Important messages from Student Funding. If you have any questions, please email studentfunding@dundee.ac.uk

Scottish students funded by SAAS
The closing date for applying for your student support package from SAAS (Student Award Agency Scotland) for academic year 2015/2016 is 31 March 2016 

Please visit the SAAS website for more details and how to apply.

Students from England, Northern Ireland & Wales
Remember to apply for your student support package for 2016/17. The Student Loans Company (SLC) have announced that: “Continuing students should wait for SFE, SFW or SFNI to contact them before they apply. We will automatically process applications for some continuing students for 2016/17. Continuing students who do not have their applications automatically processed will be contacted during March and asked to apply online."

Please visit the SLC website for further information.

Are you a disabled student and need support for exams?  Have you registered with Disability Services? If not, you need to do so asap in order for arrangements to be made for the May exams.

Contact disability@dundee.ac.uk to arrange an appointment to see a Disability Adviser in confidence.

DARE is a student-run charitable society aiming to actively support international development projects. They are currently recruiting volunteers for two of the projects running this summer in Romania and Uganda. 

For more information please visit the DARE website - daredundee.wordpress.com  and get in touch.

Scotland's premier entrepreneurship development programme and company creation competition with a prize fund of over £150,000, brings together the most ambitious and creative thinkers from academia, research and business at the University of Dundee.

Converge Challenge is a great opportunity to develop your business skills, build your confidence and learn from some of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

The competition is open to staff and students at the University and can work with any idea, at any stage of the development process to turn ideas into reality.

Entries close April 18 2016

Find out more

Erasmus+ (European Exchange) application deadline for Semester 1 or Full Year of 2016/17 is 18 March 2016 - read more

International exchange application deadline for Semester 2 of 2016/17 is 31 March 2016 - read more

Looking for an internship, summer placement or graduate job?  Then check out the University of Dundee’s JobShop: www.dundee.prospects.ac.uk

Work has started on the installation of the University's new network, which means changes are on their way to you. 

Once complete we will all benefit from the following:

• Reliable and stable internet connection while roaming on campus.
• Simpler access to the wireless network.
• Faster and much wider coverage of the wireless network in both internal and external spaces.
• Secure and safe access to University data.

Please visit the regularly updated Network Refresh Blog for information.

... including balloons, batteries, balls of string and bubble wrap; film; electronic equipment; embroidery thread and feathers, alongside the standard paints, glue and cardboard etc.

Find out more on the One Dundee blog, and drop in.

Your Internal Comms team have been working on the One Dundee blog. 

We are now looking for stories about what's happening around the University - what's your team or society up to?  Or can you tell us something about your dissertation topic for our Meet feature - we would like include "Me & My Project" items.

Visit the One Dundee Blog and contact the Internal Comms team internal-comms@dundee.ac.uk

The University is one of seven universities in Scotland to share £20.2 million of UK Government funding to support PhD students. The money, from EPSRC is part of a UK-wide £167 million fund for doctoral research.

Funding will support new PhD students starting in October 2016 and 2017.

Read more

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has praised the University of Dundee’s Cooper Gallery for enhancing Scotland’s standing in the world of contemporary art and helping create cultural exchanges with China.

‘NEW Wheat, NEW Mud, NEW Machine’, a major new exhibition from Glasgow-based artists’ group Poster Club is currently running at the Cooper Gallery.

Read more or find out about the exhibition

Thanks to everyone who voted in the annual elections last week. 

The new DUSA President will be Indre Urbanaviciute, who has spent the past year as Vice President for Student Activities.

All the results can be found on the DUSA website.

There are two consecutive Wednesdays of great sport taking place at the University.

16 March - British Universities and Colleges (BUCS) Conference Cup Finals and around 400 student competitors from 12 institutions are contesting 16 finals in badminton, basketball, football, hockey, rugby, netball, tennis and volleyball. Dundee are represented by the men's tennis team.

23 March - the Annual Varsity competition against Abertay University, competing across 15 sports. Watch last year's highlights on YouTube

Author Lucy Hawking guides us through an out-of-this-universe space adventure, plus exclusive, scientific theories behind each of her four George stories. She will also share some wonderful animations narrated by her father Prof Stephen Hawking.

Sat 19 March, 11am, Bonar Hall

Suitable for over 8's with book signing.

Booking essential

Part of the InspirED Seminar Series - Interactive exercises to discuss staff and student perceptions and expectations of essay writing.

Students: come prepared to be staff! We've asked staff to play the part of students.

Booking essential

Each year our final year Marketing Research students are conducting surveys for DUSA. Their general aim is to improve various services that DUSA offers, and over the past few years, have led to many improvements for students.

Take part in one, or more, from the list below:

1. Study on the changes required to maximise Eat-air-ie’s potential
   Prizes: one £40 Italian Grill voucher, and a total of £100 in Amazon vouchers
2. How can DUSA increase awareness of/engagement with the DUSA Student Executive?Prizes: two £50 Amazon vouchers
3. How can DUSA ensure that the majority of the Union’s night-time customers purchase their food?
   Prizes: two £50 Amazon vouchers
4. What are the welfare requirements of students studying at the University of Dundee and to what extent are these needs being met?
   Prizes: two £50 Amazon vouchers

We are currently updating our country webpages for prospective international students, and would love to include your quotes, photos and experiences on these pages, as you can provide a real insight into what life is like in Dundee for students from your particular home country. 

If you have time, please fill in one of our brief profile forms.

And if you have any photos that you would like to share on our webpages – of you and/or your friends enjoying life in Dundee/Scotland – please email them directly to socialmedia@dundee.ac.uk

We’re looking for cycling and non-cycling students to share their views about cycling to the University of Dundee, through a one hour focus group or an online survey.

Anyone participating in the focus groups will receive £10 (in cash) and those answering the survey will have the chance to win £50 shopping voucher.

Focus groups will take place on 24 March in Dalhousie 2G12 2-3pm or 3.15-4.15pm.

Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DundeeU
Focus group: cyclefriendlycampus@peterbrett.com  state if you are a cyclist or non cyclist.

The Institute of Sport & Exercise invites you to take part in their annual customer satisfaction survey, giving you the chance to have your say, and see results!

Take the survey online or at the Institute’s reception.