5 Nov 2018

Conference set to generate energy discussion

Industry experts will breeze in to Dundee this week to discuss the future of research in the UK’s offshore renewable energy sector. Academics and researchers will gather in the city for the Supergen Wind Hub General Assembly, with an emphasis on the future research agenda to tackle development and decommissioning challenges for international offshore wind energy deployment. Representatives from leading universities including Dundee, Oxford and Imperial College London will be among those speaking at the event, providing updates on research that aims to breathe new life in to Britain’s offshore...

4 Nov 2018

Success of multi-million pound drug discovery collaboration to be celebrated

The success of a University of Dundee collaboration that has attracted almost £60 million of investment, helped develop dozens of drugs for clinical use and won the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Award will be celebrated next week. Scientists, politicians and representatives of some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies will come together to mark the 20th anniversary of the University of Dundee’s Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT). A reception will be held at V&A Dundee on Monday 5 November ahead of a celebratory symposium at the University’s School...

30 Oct 2018

Frankenstein Returns ‘home’

The University of Dundee will next month host a series of events celebrating Mary Shelley in the city that inspired the teenage pioneer of science fiction to become a writer. Frankenstein Returns takes place at venues throughout Dundee from Friday 16 to Saturday 24 November as part of Being Human 2018, the national festival of the humanities that has this year expanded to include events in Australia, France, Italy, Singapore and the United States. One of the flagship events will be a recreation of the wildly popular Gothic shows that thrilled huge crowds around the time Shelley was writing Frankenstein. ...

29 Oct 2018

Gender myths dispelled by major new maths study

A major study into maths attainment has found that boys and girls perform equally in the subject, dispelling long-held myths around gender and education. The first UK-wide research of its kind for 13 years was carried out by Keith Topping, Professor of Educational and Social Research at the University of Dundee, and education assessment company Renaissance found differences in maths attainment between girls and boys to be almost negligible. The study also found that regular and high-quality maths practice improves outcomes across the board and that primary pupils outperformed secondary students, with bett...

25 Oct 2018

Art collective bringing “Great Noises” to Dundee

A radical and influential art collective renowned for making sounds from scrap metal is to host its first retrospective at the University of Dundee. Members of the Bow Gamelan Ensemble will join students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design to perform new work to mark the opening of ‘Great Noises That Fill the Air’, a lookback on the group’s famous, large-scale works that established it at the forefront of the 1980’s audio-visual arts scene. Ahead of the exhibition’s opening at the University’s Cooper Gallery on Friday 26 October, Principal Curat...