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Calling all Scots speakers: your language needs you!
"For many people in Scotland and Ulster, the vocabulary we used to describe our world as children is fading into the past. If we are not careful, what these words meant and how we used them will never be recorded and barely remembered, if at all," is the stark warning...
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Principal's Award encourages local schoolchildren to aim for university
The University of Aberdeen has launched a new award that aims to recognise academic potential among local schoolchildren with ambitions to reach university.
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University choir 'come together' with Sheryl Crow for Beatles medley dedicated to Ringo Starr
The University of Aberdeen's Chapel Choir - led by Royal composer Paul Mealor - is to take centre stage at one of the world's most prestigious fundraising galas.
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£40m hub to drive health innovation and life sciences company growth in Aberdeen
A £40m investment project is set to deliver an innovation hub to double the number of life sciences companies in North East Scotland and support the national ambitions for the sector to collaborate, innovate and commercialise the next generation of therapies and healthcare solutions.
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New collaboration receives £5M to enable 100 doctoral students
The University of Aberdeen and Queen's University Belfast are bringing together their environmental research and teaching centres of excellence to deliver a unique PhD opportunity for 100 students. The students will be based both in Biological Sciences and in Geosciences.
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Can learning in Scots improve attainment?
An Aberdeenshire school has teamed up with the University of Aberdeen to investigate whether learning in Scots can help pupils to excel across the curriculum.
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Decommissioning - whose liability is it anyway?
Long-term costs of decommissioning to come under the spotlight at University business breakfast.
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University to welcome new Honorary Graduands at Winter ceremonies
The Chair of a local cancer charity, one of Ireland's most prolific poets and a former Chancellor of the Exchequer will receive honorary degrees from the University of Aberdeen this week.
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Feline focus for Scottish Book Week's 'rebels' in new book by an Aberdeen student
As Scottish Book Week (November 19-25) explores our most rebellious reads, a University of Aberdeen student has had her own work published looking at history's fearless and fabulous felines.
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Unlocking the city's past through its former residents
Students at the University of Aberdeen are reconstructing the lives of people who lived in the city hundreds of years ago through clues contained in their bones and teeth.
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University commemorates the centenary of WW1 armistice
The University will pay tribute to the 342 staff, students and alumni who fell during the First World War on Sunday with named crosses on Elphinstone Lawn.
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The University and World War One: Did you know?
As the world commemorates the centenary of the end of the First World War, we explore 10 University of Aberdeen connections to the 'war that was supposed to end all wars'
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Oldest direct evidence of dairying on the East Asian Steppe
University of Aberdeen archaeologists have contributed to important new research which has found the earliest direct evidence of dairying in the East Asian Steppe - a key economic, political and cultural area with trade routes that predate the famous Silk Road.
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Aberdeen part of £15m new Artificial Intelligence centre for Scotland
Scotland is to have its own £15.8m artificial intelligence health research centre, which promises to enable better patient diagnosis, treatment and outcomes, with Aberdeen playing a key role.
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Society's big issues under the spotlight at University conference
Leading thinkers in the fields of entrepreneurship, the economy and social policy will gather in Aberdeen next weekend (Nov 16-18) for a conference focusing on society's big issues.
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Life and work of Aberdeen's greatest war poet commemorated with plaque
The life and work of Aberdeen's greatest war poet has been commemorated with a plaque on the building in which he grew up.
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Aberdeen Cardiovascular and Diabetes Centre launched
The University of Aberdeen welcomed around 70 guests to the launch of the Aberdeen Cardiovascular and Diabetes Centre (ACDC) today (Friday, November 2).
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Scientists explore African biodiversity to create life-saving drugs
Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and University of Ghana are aiming to use Africa's rich biodiversity to create life-saving drugs.