After listening to your feedback, UoD IT has simplified the method of changing your University password by allowing you to change your password 24 hours a day, on any device, online.

UoD IT has also altered the notification period of your password expiration messages. You will now be notified once per day, over the period of the 28 days prior to your password expiration date. This will give you sufficient time to change your password and avoid losing temporary access to your account - phew!
 

The Careers Service has transferred all volunteering opportunities to JobShop, the online portal that advertises paid work (part-time and graduate), internships and volunteering opportunities so that they're all in one handy location.

The current Volunteering Portal closes on Monday 29 February. If you need any assistance email JobShop@dundee.ac.uk.

Don't forget to check out the scholarships on offer at the Careers Service. For further information email c.a.mackay@dundee.ac.uk. 

The Residences Support Team provides pastoral care and welfare support to students in University accommodation. In return, Student Support Assistants (SSAs) are offered 60% discount in rent in their first year and 75% discount when continuing in the role in future sessions. SSAs also benefit from training which help to increase transferable skills.

Applications for Student Support Assistants for 2016-17 are invited by Thursday 3 March 2016 (interviews will be held on Wednesday 9 March 2016). Further particulars and an application form are available online. For more information please email Pat Michie. 

Continuing students are invited to apply for University accommodation for session 2016/17 but hurry - places are limited! To qualify for discounted Residences fees (up to £425 saving) apply online (see task within your eVision account).

The closing date for discounted fees is 31 March 2016, but they may close early if places are filled. Further information is available on the Residences website.

Want to enhance your academic skills? One-to-one appointments are available with CASTLE (Centre for the Enhancement of Academic Skills, Teaching, Learning and Employability) for Academic Writing and other Academic Skills, from 10am - 4pm, Monday to Friday. Please visit the webpage for more info and to book.  

The Health Service, Student Funding, Counselling Service, Disability Services and Occupational Health now make up the Support Hub, offering support to staff and students. Find them within the Old Technical Institute (OTI) Building, behind the Tower Building. 

You named Mark Beaumont, the man who cycled the world, as your new Rector last week! Read more.

Mark, who attended school in Dundee, assumed the role of Rector with immediate effect. He was elected unopposed and succeeds the actor Brian Cox who was elected in 2010. Read the DUSA President's open letter of thanks to Brian.

Final year Jewellery & Metal Design student, Beth Henderson recently won a Goldsmiths' Company's Precious Metal Bursary Award of £1,000 to enable her to buy materials for her work. Beth impressed the judges by taking a contemporary twist to traditional silversmithing design, combing multiple construction methods to depict a beautiful silver vessel representing the wind. Read the full story.

Nominations opened last week for various vacancies across your student exec team - have you applied yet?

By nominating yourself for a DUSA Executive position you will learn to lead, innovate and motivate whilst being paid (Sabbatical only). Apply at www.dusa.co.uk/elections.

Run for a Non-Sabbatical (unpaid) position, Media Manager or as a Student Representative to gain invaluable leadership skills, alongside your studies. Apply at www.dusa.co.uk/vote.

The first Saturday Evening Lecture takes place on Saturday 13 February, featuring Ben Stewart (Head of Media for Greenpeace). Ben campaigned to bring home 30 Greenpeace activists who had been incarcerated in a Russian jail after protesting agains oil drilling in the Arctic. Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg is a startling record of their experiences in jail. A book signing will follow the lecture. Book tickets.

Find out more about the event and future lectures on the brand new SELS website.

There's another opportunity to learn British Sign Language (BSL). The Sign Language Society is running classes every Tuesday, from 6pm until 7.15pm in 2S03 Dalhousie. The Society also organises social events and fundraisers as well as supporting the local deaf community. Join the Facebook group or email the President for more information. 

International Safer Internet Day explores the role we all play in helping to create a safer online community - and the University of Dundee is joining in!

Stay tuned for an email from us on Safer Internet Day (9 Feb), which will explain how you can stay safe online with links to University policies and YouTube videos. Why not get involved on social media using the hashtag? #SID2016

If you think you've lost or released information you have a responsibility to report this to the Data Protection Officer immediately, so that we can manage (and hopefully fix) any such issues before they become problems.

There will be an ecumenical service for the Imposition of Ashes in the University Chapel on Wednesday 10 February at 5.15pm until 5.45pm. All welcome.

Calling all budding comedians! Are you interested in having a go at stand-up? Revealing Research offers training courses to all research staff and students as a new way of engaging your research with the public. To secure your free place email Revealing Research.

Vote for your favourite lecturers! The Student Led Teaching Awards (SLTAs) nominations open on Sunday 14 February, a chance for you to nominate your favourite, most supportive members of staff so we can recognise great teaching throughout the University. Find out more on the DUSA website.

Amy Walker is in her 4th year of study and is looking for students who are parents to take part in a short interview regarding their experience as a student-parent at the University of Dundee. Any information provided will be treated in the strictest of confidence. If you would like to take part, please email Amy.

We asked, you helped!

Third year Architecture students have been working on a project with Logie & St John's (Cross) Church on Blackness Avenue. When the church opened in 1913 there wasn’t enough money to build the tower, so the students were asked to “Finish the Tower”. You can see their designs at an exhibition running at the church until Monday 8 February, 2pm until 4pm on weekdays, but meantime, there are photos on Facebook.