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August 2009 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
31 August 2009	A warm welcome for freshers and their families	Freshers’ Week is not just about partying, as students about to embark upon their undergraduate careers at the University of Dundee are set to discover.
31 August 2009	Dundee to host third International Research Conference in Video Interaction Guidance	Hundreds of delegates from around the world will gather in Dundee later this week for a conference discussing the latest research in using video feedback to encourage improved communication in hard-to-reach families so children can thrive.
31 August 2009	Next gen power unlocks plant/human genetics research	Researchers at the University of Dundee are embarking on a £1million project to unlock the secrets of a form of gene regulation that appears to play a role in processes as varied as the flowering of plants to why humans develop some cancers.
30 August 2009	Policing experts to gather in Dundee	Police, policy makers and academics will be gathering in Dundee on 1st September to hear researchers from Scotland, England and the USA discuss different dimensions of the interplay between policing and communities.
25 August 2009	SCILLS recruits fourth research team leader to Scotland	The SCottish Institute for ceLL Signalling (SCILLS), has made another key scientific appointment with the recruitment of Dr Patrick Pedrioli from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ).
24 August 2009	Entries for writing anthology welcomed	Submissions are now being sought for the latest edition of a highly successful literary anthology backed by the University of Dundee.
24 August 2009	'Guardian of the genome' reveals more secrets	Scientists at the University of Dundee have helped uncover new secrets regarding the function of a key gene - p53, known as the `Guardian of the Genome’, which is involved in around 90% of all cancers.
17 August 2009	V&A at Dundee a step closer	The V&A at Dundee will happen and will be underpinned by a robust business plan that maximises the cultural and economic benefits for its local communities. That was the Culture Minister’s message as he announced the Scottish Government’s support for the project today.
13 August 2009	Fabulous fifty pass Access Summer School 2009	Students who, through adversity, failed to obtain the grades to enter University will celebrate on Friday after ‘graduating’ from Access Summer School, a pioneering University of Dundee project offering an alternative route into higher education.
13 August 2009	Having your own company is the business, according to Dundee graduate	The UK may be mired in the worst recession for a generation, but a University of Dundee graduate is bucking the economic trend by starting up not one, but two, businesses.
12 August 2009	University writers to showcase work at festival	A trio of students from the University of Dundee will display their literary prowess when they read extracts of their work at the Edinburgh International Book Festival later this month.
10 August 2009	Potato blight plight looks promising for food security	Over 160 years since potato blight wreaked havoc in Ireland and other northern European countries, scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) finally have the blight-causing pathogen in their sights and are working to accelerate breeding of more durable, disease resistant potato varieties.
10 August 2009	University to help West Bank children deal with trauma	The University of Dundee is to help ensure that children in Dundee’s twin city of Nablus receive the appropriate assistance to deal with the trauma of growing up in a region regularly beset by war.
7 August 2009	Another marathon fundraising effort from Colleen	Swimming the entire lengths of Loch Tay, Loch Rannoch and Loch Tummel is something that most folk won’t manage in a lifetime but Dundee woman Colleen Blair aims to achieve the gruelling feat in a single day in aid of research into painful and incurable skin diseases.
4 August 2009	Garden to go native and host 'pow-wow'	The University of Dundee Botanic Garden will be the unusual venue for a 'Pow-Wow on the Prairie' later this week.
3 August 2009	'Delayed by storm' - limited postcard project marks 2009 Summer Isles stamps launch	The launch of the 2009 Summer Isles stamps and first day cover - much beloved by collectors all over the world - will be celebrated with a unique collaboration between artist Edward Summerton and writer Don Paterson.
2 August 2009	'Shed' among Britain's best new buildings	An award-winning house in rural Perthshire has been nominated as one of 'Britain’s Best New Buildings'.