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Open Day visitors to hop on cut-price city bus tours!
Potential students and other visitors at this year’s University of Aberdeen Open Day will be offered the best way to see the Granite City this summer by hopping on board the sightseeing bus for cut-price fare.
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Fiddlers in fine tune for weekend NAFCo
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: Today (Friday, July 28) – Sunday, July 30 – see below for details
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Fiddlers tune up for a packed weekend of concerts and ceilidhs!
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: Thursday – Sunday (July 27 – July 30) - see below for details
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University chosen to undertake simulated patient study
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) have jointly-commissioned the University of Aberdeen to undertake a pilot study using anonymous 'simulated patients' who give immediate feedback to help community pharmacists and their staff provide safe and appropriate advice when supplying over-the-counter medicines.
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Electricity to heal wounds
Researchers in Aberdeen have made an exciting breakthrough in showing that electricity has a major impact on the healing of wounds.
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New ‘Meet & Greet’ service launched
The University of Aberdeen is proud to announce its ‘Meet & Greet’ service for new international students arriving in autumn 2006.
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New research to investigate diseased bones
A team of Scottish scientists have been awarded £400,000 to carry out research which will eventually help in the treatment being provided to patients suffering from different types of bone diseases.
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Scholars and performers to work in harmony at fiddle and dance festival
Four eminent scholars and outstanding performers in the field of fiddle music and dance will lead a major worldwide conference at next week’s North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) in Aberdeen.
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Open Day visitors to capture snapshot of campus life in photo competition
Visitors at this year’s University of Aberdeen Open Day are being given the chance to win a top of the range digital camera by capturing a snapshot of campus life.
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Leading scientist appointed to chair in Engineering
One of the UK’s leading scientists has joined the University of Aberdeen. Professor JMT Thompson FRS has taken up a part-time chair in Engineering under the institution’s highly successful international recruitment campaign.
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Natural History Centre kids relocate for exploration of deserts
Photo opportunities – see below for details
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University to return ancient Maori heads to New Zealand
The University of Aberdeen’s collection of nine tattooed Maori heads (toi moko) will return to their ancestral home of New Zealand, the University announced today (Wednesday, July 19).
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Kids get fit and healthy at summer sports school!
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: TOMORROW Thursday (July 20), between 10.50am - 12noon, Butchart Recreation Centre, University Road, Old Aberdeen
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Local partnership offers new hope in orthopaedic research
The University of Aberdeen today welcomed the announcement of a unique collaboration involving institutions from the North East of Scotland.
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Ticket sales soar as Aberdeen tunes up for UK’s biggest fiddle festival
Ticket bookings for the UK’s biggest fiddle and dance festival, NAFCo 2006, are up a massive 60% on the previous festival as traditional music lovers from across the world prepare to gather in Aberdeen to see the biggest names in the international fiddle and dance scene perform.
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New Zealand Art goes on display at Marischal Museum
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: TODAY (Monday, July 17), at 3.00pm, Marischal Museum, Marischal College
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Million pound refurbishment will create Scotland’s most modern fertility service
A major upgrade is on the way for facilities at Aberdeen Fertility Centre to create a state-of-the-art lab which will be the first in Scotland to meet rigorous new standards.
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Canadian fiddler set to thrill audiences at NAFCo 2006
Audiences at this year’s North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) will be treated to a performance by one of the world’s most unique fiddlers who will travel to Scotland from Canada to take part in next week’s festival.
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Portrait of the deep wins top award
A photograph taken by a team of researchers at Oceanlab - the University of Aberdeen’s world-leading facility into deep-sea research – has received a top prize in an international deep-sea image competition.
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University launches popular Open Day website
The University of Aberdeen will showcase its facilities to thousands of potential students later this summer at its 7th annual Open Day.
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‘Harry Potter’ author JK Rowling receives Honorary Degree
Joanne Rowling, better known as JK Rowling, the author of the internationally acclaimed Harry Potter series, was delighted to receive a Doctor of Laws (LLD).
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Aberdeen Academics featured in new publication
A hundred or so of the many world-changing discoveries, innovations and research projects that have come out of UK universities over the last fifty years are highlighted in a new publication out today (Wednesday, 5 July).
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New findings yield new insights into hydrocephalus
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have made a discovery which provides new insights into the genetic cause of hydrocephalus - too much fluid in the brain.
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Two members join the University Court
University of Aberdeen graduates from around the world have voted to elect energy industry specialist Jacquelynn Craw and leading city solicitor Joan Catto as their representatives on the University Court.
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Two members join the University Court
University of Aberdeen graduates from around the world have voted to elect energy industry specialist Jacquelynn Craw and leading city solicitor Joan Catto as their representatives on the University Court.