Freshers' Week will soon be upon us, so find out everything you need to know online. You can see information for students arriving, matters parents might want to know more about, and what's happening on campus throughout the week.

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UoD IT is making changes to University email on Wednesday 31 August. This means you will use your full username (e.g. jbloggs@dundee.ac.uk) to sign in from that date.

A new, self-service, password reset feature will also appear in your account.

Have you signed up for Languages for All?

The courses start in September, with registration taking place on Saturday 10 September, from 1-3pm at the Humanities Reception (1st Floor Tower Building).

All staff and the public are welcome to join the courses - contact Fiona Woodward.

Phishing scams are doing the rounds again, unfortunately. Those highlighted to the internal comms team include phone calls claiming to be from HMRC and emails requesting information about Apple IDs. 

Visit the UoD IT webpages for advice on phishing scams.

As part of the Tay Road Bridge 50th birthday celebrations, Dundee alumni and urban artists Fraser Gray and Martin McGuiness have spent a month transforming the forgotten space under the bridge with striking murals.  

Read the full story.

The University is taking part in the Being Human Festival this November, and Humanities staff, including Dr Daniel Cook, will collaborate with colleagues across campus on the festival programme, which will include an alien autopsy (conducted by Professor Dame Sue Black).

Read the full story.

Read all of the University news at www.dundee.ac.uk/news.

Following its first use by Sir Winston Churchill in his famous 1946 speech, the phrase 'Special Relationship' is used to describe the exceptionally close political, diplomatic, cultural, economic, military and historical relations between the United Kingdom and the United States.

In this exciting event a very special guest speaker will discuss the relationship between the two nations through the years and looking ahead to the future. 

Book tickets.

Wendy Alexander, Vice Principal (International) invites colleagues with an interest in international recruitment to attend this exciting session. If you:

• would like to know how to "Tell the University of Dundee story" to international audiences,
• plan to promote Dundee to international audiences at any point in the coming session,
• are interested in hearing about the opportunity to promote Dundee overseas in the future

then this is the event for you.

Find out more.

Bright Club Dundee is a public engagement event unlike any other - staff and students, from all fields and backgrounds, take to the stage to perform short stand-up comedy routines about their work at the University. 

Run as part of OPD's workshops, the next Bright Club training takes place on Monday 5 September. 

Find out more.

Femi Otitoju, Training Director for Challenge Consultancy, will be leading a lecture on Unconscious Bias. which refers to the biases we hold that are not in our conscious control. Research shows that these biases can adversely affect key decisions in the workplace and this session will work towards reducing the effects of unconscious bias for yourself and within your organisation.

Find out more.

These are just a few of the events around the University - keep up to date with all of them at www.dundee.ac.uk/events and stay tuned to the weekly What's On email on Fridays.

Along with Professor Tracy Mackenna, students from DJCAD are participating in the SPACES OF UNCERTAINTY summer academy, taking place in Stuttgart, Germany between 5 and 15 September 2016).

The summer academy is the result of ongoing cooperation between the participating art schools and represents an additional programme in the development of sustainable and collaborative teaching and learning processes linking students, teachers and curators from different locations across Europe.

Any support for the students' fundraising would be greatly appreciated. 

The Scottish Parliament is seeking expressions of interest from academics to speak in a series of three seminars on Brexit, and the impact of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. The aim of the seminar series is to provide access for parliamentarians and their staff to academic knowledge to improve scrutiny by:

• developing understanding and awareness of issues
• stimulating discussion and thinking among a spectrum of attendees

The seminars will complement formal parliamentary business, such as committee inquiries.

Find out how to submit.

Participants are required for an eye-tracking study that investigates how people understand and use knowledge of character's perspectives when listening to stories and viewing scenes. It's a very easy 'look and listen' task, which takes about 45 minutes to complete, and participants can get three participation credits or £5 for their time.

Participants need to be a native speaker of English with no language disorders.

Please email Glenn Williams if you are interested.

Volunteers are required for a single session lasting approximately 30 minutes, in which they will be required to walk at their normal speed whilst striking a pressure plate embedded into the floor. This will provide data which can be analysed for any changes that take place in foot structure during weight carrying.

Volunteers should have healthy feet, be aged between 18-60, and be able to travel to the Institute of Motion Analysis & Research at the Ninewells campus.

Please email Um-May Sumya for more information. 

Are you "Dundee, born and bred"? Or are you from the surrounding area? Alissa Melinger is looking for monolingual Scottish individuals to take part in an object naming study. The study will take no longer than 1 hour and participants will receive £6 compensation for their time.

Please email Alissa for further information.

DJCAD PhD student Alejandro Ball is looking for help with his research project.

He’s been over to Russia to hear about how the implementation of the country’s recent Internet content law has affected artists – particularly when it comes to creating memes.

Alejandro has invited two Russian artists to come over to Dundee in October to take part in his exhibition that will be held at Centrespace Gallery in October.

At this stage the Kickstarter campaign will help fund a research publication and travel expenses to get the artists to the opening night of the exhibition.

Find out more and, if you can, pledge here.

As well as plenty of Rio 2016 coverage and exciting features such as the Tay Road Bridge 50th birthday celebrations, and the career of former Ambassador to Iraq, Sir William Patey, we've been speaking to University staff about their roles within the School of Medicine. 

Find out more about the Dean of Medicine, Gary Mires, and his Personal Assistant, Susan Storrier on the blog.

It's Cycle to Work day on Wednesday 14 September - if enough people sign up, there will be free coffee and rolls for staff who cycle to work! 

Email Trudy Cunningham to find out more.