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Aberdeen University Students' Union wins top award
Aberdeen University Students’ Union wins top awardAberdeen University Students’ Association (AUSA) Union has been formally recognised as being ‘The Best Students’ Union in the UK,’ by Club Mirror Magazine, part of the Quantum Business Media Group, whose publications include the Publican trade magazine. This monumental achievement comes on the back...
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Winning ways for Aberdeen University's student hockey squad
Winning ways for Aberdeen University’s student hockey squadThe University of Aberdeen’s male student hockey team has competed in a premier indoor hockey tournament for students in Scotland.The prize on offer for the six competing teams (Napier, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, and Aberdeen) was the chance to act as Scotland’s representatives...
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New technology focuses on the treatment of eye disease
A team of ophthalmologists at the University of Aberdeen has developed a new technique that allows them to obtain full colour images of the back of the eye.The new technique, developed by Dr Ayyakkannu Manivannan and his colleagues, uses low-power coloured lasers to give a full colour picture that ophthalmologists...
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Grouse house at the click of a mouse
Ecologists at the University of Aberdeen have developed a new computer tool that could help save the capercaillie from extinction in Scotland. Speaking at the British Ecological Society's Winter Meeting, to be held at the University of Warwick on December 18-20, 2001, Dr Keith Marshall will explain that the new...
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Aberdeen's Wellsound music therapy centre opens
Aberdeen’s Wellsound music therapy centre opensThe official opening of the University of Aberdeen’s new Centre for Music Therapy, in the Faculty of Education, Hilton, will take place today (Friday, December 14) at 12.30pm. The Centre’s patron is the distinguished percussionist Evelyn Glennie.Wellsound is a charity project, which was launched in...
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Aberdeen University's excellence in research recognised
Aberdeen University’s excellence in research recognisedEvery five years the quality of research in British universities is reviewed and the results are used by higher education funding bodies to distribute public funds for research, the results of which are released today (Friday, December 14).They have proved a triumph for the University...
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New project aims to promote pig health management
The University of Aberdeen has launched a Government-funded project aimed at understanding and promoting the best practices in pig health management.Livestock Projects Manager Jamie Robertson, of the University’s Department of Agriculture and Forestry, said: “We are delighted, after a substantial delay caused by Foot and Mouth, to be working with...
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Planning success paves the way for Marischal College redevelopment
Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM) and the University of Aberdeen have cleared a major hurdle in their bid to convert Marischal College to 168,000 square feet of offices following Aberdeen City Council’s decision today (Thursday, December 6) to grant consent.The Council resolution is subject to negotiation of a legal agreement covering...
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Workshop to address new perspectives on Aberdeen typhoid outbreak
Research into Aberdeen’s most famous food poisoning outbreak is the topic of a one-day research workshop being held at the University of Aberdeen tomorrow (Thursday, December 6).The aim of the workshop, which will take place in the Senior Common Room at the University, is to provide an opportunity to report...
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Aberdeen University merges with Northern College of Education
Today marks an historic chapter in the 500-year history of the University of Aberdeen as it merges with the city’s Northern College.The merger of the Northern College’s Aberdeen and Dundee campuses with the universities of both cities follows years of negotiations between the institutions and will bring together the distinctive...
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Fertility expert Lord Winston to deliver University Christmas lecture
The distinguished medical scientist and doctor, Robert Winston, best known for his pioneering work and research in the field of fertility, will give a lecture at the University of Aberdeen’s Medical School this week.Professor The Lord Winston, who fascinated television viewers with his award-winning BBC science programmes, including Child of...