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Aberdeen Students' Charities Campaign
A total of £26,000 will be given to 47 local charities and organisations with each receiving amounts varying from £100 to £5000. Students from throughout the city have organised a variety of events, activities and collections throughout the past year with all proceeds going to charity.Three organisations will benefit from...
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North-east figures to be honoured by University of Aberdeen
Two figures closely connected with the North-east will be awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen in this year's winter graduation ceremonies at Marischal College, on Friday November 29 and Saturday November 30, 2002. The University will honour one of Britain’s best-known popular entertainers of the 1970s and 80s,...
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Significant new funding into farm animal welfare problems
Research into one of the major farm animal welfare problems in Europe – lameness in dairy cows - is set to benefit from significant new EU funding. A project coordinated from the Department of Agriculture & Forestry at the University of Aberdeen has just received funding worth 2.9M Euros (£1.8M)...
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Valuable New Entrance Bursaries and Scholarships
Over 60 Entrance Bursaries and Scholarships, totalling more than £60,000 are now available for new students intending to study at the University of Aberdeen in the next academic year, starting September 2003.Coping with the financial burden of full-time undergraduate study is a major concern for students. The University of Aberdeen...
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UK's leading environmentalist to speak at University
The UK’s best-known environmentalist, Jonathan Porritt CBE, will deliver the keynote speech at the University of Aberdeen’s second annual Conference on Sustainable Development and the Oil and Gas Industry taking place tomorrow (Thursday ).Sustainable Development – the process needed to achieve a sustainable society - is now an issue of...
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Blood Tribe from Alberta visits Marischal Museum
Five members of the Blood Tribe in Alberta have flown to Scotland to visit the University of Aberdeen’s Marischal Museum to investigate a full-length Indian head-dress in the Museum collections.Every summer members of the tribe conduct a ritual Sun Dance. For many years the Tribe’s Horn Society have used three...
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Evidence of massive asteroid collision discovered by Aberdeen scientists
by Aberdeen scientistsScientists at the University of Aberdeen have discovered evidence in south west Britain of a massive prehistoric explosion that scattered debris across the British Isles. The explosion seems to have been caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth 214 million years ago.Samples of the material have been tested...
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Principal C Duncan Rice to chair London event celebrating one million Erasmus students
one million Erasmus studentsAs Chairman of the UK Socrates Erasmus Trust, Professor C Duncan Rice, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, will this evening (Thursday, 14 November) Chair a special event in London that celebrates the fact that the Erasmus scheme will this year help its one millionth...
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Dolphins on the move
A new three year research project on changing patterns of distribution and behaviour of dolphins along the North-east coast of Scotland is to be launched today (Thursday November 14) at Aberdeen Maritime Museum.Bottlenose dolphins have increasingly been spotted along the coast of the North-east of Scotland but little is known...
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Advanced technology for leak location and sealing is launched
A novel method of leak detection and sealing for oil pipelines has been designed by a team of researchers from the Department of Engineering, at the University of Aberdeen.The technology offers the industry a method of solving a series of generic pipeline integrity problems that adversely affect the oil and...
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