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April 2012 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
30 April 2012	'Do Human Beings Have A Future?' - Dow Lecture 2012	Dr Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, will ask the question that affects us all at the Dow Lecture 2012 at the University of Dundee this Thursday - 'Do Human Beings Have A Future?'
27 April 2012	Abbey comes alive for Continuing Education students	The history of Arbroath Abbey will be brought to life this Saturday for students on the University of Dundee's Continuing Education classes.
26 April 2012	'Should Humanities be taught at University?' - Dundee Arts Cafe event on 1st May	Should non-vocational Humanities subjects still be taught at University when higher education funding is coming under increasing pressure?
26 April 2012	Exhibitions celebrating the legacy D'Arcy Thompson to open at University	Two exhibitions marking the start of a £100,000 project to enable the University of Dundee to build a collection of art inspired by the celebrated polymath D'Arcy Thompson open this week.
26 April 2012	DUNDEE NUMBER ONE IN UK IN STUDENT EXPERIENCE SURVEY	The University of Dundee has been ranked best in the UK in this year's Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey.
25 April 2012	£800k grant helps X-ray vision makes structures crystal clear	The Wellcome Trust has awarded a grant of £800,000 in support of structural biology and drug discovery in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee.
25 April 2012	'Cancer: What's Poverty Got To Do With It?' - Cafe Science event on 30th April	The links between poverty and cancer will be outlined at the next Cafe Science event taking place in Dundee.
24 April 2012	Drug Discovery Unit shortlisted for THE knowledge exchange award	The University of Dundee's Drug Discovery Unit has been nominated for a prestigious industry award recognising excellence in knowledge exchange.
23 April 2012	Dundee launches unique course in human-computer interaction	The University of Dundee has launched what is believed to be the only UK undergraduate course specialising in human-computer interaction.
20 April 2012	Event celebrating Scott's legacy examines latest climate change science from the Antarctic	The 100th anniversary of Captain Scott's death will be marked by a lecture at the University of Dundee celebrating the scientific legacy of his expeditions to the Antarctic
20 April 2012	Entries open for New Writing Dundee 7	Poets and prose writers, whether published or unpublished, are invited to submit entries for the upcoming seventh edition of New Writing Dundee.
20 April 2012	A new target for an ancient medicine	New research carried out by a University of Dundee scientist could lead to new uses for one of the world's oldest medicines.
19 April 2012	Dundee researchers to take part in poverty alleviation schemes around the world	University of Dundee researchers are to play a key role in two major international projects seeking to improve the lives of more than one billion people living in poverty around the world.
19 April 2012	Sonic Screwdriver Tightens up Fundamental Physics	When the scriptwriters for Doctor Who imagined a futuristic device, they came up with the Sonic Screwdriver. Now a team of physicists at the University of Dundee have taken equipment designed for MRI-guided focused ultrasound surgery and demonstrated a real Sonic Screwdriver - lifting and spinning a free-floating 10 cm diameter rubber disk with an ultrasound beam.
18 April 2012	ISE launches charity golf challenge	Golfers are being urged to show their support for men living with and beyond cancer by signing up for the Charity Golf Challenge Cup being launched by the Institute of Sport and Exercise at the University of Dundee.
17 April 2012	James Bond, country music and murder - Jeffery Deaver to make only Scottish appearance in Dundee	Jeffery Deaver, one of the world's most popular thriller writers, will be discussing James Bond, country music and murder when he makes an exclusive appearance at the University of Dundee next month.
13 April 2012	Arbitration partnership signed by CEPMLP	The University of Dundee's Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) is to play a key role in arbitrating disputes over energy resources in Scotland.
12 April 2012	Award-winning innovation celebrated at Dundee	Innovation in Life Sciences will be celebrated at a major event to be held at the University of Dundee next week.
12 April 2012	Eye imaging may shed light on heart disease risk	The University of Dundee is a key partner in a pioneering study aiming to determine whether a scan of blood vessels in the eye can identify signs of heart disease.
12 April 2012	'Cosmic Quest: The Story of Astronomy' - Graduates' Council Discovery Lecture 2012	The story of how mankind has sought to discover its place in the Cosmos will be told in this year's Graduates' Council Discovery Lecture at the University of Dundee.
11 April 2012	'Embracing the Everyday Through Art' - Dundee Arts Cafe event on 17th April	Professor Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) will explore how art enables people to embrace the everyday at a public talk in Dundee next week.
11 April 2012	Mobile phone film provides a window into the urban soul	A film shot entirely on a mobile phone is the centrepiece of a new exhibition hosted by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD).
10 April 2012	Renewables, erosion and planning to be discussed at coastal conference	The potential for offshore wind power generation in the Firth of Tay is among the subjects to be discussed at the Tay Estuary Forum's Annual Conference this Friday.
04 April 2012	Ross steps 'Into the woods' for Degree Show Project	The annual Degree Show at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee always produces the dynamic, the unusual and the dazzlingly ambitious. This year student Ross Lesslie is looking to combine all three by producing, directing, designing and acting in a full-scale Stephen Sondheim musical he is staging outdoors next week.
04 April 2012	Dee-Con 2012 brings best of anime, comics and games to Dundee	Exclusive film screenings, tournaments, exhibitions, parties and appearances by top industry figures have been confirmed for Dee-Con 2012, one of the country's biggest celebrations of anime, comics and video games.
02 April 2012	Get into the mind of a forgotten ape at Cafe Science Extra - 11th April	Dr Zanna Clay from Emory University in the US will visit Dundee next week to discuss how our primate cousins have contributed to the evolution of human language at the latest Cafe Science Extra event.
02 April 2012	T-rays - a practical alternative to X-rays?	X-rays are of course widely used for scanners across medicine and security. However, they do carry risk through generating radiation and ionising biological tissues.