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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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Aberdeen hosts seminar on long-term health researcher
The University of Aberdeen will today (Wednesday, November 13) be hosting a one-day seminar, Cohort Studies in Theory and Practice. This will bring together health researchers from all over Scotland to discuss studies which follow up a large group, or cohort, of normal people over a number of years to...
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New appointment at the University of Aberdeen for one of the world's leading theologians
Professor John Webster, who occupies the Lady Margaret Chair of Divinity at Oxford University, has been appointed to the Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen.Professor Webster has won international acclaim for his work on the theology of Karl Barth, the 20th century Swiss theologian often considered the...
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Principal C Duncan Rice to speak at prestigious UK/US conference on philanthropy
Leaders of foundations and universities from the United Kingdom and the United States will meet today (Monday, November 11), at Magdalen College, Oxford University, to discuss ways of strengthening philanthropic support for universities and cultural institutions in both countries. Professor C Duncan Rice, Principal & Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen, will...
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Hundreds expected to attend the University of Aberdeen's Act of Remembrance Sunday Service
The University of Aberdeen will this weekend (Sunday, 10 November) be holding an Act of Remembrance Sunday Service in King’s College Chapel, with 500 people expected to attend.A parade will take place along the High Street, Old Aberdeen, at 10.15am, comprising of representatives of the Universities’ Air Squadron, the Royal...
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Fathers and the changing face of work
The University of Aberdeen is to be the venue for an international gathering of academics discussing the issue of Fathers and Fatherhood.Speakers from Columbia University, New York, Gotenborg University, Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim will join colleagues from across the UK at the seminar on...
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University nursery school manager set to retire with Royal recognition
with Royal recognitionThe manager of one of Aberdeen’s most international nursery schools is set to retire after being awarded an MBE.HRH Prince Charles presented Wilma Cumming, of the University of Aberdeen Rocking Horse Nursery, with her award at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, which she attended with her family.Wilma, who...
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Careering ahead at the University of Aberdeen
Companies and organisations from throughout the UK will today (Wednesday, 6 November) be represented at the University of Aberdeen’s annual Careers Information Fair.Representatives from 50 of the country’s leading financial, technical, industrial, teaching and professional organisations will be on hand to offer information and advice to students of all years....
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Full House for Oil Industry Training Event
The 10th annual Overview of the North Sea Oil and Gas Industry training conference taking place later this week (Thursday 7 and Friday 8 November) at the University of Aberdeen looks set to be one of the most successful in recent years.The two day intensive business training conference provides a...
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The Metaphysics of Childhood
The second in a series of six public talks on various Images of Childhood takes place tomorrow evening (Wednesday November 6, 5.30pm) at the University of Aberdeen Regent Lecture Theatre.Dr Baldacchino’s talk is the second in an innovative series of six public talks set up by the University of Aberdeen...