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World-leading anthropologist to address students and staff at Aberdeen
A world-renowned anthropologist, whose influential research into the world’s cultures and their taboos, will visit the University of Aberdeen next week.
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Support for sport
Potential sporting champions given helping hand from University PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Today (Tuesday, October 31) at 6.45pm, Hillhead Centre – full details below
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Sound as art comes to Aberdeen
Experimental music tops the bill at contemporary music event
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Marischal Museum unveils top quality line-up for evening lecture series
A host of nationally and internationally renowned experts in archaeology, history, art and folk life will entertain North-east audiences as Marischal Museum’s evening lectures continue this term.
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Award-winning author to teach Creative Writing at Aberdeen
Internationally acclaimed Ulster writer, Bernard MacLaverty, is returning to the University of Aberdeen to take up a teaching post in Creative Writing.
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Research sheds new light on health and employment link
Children who are raised in a single-parent family or in an overcrowded family home are more likely to suffer from physical and mental health problems in later life, according to new research by the University of Aberdeen.
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University to lead new study to examine the benefits of treated catheters
The growing reputation of the North-east as a centre of excellence in the study of urological cancers and other urological conditions has been recognised with a major funding award to lead a multi-centre trial that will ultimately benefit both patients and the NHS.
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Aerospace industry leader to visit Aberdeen
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY/DIARY DATE: Tuesday, October 31, at King’s College Centre, University of Aberdeen – full details below
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New scholarship funds for gifted students
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: TODAY (Tuesday, October 24), MacRobert Building, University of Aberdeen – full details below
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Aberdeen students gather for discussion on Scotland’s energy choices
The University of Aberdeen is playing host to a group of Aberdeen students today (Tuesday, October 24) who are taking part in a discussion on Scotland’s energy and resources.
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Parents invited to find out more about university life at Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen is hosting a special event for parents of prospective students to find out more about the University and student life in the city.
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HERU marks 30th anniversary with new Visiting Scholar Scheme
A top rated University of Aberdeen Unit which is striving to find the best ways of providing health care has launched a Visiting Scholar Scheme to mark its 30th Anniversary.
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Lecture examines international law in a time of crisis
One of the world’s leading specialists in British policy and international law, Professor Anthony Carty, will kick off the first in a series of lectures by some of the University of Aberdeen’s newest members of academic staff.
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Rowett Research Institute and the University of Aberdeen to consider merger options
The Rowett Research Institute and the University of Aberdeen today (Friday, October 20), announced a commitment to planning a merger.
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Aberdeen passes GO as new Monopoly game launched
Aberdeen passed GO today (Friday, October 20) when the ‘Mayfair’ of the city was revealed as Marischal College.
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University welcomes new research students
An international group of research students are being officially welcomed to the University of Aberdeen today (Friday, October 20) as part of an event to mark the new Graduate School in the College of Arts and Social Sciences.
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Halloween spooks come out to play in Aberdeen!
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: Friday, October 27, Natural History Centre, University of Aberdeen – full details below
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Eye research breakthrough yields new clues for treating diseases
An international research team has made a discovery about an eye function that could pave the way for better therapies for a wide range of diseases including cancer.
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Aberdeen students join medical register for the first time
Today, (Wednesday, October 18), final year students at the University of Aberdeen’s Medical School will take a big step onto the first rung of their medical careers.
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Special chip provides better picture of salmon health
How do you tell if a fish is fit and well? This is a question which has troubled farmers and biologists for years, but now scientists may have come up with the answer - using DNA chips.
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University to showcase talent in ground-breaking lecture season
The University of Aberdeen today (Monday, October 16) announced a stellar line-up to launch its much-anticipated inaugural lecture series.
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Project to tell the story of the UK oil and gas industry launched in Aberdeen
A new project is being launched this month in Aberdeen to promote and preserve the dramatic story of the UK oil and gas industry.
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Chart topper Sandi Thom to open new University centre
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Saturday (October 14), The Hub, Elphinstone Road, Old Aberdeen – full details below
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‘Speirin’ at the Folk’
University speakers help to launch North-east’s first oral history event
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University of Aberdeen welcomes the Apostolic Nuncio
The University of Aberdeen today (Wednesday, October 11) welcomed His Excellency Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz, the Apostolic Nuncio on his first visit to the city since his appointment in 2004.
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Careers Service is our new name ~£200 worth of Amazon vouchers up for grabs ~
We have changed our name! We are now known as the Careers Service – we were formerly called the Careers & Appointments Service.
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University of Aberdeen ranked among the best in the world
The University of Aberdeen has been ranked in the top 200 in a new guide listing the world’s best institutions which is published in today’s Times Higher Education Supplement.
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Celebrating Jane Austen
The University of Aberdeen will celebrate one of the most exciting literary events of the year with the launch of the first full edition of Jane Austen’s novels in over 80 years.
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New music season brings world premieres to Aberdeen
Two world premieres and a stunning line-up of some of Britain’s finest musicians will headline the new season of music for the winter term at the University of Aberdeen.
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Runners raise monster sum for Matthew Hay
Campaigners raising cash for a new £16.5 million medical teaching and learning centre for Aberdeen are quids in, thanks to the exhausting efforts of two runners from the University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian.
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SNP leader visits Aberdeen to talk on ‘Scotland and North Sea Oil’
Leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond, MP, will visit the University of Aberdeen next month to address oil and gas industry delegates in a lecture on Scotland and North Sea Oil.
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Aberdeen welcomes overseas law student in scholarship scheme
The University of Aberdeen is hosting a year-long visit from a talented law student from China as part of an international scholarship scheme.