The University internal blog has launched for staff and students. Featuring interviews with staff, students and departments as well as campus news and stories, the One Dundee blog is a must-read with your morning coffee! We'd like to suggest you start with our interview with David Russell, School of Medicine.

Please remind your students about the Exam Revision Toolkit, an online resource created by the Academic Skills team, which is available via My Dundee (Groups and Communities). Covering everything from organising revision to exam strategy to staying positive, the Toolkit is packed with useful advice and encouragement to maximise your students’ exam success.
One-to-one appointments are also available by request.

UoD IT has upgraded the staff laptop software to enable flexibility, whether you work on a docking station or mobile. All staff laptops will return to the Windows default power settings so that you can re-set them to suit your needs. 

Need help to set up? Use this guide.

Paths for All has launched their spring Step Count Challenge – why not gather your colleagues and get involved? From 18 April, teams from workplaces across Scotland will be challenging themselves to walk more and feel a difference, every day. The challenge supports staff to find simple and sustainable ways of building a little more activity into their working day, such as walking to work, going for a lunchtime stroll, walking meetings (yes, that means you walk and talk!), and using the stairs rather than the lift. 

Find out more on the OneDundee blog.

This Friday, the latest issue of Contact will be out with a focus on promoting the sustainable use of global resources. Keep an eye out for your copy.

The University has been trending again on social media! We were recently featured by LinkedIn in the article ‘5 Ways Students Can Tell Your University Story‘, listing our Test Drive Dundee campaign as a great way to engage students from a peer-to-peer experience.

Read more on the OneDundee blog.

Professor Doreen Cantrell is to be awarded one of the UK’s most prestigious honours in biochemistry, the Novartis Medal and Prize.

Read the full story.

Over the next few years, the University is planning to establish International College Dundee as part of our internationalisation and growth agenda. This will be located on the City Campus and will provide an alternative entry route into our degree courses for international students. 

From September 2017, students will be able to attend a range of access courses, where their country’s education system does not give them a high enough qualification to enter our undergraduate courses, or where their English language qualifications are not high enough. This will be in addition to, and shall not compromise existing pre-sessional and in-sessional provision. Students will also be able to attend courses which provide an entry route into our masters courses.

We are in early discussions, and have not selected a provider, but will continue to develop our plans during 2016.

For further information about International College Dundee, please contact Project Manager, Doug Watters.

Some of Scotland’s greatest curlers have lent their weight to a research project being carried out by Iona Robertson, an Intercalated BMSc student on the Applied Orthopaedic Technology course at the TORT Centre.

Iona has been working with members of the Men’s British Curling Team from the 2014 Winter Olympics as she collects data for a project examining the stresses placed on the knees of people playing the sport.

Read the full story.

Students from countries including Kenya, Uganda, Pakistan, Ghana, Lebanon and Iraq, who won prestigious Chevening Scholarships, had their successes celebrated with a special reception, hosted by the Professor Sir Pete Downes, Principal, and Wendy Alexander, Vice-Principal (International).

Read the OneDundee blog post.

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

The Principal, Professor Sir Pete Downes, and the new University Rector, Mark Beaumont, will join members of the University Boat Club this Friday for a rowing marathon to help celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary.

The fundraising event will see six rowing machines installed at the University’s Institute for Sports and Exercise, outside Dundee University Students’ Association (DUSA) and outside the Overgate Shopping Centre. Club members will work in shifts from 9am-9pm to try and row a combined distance of 835km – the same amount of terrain that Mark Beaumont covered cycling the North Coast 500 route last year.

Read the full story.

An exhibition by Graham Fagan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design, is currently on show at Hospitalfield in Arbroath.

Graham has reinterpreted the body of work he made for his exhibition for Scotland + Venice 2015. The original exhibition (which was made for the four noble rooms of Palazzo Fontana, on the Grand Canal) has been installed with some changes and additions for its duration at Hospitalfield, so it's definitely worth a visit - even if you saw the original.

Find out more. Exhibition closes 17 April.

Just opened in the Lamb Gallery (first floor, Tower Building), Sculptural features highlights from the University’s extensive sculpture collections. A full list of artists represented in the exhibition can be found here.

Sculptural is the first exhibition in the Lamb Gallery since the installation of new lights, provided by a grant from Museums Galleries Scotland, and is showing until Saturday 7 May.

Monday - Friday 09:30-19:00 and Saturday 13:00-17:00.

Have you signed up for Languages for All? All short six week courses start in May, including Chinese and British Sign Language. All staff and the public are welcome to join the courses - to register please email Fiona Woodward before Monday 2 May.

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

DUSA | The Union has launched a survey to identify potential developments to social facilities offered to staff. There are only 15 short questions and if you complete the survey, you could win one of three £50 cash prizes or one of five £10 Premier Shop vouchers!

Complete the survey. Closes Sunday 17 April.

As part of their project work, a group of Art and Design students are encouraging people to take photos of their cities and communities, to help discover the changes they want to see happen in their city. Take a picture and share it! You decide which social media to post it on - find the Refresh project on Facebook and Twitter. 

Please us the hashtag ‪#‎refreshURcity on social media. Who knows? Your images may help your city change for the better!

Saleh Alkalbani (PG Research medical student) requires healthy volunteers without low back pain to take part in a study. As a participant, you will be asked to attend the Institute of Motion Analysis & Research (located at the TORT Centre, School of Medicine) for a 1.5 hour long assessment of your gait, foot pressure and lower body muscle activity. If you would like to volunteer or want more information please email Saleh.