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July 2012 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
30 July 2012	Three budding authors named as Book Prize finalists	A practising psychiatrist from New York, a former professional astronomer based in Edinburgh and an "all ginger" copywriter from Manchester have been named as the finalists in the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize.
27 July 2012	DJCAD graduates rack up the prizes	Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design's Class of 2012 has been making its mark on the world and racking up the prizes since graduating last month.
26 July 2012	Grant to help collaboration to further knowledge of biochemistry	Scientists from the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews have been awarded £580,000 for leading-edge equipment to further their investigations into biochemical processes that play a role in all human disease states.
25 July 2012	Evolutionary leap over 500 million years ago gives new insights into human diseases	An evolutionary leap made at the bottom of the ocean over 500 million years ago gives new insights into the causes of human diseases such as diabetes, cancer and neurological disorders, according to newly published research from scientists at the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews.
24 July 2012	US conference beckons for disability technology group	A University of Dundee group researching how technology can be used to assist people with severe disabilities will later this week depart for a major international conference in Pittsburgh.
23 July 2012	Hypertension drug does not increase breast cancer risk for women over 55	A commonly prescribed medicine used to treat conditions such as heart failure and hypertension does not present women over 55 with any increased risk of breast cancer, a new study at the University of Dundee has shown.
23 July 2012	Sequencing technology helps reveal what plant genomes really encode	A team, led by scientists from the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute (JHI), have become the first researchers in the world to apply a new technique to sequence the genes of the plant Arabidopsis.
20 July 2012	Graduation Ceremony marks 20th anniversary of Summer School	The 20th cohort of graduates from the Dundee University Access to Learning (DUAL) Summer School will have their achievements marked at a ceremony next week.
18 July 2012	Wellcome Trust announces £11m boost for Dundee Researchers	The Wellcome Trust has announced over £11million in strategic funding to two research groups at the University of Dundee.
17 July 2012	DJCAD graduates racking up the prizes	A pair of graduates from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design are celebrating after winning major prizes at this year's New Designers event in London.
12 July 2012	Report calls for bereaved families to be granted greater access to road accident information	Families of road death victims in Scotland should be given full access to investigation reports relating to the incident, states a new report from the University of Dundee and Scotland's Campaign against Irresponsible Drivers (SCID).
10 July 2012	Major Life Sciences expansion for Dundee	The internationally renowned research base at the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee is to be further expanded with a new £12.5 million Centre for Translational and Interdisciplinary Research.
6 July 2012	Imag(in)ing the Past - new exhibition opening Saturday July 7th	The new exhibition in the Lamb Gallery at the University of Dundee explores some of the many ways that art has represented, challenged and been inspired by history, mythology and our ideas of the past.
6 July 2012	Film marks the launch of the AHRC's 'Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy'	The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has formally launched its new four year initiative, 'Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy'.
5 July 2012	V&A at Dundee joins with hobbyhouse for designmarket 2012	The latest developments in the V&A at Dundee project will be on show at DesignMarket in Edinburgh later this month, presented in innovative fashion thanks to a partnership with a Dundee University graduate.
5 July 2012	'Concrete in the low carbon era' - international conference July 9th to 11th	The importance of concrete in delivering sustainable building solutions in the 'low carbon era' will be discussed by experts from all over the world when they gather in Dundee next week.
4 July 2012	Dundee trio set for London 2012	Sports Scholar of the Year Eilish McColgan will head up the University of Dundee's delegation at London 2012 later this month.
4 July 2012	Fourth Goldsmiths' Award success for DJCAD jewellery graduates	The UK's top award for young jewellery designers has been won by a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) for the fourth year in succession.
4 July 2012	Lorraine Kelly to lay first brick for Medical School extension	Lorraine Kelly, the television presenter and former Rector of the University of Dundee, will lay the first brick of a major new extension to the University's Medical School on Friday July 6th.
3 July 2012	Discovering Drowned Doggerland	A hidden underwater world with a dramatic past will be revealed by scientists this week (3-8 July 2012) at a major public science festival.
3 July 2012	UK's first 'Energy Autonomous' building for Dundee	Students and academics at the University of Dundee have embarked on an ambitious project to design and build the UK's first entirely energy autonomous building within the city's Botanic Garden.
3 July 2012	Study shows appendectomies not a threat to fertility	Having the appendix removed does not affect a woman's chance of having a baby, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Dundee.
3 July 2012	Nobel Laureate to deliver 2012 Peter Garland Lecture	Professor Roger Tsien, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver the annual Peter Garland Lecture at the University of Dundee on Wednesday July 4th.
2 July 2012	Diabetic drug may offer benefits in heart failure	Research carried out at the University of Dundee has shown that the diabetes medicine metformin may prove beneficial to patients with heart failure.
2 July 2012	International line-up for University conference	Academics from three continents will come together at the University of Dundee this weekend for an international conference exploring how verbal and visual media can both preserve and fabricate the past.