A new £28 million sporting facility unrivalled in the north-east will open its doors to the public on Saturday (August 22).
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).
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.
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...
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 C...
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 g...
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...
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 w...
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.
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 ri...
An enterprising Aberdeen music student has added an innovative string to his bow by securing the top prize in a prestigious entrepreneurial competition.
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 Universit...
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 A...
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 confere...
An internationally renowned scientist will this week help celebrate a famous University of Aberdeen researcher who discovered the body's own painkillers - endorphins.
The relationship between the energy sector and nationalism will be explored at a lecture at the University of Aberdeen tomorrow (Thursday 30 April).
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 comple...
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 A...
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...
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...
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 th...
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 ag...
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 - contin...
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.
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...
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.
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 p...
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 ...
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 E...
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 di...
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 f...
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...
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 scien...
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 farme...
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 auth...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Two Aberdeen students will represent Scotland in Las Vegas after coming out top in a law competition.
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 complet...
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 Te...
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 t...
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 Aberde...
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...
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 th...
Scotland's newest dental school has a new man in the chair.
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 ...
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 Prof...
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 inaug...
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, accord...
E. coli study needs volunteersmeatinfo.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoDr Colette Jones, of the School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, said: “This particular strand of the RELU study will investigate...
Chronic pain sufferer pins hopes on researchPress and Journal, UK - 4 hours agoA cure could be in sight as researchers in Aberdeen are investigating chronic pain syndrome. Aberdeen University is ho...
BBC News'Needless' birth induction fearsBBC News, UK - 8 hours agoThe Aberdeen University team said in the Journal of Public Health that rates of obstetric intervention were rising. Experts warned ...
University of Aberdeen to Host Controversial Energy SeriesOilVoice (press release), UK - 37 minutes agoHosted by the University of Aberdeen, Energy Controversies will bring together leading figures...
Scotland's first science champion will next week launch a new series of free sessions where the public can engage with scientists in the heart of Aberdeen.
Researchers studying chronic pain - thought to be suffered by 7.8 million people across the UK* - want people in their 60s with the condition to contact them.
Bid to find out impact of chemotherapyAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - 6 hours agoA STUDY aimed at reducing the number of cancer patients who needlessly have chemotherapy without success has been l...
Quasar aim to edge away from TintoAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - 7 hours ago... Inverleith 2nds v Quasar (NIL3); 2pm: ADTI Aberdeen University v Glasgow University (NIL4); 4pm: Azzurri Kelburne 2...
BBC NewsStudy queries monkey legend rootsBBC News, UK - 20 hours agoBut an Aberdeen University study claims the tale originated in Scotland. The tale of the "monkey-hangers" is widely known and is ...
A groundbreaking new trial has begun to try to discover why chemotherapy works for some but doesn't work for other sufferers of two of Scotland's fastest rising cancers.
A new version of an environmentally friendly, energy efficient technology that could replace combustion engines in cars and batteries in mobile devices such as phones and laptops is being researche...
Simpson shines to claim top hill race honoursAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - Jan 12, 2009Moira Davie (Aberdeen University) was runner-up, while Anita Hamilton (Cosmic Hillbashers) set a women’s su...
Congratulations go to three University of Aberdeen academics recognised in the New Year's Honours.
Breast cancer survivors give researchers donationMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 8 hours agoA breast cancer doctor has hailed survivors of the disease for helping fund pioneering research into...
Dakota Wesleyan-NSU rivalry drained, exhilarated playersAberdeenNews.com, SD - Dec 27, 2008The play of Miller product Kim Templeton made Black Hills State a threat. But at the beginning of a season...
Northern CoachesAberdeenNews.com, SD - Dec 26, 2008Even though his father played at Northern, that did not enter into his decision to attend the Aberdeen university. “I had researched a lot of scho...
An innovative has secured an Aberdeen Physics student a prestigious award.
University of Aberdeen staff have raised a four figure donation for Grampian Kidney Research Association and Alzheimer Scotland.
Experts to analyse storm impact on Isles' coastlineStornoway Gazette, UK - Dec 16, 2008ABERDEEN experts have embarked on a project to investigate the issue of coastal flooding in parts of the Weste...
A controversial new lecture series tackling the current challenges and debates within the energy sector has been announced by the University of Aberdeen.
Aberdeen's Lost City found againMedia Newswire (press release), NY - Dec 11, 2008book about the rich history of Old Aberdeen featuring first time reproductions of illustrations drawn from the Unive...
Scientists investigating some of the biggest global and environmental challenges facing man will next week showcase their research.
