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October 2011 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
31 October 2011	Professor Mike Ferguson appointed to Wellcome Trust Board of Governors	The Wellcome Trust today announces the appointment of Professor Mike Ferguson, Dean of Research for the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, to its Board of Governors. Professor Ferguson will take up his position in January 2012.
31 October 2011	University of Dundee to name Centre in honour of Jacqui Wood	The University of Dundee is to name a new centre focusing on cancer research after Jacqui Wood, the inspirational leader of the Ninewells Cancer Campaign who sadly died earlier this year.
28 October 2011	Dundee Literary Festival - weekend events	The Dundee Literary Festival 2011 draws to a close this weekend with an exciting programme covering everything from forensics to food, music to murder, stanzas to psychology, comics to comedy, and the unpublished to the undead.
28 October 2011	'Mending the Broken Heart' - Cardiology exhibition celebrates Dundee Science Festival	Tayside Medical History Museum's latest exhibition will be opened at a special free event next week as part of Dundee Science Festival.
28 October 2011	Magic Markers - Recent Developments in Fingerprinting and Beyond - Cafe Science event, 31st October	New fingerprinting techniques being developed in Dundee will be discussed at a Cafe Science event on Monday.
28 October 2011	Irish author announced as winner of £10,000 Dundee International Book Prize	Dublin-born author Simon Ashe-Browne has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Dundee International Book Prize.
28 October 2011	Top crime writers vie for morgue honour	They are used to battling for the top spots in the bestsellers charts. Now ten of the world’s leading crime writers are vying for the honour of having a new morgue and research facility at the University of Dundee named after them.
26 October 2011	Can we grow enough food to feed the world?	The many challenges posed by the need to feed a massively expanding world population will be explored during the biggest celebration of science ever to take place in Dundee.
26 October 2011	Dundee Literary Festival - Friday, 28th October	Appearances by best-selling authors Alexander McCall Smith and Victoria Hislop are among the highlights of Friday's Dundee Literary Festival events.
26 October 2011	How our planet became green - Inspiring People lecture in Dundee	Renowned geologist and TV presenter Professor Iain Stewart is to take an audience at the University of Dundee back 400 million years in time to explore the secrets of life on Earth.
26 October 2011	Science fiction into science fact - Dundee Arts Cafe event, 1st November	A discussion of how the novels and short stories of pioneering science fiction writer H.G. Wells anticipated new technology up to a century before it’s development will be held in Dundee next week.
25 October 2011	Dundee Literary Festival - Thursday, 27th October	Fresh faces, vital voices, poetry and pieces will help celebrate the written word when the Dundee Literary Festival continues on Thursday.
24 October 2011	'Communities, Wellbeing and Science' - public event, Sat Oct 29th	The impacts - both positive and negative - that health and wellbeing issues have on people’s lives will be explored at a day of public engagement hosted by the Social Dimensions of Health Institute (SDHI) in Dundee on Saturday October 29th.
21 October 2011	Where's Wallace? Dundee! - First stop for intrepid film maker's charity quest	A dedicated fundraiser who gave up his job and his flat on his 30th birthday to embark upon an ambitious social media charity quest will visit researchers at the Dundee Cancer Centre today (Monday 24 October).
21 October 2011	Dundee International Book Prize - winner announced Oct 27th	The winner of this year's Dundee International Book prize and the £10,000 reward - the highest offered by any UK prize for unpublished authors - will be revealed on Thursday October 27th.
20 October 2011	AICR £200,000 grant to Dundee Researcher	A Dundee-based scientist has been awarded £202,807 by a Fife charity to investigate what makes our bodies' natural cancer fighting cells turn dangerous.
20 October 2011	University signs up for staff savings scheme	The University of Dundee has entered into a partnership with the local Discovery Credit Union in a move which will provide its 3000 staff members with easy access to safe saving and borrowing facilities.
18 October 2011	Protecting the brain when energy runs low	Researchers from the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Dundee have shed new light on the way that the brain protects itself from harm when ‘running on empty’.
18 October 2011	University of Dundee enters into a collaboration agreement with TPP Global Development to establish a drug development fund	The University of Dundee has announced a collaboration agreement with TPP Global Development Ltd to establish a drug development fund.
17 October 2011	Sell-out signs predicted for Literary Festival	Strong early ticket sales have led the organisers of the Dundee Literary Festival to predict that 'sold out' signs will soon be going up for several of this year's events.
14 October 2011	Sentient Medical progresses towards hearing loss relief	A University of Dundee spin-out company has received commercial development funding and further business investment to help develop technology for the relief of hearing loss.
