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From the editors ...
If you wish to communicate around the University, this fortnightly newsletter is just one way to do that. Please check our Methods of Internal Communication webpage, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
The next newsletter will be distributed on Wednesday 19 July - the deadline is 4 pm on Friday 14 July.
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Contents
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Announcements
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UoD IT
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News
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What's On
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Blogs
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Get in touch
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DJCAD Short courses
Interested in trying one of our Art & Design Summer Short Courses? You can try your hand at Jewellery & Silversmithing, Screen printing on fabric, Portfolio sketchbook preparation, Life Drawing, Portraits or Painting and Drawing. Find out more about the courses and how to sign up.
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Researchers have created a web app allowing you to see life through the eyes of a street child
'Growing Up on the Streets' is an app created by researchers here at Dundee, led by Professor Lorraine van Blerk and funded by the Stephen Fry Award for Public Engagement Project of the Year. The app allows the user to see images and hear sounds from Accra in Ghana and can be downloaded here.
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Neuroimaging Study
A study by medical students on the avoidance in anxiety and avoidance learning, are looking for people who are cool, calm and collected. The study involves a decision-making task and a brain scan and you will receive £20-30 for taking part. If you are interested in volunteering contact at avoidancestudy@gmail.com
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The University of Dundee Botanic Gardens is in need of your artistic help
The Botanic Gardens have recently completed work on a new wooden play park in the Australasian area of the gardens. However, the wall around it is looking rather dull, and the team at the Gardens would like your help to change this and make the area more inviting.
If you are interested in helping out can you please email your ideas or a small taster of your artwork to Lisa Campbell
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ScotGEM Graduate Medicine Programme – are you interested in studying medicine?
ScotGEM, Scotland's first Graduate medical programme (and a joint collaboration with St Andrews and UHI) is now open to UK & EU graduates. The School of Medicine are holding an open day on Monday 10 July
To sign up for the open day, please book your place through Eventbrite.
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On Social Media
Just because graduation is over doesn't mean it's quiet on social media. Last week Dundee Dental Insights
took over Snapchat as they showed us the life of a dental student here at the number one dental school in the UK. You can watch the full takeover here. On Instagram the Medicine Marketing Officers visited the Assisted Conception Unit - learning about what students are exposed to on our MSc course. On Twitter staff shared their delight at receiving their Student Led Teaching Awards 2017 mugs, and on
Facebook we were featured twice on Buzzfeed's '19 Things Dundee Has That The Rest Of The World Needs Urgently Needs'.
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My Dundee upgrade: update (Mon 17- Fri 21 Jul)
A wee reminder that My Dundee will be offline during the week starting 17 of July to facilitate an upgrade of the underlying Blackboard platform. It will be switched back on by the 21. We’re also taking this opportunity to give the platform a fresh new look with a new theme and new UoD branding. To read more about these changes and the upgrade week, have a look at our blog post.
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New Designers Sainsbury’s Award for Daisy
A textile design graduate has been named the winner of a prestigious New Designers Award. Daisy Stott, who exhibited her work at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design Degree Show, won the Sainsbury’s Home Award at the New Designers exhibition in London for her tableware collection `Foraged Findings’, inspired by edible plant and foodstuffs found throughout Scotland. Read the story.
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China is planning ahead for life after coal
China’s remarkable growth over the past three decades has elevated it to global superpower status. But its economic miracle has also attracted attention for the wrong reasons: the country is now the world’s largest energy consumer, oil importer, and CO₂ emitter. Read Janet Xuanli Liao's article in The Conversation.
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Data visualisation isn’t just for communication, it’s also a research tool
At the heart of the scientific method lies the ability to make sense from data. However, this is a challenge in the fast-moving field of biotechnology, where new experimental methods are creating huge amounts of complex data. Read Seán I. O'Donoghue and James B. Procter's article in The Conversation.
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Outer Space I Inner Space: Wednesday Wonders (Wed 12 Jul)
Find out about the amazing research work taking place into diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Get involved with science experiments and discover the tools scientists use to help them learn more about the wonders of the world of biomedical research. Please contact the Mills Observatory to inform them you are coming, for more information please see the events page.
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Blogs
A round up of our blogs
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Student Blog: That's a wrap!
For Catherine, one of our student bloggers from NYC, her time at the University of Dundee is coming to an end. Read her blog about her time here and what she will be getting up to over her last few months.
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One Dundee Blog: Stephen Fry on his time at Dundee
Stephen Fry first arrived in Dundee early on the morning of his induction as University Rector in 1992, stepping off the sleeper service from London Euston to begin a relationship that lasts to this day. Here the acclaimed writer and broadcaster tells us how it all started. Read the full Bridge article here.
The Bridge, the University alumni magazine, is available now across campus.
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