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March 2007 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
30 March 2007	`An energy policy for Scotland’ - Saturday evening lecture	How can Scotland shape a workable and responsible energy policy for the 21st Century? That is the question that former Energy Minister Brian Wilson will lay out the answer to in the latest of Dundee University’s Saturday Evening Lectures this weekend.
29 March 2007	Queen Mother Building Dons `Green Gown’	The University of Dundee has been `highly commended’ in the annual Green Gown Awards, adding to the growing list of honours surrounding the striking Queen Mother Building in the heart of the campus.
29 March 2007	Retiral of Professor David Stirrups	Professor David Stirrups, co-ordinator of the Dental & Oral Health and Health Psychology Unit at the University of Dundee Dental School, retires from the University on Friday March 30th.
27 March 2007	Presentation of Dundee Civic Award 2007	Frances McKernie, from Dundee, has been named the winner of the Dundee Civic Award 2007.
27 March 2007	Enterprise Gym Awards	A pioneering scheme at the University of Dundee which has enabled hundreds of students to flex their entrepreneurial muscles marks the end of its second year with an awards ceremony and dinner on Thursday March 29th.
26 March 2007	Presentation of Dundee Civic Award 2007	Three students from Town and Regional Planning at the University of Dundee have been selected to present their proposals for the future of the city's Lochee area for the final judging of the Dundee Civic Award 2007.
26 March 2007	Dundee students seek the formula for successful DRIVE	The challenge is one that occupies the world’s biggest motor companies, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in search of success in one of the most glamorous sports.
26 March 2007	New Community Education courses at Dundee welcomed by professionals	The University of Dundee has launched two innovative new courses in Community Education which are already being hailed as offering exciting and vital programmes for people working across the public and voluntary sectors.
23 March 2007	Botanic Working Group meets	The recently formed Botanic Garden Working Group met for the first time yesterday (Thursday March 22nd) to consider options to secure a sustainable future for the Botanic Garden in Dundee.
23 March 2007	National Trust Chief ventures `To the heart of Scotland'	Shonaig MacPherson, Executive Chairman of the National Trust For Scotland, will explore the rich sights and cultural delights of the Scottish nation when she delivers the Saturday Evening Lecture at the University of Dundee tomorrow (March 24th).
21 March 2007	Water Chief to give talk on world water day	Alan Sutherland, the Chief Executive of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, will deliver a lecture to mark World Water Day at the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, Peters Building, at the University of Dundee on Thursday March 22nd at 4.00pm.
20 March 2007	Links forged with Yemeni Institutions	The University of Dundee has forged new links with the emergent education sector in the Yemen after a visit to the city by high-ranking officials from the Arab state this week.
20 March 2007	Scrymgeour seminar series - Wednesday March 21st	The last in this semester’s series of Scrymgeour Seminars at the University of Dundee takes place this week when a leading expert on the European Union will examine the nature of foreign policy in the 50 years of European integration.
19 March 2007	Lord Turnbull presides over terrorism case	Lord Turnbull, one of the most senior judges in the country will visit the University of Dundee on Tuesday 20 March to preside over the final of the University of Dundee’s mooting competition.
19 March 2007	Engineering research to benefit from £8 million investment	Three of Scotland's leading universities have agreed to work together to establish a research partnership in engineering and related disciplines.
15 March 2007	Between: Self and Others	Six fourth year Gallery Textile students have spent one week making work in the Lower Foyer Gallery. This exhibition displays the work the students have made alongside the work of two of their tutors, Lisa Gallacher and Jonathan Robertson. Gallery Textiles is a strand of the B.Des (Hons) course in Textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design which explores the textile medium as an art form.
14 March 2007	University draws conference business to city	Half of all the lucrative conference business brought to Dundee is secured through the University of Dundee it was revealed this week as the first major conference since the relaunch of Dundee’s Westpark Conference Centre gets underway (Thursday 15 March).
