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March 2008 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
31 March 2008	Degree Show 2008	Scotland’s first art college degree show of the year will get underway at the University of Dundee on May 17th.
28 March 2008	Enterprise Gym Awards	The Enterprise Gym annual awards ceremony and dinner took place in the Bonar Hall last night, marking the end of another highly successful year for all involved.
27 March 2008	Law students raise money for Maggie's	Students from the Diploma in Legal Practice at the University of Dundee presented a cheque for £320 to the Maggie's Centre for Cancer Care today.
25 March 2008	Cod liver oil can benefit arthritis patients, Dundee study shows	University of Dundee researchers have uncovered further evidence that cod liver oil can benefit people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
25 March 2008	Funfit Easter for kids at ISE	Young people can access a full range of fitness activities from trampolining and tennis to street dance and football at the University of Dundee during the spring break holidays.
24 March 2008	Medicine men go wild in Dundee	Television’s 'Medicine Men Go Wild' will pass on the benefits of their experiences in some of the world’s most remote regions to students in Dundee this week.
24 March 2008	'Jute and Dundee: The management of industrial decline'	The long decline of Dundee’s jute industry and the reasons for it will be examined in a major new research project at the University of Dundee.
21 March 2008	Dundee book of new writing now available	A new anthology of new writing, backed by the University of Dundee, will be in the shops today.
20 March 2008	New Executive Masters Leadership Programme for the Oil and Gas Industry	Managers in the oil and gas industry now have the opportunity to equip themselves with the skills and knowledge for a senior management role with the introduction of a unique executive masters leadership programme by the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP).
19 March 2008	Literary salons growing in popularity	The latest Dundee Literary Salon, which features literary agent Clare Conville, has run out of tickets, leaving many disappointed.
19 March 2008	Research students deliver Engineering presentations	Engineering students from three of Scotland's leading universities will this afternoon (Wednesday, March 19) deliver a short presentation on their research at a Northern Research Partnership event being held at the Robert Gordon University.
19 March 2008	Fife student nurses raise funds for African charities	Nursing students at the University of Dundee’s Fife campus have started a fundraising campaign to support two African charities working in one of the world’s poorest countries.
18 March 2008	Boat Club present cheque for charity	Dundee University Boat Club will present a cheque for £711 to Childline Scotland on Wednesday March 19th, the proceeds from this year's annual charity Row-A-Thon which was held in January.
17 March 2008	NCR supports University of Dundee students	Undergraduate students from the University of Dundee have been working with NCR to look at ways of improving ATM machines.
17 March 2008	Nobel Prize winner in Dundee	The University of Dundee Physics Department is hosting a week long visit from Nobel Prize winner Professor Zhores Alferov.
14 March 2008	Constructive Mismatch	Constructive Mismatch is an exhibition of ten students from the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg. The show has been curated by Hamburg artist Martin Werthmann who will also be exhibiting. Scott Shepherd and Tommy Garvie, both Fine Art Students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design will be hosting the project and the students while they are in Dundee. For most of the students this is the first time that they have visited Scotland.
13 March 2008	Sir Craig Reedie to give lecture	Sir Craig Reedie, member of the International Olympic Committee and a Director of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, will deliver the 2008 Institution of Civil Engineering Prestige Lecture at Dundee University.
12 March 2008	Piano duo to play at University Chaplaincy	Pianists Stephen Armstrong and Avril Evans will play a selection of wonderful music, including pieces from Mozart, Schubert and Debussy at the Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row, University of Dundee tomorrow night.
12 March 2008	Cheque presentation to the Diabetes Research Campaign	The Rotary Club of Dundee will present a cheque for £2,500 to the Diabetes Research Campaign tomorrow (Thurs) at 12.30pm, outside the Invercarse Hotel, Dundee. The President of Rotary Club Dundee, Derek Shaw, will present the cheque.
11 March 2008	How good is your memory?	The School of Psychology, University of Dundee, will hold the 2008 Dundee Memory Competition tomorrow.
11 March 2008	Hon Lord Malcolm presides over moot	The Hon Lord Malcolm, Senator of the College of Justice and a graduate of the University of Dundee, will visit the University of Dundee tonight to preside over the final of the University’s mooting competition.
10 March 2008	Exhibition combines science and art	The latest exhibition in the Tower Foyer Gallery at the University of Dundee is a fascinating mix of art and science.
10 March 2008	Evolution continues at Botanic Garden	Spring is in the air, there is some heat in the sun (when we see it) and the bulbs are starting to produce some bright colours. At the University of Dundee Botanic Garden the season is also being marked by the final stages of the development of the new `Evolutionary Garden’.
7 March 2008	Exhibition: The Home Office	A new exhibition showing the work of a Dundee researcher with the First Nation people in Canada explores land us, ownership and home will be launched tomorrow in the Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone.
5 March 2008	STANDUP joke generator goes to Parliament	The STANDUP project, a collaboration between Dundee, Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities, has been shortlisted together with five other national assistive technology (AT) research projects as being representative of "the most innovative and exciting AT product and prototype development being carried out in the UK" by the Foundation of Assistive Technology. The researchers have been invited to showcase STANDUP at the Parliamentary launch of the new assistive technology initiative "ATcare Design and Development Centre" in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 5th March 2008.
5 March 2008	CEPMLP publishes book on international competition for resources	University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) and Dundee University Press will be releasing `International Competition for Resources: The Role of Law, the State and of Markets' in March 2008.
5 March 2008	Students give union a design overhaul	A room based around a giant `Connect 4’ set and another inspired by Dundee’s history of journalism - these are among University of Dundee design students’ visions of how their Students Union could look.
3 March 2008	Charities boost to diabetes research at University of Dundee	Diabetes research within the University of Dundee Medical School has been boosted by a joint £120,000 donation from the Alexander Moncur Trust and Diabetes UK to buy a new state-of-the-art microscope.
3 March 2008	Professor Walter Spear	Professor Walter Spear FRS, FRSE, pioneer of thin film and large area electronics, died on February 21st in Dundee, aged 87. His work on amorphous semiconductors laid the foundation for much of today's multibillion dollar flat panel display and thin film photovoltaic industries.
3 March 2008	Dundee University selected among London 2012 pre-games camps	The University of Dundee has been included within the official London 2012 Pre-Games Training Camp Guide, opening up the City of Discovery to athletes preparing for the Olympics.
2 March 2008	Time for tea: a source of future diabetes therapies?	Scientists working at the University of Dundee have identified new potentially therapeutic properties in an unexpected place: black tea.