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Headteachers Back to Class
Secondary school headteachers and other education leaders from the North-east of Scotland and the Highlands are being invited to attend a one and a half day conference on leadership, management and flexibility in schools. Entitled New LAMPs for Old , the event will take place at the University of Aberdeen...
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Sustainable Development in the Oil and Gas Industry
The UK’s best-known environmentalist, Jonathan Porritt CBE, has been confirmed as the key note speaker at the University of Aberdeen’s second annual Conference on Sustainable Development and the Oil and Gas Industry to take place on Thursday November 21, 2002.Sustainable Development – the process needed to achieve a sustainable society...
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Aberdeen launch for NHS Advice on PET imaging for cancer
The Health Technology Board for Scotland (HTBS) will today (October 30) be launching its Advice on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging in cancer at the University of Aberdeen's John Mallard Scottish PET Centre. It will be recommending a PET imaging facility is set up as a national resource for people...
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Women on Top - Reflections of Women in Science
Although the numbers and proportions of women entrants to higher education has risen in recent years, this is not being reflected in entrants to science, engineering and technology courses. This day-long event has been specifically designed for women in schools, higher education, industry and politics. It will provide a rare...
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Why are people who recover from major depression never really out of the woods?
A new study, published in the November issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, has identified an apparent 'depression trait marker' in the brain that may explain why recovered patients remain vulnerable to another depressive episode. The finding could have important implications for developing more targeted treatments that help patients...
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University of Aberdeen awarded prestigious Sawyer Seminar Grant
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation of New York has awarded $107,000 (£75,000) to the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen, in support of one of their prestigious series of Sawyer Seminars. The seminar, entitled Citizens within Subjects, will be devoted to addressing the problems of political...
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Painting the Natural World
Adults in the North-east of Scotland are being invited to enrol on an art course with a difference at the University of Aberdeen later this month.Some drawing/painting experience is preferred but not essential. Participants should provide their own materials such as watercolours, pencils, pastels, ink brushes, paper, boards and erasers....
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Irish Lessons for the New Scotland - Wendy Alexander, MSP to deliver first major public lecture sinc
Wendy Alexander, MSP to deliver first major public lecture since her resignationThe Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen will next week (Tuesday 29 October, 6pm) welcome Wendy Alexander, MSP to deliver her first major public lecture since her resignation in May 2002.In her lecture...
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International students give Aberdeen and Scotland a business boost
The University of Aberdeen's international reputation has attracted a record number of international students to its new MBA programme. Recent figures from Universities Scotland indicate that for every three overseas students who study in Scotland, one new job is created in the Scottish economy.Professor Patrick Dawson, Director of Graduate Programmes,...
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Crabs in space update
An international team of undergraduate students from the University of Aberdeen will today (October 21) present the findings of their Crabs in Space experiment undertaken at the European Space Agency Parabolic Flight Campaign in Bordeaux recently, at an open seminar to be held at 1.00pm, 7th Level, IMS Building, Foresterhill.The...
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