Stories from the University of Dundee in 2018 and before
Press releases and features from 2018 and before
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The findings challenge a dogma that has persisted for more than 30 years.
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A University of Dundee researcher has been awarded £1.5 million to investigate a parasite that leads to the death of tens of thousands of children around the world.
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A previously undiscovered stress signal can kick-start a human cell’s ‘recycling centre’, University of Dundee scientists have revealed.
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Our annual Honour Project Symposium was held over two days featuring poster presentations by all students on the first day and selected competitive talks given on the second day.
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Soil conditions may have been responsible for hundreds of deaths following September’s deadly earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia.
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Platinum Informatics, a spin-out company from the University of Dundee, was one of the big winners at the Scottish EDGE Awards.
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The technology that made the ubiquitous LCD screen possible can be traced back to a former jute shed in Dundee
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A new study by plant scientists at the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute.
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The University of Dundee lifted the THE DataPoints Merit Award trophy at this year’s Times Higher Education Awards.
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The quest of researchers at the University of Dundee to develop a new male contraceptive has been boosted with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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A £25 million investment to grow the Tayside Biomedical Cluster was one of projects announced to receive investment in the newly signed Tay Cities Deal.
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The Tay Cities Deal has agreed to support JustTech, the world’s first institute for innovation in forensic science.
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Dr Greg Findlay from the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) has been awarded tenure.
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To his detractors, he has ridden roughshod over human rights and set back the cause of women and minorities by decades. But to his tens of millions of supporters, Donald Trump is the plain-speaking everyman who will Make America Great Again.
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The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is currently undertaking an inquiry into forensic science.
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Immernova is a start-up focussing on the development of augmented and mixed reality software solutions that can be integrated into contemporary industries. Its founders give us their top tips on starting a venture in Scotland
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Scientists have shed further light into the mechanisms through which the potato blight pathogen interacts with plant cells to promote disease.
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Scientists in the School have confirmed that a key cellular pathway that protects the brain from damage is disrupted in Parkinson’s patients, raising the possibility of new treatments for the disease.
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PhD students from the MRC PPU took part in the Biotechnology YES 2018 entrepreneurial competition.
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The success of a University of Dundee collaboration will be celebrated this week.
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An app aiming to help overseas students in their cultural adjustment for when they go abroad for university. Xiaoxiao, the founder, offers her top tips about starting a venture in Scotland
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We are launching our new #Forensicfactfriday social media series with a Halloween special.
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An award-winning online self-management platform for people with diabetes was first developed through the University in 2008. CEO, Dr Debbie Wake, tells us her top tips for setting up a business venture in Scotland
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The event allows our students to present their research findings to attendees from across the School.
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Kim Dale and Miratul Muqit have been promoted to Personal Chair (Professor) as part of the 2018 Annual Review process for academic staff.
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Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist Dr Richard Henderson gave the Peter Garland Lecture, the 15th Nobel Laureate to do so.
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Three of our undergraduate students were recognised in the Undergraduate Awards 2018.
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A group of scientists at the University of Dundee have been honoured for putting an end to a promising piece of research.
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The work of scientists in some of Africa’s remotest communities is about to be transformed by the University of Dundee.
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A recently published a review paper covering the role of forensic anthropology in disaster victim identification (DVI).
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A Plant Scientist in Dundee has been awarded almost £1.25 million to study the interaction between plants and soil microbes.
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Professor Anton Gartner and Professor Hari Hundal awarded for a joint project with Robert Gordon University.
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The postdoc work of Nicolas Loyer in the Januschke lab, Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, was recently published in Nature Communications.
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Scientists launched the new £5 million Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI).
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Kirsty started off studying English law, but after finishing her degree she wanted to learn more about Scots law. She explains how this helped her stand out.
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We look back at 120 years of education and social work training in Dundee
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The company founded by Professor Angus Lamond and Rob Kent has made the final for the Converge Challenge award category for those with an established idea.
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Researchers at the University of Dundee have identified a new drug target in parasites that cause major neglected tropical diseases, a discovery that contributes towards a global drive to eliminate these diseases by 2030.
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Three new funding awards from the Global Challenges Research Fund were recently made to research teams in the Division of Plant Sciences.
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Alan Page was commissioned to look at the implications of EU withdrawal for the devolution settlement after Brexit - in particular the relationship between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom
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Megan Anderson and Holly Morrison both graduated with an LLB and stayed on at Dundee to study for the Diploma Professional Legal Practice, which is the vocational qualification necessary to pursue a career in the legal profession in Scotland.
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Professor Colin Reid has completed a project which looked at legal issues surrounding potential new strategies for the conservation of biodiversity.
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Our students recently participated in a public mock trial in Dundee. They re-examined the medical evidence which led to the execution of William Bury, the last man to be hanged in Dundee.
