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Ireland's man in Scotland to chart Celtic connections
Ireland’s man in Scotland to chart Celtic connectionsIrish diplomat Daniel Mulhall will deliver the third in a series of prestigious lectures at the University of Aberdeen next month.Mr Mulhall, Consul General of Ireland in Scotland, will share his views on how Ireland is building bridges with Scotland in trade, tourism,...
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Aberdeen Bacterial experts to forge links with Mexico
Scientists from NCIMB Ltd, a spin out company of the University of Aberdeen, have secured substantial funding from Scottish Enterprise Grampian.The funding will allow Dr Peter Green, curator of NCIMB (National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria) to visit one of the largest untapped microbial resources in the world...
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Special honour to recognise Polish links
A 96-year-old former soldier in the Polish Army in Britain during the Second World War, who retired from the University of Aberdeen’s Logic Department (now part of the Philosophy Department) in 1975, is receiving a special honour tomorrow (Tuesday, 27 February) from Poland’s oldest university.The Rector of Jagiellonian University in...
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BSc Open Day
The University of Aberdeen is offering its first open day for prospective science students on Wednesday, February 28. Over 1,000 potential BSc students will be coming to the activity-filled day and more than 300 will be staying overnight to enjoy the full experience.The University of Aberdeen has had a 17%...
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Scottish parents to get insight into Aberdeen student life
Recruitment officers at the University of Aberdeen will take to the road again this year for a series of parents’ evenings throughout Scotland.Parents of youngsters interested in studying at the 500-year-old institution this year will have an opportunity to meet members of staff and student representatives to find out more...
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Scotland's links with nineteenth century Caribbean slave trade revealed in rare papers which have co
Scotland’s links with nineteenth century Caribbean slave trade revealed in rare papers which have come to AberdeenAn Aberdeen historian researching the history of Newmachar has uncovered a fascinating insight into the role of Scots in the West Indies trade of the early nineteenth century.Professor Roy Bridges has been studying the...
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Aberdeen University students to host major environment and industry conference
Aberdeen University students to host majorenvironment and industry conferenceStudents from throughout Europe and North America will take part in a major European environmental and industrial conference to be hosted by the University of Aberdeen in April.Up to 150 environmental science and environmental engineering students from throughout Europe, Russia and Canada...
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North East scores double Queen’s Anniversary Prize Success
North East scores doubleQueen’s Anniversary Prize SuccessThe University of Aberdeen and Banff and Buchan College of Further Education are two of only three institutions in Scotland to have received an award in the year 2000 round of Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.This is an amazing achievement for...
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney launches Aberdeen writers festival
Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney today (Wednesday, February 7) visited the University of Aberdeen to launch WORD 2001, Scotland’s largest literary event outside the Edinburgh Book Festival.Dr Heaney is an honorary graduate of the University and a patron of the four-day event, which will feature leading Scottish and Irish...
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Prominent North-east businessman makes the Celtic connection
A new Celtic Studies scholarship, set up by the family of a prominent Aberdeen businessman, has been awarded to a research student from Perthshire with Lewis connections.The first MacLeod Scholarship, established to mark the University’s Quincentenary by Dr Calum MacLeod, his late brother and his sisters in memory of their...
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So where do YOU sit in the cinema?
In a recently published paper in Cortex, the UK-based international journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behaviour, Professor George Karev from the Bulgarian Academy of Science, demonstrated that right-handed people prefer to sit on the right-hand side of a cinema. 88% of 870 participants chose to...