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June 2007 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
29 June 2007	New Craft - future voices	So you think `crafts’ are a series of traditional, handed-down-through-generations series of activities such as knitting, basketweaving and cakemaking?
28 June 2007	From outer space to inner space	A team of astronauts who have helped explore outer space will be led on a voyage of discovery into `innerspace’ at the University of Dundee on Monday July 2nd.
27 June 2007	Linnaeus Exhibition at Kellie Castle	`Creating Order’ - a celebration of the tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus, the pioneering scientist and father of our modern system for naming and organising the natural world.
22 June 2007	Inaugural Literary Festival `huge success’	The first Dundee Literary Festival has been voted a huge success by audiences, authors and publishers who attended the event at the University of Dundee this week.
22 June 2007	New nurses `facing the future’ - and loving it!	A group of former NHS health care assistants will this week become the first students to progress through an innovative programme which has opened up nursing training to new groups of healthcare workers at the University of Dundee.
22 June 2007	From cared-for to cating for graduate Caroline	Many students try to fit a gap year in before they begin University but for Dundee University graduate Caroline Beecroft the delayed start to her studies could not have been more unwelcome.
22 June 2007	Big smiles from graduating dental hygienists and therapists	The first students to complete Scotland’s only degree programme for dental hygienists and therapists will graduate from the University of Dundee this morning (Friday June 22nd).
21 June 2007	Gardyne’s Land - reception	Tayside Building Preservation Trust will hold a celebratory reception on Friday June 22nd in Gardyne’s Land, an important complex of historic buildings in Dundee city centre which has been converted to a backpacking hostel.
21 June 2007	Graduation delight for Dundee friends	A pair of Dundee friends will reach the end of their University studies together when they graduate this week - an occasion they have had cause to wonder if they would ever see.
21 June 2007	From Scottish Nation to First Nation:	Scotland’s First Minister discusses Canadian Aboriginal land claims with Georges Erasmus.
20 June 2007	Double Graduation joys for Cameroon Family	A family from Cameroon were enjoying a double celebration at the University of Dundee graduation ceremony today (Wed 20th June) as brother and sister Monique and Richard Esingle graduated side by side.
19 June 2007	Dundee Literary Festival Success	Intense demand for tickets for the inaugural Dundee Literary Festival has led to two of the main events being moved to a larger venue.
19 June 2007	Thousands raised for Diabetes Research in Perth	George Donald to present cheque for £7355, proceeds of Perth fundraising concert, to Michael Archibald, chairman of the Diabetes Research Campaign.
18 June 2007	Professor Georgina Follett has been awarded an OBE	Professor Georgina Follett, Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, has been awarded an OBE for her Services to Design and to Higher Education.
18 June 2007	Lister Research Prize lecture	A young Professor at the University of Dundee will be presented with one of the UK’s leading research awards in the life sciences on Tuesday June 19th.
18 June 2007	Another exciting chapter for Dundee International Book Prize	The 2009 Dundee International Book Prize was launched today - with a new high calibre judging panel set to rule on entries from around the world.
18 June 2007	Graduation 2007	Thousands of successful students will feel the tap of the Dundee bonnet this week as the University of Dundee hosts its graduation ceremonies in the Caird Hall.
18 June 2007	Gene defect affects millions of asthma sufferers	Researchers at the University of Dundee, who last year identified the gene that causes eczema and associated forms of asthma, have now discovered that defects on the same gene can drastically affect the day-to-day management of asthma in millions of children and young adults.
14 June 2007	First Circle by Professor Nick Wade	A University of Dundee professor will try to run circles around his audience as he launches the Homecoming 2007 series of public lectures this Saturday - or rather he won’t because, as his talk will illustrate, circles cannot be seen.
12 June 2007	Professor given bursary	The University of Dundee’s Dr James Stewart, has been given a writers bursary of £3,000 by the Scottish Arts Council.
12 June 2007	Dundee Diabetes Group donate £6500 to university research	Diabetes research at the University of Dundee will be boosted by the presentation of a cheque for £6500 from the Dundee & District group of Diabetes UK.
11 June 2007	Pupils' programming comes up to scratch	School pupils from across Tayside and Fife were today [Tuesday 12th June 2007] discovering a new way of computer programming as they took part in the Strathmore Trophy competition at the School of Computing at the University of Dundee. The pupils were using SCRATCH, a new visual programming tool developed by researchers at America's MIT. SCRATCH allows animations and interactions to be easily sequenced using a visual storyboard and programming instructions put together like Lego blocks. Pupils had just two hours to get to grips with SCRATCH and program their animations.
11 June 2007	People, Places, Performance: The Richard Demarco Archives	Over a lifetime’s involvement in the arts, Richard Demarco has amassed an extensive collection of photographs, documents and films, which the School of Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College is now digitising a selection of.
7 June 2007	Vitamin D boost for heart health	The lack of winter sunlight for Scots - and other northern European nationalities - could be a factor in the country’s high rates of heart disease, new research at the University of Dundee has found.
5 June 2007	10 Year Celebration of the Clinical Skills Centre - ‘Partnerships and Collaborations’	The Clinical Skills Centre, a collaboration which promotes standards of skills in medical practice for nurses doctors and dentists celebrates its tenth anniversary tomorrow.
5 June 2007	Dundee alumni set for homecoming	Former students of the University of Dundee will return to the city from every corner of the globe this month to help celebrate the institution’s 40th anniversary.
5 June 2007	University Conservation Studio up for national award	The Book & Paper Conservation Studio at the University of Dundee has been nominated for one of The Conservation Awards 2007 in recognition of their work with the Linnaean Society of London, the world’s oldest biological society.
5 June 2007	Two major health projects recruit in Scotland	The call goes out this week to the people of Scotland to take part in two ambitious health projects targeting many diseases that cause pain and suffering across the country.
4 June 2007	Dundee arts students land dream jobs	A Dundee art student, and three graduates who studied in the city, have landed dream jobs at one of the world’s most famous art festivals.
4 June 2007	Martin Bell to give keynote speech at conference	Martin Bell, the former BBC foreign correspondent and Independent MP, will give a talk at the University of Dundee, titled Cosmopolitanism in the World Today.