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March 2006 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
31 March 2006	Closure of pedestrian access to old Hawkhill	Due to continued construction work on a new teaching block, student residences and a sports centre extension, the University of Dundee is to close off a section of Old Hawkhill to pedestrian access from this Saturday, April 1st.
31 March 2006	REWIND \| Artists’ Video in the 70’s & 80’s	A major international research project to protect and preserve some of the most important video art of the 1970s and 1980s will be marked with a major exhibition in Dundee this month.
30 March 2006	Dundee University gets "flamin' Fifers" off to a racing start	The University of Dundee is supporting a team of Fife school pupils' dream of building a Formula One car.
30 March 2006	Plans announced for Scotland's first Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies	The University of Dundee has announced plans to establish Scotland’s first centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, the Mary Ann Baxter Centre.
29 March 2006	Tsunamis the Catastrophic Event	The catastrophic tragedy of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2005 shocked the world, but why did it happen? David Tappin of the British Geological Society examines the facts and discusses whether such a tsunami could affect the UK in the latest of the acclaimed Saturday Evening Lectures from the University of Dundee.
28 March 2006	Engineering Innovations - from drug development to the future of TV	The wide range of innovative work being carried out by students and researchers on the University of Dundee’s engineering courses will be highlighted this week.
24 March 2006	Programme aims to develop students’ writing skills	A University of Dundee programme which aims to develop students’ writing skills has been hailed as a model of good practice in a major report from the Royal Literary Fund.
23 March 2006	Paralympians to open the SOMA Festival	Paralympians Caroline Baird and Alan McGregor will open the SOMA Festival at the University of Dundee’s Institute of Sport and Exercise this weekend.
22 March 2006	The World’s Greatest Conspiracies Unveiled!	They form the subject of everything from Hollywood blockbusters to best-selling books to simple pub arguments. Now one of the media’s keenest minds will dissect some of the greatest conspiracy theories and what feeds them in the latest in the University of Dundee’s Saturday Evening Lecture series.
21 March 2006	Major European, US Policymakers Gather at Homelessness Conference	The latest strategies to combat homelessness and social exclusion across Europe will be discussed at a major conference being held in Dundee this week.
21 March 2006	Scottish Institutions Join Network of Excellence	Scottish scientists are to form part of a European-wide "Network of Excellence" in research into a key area of genetic regulation, which links to an ever-growing list of diseases including certain types of cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
20 March 2006	Major gene discovered that causes dry skin and leads to eczema and asthma	Experts on genetic skin disorders at the University of Dundee, with collaborators in Dublin, Glasgow, Seattle and Copenhagen, have discovered the gene that causes dry, scaly skin and predisposes individuals to atopic dermatitis (eczema). Some of these individuals also develop a form of asthma that occurs in association with eczema. This work has been published in two consecutive papers in the March and April editions of the top genetics journal, Nature Genetics.
17 March 2006	Baroness Clark presides over mooting final	Baroness Clark of Calton, who was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice earlier this year, will return to familiar ground this week when she presides over the final of University of Dundee's mooting competition.
16 March 2006	Love & War - The Trunk	Jane and her family will be endowing an annual prize for engineering students in memory of her father. Professor Michael Davies, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, will accept the endowment from the family.
15 March 2006	The Modern Scot - Exhibition	First time collaboration for students results in dramatic installation.
14 March 2006	Lecture Theatre renamed in honour of D'arcy Thompson	The name of one of Scotland's greatest mathematicians and biologists will be honoured this weekend when the University of Dundee renames one of it's main lecture theatres The D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre.
14 March 2006	Calligraphy Insight from Chinese Master	Provocative discussions, intriguing conversations and remarkable performances are expected from a new transatlantic public program created by Scotland’s leading universities to celebrate Tartan Week in New York.
13 March 2006	Scotland gets New York talking	When artists and scientists collaborate ideas explode, predictions implode and unexpected synergies emerge.
13 March 2006	Inspiration & Discovery: Exhibition Opening	When artists and scientists collaborate ideas explode, predictions implode and unexpected synergies emerge.
10 March 2006	Dundee Voted Among World's Best Workplaces	The University of Dundee has been named one of the world's best workplaces for postdoctoral scientists, in a new survey carried out by The Scientist magazine.
9 March 2006	Falling blood pressure not down to drugs, say experts	Blood pressure lowering drugs were not responsible for the population decline in blood pressure seen in many countries during the 1980s and 1990s, concludes a study published online by the BMJ today.
9 March 2006	Homelessness Conference	The latest strategies to combat homelessness and social exclusion across Europe will be discussed at a major conference being held in Dundee this month.
9 March 2006	Schoolchildren Dip into DNA	Schoolchildren from Blackness and Forthill primary schools in Dundee will open a new exhibition at the Sensation science centre this weekend that is very much about themselves.
9 March 2006	One in three adults are lonely says study, especially people in their forties	More than a third of adults are lonely, with people in their forties suffering the highest levels, according to a study published in the latest Journal of Clinical Nursing.
8 March 2006	"Great Expectations" Wins Top Award for Probationer Teacher	A probationer primary school teacher who graduated from the University of Dundee last year has been presented with the prestigious George D Gray CBE MA Award by the General Teaching Council for Scotland.
8 March 2006	"Timex: History of Struggle" - exhibition opening	It was one of the most turbulent industrial disputes in Scotland's recent history - the battle to stop the eventual closure of the Timex plant in Dundee in 1993.
8 March 2006	Homeless Shelters on the Move	A convoy of up to 30 ultra-adaptable carts and trolleys will arrive in Dundee's City Square this Friday as architecture students from the University of Dundee display their latest work.
8 March 2006	Sound art release and exhibition	University of Dundee Exhibitions Department’s audio label discparc, along with our Canadian counterpart Lisa Deanne Smith, a Freelance Curator, have compiled a sound project that profiles artists from Scotland and Canada (with a particular focus on Toronto). Reinforcing the long-standing link between these two countries this project sees an audio art exhibition showcasing the sound works of six Scottish and six Toronto-based artists, which is accompanied by the release of the sound works in a limited edition audio CD (dp003) and fanzine.
7 March 2006	Outstanding New Fellows will Strengthen Society's Public-Benefit Capacity	Three academics at the University of Dundee are among the latest group of people elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
7 March 2006	Dundee Students Win on (Moot) Points	University of Dundee fourth-year law students Judith Pillans and Nicola McLaren are this year’s winners of the Alexander Stone mooting competition, defeating a team from Strathclyde University in the final.
6 March 2006	Andrew Miller reading	Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller will be reading from his latest novel - 'The Optimists' - at the University of Dundee this Friday, 10th March.
3 March 2006	Visit of HRH The Princess Royal	HRH The Princess Royal visited the University of Dundee today, Friday March 3, where she performed the official opening of the Queen Mother Building.
1 March 2006	Duncan of Jordanstone Alumni Shine	Six alumni from Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee, will have their work shown at the prestigious Tate Triennial in London from today (1st March).