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Grampian Area Student Tutoring Scheme
All 78 students who participated in this year's scheme will be presented with a certificate of completion by Tim Smith, BP's Manager of Government & Public Affairs at an event on Wednesday 30 April at BP Dyce, Aberdeen. Tim Smith said: "The Student Tutoring Scheme is an excellent initiative -...
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North-east couple say a big thank-you to world-renowned E. coli expert
The University of Aberdeen is to benefit from the funding-raising efforts of a North-east family later today (Wednesday, April 30), when Professor Hugh Pennington, Head of the University's Department of Medical Microbiology, will be presented with a cheque for nearly £1,400.The funds have been raised by Ross and Nicola MacRae,...
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Aberdeen academic awarded prestigious Scottish Science Award
This year's Saltire Society Scottish Science Award is to be awarded to Aberdeen scientist, Professor John Speakman, for the major contribution his work has had in the field of biological sciences. John Roger Speakman is Professor of Zoology and Head of Integrative Physiology at the University of Aberdeen and Head...
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New wildflower meadow to be planted on campus
As part of the University of Aberdeen's ongoing commitment to sustainable development a number of students and staff will join University Vice Principal, Professor Dominic Houlihan, at the planting of a new wildflower meadow on King's College campus today (Wednesday April 23).A vacant site bordering the University's MacRobert Building and...
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The University of Aberdeen receives major funding boost for research into co-witness memory study
co-witness memory studyResearch at the University of Aberdeen into how we remember extraordinary events has received a vital boost thanks to funding from The Leverhulme Trust. A research team from Aberdeen, in collaboration with the University of Sussex, has received over £55,000 of funding towards a new type of laboratory-based...
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Joblink Recruitment Service hosts Employment Fayre
The University of Aberdeen's Student Employment Service; Joblink, will host a student Recruitment Fayre tomorrow (Wednesday, April 23). Attending the fayre will be leading employers from across the North-east of Scotland and hundreds of students. The fayre is being held on campus in the Elphinstone Hall.First held in 1998 the...
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Collaborative study by the University of Aberdeen shows high blood pressure in pregnancy increases r
A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has carried out a comprehensive study of women during pregnancy, the results of which will be published in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ), (Friday, April 18). The collaborative study, involving researchers from the Departments of Public Health, Obstetrics & Gynaecology,...
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Forgotten folk-songs available at the touch of a button
Experts at the universities of Aberdeen and Sheffield have this week unveiled a unique but neglected collection of traditional British song and drama.The James Madison Carpenter Collection is one of the largest and most important collections of folksong and folk drama ever made in Britain. Carpenter travelled 40,000 miles around...
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International Rural Network Conference
Delegates from across the world are expected to attend a major international conference in Inverness in June 2003. Taking Charge (June 23 - 27, 2003) will focus on various issues around rural development with speakers sharing experience and the latest research on issues of rural community empowerment, rural health and...
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The Alfie Tough Music Scholarship
A fund raising campaign to create a new Music Scholarship has been launched this month by the University of Aberdeen. The purpose of the scholarship is to commemorate a remarkable and much loved man, Alfie Tough MA (1919-2003), who was an inseparable part of Old Aberdeen for almost 60 years.Known...
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New text book written by Aberdeen academics Health and Illness in the Community: An Oxford Core Text
Health and Illness in the Community: An Oxford Core TextNext week sees the publication of a new text book for medical students, Health and Illness in the Community. The book has been edited by two GPs and a Medical Sociologist from the University of Aberdeen's Medical School. Contributions to the...
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Winning words on a passage from India
An Indian student's inspiring story of her year at the University of Aberdeen has placed her in line for a major award.Sujitha Subramanian, a law student at Aberdeen, has been shortlisted in the International Student Awards run by the British Council, the UK's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural...
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City history comes to the University
The University of Aberdeen has been given a magnificent group of 120 prints and drawings put together by James F Walker, former Senior History Master at Aberdeen Grammar School. His other large collection, a library of books on the history of the city, was lost in the Grammar School fire...
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Easter Revision School
Over 75 young people from Northfield, Peterhead, Torry and St Machar Academies will take part in two days of activities designed to support their Standard Grade Revision in English and Mathematics. This will include keynote lectures by Dr Paul Schlicke and Dr John Reid who will make entertaining presentations on...
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ESONET: new pan-European ocean monitoring project
An important new pan-European ocean monitoring project, coordinated by the University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab, is about to get under way following significant funding from the EU. Scientists across nine countries will now work to establish a network of sea floor observatories in an important first step in the management and...
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Higher Modern Studies Conference
The day long Conference has been based around the school curriculum with pupils spending the morning discussing UK political issues and the afternoon focussing on specific Higher Modern Studies exam technique and general study skills. This will be the third year that the Conference has been organised.Tom Ferguson, Dyce Academy...
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Psychologists studying surgeons' non-technical skills
Industrial psychologists at the University of Aberdeen have been awarded £83,000 for a new two year research project to develop a taxonomy of surgeons' non-technical skills. These are the critical thinking and team work skills which are required for effective surgical practice in the operating theatre.The project is jointly funded...
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Schools Maths Challenge
The Faculty of Education at the University of Aberdeen is to host the first regional Enterprising Mathematics Challenge competition for primary schools tomorrow (Wednesday April 2) at an event jointly organised with Aberdeen City Council and SETPOINT Scotland North, at the Elphinstone Hall, University of Aberdeen.Over 60 school pupils from...