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A recent PhD graduate from the School of Business, Dapel is very quickly carving out a successful career for himself
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Two University of Dundee scientists have been awarded prestigious fellowships.
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Dr Gabriele Schweikert has opened a new research laboratory in a joint appointment between the Division of Computational Biology in the School and Cyber Valley in Tuebingen.
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This year has seen our highest number of our students undertake the Intern China programme, which offers an excellent opportunity to live and study in China for 8 weeks
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Life Sciences hosted over 50 students this Summer.
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A multidisciplinary, cross-school project to design and create innovative augmented reality apps for medical education and training
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To meet the increasing need for public engagement in anatomy education and the growing demand from students and external agencies for anatomical and forensic training, we are investing in additional high quality teaching and public engagement space
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I'm Sara Lonegard, from Sweden, and I study MA Politics and International Relations
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Business Economics with Marketing graduate, Kristina, reflects on her past four years
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Achieving a first class degree whilst also building his career, Elliot Shaw reflects on an exciting four years at Dundee
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Multi-award winning BAcc Accountancy student, Rory McAlpine achieved great success during his time at the University
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First-class graduate Kieran McIntosh achieved all of his goals, and more during his 4 years at Dundee
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The University of Dundee was invited to participate in the annual 2018 Tongji International Construction Festival in Shanghai, sponsored by the Fengyuzhu Exhibition Company Ltd and hosted by Tongji University’s architecture school.
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I'm Josh Harper and I'm studying MA Politics and International Relations
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Christa is from Finland and chose Dundee to study Geography and Environmental Science with us.
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Adam is from Scotland, and he had a passion for Physical Geography since school. He talks here about why he loves getting out in the field.
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Steven is a 3rd year Mechanical Engineering student who is the President of the Aeronautical Society
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A PhD student at the University of Dundee and James Hutton Institute has been selected as Young Plant Scientist 2018 in the fundamental research category by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO).
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Dr. Mattie Christine Pawlowic has opened a new research laboratory jointly in the Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery (BCDD) and our new Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR).
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Professor David Coates, of the D'Arcy Thompson Unit, Biological and Biomedical Sciences Education in the School, has been presented with his MBE that he was awarded in HM The Queen’s Birthday Honours List this year.
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A University of Dundee scientist has been awarded €2 million to study how cells respond to infection.
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Professor Mike Ferguson CBE, Regius Professor of Life Sciences and Academic Lead for Research Strategy in the School was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) in today’s winter graduation at the University of St. Andrews
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The School of Life Sciences has been awarded a prestigious Gold Watermark for its work in bringing world-class science to the wider community.
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One of this year's Life Sciences graduates, Rebecca Buick, has won the 2017 Royal Society for Biology in Scotland Outreach Champion competition.
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The contributions of Dr Graham Christie and Dr David Martin from the D’Arcy Thompson Unit (DTU) and Biological and Biomedical Sciences Education (BBSE) have been acknowledged externally and by the School recently.
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New work from Professor Kate Storey’s laboratory has recently been published in eLife.
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We track the history of the University from its beginnings as University College to 1967 when it came into formal existence by virtue of a Royal Charter
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Maintenance of tissues requires a delicate balance between a number of processes such as the increase in the number of cells (proliferation) and the type of cells they become (differentiation).
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A collaboration between the Lamond and Watt groups identifies a key role of specific protein phosphatases in human skin stem cell commitment to differentiation.
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The research group led by Professor Tomo Tanaka has made a significant new discovery about how cells properly inherit their genetic information.
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The University of Dundee has formed a new link with China, with Professor Daan van Aalten from the School of Life Sciences being appointed a guest professor at Xiangya Hospital at Central South University in Changsha, China.
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Adrien Rousseau has opened a new laboratory in the MRC PPU to investigate signalling pathways controlling proteasome homeostasis.
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The face of a Scottish woman persecuted for witchcraft more than 300 years ago has been reconstructed by forensic scientists at the University of Dundee
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The University of Dundee is the world’s most influential pharmaceuticals research institution, according to a major global survey that places it ahead of the likes of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California Berkeley.
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Dr Sarah Coulthurst has been awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in microbiology for her work studying how bacteria are able to cause disease.
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John Rouse, together with researchers Detlev Schindler at the University of Wuerzburg, and Minoru Takata at the University of Kyoto, have won the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund 2017 Discovery Award.
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In a publication in eLife, Ly et al. report a workflow combining FACS and MS-based proteomics to analyse protein abundance and phosphorylation changes proteome-wide across the mitotic cell division cycle, including resolution of mitotic subphases.
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Scientists from the International Barley Hub have discovered a genetic pathway to improved barley grain size and uniformity, a finding which may help breeders develop future varieties suited to the needs of growers and distillers.
