14 Jan 2019
Tablet towers over Ben Nevis + 2 x Shard to raise cancer research funds
If the UK’s tallest building was built on top of its tallest mountain then the resulting structure would still be dwarfed by a ‘tower of tablet’ that has raised more than £75,000 for breast cancer research at the University of Dundee. Fiona Edwards has been selling her homemade tablet at running events and through friends and family around Tayside and Fife since 2003 to support researchers at the University. In 2018, she raised over £7,400, bringing her total to £75,490. Fiona will hand over a cheque for the money raised last year at the Clinical Research Centre, Ninewe...
28 Dec 2018
Knighthood for Professor Mike Ferguson
Professor Mike Ferguson, Regius Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has received a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list. Professor Ferguson has been honoured for his services to science. “I am thrilled to receive this great honour, but minded immediately that it recognises the efforts of many at the University of Dundee – my home for 30 years and an institution where collaboration and cooperation are truly valued, and where advancing knowledge into solutions is highly-prized,” said Professor Ferguson. “Together, we have managed to build in Dund...
28 Dec 2018
‘PETAL’ concept sews graduate's seeds of success
The budding career of a University of Dundee graduate is set to bloom after her flower-inspired housing concept won a £30,000 prize. Katarina Spenerova’s modular living design ‘PETAL’ wowed judges as she was named overall winner at the Society of British and International Design’s Student Design Competition. Having taken six months out after receiving her Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in Interior and Environmental Design in the summer, Katarina, who lives in Aberdeen, said that the prestigious accolade would allow her career to take root. “Being named overall w...
21 Dec 2018
£1.5 million boost for Dundee scientist
A University of Dundee researcher has been awarded £1.5 million to investigate a parasite that leads to the death of tens of thousands of children around the world each year and blights the lives of millions more.Dr Mattie Christine Pawlowic, a researcher at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) within Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship to develop her research into the fundamental biology of Cryptosporidium. These parasites cause chronic diarrhoea, or cryptosporidiosis, which is estimated to kill 48,000 children under the age of fiv...
19 Dec 2018
Bursary support for Summer School graduates
A group of University of Dundee students will each receive £100 bursaries to help towards the cost of their studies this week. The bursaries, donated by Strachans Ltd, an Aberdeenshire-based distributor of food and catering goods to the offshore industry, are being awarded to ten students who earned their places at Dundee having completed the University’s Access Summer School course earlier this year. Stanley Morrice, chairman of Strachans, was made an honorary professor in the University’s School of Business last month. Strachans decided to fund the bursaries after Professor Morr...
