A new £28 million sporting facility unrivalled in the north-east will open its doors to the public on Saturday (August 22).
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The research work of engineering and technology students from across the North of Scotland will be highlighted at a symposium at the University of Aberdeen tomorrow (Thursday August 20).
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To mark the beginning of the North-East Clan Fortnight, visitors to the University of Aberdeen will have the opportunity to enjoy a day of illustrated talks about our amazing and fascinating heritage.
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SINAPSE delivering improved medical imaging for key diseasesMedia Newswire (press release), NYMore effective medical imaging to help diagnose and treat patients with Alzheimer's, stroke, cancer and other conditions is one of the key goals of a major research network holding its first scientific meeting in Edinburgh tomorrow (Wednesday, ...
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Sunrise Not Secular compete in Nos Ur competitionStornoway Gazette, UKAnd island Celtic Rockers Sunrise Not Secular will be one of the bands battling it out to reach to top spot in the Nòs Ùr new Celtic/Scots song competition. nge of music, from rock, rap, pop and folk on Saturday, June 20. The local Gaelic youth group ...
http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/features/Sunrise-Not-Secular-compete-in.5381072.jp
From why scientific advances could enable humans to live much longer, to the conspiracy theories surrounding man's landing on the moon - a new series of events launched in Aberdeen this week will give the public an insight into highly topical science.
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BBC NewsFunds for city Alzheimer's studyBBC News, UKProf Tibor Harkany, who leads the research team at the University of Aberdeen, said: "My group has two main aims. We want to find out what causes brain cells to become damaged in Alzheimer's, and we are also looking for new ways to diagnose the disease ...Experts to put Alzheimer's in spotlight Aberdeen Press and Journal all 3 news articles
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8074082.stm
stv.tvHonorary degree for Archbishop Tutustv.tv, UKHe has been awarded a number of other honorary degrees over the years, from institutions around the world including Yale University in the US as well as Oxford and Cambridge in England and Aberdeen University on Scotland.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/98994-honorary-degree-for-archbishop-tutu/
Rare First Nations artefacts dating back to the early 19th century will be publicly exhibited in Canada for the first time next year, it has been announced.
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Daily MailRice milk arsenic contamination prompts food watchdog warning for ...Daily Mail, UKIn 2007 Aberdeen University researchers flagged up problems of arsenic contamination in both rice and rice milk. They found that one in five samples of American long-grain rice in British shops contained potentially harmful levels of arsenic. ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1186722/Rice-milk-arsenic-contamination-prompts-food-watchdog-warning-children-stop-drinking-it.html
An enterprising Aberdeen music student has added an innovative string to his bow by securing the top prize in a prestigious entrepreneurial competition.
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Aberdeen students honoured for outstanding achievementsMedia Newswire (press release), NY(Media-Newswire.com) - A mother who gave birth to two children during her studies was one of three University of Aberdeen students to be honoured by the institution yesterday ( Tuesday 19 May ) for their outstanding academic and personal achievements. ...Student rewarded for commitment Aberdeen Press and JournalExceptional efforts get student an award – and two babies Scotsman all 3 news articles
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No third parking permit for Aberdeen zonesAberdeen Evening Express, UKCouncil officials investigated whether it would be possible to introduce more parking permits per household for some areas of Aberdeen. The issue had been raised by people living in the West End, Rubislaw and near Aberdeen University, ...
http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/1223628
10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 - The Countdown Begins in Earnest for All ...Your Renewable News (press release), UKThe countdown to All-Energy '09 – the UK's largest renewable energy exhibition and conference – has begun in earnest with just 11 days to go before it opens in Aberdeen (20-21 May). This year's show has the largest-ever exhibition with 360+ exhibitors ...
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An internationally renowned scientist will this week help celebrate a famous University of Aberdeen researcher who discovered the body's own painkillers - endorphins.
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The relationship between the energy sector and nationalism will be explored at a lecture at the University of Aberdeen tomorrow (Thursday 30 April).
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1807
Sports grounds to form basis of exhibitionPress and Journal, UKBy Stacey Horne THE travels of an Aberdeen university graduate will form the basis of a new exhibition. Steven MacIver has just completed a journey from Rome, through Spain, Portugal, America, Japan, China, Kazakhstan, Turkey and back to Rome, ...
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1176583
Scotland Wide Scholarship Scheme Launched By PöyryYour Industry News (press release), UKThe Pöyry Engineering scholarship will be open to third year students and will be awarded to: University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and University of Strathclyde. Students will receive £2000 each year until they ...
http://www.yourindustrynews.com/scotland+wide+scholarship+scheme+launched+by+p%C3%B6yry_28948.html
Gene Expression Analysis of Human Fetal Ovarian Primordial ...Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, MDPaul A. Fowler, Ph.D., Centre for Reproductive Endocrinology and Medicine, Division of Applied Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom. E-mail: pafowler{at}abdn.ac.uk. ...