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Tom McWilliams, a postdoc at the MRC PPU has been awarded a prestigious Academy of Finland Research Fellowship.
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New small molecule tricks ‘molecular assassins’ to destroy one another
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All living cells make proteins to carry out nearly all the jobs that keep them alive, including the enzymes that speed up chemical reactions and molecular pumps that move molecules from one place to another.
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Scientists at the School have identified the structure of a key enzyme that protects the brain against Parkinson’s disease.
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A new article from the Lamond group, published in eLife, reports the identification of the plant biflavone, hinokiflavone, as a pre-mRNA splicing modulator (Pawellek et al., 2017).
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Evotec invests in Exscientia to advance AI-driven drug discovery
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Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, today visited the University of Dundee where he was given an insight into the world leading research being carried out in Life Sciences.
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Dr Kim Dale from the School has been recently appointed as the University academic lead for International activity in the ASEAN region.
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Life Sciences researcher Professor Karim Labib has been awarded £2million to explore the role that one of the most fundamental processes in cell biology plays in cancer.
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A new diagnostic test developed from research at the Universities of Dundee and Cambridge has been launched with the aim of helping eliminate the disease known as African sleeping sickness.
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A new manuscript from the Lamond group, published in Nucleic Acids Research (Brenes et al., 2017), reviews the creation and functionality of the Encyclopedia of Proteome Dynamics (EPD).
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University of Dundee research is the best in the UK at influencing innovation, according to a new report published today.
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The Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) in the School has generated £2.7 million income to the University from industrial collaborations for their high quality therapeutic projects where there is a clinical unmet need.
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Mallzee was the most downloaded multi-retailer shopping app in the UK in 2016. CEO and Founder, Cally Russell offers us his top tips
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Dr Marios Stavridis, Lecturer in the D'Arcy Thompson Unit, has been appointed to the role of Programme Lead for Biological Sciences, taking up responsibility for leading on the delivery and management of all our Biological Sciences BSc degree programmes.
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Charlotte Hurst has been recognised for her research and science communication work by the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) and the Biochemical Society respectively.
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A collaboration between Professor Julian Blow’s lab in Gene Regulation and Expression and the Drug Discovery Unit has provided insights into how differences between normal cells and cancer cells could provide a novel anti-cancer therapy.
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Biochemists at the Universities of Liverpool and Dundee have been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award in Science of more than £1.5M to study potential disease-causing mechanisms in the cell cycle.
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Professor Mike Ferguson, Regius Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has been appointed Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust, one of the UK’s largest charities.
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This collaborative event celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Academy of Urbanism, organised jointly with Architecture and Design Scotland and the University of Dundee, within the Scottish Government’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.
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A scientific collaboration between researchers in Scotland and China has uncovered a new kind of 'energy sensor' in our cells, changing our understanding of how the body monitors glucose levels and switches on the supply of alternative 'fuels'.
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Dr Miratul Muqit has been awarded the prestigious Francis Crick Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society in recognition of discoveries that have led to better understanding of the causes of Parkinson’s disease.
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Cells need to be able to control the localization of their content to fulfil specific functions.
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Pre-clinical collaboration focused on up to 10 targets nominated by GSK
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Researchers led by the University of Dundee have developed a way of exploring a ‘cellular mosh pit’ that may shed light on processes such as embryo development, wound healing and cancer growth.
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Research by Rosalia Fernandez-Alonso, a post-doctoral investigator in Dr. Greg Findlay’s lab in the MRC-PPU, has been published in and featured on the cover of the July edition of the journal EMBO Reports.
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Dr Jim Proctor, Jalview Coordinator, Bioinformatician and Open Source Software Developer, from the School has co-authored an article in the Conversation, Data visualisation isn’t just for communication, it’s also a research tool.
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Alan Alda received his honorary degree from the University of Dundee for his work promoting the importance of good communication in science.
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Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, received an honorary degree from the University of Dundee.
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Although attempts were made to establish an art school in Dundee as far back as the 1850s, it was not until 1888, following the creation of the Dundee Technical Institute, that a full-time art school become a possibility
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2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the University becoming an independent institution. As part of our anniversary celebrations we will be looking at how the University has grown and changed over five decades, in a series of articles throughout the year
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Space for Practice was created to run as a fringe project alongside the 2016 Festival of Architecture, which was itself part of Scotland’s Year of Innovation and Design 2016. The project ran across three of Scotland’s architecture schools simultaneously.
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Her Majesty the Queen has officially opened the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee.
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I'm Thomas Merritt, from London and I studied MSc International Security (Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Europe)
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Staff at Dundee University are gearing up for a pilot scheme that will see electric bikes used to get around campus.