12 Jan 2018
2018 Stephen Fry Awards
University of Dundee researchers have been praised by Stephen Fry after their efforts in communicating research to the public won them awards named after the University’s former rector. The Stephen Fry Awards for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research celebrate the sharing of the world-class research carried out at Dundee with the wider public. They are given to the project and researcher that made the greatest contribution to public engagement in the past year. The 2018 Public Engagement Project of the Year was won by Hands of X, a collaboration that designs made-to-order prosthetic hands i...
12 Jan 2018
From Dundee to Disney: A graduate’s magical tale
A University of Dundee graduate, now turned Walt Disney World employee, has become a published academic after her fourth-year Psychology dissertation was printed in a dermatology journal. 23-year-old Taylor Petrie’s article Facial Treatment With Botulinum Toxin Improves Attractiveness Rated by Self and Others, and Psychological Wellbeinghas now been published in Dermatologic Surgery, the official publication of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. Taylor, who graduated in 2016, had been working on the reception desk at Fresh inc. Medispa in Invergowrie when she began to notice a pattern w...
10 Jan 2018
Dundee to join CMS Collaboration at CERN
The University of Dundee is to become a partner of the CMS Collaboration at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The CMS is one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the CMS Collaboration brings together members of the scientific community from across the globe in a quest to advance humanity’s knowledge of the very basic laws of our universe. The CMS captures and measures data from the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest scientific experiment where recent breakthroughs have included the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, which has hel...
9 Jan 2018
Climate specialists set to discuss drought in farmland Fife
Climate change specialists from across the UK are headed for the Howe of Fife this month to discuss how farmers can best adapt to mitigate the effects of drought. The free event, which takes place on Saturday 20th January, at 9.30am in The Lomond Hills Hotel at Freuchie, is aimed at people working in the agriculture sector and locals with an interest in climate change and the wider environment. The project, led by Professor Lindsey McEwen from the University of West England will highlight how locals’ knowledge can influence novel solutions for drought management. Dr Andrew Black, senior lecturer a...
9 Jan 2018
Turner nominees to feature in new exhibition
Work by Turner Prize nominees will be shown at a new University of Dundee exhibition later this month. ‘Here Was Elsewhere: >> FFWD’ will open to the public on Saturday 20 January at the University’s Cooper Gallery. Over four weeks, moving image works will be shown from 24 artists who have worked in Scotland. Amongst the featured artists will be Rosalind Nashashibi, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017. The exhibition also presents Rosalind’s collaborative practice with another Turner nominee, artist Lucy Skaer. The pair have been making collaborative pieces since ...