The challenge of introducing more environmentally friendly and flexible transport systems across Europe is set to be tackled by experts from the University of Aberdeen.
Writers chosen to chronicle North-east's architectural treasuresMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 16 hours agotrio of esteemed historians have been chosen to chronicle the North-east's architect...
One of the world's most detailed and most influential studies of the contraceptive pill is being celebrated in Aberdeen later this week.
A BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker who captured the horror of the Bosnian war will visit Aberdeen next week to talk about his work.
No bug fat linkChronicleLive, UK - Nov 10, 2008THE types of bacterial bugs found in our guts are not a major cause of obesity, according to latest findings from researchers. ...
The University of Aberdeen will commemorate Remembrance Day this weekend (Sunday 9 November) with the launch of a new on-line Roll of Honour - a searchable index of the staff, students and alumni o...
Leading entrepreneurs launch business competitionMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 6 hours agoJanice Montgomery, University of Aberdeen Careers Service said: "The clear message from the speakers...
North-east on course for £3bn investment bonanzaThe Herald, UK - 5 hours agoThe University of Aberdeen recently unveiled plans for its new £57m library, Peacock Visual Arts is planning a £13m conte...
Monday Interview: Paul McLaughlinScotsman, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoFor example, one of the projects the SFD has in its sights is the creation of am innovation centre, based at the University of...
Two talented musicians from the North-east have tasted success in a prestigious fiddle competition
Sir Alex endorses Aberdeen Sports VillageMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 12 hours ago(Media-Newswire.com) - Aberdeen Sports Village, the exciting sports facility currently under construction o...
Pupils given insight into real life behind scienceMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 12 hours agoFrom drugs found in the depths of the ocean that can help fight cancer, to computer technology whi...
Aberdeen Sports Village, the exciting sports facility currently under construction on the site of the former Chris Anderson Stadium, has received the backing of Aberdeen FC's greatest manager.
From drugs found in the depths of the ocean that can help fight cancer, to computer technology which can crack cryptic codes - hundreds of school pupils from across Aberdeen city and shire are set ...
Experts warn SNP against upgrading A9 for political gainSunday Herald, UK - 3 hours agoThe Scottish government should be planning to spend money improving bus provision in cities and in electrifyin...
From creepy crawlies that come out at night to spellbinding potions conjured from a witch's cauldron - Halloween is set to come early to Aberdeen youngsters thanks to a series of events hosted by t...
Scotland’s scienceThe Herald, UK - Oct 19, 2008Last year it bought over Haptogen, a company established to prevent scientists at Aberdeen University being sucked into the brain drain from Scotland ...
New course for managers of marine environmentsMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 10 hours agoThe marine resources sector - which includes fisheries, marine tourism, such as whale and dolphin watc...
A pioneering new degree - believed to be one of Britain's first - has just been launched to help inform the future managers of our natural marine resources.
A study of brain scanning techniques could patients whose brain tissue can be rescued after a stroke.
Deepest-ever fish caught alive on cameraEntertainment and Showbiz!, India - 13 hours ago... director of Oceanlab at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, which co-sponsored the expedition. “Not o...
Focus on fossils of ancient sea creaturesPress and Journal, UK - 1 hour agoA display of fish fossils drawn from various collections has gone on show at Macduff’s aquarium. The collection includes s...
Miscarriage hurts next pregnancyThe Punch, Nigeria - 4 hours agoThe University of Aberdeen study is the first of its kind to assess the impact of an initial miscarriage on the next ongoing pregnanc...
Miscarriage indicates future danger, claims researchNursing in Practice, UK - Oct 10, 2008The study, from the University of Aberdeen, also found that women who had suffered one miscarriage were mor...
New research by Aberdeen experts has examined the effects of a miscarriage on subsequent pregnancies.
Deepest-Living Fish 'Surprisingly Social'RedOrbit, TX - Oct 8, 2008Project leader Dr Alan Jamieson, of Aberdeen University's Oceanlab, said: "We got some absolutely amazing footage from 7700 metres...
BBC NewsStudy warns of risk to future pregnancies after miscarriageguardian.co.uk, UK - Oct 8, 2008... bleeding after 24 weeks in their subsequent pregnancy compared with those who had a successful...
Practical FishkeepingScientists film deepest living fishPractical Fishkeeping, UK - 9 hours agoDr Alan Jamieson of the University of Aberdeen found the species while working on the Oceanlab on the ...
BBC NewsNew dental school fills hole in healthcareScotsman, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoShona Robison, Scotland's public health minister, visited Foresterhill yesterday to welcome the first intake ...
