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 feature on School of Art & Design graduate, Ellis O'Connor.

Easter isn’t all about chocolate eggs - it also means that exams are approaching fast! Don't panic - help is at hand thanks to CASTLE. Did you know that there's an exam revision toolkit available to all students online? Covering everything from organising your revision to exam strategy to staying positive, this resource is packed with useful advice and encouragement to maximise your exam success. Find it on My Dundee (Groups and Communities).

One-to-one appointments are also available and can be requested online.

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.

At the University we use a variety of ways to communicate to students, staff and visitors. The Internal Comms team is currently reviewing 'Digital Signage', more commonly known as the TV screens. 

We want to know what YOU want to see on these screens - please vote for one or more options by clicking the links below.

• University What's On
• Events in this building/school
• What's On elsewhere
• Messages for staff only
• Photos of the University 
• General adverts for University facilities (eg ISE, Careers etc)

• University News
• News from this building/school
• BBC/Sky news
• Messages for students only
• Promotional videos
• PC availability in IT suites
• DUSA adverts

Please email internal-comms@dundee.ac.uk if you have any other suggestions.

As part of the National Destination survey, also known as DLHE, we have a legal obligation to contact all of our graduates six months after graduation to find out what they've moved on to do (work, further study, looking for work, or other). We contact all of our graduates regardless of award, degree or country of origin.

The results of this survey feed into all main UK university rankings and into UNISTAS and the statistics published by HESA. Not only that, the anonymous results are one of our main sources of information for careers advice to students and graduates - the Careers Service is open to graduates for five years after the end of their studies, so we value your feedback. 

Be ready for the email towards the end of the year, and please take part.

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.

The University of Dundee has scooped the Varsity awards again! Want to get involved? Check out the University of Dundee Sports' Union Facebook page.

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.

The School of Art & Design hosted the first ever Scottish Craft Awards last week, with key players from Scotland’s crafts, art and design industry gathering in the city to find out who would win one of four prizes totalling £10,000... check the OneDundee blog post to find out if we won!

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

Dundee is a cultured campus! DUSA | The Union is celebrating with a carnival of events on Thursday 31 March and Friday 1 April.

Find out more about the different events, from parties and clothes swaps, to the Postgraduate Mixer and the Young Researchers Symposium, plus an International Food Festival.

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.

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.

Mark Beaumont will be officially installed as Rector on Monday 25 April. Free tickets for the ceremony in the Chaplaincy Centre, and for the reception in DUSA are available now.

Have you signed up for Languages for All? All short six week courses start in May, including Chinese and British Sign Language. All students 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.

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 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!

Forensic Odontology (School of Dentistry) student Zakiyyah Mathure is hoping to collect as many lip prints as possible -- could you help?

Lip prints are thought to be as unique as fingerprints. Zakiyyah's research could help prove their usefulness in criminal cases, or even in cases of fatality where other identification methods are unavailable.

She will be in the Main Library between 11am - 3pm tomorrow, Thursday 31 March -- please come along and support a fellow student by giving your lip print. It's painless, anonymous and only takes two minutes!

Michael McCann is a fourth year medical student undertaking a research project on the perceived availability of contraception and its effects on teenage pregnancy rates within the UK. If you are in your 2nd year or above, please help Michael by completing his survey.

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.