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Grampian Area Student Tutoring Scheme
All 78 students who participated in this year's scheme will be presented with a certificate of completion by Tim Smith, BP's Manager of Government & Public Affairs at an event on Wednesday 30 April at BP Dyce, Aberdeen. Tim Smith said: "The Student Tutoring Scheme is an excellent initiative -...
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North-east couple say a big thank-you to world-renowned E. coli expert
The University of Aberdeen is to benefit from the funding-raising efforts of a North-east family later today (Wednesday, April 30), when Professor Hugh Pennington, Head of the University's Department of Medical Microbiology, will be presented with a cheque for nearly £1,400.The funds have been raised by Ross and Nicola MacRae,...
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Aberdeen academic awarded prestigious Scottish Science Award
This year's Saltire Society Scottish Science Award is to be awarded to Aberdeen scientist, Professor John Speakman, for the major contribution his work has had in the field of biological sciences. John Roger Speakman is Professor of Zoology and Head of Integrative Physiology at the University of Aberdeen and Head...
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New wildflower meadow to be planted on campus
As part of the University of Aberdeen's ongoing commitment to sustainable development a number of students and staff will join University Vice Principal, Professor Dominic Houlihan, at the planting of a new wildflower meadow on King's College campus today (Wednesday April 23).A vacant site bordering the University's MacRobert Building and...
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The University of Aberdeen receives major funding boost for research into co-witness memory study
co-witness memory studyResearch at the University of Aberdeen into how we remember extraordinary events has received a vital boost thanks to funding from The Leverhulme Trust. A research team from Aberdeen, in collaboration with the University of Sussex, has received over £55,000 of funding towards a new type of laboratory-based...
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Joblink Recruitment Service hosts Employment Fayre
The University of Aberdeen's Student Employment Service; Joblink, will host a student Recruitment Fayre tomorrow (Wednesday, April 23). Attending the fayre will be leading employers from across the North-east of Scotland and hundreds of students. The fayre is being held on campus in the Elphinstone Hall.First held in 1998 the...
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Collaborative study by the University of Aberdeen shows high blood pressure in pregnancy increases r
A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has carried out a comprehensive study of women during pregnancy, the results of which will be published in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ), (Friday, April 18). The collaborative study, involving researchers from the Departments of Public Health, Obstetrics & Gynaecology,...
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Forgotten folk-songs available at the touch of a button
Experts at the universities of Aberdeen and Sheffield have this week unveiled a unique but neglected collection of traditional British song and drama.The James Madison Carpenter Collection is one of the largest and most important collections of folksong and folk drama ever made in Britain. Carpenter travelled 40,000 miles around...
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International Rural Network Conference
Delegates from across the world are expected to attend a major international conference in Inverness in June 2003. Taking Charge (June 23 - 27, 2003) will focus on various issues around rural development with speakers sharing experience and the latest research on issues of rural community empowerment, rural health and...
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The Alfie Tough Music Scholarship
A fund raising campaign to create a new Music Scholarship has been launched this month by the University of Aberdeen. The purpose of the scholarship is to commemorate a remarkable and much loved man, Alfie Tough MA (1919-2003), who was an inseparable part of Old Aberdeen for almost 60 years.Known...
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