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31 August 2007 |
University of Dundee hosting major scientific congress on NDPK |
Leading scientists and researchers from around the world will arrive in Dundee this weekend for a major congress examining emerging genetic links between major diseases including cancer, diabetes and cystic fibrosis.
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31 August 2007 |
Bad Men welcome Masters Show visitors |
Visitors to the opening preview night of the Duncan of Jordanstone College Masters Show 2007 tonight (Friday August 31) will receive a bad, bad welcome.
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30 August 2007 |
World expert visits University exhibition |
Dr Paul Cox, one of the world’s leading experts on the life and work of the eighteenth century botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus, is visiting the University of Dundee’s Linnaeus exhibition tomorrow (Friday).
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30 August 2007 |
VCOM helmet - tackling a world of virtual communication |
Mobile phones with a hundred dazzling features we never use. Portable e-mail devices to ensure we are never entirely separated from the office. `Social networking’ websites which enable us to never actually physically see anyone but keep up to date with their lives.
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22 August 2007 |
Launch of new research initiative to improve safety of patients |
A major new research partnership which aims to make it safer for patients when they go into hospital or see their GP is officially being launched at the University of Aberdeen this morning (August 22).
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22 August 2007 |
Dundee Masters Show 2007 |
A dazzling array of work from more than 40 artists and designers forms the Masters Show 2007 at the University of Dundee next week.
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22 August 2007 |
Google success for Dundee student |
A Dundee University computing student has secured a prestigious scholarship from internet giants Google to attend a major conference in Florida.
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21 August 2007 |
International seminar to examine state-business oil disputes |
The unexpected and prolonged explosion of oil and energy prices has triggered a host of politically charged disputes between producing host states and international oil companies raising questions of investment security, rule of law and sovereignty over natural resources.
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21 August 2007 |
New Dean appointed to School of Nursing and Midwifery |
Professor Margaret C Smith, Director of Nursing for Glasgow/Clyde Acute Services has been appointed Dean of The School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Dundee. Ms Smith will take up the post at the end of November.
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20 August 2007 |
Peer connections service sets benchmark standard |
The University of Dundee’s `Peer Connections’ service - which provides welcoming, befriending and mentoring programmes for students - has been hailed as providing an example of best practice.
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20 August 2007 |
Cash injection for breast cancer research in Scotland |
Eight scientists in Scotland, including three based in Dundee, have received grants from Breast Cancer Campaign, the only charity that specialises in funding independent breast cancer research throughout the UK. The grants, worth over £510,000, form part of over £4.2 million spent on research by Campaign in the last year.
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17 August 2007 |
Top ranking for Dundee Engineers |
The University of Dundee’s department of Civil Engineering has continued to build on its successes after being named among the very best in the UK.
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17 August 2007 |
Family acts find summer school success |
A father and son, a pair of sisters and a pair of cousins are among the 70 successful graduates from this year’s Access Summer School at the University of Dundee.
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16 August 2007 |
£1.5 million to fight devastating parasitic diseases |
The basic workings of the parasites which cause some of the developing world’s most devastating diseases are the subject of a major new research project at the University of Dundee.
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14 August 2007 |
Rarely seen treasures from Gardyne Road on show |
101 years after it was first founded as Dundee Training College, the School of Education, Social Work and Community Education at the University of Dundee is currently moving from its Gardyne Road building to a new home on the University’s city campus.
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14 August 2007 |
Major chemistry award for Dundee researcher |
Dr Andrei Nikolaev, of the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has been named the winner of the 2006 Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry.
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9 August 2007 |
Dundee music stars' exclusive concert for Diabetes Campaign |
Two of Scotland’s greatest musical talents will join forces next month to raise funds for the University of Dundee’s Diabetes Research Campaign at an exclusive concert.
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8 August 2007 |
City of Discovery: an evening of music, poetry and history |
Dundee University Archive Department are hosting a night of music, poetry and history on Monday 13th August. David Kett from the Local History Centre, Dundee Central Library, will discuss William McGonagall while Iain Flett, City Archivist from the Dundee City Archives will speak about the history of Dundee - from quill to quark.
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6 August 2007 |
Virtual laboratory to give £40m boost to brain imaging research |
Research into conditions like strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and cancer will be significantly advanced by a unique collaboration between six Scottish universities, launched today.
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2 August 2007 |
University of Dundee and Modern Biosciences plc to develop novel cancer drug |
London and Dundee, UK - 2nd August 2007 - The University of Dundee and Modern Biosciences plc, the drug development company, have entered into an agreement to develop a new treatment for cancer, rimcazole.
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