14 March 2007	Dundee and Stirling universities celebrate 40 years with an Art Exchange	The 40th anniversaries of the Universities of Stirling and Dundee are being celebrated in 2007 with a joint exhibition of their art collections.
13 March 2007	Museum of lost interactions is a web sensation	A collection of lost technological devices from the past `discovered’ by students at the University of Dundee has become an internet sensation as people all over the world log in to explore the `Museum of Lost Interactions’.
13 March 2007	£30000 for Wooden Baby	Dundee University Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow, Jonathon Falla, has been awarded the Scottish Art Council’s top prize for future work for his depiction of life in 16th century Europe and the impact of war and disease on the lives of children.
12 March 2007	Double honour for Dundee Professor	Professor Malcolm Horner, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Management at the University of Dundee has been honoured by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for his outstanding contribution to engineering.
11 March 2007	Psychology conference is a hit	Dundee University's School of Psychology will this week host a conference designed to help improve the social abilities of people who have profound difficulties in communicating.
9 March 2007	Present-day pioneers follow in footsteps of giants	Two professors from the University of Dundee, Prof Malcolm Horner and Prof Geoffrey Gadd, have been elected new Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
9 March 2007	University welcomes prospective students	The University of Dundee will welcome almost 400 prospective students and their families from all over the UK to the campus on Wednesday March 14th as they make their choices on where they will pursue their higher education.
8 March 2007	Joint statement from the University and the Campus Unions - March 8th	The University and the campus unions met today to discuss a proposed voluntary severance scheme. The University agreed to consider a number of points raised by the unions and to come back to the unions on Monday.
8 March 2007	Saturday Evening Lecture	Professor John Burn, an expert on genetics and the function of DNA will give the next in the acclaimed Saturday Evening Lecture series, held by the University of Dundee.
7 March 2007	Student scoops award for dementia project	A PhD student at the University of Dundee exploring ways in which older people with dementia can be creative again by composing their own music has been invited to present her research to an international audience.
6 March 2007	MRC researcher awarded Biochemical Society's Colworth Medal	The prestigious 2008 Colworth Medal has been awarded to Dr John Rouse, a principal investigator in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee. The medal is sponsored by Unilever and presented by the Biochemical Society. It is said to be the most distinguished award that a biochemist under 36 years old can receive in the UK.
5 March 2007	Alice’s great-great-great niece steps into Wonderland	More than 140 years since her great-great-great Aunt provided the inspiration for the original Alice in Wonderland, Rachel Arskey will play the part in the latest production by Dundee University’s Lip Theatre Company.
2 March 2007	Joint statement from the University of Dundee and Campus Trade Unions	Dundee University and the campus trade unions (AMICUS, UCU and UNISON) met on Friday 2nd March in a consultation meeting which focussed on the avoidance of redundancies and related matters.
1 March 2007	New series of History books released	As events to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union continue, Dundee University Press has published the history of Scotland in the years before the Union.
1 March 2007	Dundee arts students make their mark	Past and present students from the University of Dundee in Dundee are making a significant mark on the Scottish arts scene this week, with a host of awards, nominations and exhibitions.
1 March 2007	New Masters Courses at the University of Dundee	New postgraduate courses being launched at the University of Dundee will place students at the leading edge of new developments in architecture, mechanical engineering and computer animation.
1 March 2007	Charities parade	Dundee’s city centre will be awash with colour on Saturday afternoon (March 3rd) as Dundee University Charities committee stage their annual parade through the city centre.
1 March 2007	President of the British Academy to speak at University of Dundee	Baroness Onora O’Neill, President of the British Academy, will give the next in the acclaimed Saturday Evening Lecture series this weekend.
1 March 2007	Discovery of Asthma Attack Gene may lead to novel steroid-sparing treatments	Potential for a new asthma medicine that could move away from current steroid treatments has been unlocked by researchers at the University of Dundee.