media opportunity 4.15pm, 13 March Chaplaincy, Cross Row, Dundee
photo opportunity 4.30pm, 13 March Chaplaincy, Cross Row, Dundee
Terry Waite CBE, the Archbishop of Canterbury's former special envoy, who was captured in Lebanon and held hostage for 1,763 days, is to speak at the University of Dundee on Tuesday 13 March when he delivers this year's Margaret Harris Lecture on Religion.
Mr Waite, who will talk on "Survival in Solitude" is the latest in a series of high profile figures to deliver the annual lectures. Past speakers have included Sir Stewart Sutherland, Sir Jonathon Porritt and Rabbi Julia Neuberger.
The lecture takes place in the Bonar Hall at 5.15pm on Tuesday 13 March, is free and open to the public.
(Media opportunity 2.30pm Monday 12 March, Tayside Institute of Child
Health. Ninewells hospital, level 4, opposite ward 29.)
The Tayside Institute of Child Health will accept a cheque from the
Dundee Siroptimists in memory of the late Dr Priscilla Turnbull on 12 March at
2.30pm. The money will go towards furnishing an adolescent room in the
TICH play room.
(Photo opportunity 5pm, Wellcome Trust Building, 15 March)
The relationship between animal and human disease such as BSE will be
explored by Professor Robin Weiss of University College London in a
lecture at the University of Dundee on Thursday 15 March at 5pm in the Wellcome
Trust Building. Professor Sir David Lane will take the chair.
Animals have often been the source of human disease with recent examples including AIDS and variant CJD. HIV only recently crossed from primates yet it has already killed over 20 million people. Will new procedures like animal-to-human transplants unleash further infections?
Sir David Lane said: "The positive benefits of animal to human transplants for thousands of people desperately awaiting suitable donor organs are very clear but need to be balanced against the risk of new infections being introduced into man".
Contact Jenny Marra 01382 344910