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Working Together to Improve the Loirston Recreation Area
MSc Rural and Regional Resource Planning students at Aberdeen University have been working together with people from communities of Nigg, Cove and Kincorth and relevant council departments on a project aimed at improving the Loirston Recreation Area.The project, initiated by Nigg Community Council through their interest in protecting and promoting...
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Aberdeen Theologian in Genesis discovery breakthrough
An Aberdeen-based theologian has published a new book which offers a startling new interpretation of the early chapters of the Old Testament Book of Genesis, and which also establishes a new and unexpected link between it and the Dead Sea Scrolls.Rev Dr Bruce Gardner, Honorary Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible...
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Aberdeen students to attend sixth annual recruitment fair
The sixth annual Joblink recruitment fair will be held at Aberdeen University Student Union at the Gallowgate on Wednesday, April 25.Staff at Joblink, the University’s employment service for students, are anticipating a dramatic increase in the demand for their services, as many students will be looking to secure employment for...
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Aberdeen University researchers target 13,000 Scottish SMEs in largest survey of its kind
The Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Aberdeen is set to launch the largest ever survey of small and medium sized (SMEs) businesses in Scotland, and the north of England.The Survey of Enterprise is being sent out to 13,000 separate businesses in manufacturing and service sectors in a bid...
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Health experts to discuss how disease spreads
Public health experts from throughout the UK have signed up for a course that will help them understand how disease spreads.Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment is a two-day professional development course organised by the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Prospect CPD, the University’s continuing professional development enterprise.Dr Andrew Lawson, University...
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Local engineering firm sponsors Aberdeen students
Two fourth year engineering students at the University of Aberdeen are the first recipients of the newly established ELMAR scholarships.Runi Joensen (24), from the Faroe Islands, and Portia Pirie (21), of Aberdeen, who are currently on a 5-year MEng degree programme in Mechanical Engineering, have each received £1,000 and an...
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University of Aberdeen summer graduations of 2001
Fourteen leading figures from the worlds of business, journalism, medicine, science, education, the arts and the church, will be awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen in this year’s graduation week at Marischal College, which begins on Monday, July 2.The ceremonies are as follows:Monday, July 2, at 3pm -...
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Aberdeen expert to advise government on farm animal welfare
Date: April 12, 2001An Aberdeen authority in animal science and husbandry, Professor Peter English, has been invited to serve on the Farm Animal Welfare Council for a further three years.Professor English, of the University of Aberdeen’s Department of Agriculture and Forestry, has served on the Council, which advises the UK...
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Aberdeen University receives £650,000 for major commercialisation projects
The Scottish Executive has announced £5.4million in funding for 36 research based projects, as part of the second round of the Proof of Concept (PoC) Funding. The University of Aberdeen has been awarded four funding packages, totalling £650,000.The Proof of Concept Awards are designed to help ideas at the early...
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Leading Agricultural Economist to Speak on Food in Europe
One of the most distinguished agricultural economists in Europe, Professor Ulrich Koester, of the Department of Agricultural Economics of the University of Kiel, Germany, will deliver the fifth Raeburn Lecture at the University of Aberdeen next week.His lecture, Food for Europeans : a German Perspective, will examine the German influence...
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Who Needs Friends? We Do!
Date: March 2, 2001Robbie Shepherd OBE, the popular BBC broadcaster and Press & Journal columnist, will help to launch the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute on Monday, March 12 at the Queen’s Hotel. The Friends will serve to help the Elphinstone Institute become more effective in fulfilling its cultural, community,...