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/4/1427
Sky NewsGwyneth Paltrow's 'Loopy' Cancer ClaimsSky News, UKBut Hugh Pennington, emeritus professeur of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, has slammed Paltrow's claims. He said: "It annoys me when celebrities use their position to spout nonsense. "They have a perfect right to their views even if they are ...Gwyneth Paltrow blasted after her claims that shampoo causes ... Mirror.co.ukGwyneth Paltrow angers experts with 'loopy' cancer claims Marie Claire.co.ukGwyneth Paltrow Accused of 'Spouting Nonsense' Showbiz Spy Telegraph.co.uk all 39 news articles
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Loopy-Gwyneth-Paltrow-Slammed-by-Scientists-After-Linking-Shampoo-To-Cancer-In-Children/Article/200904115256718
Varsity launches £15m search to find brightest and best academicsPress and Journal, UKBy Joanna Skailes Aberdeen University has launched a £15million recruitment drive to find “the brightest and the best” academics from throughout the world. As the university bucks the gloomy economic trend, it is hoped the three-year campaign to ...
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1155991
Times OnlineCity grieves for the offshore workers it took to its heartTimes Online, UKDonald Wood, a teacher at the University of Aberdeen, was friends with a Bond pilot who was killed two years ago. He said that he wanted to show solidarity with the workers who risked their lives every day. Mary Rose, a receptionist at Canadian Natural ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6025473.ece
PhysOrg.comBrain study could yield clues to schizophreniaPhysOrg.com, VAAn international study involving the University of Aberdeen has found that these brain cells - known as basket cells - continue to develop after birth, forming strongly wired networks. Basket cells control where and when information flows in the brain ...
http://www.physorg.com/news157910233.html
The University of Aberdeen has begun a search to recruit the successor to Professor C Duncan Rice whose term of office is due to conclude in September 2010.
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Aberdeen to train more public health nutritionistsMedia Newswire (press release), NYThe University of Aberdeen is launching a brand new msc degree in Public Health Nutrition which will deliver more nutritionists to work in national and international agencies, health promotion, industry and health care, or who may wish to carry out ...
http://media-newswire.com/release_1088662.html
Aberdeen is preparing to meet the need for more people trained in public health nutrition to tackle the rise in obesity and chronic dietary disease.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1770
Economists take note of Classical PianistsMedia Newswire (press release), NYEconomists from Scotland and the Netherlands are exploring the factors which determine why aspiring young pianists take part in professional competitions. Professor Tim Barmby, an economist at the University of Aberdeen, is working on an unusual labour ...
http://media-newswire.com/release_1088494.html
Online exclusive: Fear and Counselling in Las VegasThe Firm, UKBut probably not as much trepidation as Vic and Sarah Arnell (our accompanying ‘coach’ from the University of Aberdeen) who will have to look after me and keep me in check! You are probably wondering what indeed this Client Counselling Competition is. ...
http://www.thefirmmagazine.com/features/511/Online_exclusive:_Fear_and_Counselling_in_Las.html
Artist shares EnlightenmentAberdeen Press and Journal, UKA COLLECTION of watercolour paintings celebrating the great libraries of Scotland will go on show in Old Aberdeen today. Enlightenment, by Edinburgh artist Hugh Buchanan, is opening in the north-east after being on display at the Francis Kyle Gallery ...
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1132293
Alternative energy issues up for public debate at University eventCheckbiotech.org (press release), SwitzerlandControversial and opposing views on alternative energy issues will be up for public discussion tomorrow evening ( Thursday 12 March ) at an event hosted by the University of Aberdeen. Bringing together leading experts from key areas of the alternative ...
http://bioenergy.checkbiotech.org/news/alternative_energy_issues_public_debate_university_event
Alternative energy issues up for public debate at University eventMedia Newswire (press release), NY(Media-Newswire.com) - Controversial and opposing views on alternative energy issues will be up for public discussion tomorrow evening ( Thursday 12 March ) at an event hosted by the University of Aberdeen. Bringing together leading experts from key ...
http://media-newswire.com/release_1087583.html
Malawian expert discuss fair trading in ScotlandNyasa Times, MalawiA Malawian fair trade expert and business consultant visited University of Aberdeen on March 6 to share her experience of how fair trade improves the lives of producers and communities in some of the poorest parts of the world. ...
http://www.nyasatimes.com/national/Business/2940.html
Science celebrated with Discovery DayAberdeen City, UKVisitors to Satrosphere will have the unique opportunity to hear from and pose questions to some of the University of Aberdeen's foremost scientists who will showcase their cutting edge research in a special Café Scientifique event. ...
