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University of Aberdeen Careers Fair 1999
Companies and organisations from throughout the UK will be represented at the University of Aberdeen’s annual Careers Fair, which takes place next week.Representatives from more than 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...
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Aberdeen University holds open day for budding young scientists
Prospective students interested in a career in science are being invited to an open day at the University of Aberdeen next week.Every secondary school in Scotland has been invited to send pupils to attend the University’s first BSc Open Day on Wednesday, November 3.The event has been organised by the...
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Rural policy and the new Scottish Parliament - Major one-day conference to explore government’s comm
Rural policy and the new Scottish Parliament: Major one-day conference to explore government’s commitment to Scottish rural lifeA major conference which will explore the new Scottish Parliament’s commitment to rural policy, in particular the three main policy arenas affecting Scottish rural life, will take place in Aberdeen next week (Wednesday,...
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University of Aberdeen expert in entrepreneurship debunks myth that technology-based firms are a hig
“In contrast to the prevailing view, the performance of investments made by business angels in technology-based firms indicates that technology investments do not involve a higher risk than non-technology sectors.”This is the premise of an address on Monday 25 October in London to a seminar during the Design Council’s annual...
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Ethical dilemmas faced by genetic disease victims to be researched at Aberdeen
The ethical dilemma faced by people who undergo genetic counselling will be the subject of a two-year study by researchers at the University of Aberdeen, thanks to a £62,000 grant from the Wellcome Trust.The team of six doctors and researchers will examine the way individual family members pass on information...
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Debate to focus on the role of Scottish history in the New Scotland
The profile of Scottish history in education, politics and the media will come under the spotlight at a major debate in Aberdeen next week.Four of Scotland’s most distinguished history scholars will take part in Telling the History of Scotland: Scottish History in the New Scotland, which promises to be an...
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Aberdeen University Winter Graduations
Well-known North-east writer, economist and farmer Charlie Allan and The Honourable Lord Marnoch, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, will both be honoured by the University of Aberdeen at its annual Winter Graduation ceremonies at Marischal College next month.Charlie Allan, of Methlick, Aberdeenshire, will receive the honorary degree...
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Food industry expert Lord Haskins to talk at University of Aberdeen
A leading authority in the food industry, Lord Haskins, will deliver the fourth Raeburn Lecture at the University of Aberdeen next week.His lecture, Regulating the Food Industry, will examine the issues facing a modern government in deciding when, or when not, to intervene in regulating the food chain. It will...
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Scientist and theologian Professor Russell Stannard returns to Aberdeen to speak about - The Art of
Scientist and theologian Professor Russell Stannard returns to Aberdeen to speak aboutThe Art of Science WritingOne of the leading authorities on the relationship between science and theology, Professor Russell Stannard, will return to Aberdeen next week.Author, broadcaster and academic Russell Stannard OBE will give a lecture on The Art of...
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Aberdeen researchers call for action on long-term pain - Ground-breaking research to be published in
Aberdeen researchers call for action on long-term pain: Ground-breaking research to be published in prestigious medical journal, the Lancet, finds that half the population suffers from chronic painMedical research carried out by a team at the University of Aberdeen has revealed that almost half the population suffers from long-term pain,...
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DIARY NOTE: President of Ireland to be honoured by University of Aberdeen
The President of Ireland Mary McAleese will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen on St Andrew’s Day (Tuesday, November 30, 1999).Following the ceremony, the President will formally inaugurate the University’s new Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS), which was established last year and is...