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August 2013 Press Releases

Date	Title	Details
30 August 2013	Three-tonne vehicle to roll in and bring The Big Print to a conclusion	A three-tonne roadroller will this weekend be deployed to put the finishing touches to 10 new artworks celebrating Dundee's history, culture and landscape as the inaugural Print Festival Scotland (PFS) draws to a close.
30 August 2013	"Modern Masters in Print - a personal view" - Dundee Arts Café event on 3rd September	A new season of the popular Dundee Arts Café series will be launched next week with a personal look at work by some of the 20th century's leading artists currently being exhibited in the city.
30 August 2013	Welcome week 2013 at Dundee	Nearly 3000 new students from around the world will be welcomed to the University of Dundee from this weekend.
29 August 2013	SEPA and the University of Dundee mark river level monitoring centenary	The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the University of Dundee celebrate 100 years of continuous river level monitoring in Scotland today (29 August).
29 August 2013	Tough pre-season ahead for student athletes	Around 200 University of Dundee athletes from 16 sports will this weekend begin a six-day training camp designed to get them in peak physical condition ahead of the new season.
29 August 2013	Gout drug shown to benefit diabetes patients at risk of heart disease	New research carried out at the University of Dundee has led to the possibility of using an old drug to help prevent the biggest cause of death in Type II diabetes patients.
28 August 2013	Crawl round town to reveal creativity in unexpected places	Flats, back lanes and other equally unlikely locations across Dundee are to be converted into galleries and performance spaces for an 18-30-style "art crawl" taking place in the city this week.
27 August 2013	Delegates set to make an IMPACT on printmaking world	More than 400 artists, academics, and other practitioners from 31 countries will tomorrow descend upon the University of Dundee for the world's largest and most prestigious printmaking conference.
27 August 2013	An Olympic Gold medallist, The Great British Bake Off Champion, Some Prize-winning Fiction and a Dragon..	The Dundee Literary Festival 2013 programme is launched today (Tuesday August 27th) promising the most interesting and diverse event in its history.
26 August 2013	Great Scottish tradition celebrated in installation	Thirsty art-lovers attending the inaugural Print Festival Scotland (PFS) in Dundee next week will be able to enjoy a pint and game of dominoes while putting the world to rights at a unique venue created especially for the occasion.
26 August 2013	Vanilla inkers set for London	A group of aspiring Dundee-based jewellers are set to show off their stunning designs at the UK's biggest trade show next week thanks to the tremendous support shown to them by the public.
25 August 2013	New designers success for Dundee graduates	Graduates from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design have been celebrating winning prizes at one of the UK's biggest showcase events for rising talent in art and design.
21 August 2013	"D'arcy Thomspon Print Folio" unveiled	An exclusive set of 14 prints created by past and present members of staff at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) have gone on display ahead of the opening of the inaugural Print Festival Scotland this weekend.
19 August 2013	Dundee writers pay tribute to Gavin Wallace	The life and influence of the late Gavin Wallace, Literature Director of Creative Scotland and the power and engine of so much of Scotland's literary and cultural life, is being celebrated today at the Edinburgh Book Fringe by students and staff from the University of Dundee.
19 August 2013	New possibilities for efficient biofuel production	Limited availability of fossil fuels stimulates the search for different energy resources. The use of biofuels is one of the alternatives.
15 August 2013	'Making an Impact' - exciting new print exhibition at the University of Dundee	A new exhibition of more than 60 rarely seen prints by major Scottish and international artists as well as staff and students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) has opened at the University of Dundee.
15 August 2013	'Unweaving the Web of Online Human Trafficking' - experts to discuss global trade	Ways of tackling the global problem of human trafficking by targeting the digital technology that traffickers use to facilitate the multi-billion pound trade will be explored at a workshop hosted by the University of Dundee next month.
15 August 2013	National Student Survey shows DUSA is still country's best union	Dundee University Students' Association has once again been rated the top performing students' union in Scotland in this year's annual National Student Survey. Students from 132 institutions across the UK were asked if they were satisfied with the students' union, association or guild at their institution.
14 August 2013	GoSHARE is after your blood - help world-leading research in Tayside	Every day in Tayside around 7000 samples of blood are discarded after use. Now researchers are asking the public to let them use that blood to boost world-leading research into diseases such as cancer, diabetes and asthma.
14 August 2013	Artist tunnels into Dundee's past for Masters Show	An exploration of Dundee's largely forgotten Law Tunnel, created as a tribute to one of the city's greatest sons, is not only one of the highlights of this year's Masters Show at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), but could also help to bring about the re-opening of the near-200-year-old tunnel as a tourist attraction.
14 August 2013	Vitamin D shown not to lower blood pressure in older adults with high blood pressure	Treatment with Vitamin D does not help reduce high blood pressure in older people, a new study from the University of Dundee has shown.
13 August 2013	Major milestone for V&A at Dundee as project gets planning green light	The realisation of V&A at Dundee takes a major step forward as the construction process is set in motion following Dundee City Council's decision yesterday to grant the project planning permission. Tender notices will shortly be issued, to allow interested companies to begin bidding to construct the first V&A museum outside London.
13 August 2013	Minister views award-winning work at PAMIS	Minister for Children and Young People Aileen Campbell MSP today visited the University of Dundee-based charity PAMIS to see for herself the exceptional work being carried out on behalf of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) and their families.
12 August 2013	Programme for inaugural Print Festival Scotland announced	Thousands of visitors are set to join hundreds of artists and academics when Scotland's biggest ever celebration of the medium of print gets underway next week.
9 August 2013	Modern Masters in Print: Matisse, Picasso, Dali and Warhol	Prints by Picasso, Dalí, Matisse, and Warhol - four of the 20th century's greatest artists - go on display in Dundee this month in an exhibition from the V&A.
8 August 2013	'Transformations - D'Arcy Thompson and The Chimera in Art' - Cafe Science Summer Special on 14th August	A special summer edition of the popular Café Science series will see the University of Dundee's Matthew Jarron explore one of art's most enduring fictional creatures as part of Dundee Science Centre's 'Myths and Monsters' exhibition.
7 August 2013	Dundee researchers stand up for their research at Fringe	Five mirth-making academics from the University of Dundee are among the 1000-plus comedians taking part in this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
6 August 2013	History programme bolstered with new appointments	The University of Dundee can announce three new appointments to its History staff, broadening the programme's research and teaching range.
5 August 2013	DJCAD Masters Show 2013	Design work with the potential to transform lives and visually stunning art and will go on display when this year's DJCAD Masters Show opens later this month.
5 August 2013	£2.5million MRC senior fellowship award for cancer researcher	Dr Victoria Cowling, of the University of Dundee, has been awarded a prestigious Medical Research Council Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship to continue her ground breaking research on how mutations in cancer genes can result in tumours forming.
1 August 2013	Graduate Certificate in Management launched	The University of Dundee's Continuing Education programme has launched a new management course that enables people looking to enhance their career prospects to do so by combining work and study.
1 August 2013	Designer Jane Gowans 'pops up' at Harvey Nichols	Dundee-based designer Jane Gowans, one of the rising stars of the jewellery world, has secured a unique collaboration with Harvey Nichols Edinburgh which will see her establish an interactive installation and pop-up shop in the store throughout August.