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/CouncilNews/ci_cns/pr_discoveryday_090309.asp
New study to help safeguard farmed salmonFish Update, UK - 6 hours agoThe study is called LIFECYCLE and the University of Aberdeen has received £344000 for their research which will centre on farmed Atlantic salmon. ...
http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/12181/_New_study_to_help_safeguard_farmed_salmon.html
Cafe goers brave adverse weather for world debut of Darwin bookMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 1 hour agoWaterstone's book shop in Aberdeen's Union St was filled to capacity last night as author Kelley Swain launched the University of Aberdeen's Darwin ...
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NRI to Position UK as Global Subsea Centre of Excellence Launched ...Subsea World (press release), Norway - 5 hours agoA new research institute which could help UK companies capitalise on a global subsea market worth a potential £40 billionhas been launched in Aberdeen. ...
http://subseaworld.com/industry/nri-to-position-uk-as-global-subsea-centre-of-excellence-launched-at-subsea-09-02780.html
A new research institute which could help UK companies capitalise on a global subsea market worth a potential £40 billion was launched today (Wednesday 11 February) in Aberdeen.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1685
Seattle Post IntelligencerAGW Today: Damn, Another SkepticStop the ACLU, PA - Feb 11, 2009Being a climate change sceptic. Next week the former chief executive of the oil and gas firm Talisman, who has a PhD in astrophysics from the University of ..."Global Warming" caused by Sun Activity, not humans MINA all 201 news articles
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2009/02/11/agw-today-damn-another-skeptic/
Two Aberdeen students will represent Scotland in Las Vegas after coming out top in a law competition.
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Endangered NE water voles making a returnMedia Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 30, 2009However, a four year project led by researchers from the University of Aberdeen has resulted in the complete removal of American mink from the Ythan ...
http://media-newswire.com/release_1085333.html
Aberdeen Windfarm in Line for 40 Million Euros of European FundingOilVoice (press release), UK - 11 hours agoProfessor Paul Mitchell, Director of the University of Aberdeen’s Institute of Energy Technologies and of the pan-Scotland Energy Technology Partnership and ...
http://www.oilvoice.com/n/Aberdeen_Windfarm_in_Line_for_40_Million_Euros_of_European_Funding/f94491f1.aspx
Better navigational systems could be a possibility following a ...Media Newswire (press release), NY - 12 hours ago"Artificial vestibular systems could have a variety of applications from helping to tune the controls of robots, to improving navigation systems, ...
http://media-newswire.com/release_1085015.html
Researcher is Tories' choiceScotsman, United Kingdom - 14 hours ago... lives in Portobello, attended Duddingston Primary School and Portobello High and has a history and politics degree from Aberdeen University. ...
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Researcher-is-Tories39-choice.4912128.jp
Energy Controversies Lecture Series, University of AberdeenThe Oil Drum - 23 hours agoI am very pleased to announce that the University of Aberdeen will be hosting a series of high profile lectures on energy and climate change this Spring ...
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5015
Who’s winning the currency paralympics?Todays Financial News, MD - 22 hours ago... by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore—(TFN): Twenty-five years ago, I was one of eight German exchange students at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. ...
http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com/international-investing/whos-winning-the-currency-paralympics-7362.html
Scotland's newest dental school has a new man in the chair.
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Cancer rates attributable to arsenic in rice vary globallyChemical & Engineering News - Jan 21, 2009Andrew Meharg at the University of Aberdeen (UK) and coauthors compiled an extensive data set of arsenic levels901 samples of white rice originating on ...
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es900020m
Full house for Cafe ScientifiqueMedia Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 21, 2009Aberdeen's first Cafe Scientifique got off to a great start last night in Waterstone's Union Bridge bookshop as Professor Anne Glover debated Science and ...
http://media-newswire.com/release_1084709.html
Ex-pats plan parties to mark arrival of Barack ObamaAberdeen Evening Express, UK - 9 hours agoAnd Aberdeen University’s North American Society was also holding a party and TV screening of the inauguration. Alison Pusateri, 22, founder of the society, ...
http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/1036397
UK Researchers Question The Amount Of Induced Labors In WomenRedOrbit, TX - Jan 19, 2009... for the procedure in more than a quarter of cases and rates of obstetric intervention were rising, according to the Aberdeen University research team. ...Induction of labour 'unnecessary' in more than a quarter of births Nursing TimesPregnant women induced 'unnecessarily' UKfamily all 5 news articles
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