University of Dundee Admissions News from 2008

We started our news service part way through 2008, here are the news items from 2008 ...

Research Assessment Exercise 2008
The University of Dundee has welcomed the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise which show that 54% of the University's research is achieving 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent' standards.
Posted 18th December 2008

Angus Council supports pupils to attend Dundee University
Angus Council is working in partnership with the University of Dundee to ensure that no young person is held back from reaching university by financial or social factors.
Posted 17th December 2008

Major Funding for Dundee to Train Water Experts
The University of Dundee has been awarded major funding from the European Union and the Government of Australia to train the next generation of specialists in the field of sustainable water resources.
Posted 11th December 2008

World-leading driver joins Dundee DRIVE team
Russ Swift, the world's top display driver and former racing champion, has agreed to become the President of the DRIVE Formula Student team at the University of Dundee.
Posted 10th December 2008

BSc Business Management Degree launched
A new undergraduate degree - BSc Business Management - will take its first students in September 2009.
Posted 9th December 2008

Busy New Year for Dundee Sports Biomedicine Student
Rebecca Ward, currently in her third year of a Sports Biomedicine degree at the University of Dundee, will have a very busy festive season as she has been selected for the Great Britain under-21 Hockey team.
Posted 5th December 2008

Discovery Day 9th January 2009
Share in the excitement of our inaugural professors' discoveries and celebrate the research success of three senior professors at the University's sixth annual Discovery Day.
Posted 1st December 2008

Dundee company take 'Everyman' to the Sorbonne
The JOOT Theatre Company, comprised of current and former students and staff at the University of Dundee, are to take their production of the medieval morality play 'Everyman' to the Sorbonne in Paris.
Posted 28th November 2008

Top Product Managers help Computing Students
The 'next gen' Scottish computer software students reveal the technology marketing secrets they've learned from a unique module taught this autumn at the University of Dundee
Posted 27th November 2008

See & Snap in the Lion's Den
Students from the University of Dundee Enterprise Gym took part in a Lion's Den, with the top prize of £1,000 - the Discovery Challenge Award.
Posted 27th November 2008

Dental student runs to cross country success
Dental student Morag MacLarty was in winning form at the weekend when she ran away with the Scottish Universities Sport Cross Country Championships title at Heriot Watt University.
Posted 26th November 2008

'Lost Dundee' book launched
A new book by Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architectural History and University Archivist Patricia Whatley, exploring Dundee's forgotten architectural heritage is being launched on Wednesday 3 December.
Posted 22nd November 2008

Dundee University Green Week 24th-28th November 2008
Staff and students at the University will be taking part in 'Green Week', a series of events highlighting the wide range of 'green' activities ongoing across the campus, from recycling awareness and Fair Trade goods to energy and water efficiency programmes.
Posted 21st November 2008

Free Literary Salon - International Scottish Literature with Gavin Wallace and Michael Schmidt
The last literary salon before Christmas takes place on 27th November- International Scottish Literature with Gavin Wallace and Michael Schmidt.
Posted 20th November 2008

Christmas Lecture - 'Our Implausible Universe' - Prof Carlos S. Frenk
The 2008 Christmas Lecture, presented by the University and Dundee City Council, will be delivered on Saturday 6 December by Professor Carlos Frenk FRS, one of the world's foremost cosmologists and an originator of the 'cold dark matter' theory.
Posted 19th November 2008

Life Science School of Learning & Teaching Student Awards 2008
Students at the School of Life Sciences Learning & Teaching, University of Dundee who have demonstrated outstanding academic performance were formally congratulated for their work.
Posted 14th November 2008

Awards continue to roll in for Dundee computing 'first ladies'
Dundee University computing student Suzanne Prior has maintained her stunning record of winning accolades for her work after she was named winner of the Best Student Project of the Year at the Computing Awards for Excellence.
Posted 8th November 2008

Accounting and Finance awards
The School of Accounting and Finance held its annual prize giving ceremony today, with students from across the globe being honoured by Sir Alan Langlands, Principal of the University.
Posted 5th November 2008

University approves £1.65million improvement to sports facilities
The University of Dundee has approved a £1.65million improvement to its existing sports facilities, which will see the creation of two new artificial pitches at Riverside Sports Grounds.
Posted 3rd November 2008

NCR 'Voice of the Future' competition
Computing students at the University of Dundee were challenged to envisage what life will be like in 2020, in a competition sponsored by NCR Corporation.
Posted 27th October 2008

Students have the answers - staff despair!
The inaugural staff v students University Challenge ended in victory for the younger generation at the Dalhousie Building last night.
Posted 9th October 2008

Maths finds the right formula
Maths seems to have found the right formula for success with a surge in the numbers of students signing up to study the subject at the University of Dundee this year.
Posted 8th October 2008

Psychology students attend national conference to launch study findings
Two Psychlogy final year students, Hannah Young and Maheshika Mackenzie, attended the 2008 National Literacy Trust conference.
Posted 2nd October 2008

MP to visit UK's happiest politics students
Dundee East MP Stewart Hosie will meet the country's happiest politics students when he visits the University of Dundee this week.
Posted 25th September 2008

Dundee shortlisted for 'University of the Year' 2008
The Times Higher Education Supplement has today announced that the University of Dundee has been shortlisted for 'University of the Year' at the forthcoming Times Higher Education Awards 2008.
Posted 25th September 2008

International Student Reception
The new intake of international students at the University of Dundee will be welcomed to the city tonight with a special reception.
Posted 24th September 2008

Computing's 'first ladies' head up prizewinners
The year's best performing computing students at the University of Dundee will be honoured this week at the annual prizegiving ceremony for the School of Computing.
Posted 23rd September 2008

Students get 'green' introduction
New students at the University of Dundee will get a guide to all things 'green' as part of the annual Freshers' Fair tomorrow.
Posted 19th September 2008

Animation graduate wins prestigious award
A University of Dundee animation graduate has won an award at a prestigious film festival.
Posted 18th September 2008

Freshers class of 2008 arrives at Dundee
The University of Dundee will welcome around 3500 new arrivals on Monday (Sept 15th) when this year's class of new undergraduates and postgraduates start their academic year.
Posted 15th September 2008

World's first graduates in Forensic Art display their work
The first graduates to pass through the world's only degree course in Forensic and Medical Art are displaying their work in Dundee this week - including the reconstructed face of an Egyptian mummy, new portraits of 18th century Dutch criminals, and a surgical training model for cancer surgery.
Posted 8th September 2008

New Dual Scots/English Degree option
From September 2008, the University of Dundee Law School will offer a new and unique dual Scots/English qualifying degree option.
Posted 1st September 2008

University graduate wins silver medal at the Olympics
A graduate of the University of Dundee, Wendy Houvenaghel, won silver in the Olympics this week.
Posted 22nd August 2008

Summer School 'Graduation'
Successful students who have attended the 16th annual DUAL Summer School at the University of Dundee celebrated at a 'graduation' ceremony in the presence of the Lord Provost.
Posted 14th August 2008

Physics bright sparks make international impact
Two Physics graduates from the University of Dundee are taking their honours projects to international audiences this month after their work was recognised by two of the biggest events in their field.
Posted 13th August 2008

Shanghai surprise for Dundee design graduate
A Dundee University graduate is set to swap watching the Olympics on television for showing off her own work in China after being invited to take part in one of the world's biggest art and design shows.
Posted 12th August 2008

Building the face of Bach
Forensic artists at the University of Dundee have recreated the face of Johan Sebastian Bach, one of the world's greatest composers.
Posted 29th February 2008