14 October 2011	Cut, scratch and score with leading artists	People from Dundee and the surrounding area will next week have chance to team up with acclaimed figures from the UK art scene for a major new performance and exhibition commissioned by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
14 October 2011	From the local to the international - Dundee Literary Festival 2011	Local authors are at the heart of the stellar line-up of writing talent appearing at this year’s Dundee Literary Festival.
14 October 2011	Universities to get their teeth into oral health problems	The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is to support the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee with £132,000 to strengthen their collaboration on dental and oral health research, which will contribute to better dental health services and care across Scotland.
13 October 2011	Dundee 'multi' project wins European acclaim	An interactive study of life in a Dundee tower block scheduled for demolition has won a major film prize in Poland.
12 October 2011	City's universities work together to strengthen links with India	Dundee's two universities are strengthening the city's historic ties with India this week as they jointly welcome a high-level delegation from one of that country’s leading centres of education and research.
12 October 2011	Minister to visit Planning students and staff	Minister for Local Government and Planning Aileen Campbell MSP will visit the University of Dundee tomorrow to meet with Town & Regional Planning staff and students.
12 October 2011	Government evidence based on flawed research, experts say	Research used to compile the Government's controversial Health and Social Care Bill is flawed, according to a Dundee academic who worked with a team analysing the proposed legislation.
12 October 2011	'Tom Foolery' to raise money for serious cause	A night of fun, festivities and fundraising will take place at the University of Dundee's Bonar Hall this Friday.
12 October 2011	Memorial Service for Dr David Dawson	The University Chaplaincy will tomorrow hold a memorial service for former Anatomy lecturer Dr David Dawson, who sadly passed away on September 25th.
11 October 2011	Dundee scientist awarded £80,000 Rank Prize for research into human nutrition	Professor John Cummings, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Gastroenterology at the University of Dundee, will receive £80,000 after winning one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of nutrition research.
10 October 2011	'Seeing the World Through Machine Eyes' - Café Science Extra, Wednesday, 12th October	'Seeing the World Through Machine Eyes' - Café Science Extra, Wednesday, 12th October
10 October 2011	Dundee to play role in promoting Nile region peace	The University of Dundee's UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science has been asked to participate in high-level discussions aimed at re-starting stalled talks on the Nile basin treaty and preventing water wars in the region.
7 October 2011	Civic Reception for Chinese delegation	A group of visiting academics and officials from Tianjin, China, will have their links with the University of Dundee celebrated on Monday when a Civic Reception is held in their honour.
7 October 2011	Hugo Vickers - The Queen & Cecil Beaton - public lecture Sat Oct 8th	Hugo Vickers, biographer of Cecil Beaton and an acknowledged expert on the Royal Family, will give a public lecture in Dundee tomorrow as part of the events surrounding the V&A exhibition 'Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration'.
7 October 2011	Sir Max Hastings to deliver Dundee Remembrance Lecture	Sir Max Hastings, one of the foremost historians of the Second World War, will visit Dundee on Remembrance Weekend to deliver a lecture challenging orthodox views of the conflict.
6 October 2011	Staff give students a lesson in University Challenge	University of Dundee staff made it a hat-trick of victories over students last night with a resounding win in this year’s University Challenge charity event.
5 October 2011	Staff and students get set to square off once again	He's already turned himself into Hannibal Lecter, Hermann Goring and the Reverend William Stryker, and Hollywood star Brian Cox is set to fill another terrifying role tonight when he plays the part of Jeremy Paxman.
4 October 2011	Dundee to take part in international identity management study	Researchers from the University of Dundee are among a team of academics from UK universities sharing in a £1.36million grant to examine future technologies of identity management.
4 October 2011	Dundee Professor elected to the Royal Scottish Academy	Alan Robb, Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at the University of Dundee and a former Head of the School of Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has been elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy.
3 October 2011	University of Dundee - statement from Court	The University of Dundee Court, the governing body of the institution, met today to discuss the recent correspondence from the Scottish Funding Council relating to discussions with the University of Abertay.
3 October 2011	The Big-ger Bang - Science explosion hailed as the best yet!	From robots, trees and rockets to hair and outer space, Dundee is set to be ignited with the biggest and best Dundee Science Festival ever.
2 October 2011	‘Wot Comics Taught Me..’ - Dundee Comics Day 2011	Judge Dredd creator John Wagner, and Frank Quietly, one of the world’s most sought-after comics artists, are among the top names appearing at this year’s Dundee Comics Day.