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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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Saga Conference 2018
PhD candidate Keith Ruiter from the Scandinavian Studies Centre was able to present at this specialist conference in Old Norse scholarship, which is the largest in the world, partly due to North theme funding.
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The David Buchan Lecture 2018 - 29 November 2018, 6.30pm
Memorial Interventions: Negotiating Paths through Complicated Pasts lecture will be given by Professor Regina Bendix, University of Gottingen, hosted by the Elphinstone Institute.
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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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Celebration of chemical sciences comes to Aberdeen
A family-friendly 'takeover' event at Aberdeen Science Centre will be among a host of activities to be held in the city over the coming weeks in an annual celebration of the chemical sciences.
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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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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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Mountains Underwater: Scarp Exhibition by Tyler Lewis
Sonic Arts PhD student funded by The North theme, created an immersive sound installation. Inspired by visits to uninhabited Scottish islands and the plastic pollution he found there - caused by human impact.
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VIEW Inaugural Event-celebrating women's contributions since Universal Suffrage
A new initiative established to showcase the best of the north-east's creative talent will host its inaugural event tomorrow (Saturday, November 10)
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Experts from around the world to discuss impact of climate change on our fisheries
The importance of climate change on the distribution, management and productivity of commercial fish stocks is to be the topic of discussion at a University of Aberdeen public event tomorrow.
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NERC Consortium (CZO)
The University of Aberdeen are delighted to welcome the NERC CZO Consortium to the city this November 2018.
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Confucius Institute to host events to mark fifth anniversary
The University of Aberdeen will welcome around fifty academics and artists from Wuhan University to its Old Aberdeen campus this week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Confucius Institute.
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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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Aberdeen secures bid to host 2019 Knowledge Transfer Partnership Managers Conference
A joint initiative that the University is part of has been successful in its bid to bring the next KnowledgeTransfer Partnership (KTP) National Managers Conference to the North-east for November next year.