes at Dundee. Mr Fitzpatrick visited the University’s Queen Mother Building to meet with Graduate Apprentices on existing programmes. The initiative is supported and fully funded by Skills Development Scotland with the aim of equipping students with higher levels of academic learning and accreditations to help them progress as professionals...
12 Mar 2018
‘Friends of the Show’ to boost creative talent
The University of Dundee is inviting businesses and individuals to support some of the UK’s top young artists, designers and architects as they prepare for the biggest event of their careers to date. A new ‘Friends of the Show’ scheme has been set up to help ensure this year’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and Architecture Degree Show provides the best possible platform for graduating students. Packages range from £250-£1000 and come with a range of opportunities for Friends. The Degree Show is one of the highlights of Dundee’s cultural calend...
12 Mar 2018
Students to give staff the third degree
Staff and students from the University of Dundee will go head to head this month during a live recording of BBC Radio 4’s ‘The 3rd Degree’ hosted by comedian Steve Punt. Two teams of three will flex their mental muscles in front of a live audience on Friday 23 March at the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre in the University’s Tower Building. Taking on their students in a battle of the wits will be Dr Paul Campbell, Reader in Physics, Professor Christopher Spray, Chair of Water Science and Policy, and Dr Janice Aitken, Senior Lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art &am...
9 Mar 2018
'Virtual Reality: The Future Is Now’ – Café Science on 12 February
An expert from the University of Dundee will discuss the science behind virtual reality and augmented reality and explore what the future holds for these technologies at a Café Science event next week. Dr Rachel Menzies, Lecturer in Computing at the University, will deliver her talk, entitled, ‘Virtual Reality: The Future Is Now’, at Avery & Co, South Tay Street from 7pm on Monday 12 March. In it, she will discuss how these technologies are used in leisure, medicine, education, art and the military, and how researchers might push the boundaries even further. On 6 August 1991, the W...
8 Mar 2018
Lord Provost becomes 200,000th SHARE signatory at celebration of global diabetes partnership
Lord Provost of Dundee Ian Borthwick will next week become the 200,000th signatory to a unique database helping researchers to carry out ground-breaking medical research. He will sign up for the Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE) when he welcomes the world-renowned diabetes researcher Dr V Mohan to the city on Monday 12 March to discuss a major new Scotland-India clinical partnership to combat diabetes. SHARE is a University of Dundee-led initiative that provides researchers with a database of suitable and willing recruits. SHARE also uses blood left over from routine testing to help improve treat...
