The pay award as outlined in the draft national 2016-17 settlement will be implemented from 1 August 2016.  A 1.1% increase will be applied to all points on the University’s single pay scale with the exception of points 1 to 7 where basic pay uplifts will be between 3.1% to 1.6% respectively.

The updated salary scales will be published on the Payroll webpage and the pay award will be implemented in September 2016, backdated to 1 August 2016.

Staff car parking permits for the City Campus, valid from 1st October 2016, are now available.

Read the message sent out last week OR visit the Car Parking webpage

Professor David Robert Stirrups was Professor of Orthodontics, from 1992 to 2007. He died on 12 August following a short illness. David was an inspirational clinician, teacher, educationalist and colleague.

Read the obituary prepared by his Dentistry colleagues

A project that aims to dramatically change the way people with no speech and complex disabilities can converse with others has been launched by colleagues in Computing in conjunction with the University of Cambridge.

Read the press release, and hear from the research team.

US Ambassador to the UK, Matthew Barzun talked about the enduring nature of the ‘special relationship’ between the two countries and its vital importance in the future at a public lecture on city campus last week.

Read the full press release.

History and American Studies lecturer Dr Peggy Brunache will be featured on ‘A Black History of Britain’, which will be aired on BBC Two in the autumn.

She will be providing her expertise on African-American Abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

Read the full story.

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

If you are interested in finding out about Nicherin Buddhism or are practicing Nicherin Buddhism then you are very welcome to come along on Thursday lunchtimes (12.30-13.30) in the Chaplaincy Quiet Room.

For more information please contact Elspeth e.c.z.barker@dundee.ac.uk

As part of the University's Languages for All programme, we run a course to help you to learn how to hold or follow a conversation, and understand or make requests in BSL.

Starting Mon 12 Sept 6-8pm - find out more, including costs and options

If you cycle to work on Wed 14 Sept, claim your free hot drink & bacon roll behind the Tower 8.30-9.30am. You can also get your bike checked on Campus Green 12noon-2pm.

If you are looking for a bike, there will be a second hand bike sale on Campus Green, too.

More information

Dundee Law Fair - Thu 22 Sept 11am-2.30pm Bonar Hall, an opportunity to talk with law firms about their training contracts and vacation placement schemes, and to talk to training providers about their law courses. Open to students & graduates of all disciplines, and all Universities. Find out more & sign up now.

Dundee Careers Fair - Thu 6 Oct 10.20am-2.30pm Bonar Hall, meet local and national employers, from a wide range of sectors, and organisations with further study and professional training opportunities. Open to students & graduates of all disciplines, and all Universities. Find out more & sign up now.

For the last 3 years, Planning and Finance have coordinated a MacMillan Coffee morning in the Tower. This year's event will be held in the Tower Level 5 Meeting Room on Fri 30 Sept between 10am and 12noon.

By getting people together for cake and other goodies we will be raising vital funds to help MacMillan to be there for people affected by cancer.  Many of us have personal experience of the wonderful work undertaken by this charity and can vouch for the positive impact the support has on patients and their families.

We hope as many people as possible will donate and volunteer to help out this year. There should also be the traditional Executive Bake-Off (no formal judging, but the competition is fun).

All welcome.

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.

... remember to publish your Reading Lists for students.

A new feature in Reading Lists is that you can request journal articles or book chapters to be digitised using the ‘Request Digitisation’ link from your reading list. More information on the Library & Learning Centre webpages.

Any questions regarding Reading Lists, please contact readinglists@dundee.ac.uk. 

A ‘Getting Started’ for new (& not so new) students with everything they need to know about how to use the libraries and other resources. Visit http://libguides.dundee.ac.uk/gettingstarted

Subject Resources are available for many subjects, listing key resources, databases and search tools, tips on finding journal articles, guidance on referencing and other subject-specific information. Visit http://libguides.dundee.ac.uk/

• With automatic renewals, fines are no longer charged for overdue standard loan books. You can keep them for up to 12 months without the need for any action on your part.
• Shorter loan types, such as 7 day loan or 1 day loan books will not automatically renew and should be returned on the due date as before. Fines will be charged if they are overdue.
• If somebody else requests a book you have on loan, we will notify you by your University email and ask you to return it by a new date.
• If the book you want is not available on the shelf, it is important that you place a request on it so that we can recall it. Otherwise it could be unavailable for up to a year.
• Please note that fines will be charged if you fail to return a requested book by the new date.

From 3 October, fines will increase to £1 per day to encourage the prompt return of books in demand.

If you are interested in joining a group bringing together staff and students from all faiths and no faiths to work together on projects to benefit the local community, email Jill at the Chaplaincy Centre j.webster@dundee.ac.uk

Would you like to work with others to organise fun events and celebrations throughout the year to bring more fun into everyday life? For example – food festivals, cultural days, dance exhibitions and more!

Contact Jill at the Chaplaincy Centre j.webster@dundee.ac.uk

You'll find some coverage of Fresher's Week, including the Principal's Welcome address, and a feature on the student who piped in the new students.

We also said goodbye to Dr Manhattan at the front of the Tower, and hello to the new Director of UoD IT, Jonathan Monk.

Catch up on these stories, and more, at blog.dundee.ac.uk/one-dundee