Mammogram Reading Assisted By Computer Is EffectiveMedical News Today, UK - 5 hours agoThe study was the work of lead author Professor Fiona Gilbert of the University of Aberdeen and colleagues fro...
A safe replacementThe Engineer, UK - 18 hours agoAccording to a Cancer Research UK- funded study, computers could be used to safely replace a medical expert by interpreting a breast X-ray. ...
E Canada NowComputer-Aided Mammogram Effective for Breast Cancer DetectionInjuryBoard.com, FL - 53 minutes agoA mammogram is an X-ray that is used to screen for breast cancer and other breast abnor...
The University of Aberdeen has launched four new degree programmes to meet the skills demands of the booming and ever evolving energy, electronic and photonics industries.
Some of the oldest sports teams in the world pulled on new kits today when students at the University of Aberdeen took delivery of their new colours.
Leading filmmakers announced for Director's CutMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 19 minutes agoLeading lights of the European film world have been announced as part of the new season of talks in...
Graduate scoops new law awardAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - 1 hour agoStephanie Evans, 22, who recently graduated with a first law degree from Aberdeen University, won the prize for an essay on r...
Leading lights of the European film world have been announced as part of the new season of talks in the University of Aberdeen's Director's Cut series.
New look at details of £23m city poolAberdeen Evening Express, UK - Sep 27, 2008COAST – the City Of Aberdeen Swim Team - will be allocated 27% with the University of Aberdeen getting 11%. The repor...
Funding boost for Scottish researchersPress and Journal, UK - Sep 27, 2008Professor David Reid, head of applied medicine in the school of medicine and dentistry at Aberdeen University yesterday wel...
An award winning University of Aberdeen breast cancer researcher will give an insight into his work at a gathering tomorrow (Saturday, September 27) of cancer workers.
New science promoter creates Arcs and SparksMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 13 hours agoDr Skeldon said: "I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the University of Aberdeen at such a dynamic ti...
Light, low-cost data recorders could boost global efforts to ...Flight International - Sep 22, 2008An engineer at Aberdeen University, Scotland, has developed two recording devices that weigh less ...
Aberdeen archaeologists will join forces this weekend to explore the relationship humans had with animals in days gone by.
Alzheimer's lecture brings in the crowdsMedia Newswire (press release), NY - Sep 16, 2008Places are still available at the lecture which is free and open to all. To reserve a seat at the event cont...
NeurAxon Appoints Thomas Lategan, DPhil as Vice President of ...MarketWatch - Sep 16, 2008Dr. Lategan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacology from the University of Aberdeen and earned h...
BBC NewsThe bug that can kill within hoursBBC News, UK - Sep 16, 2008Hugh Pennington, Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen, and President of MRSA Action, told the BBC that the HPA lacks...
PhysOrg.comRecord breaking underwater camera to be showcased to publicPhysOrg.com, VA - 10 hours ago(PhysOrg.com) -- A revolutionary underwater camera, which has plunged to record breaking depths b...
Ever sat on a plane and wondered about the dangers of Deep Vein Thrombosis?
The first conference for Celtic postgraduate students in Scotland takes place this week at King's College.
Petro-Canada Urges Backing For University VisionOilVoice (press release), UK - 5 hours agoA multi-million pound fundraising campaign to create the new University of Aberdeen library has received a ...
Deadly bug under scrutiny at major food safety conferenceMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 8 hours agoFood Micro 2008 - which takes place at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre from Septem...
The multi-million pound fundraising campaign to create the new University of Aberdeen library today received a boost from oil and gas operator Petro-Canada.
BBC NewsScientists to focus on E.coli bugThe Press Association - Sep 1, 2008Iain Ogden, senior research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, said: "Food Micro 2008 is the biggest food microbiology...
An old medicine shows potential as new cureThe National, United Arab Emirates - Aug 28, 2008New research undertaken by the Children’s Hospital and Research Centre in Oakland, California, and Claude...
More than 90 over 60 year olds from across Scotland will be sampling all sorts of physical activities today at a special action packed festival for the more mature.
A key milestone in the construction of a flagship multi-million pound healthcare training facility for the North of Scotland is being celebrated later today.
Diabetes diet researchers use their loafAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - 9 hours agoScientists at Aberdeen University’s Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health were keen to use a bread product in ...
Too Soon to Celebrate Alzheimer's DrugRedOrbit, TX - 2 hours agoNews that the University of Aberdeen has developed Rember, a drug that can slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in up to 81 pe...
Visitors to the University of Aberdeen's annual Open Day are to be offered the opportunity to become part of a global phenomenon - involving free hugs.
Trust Announces Practice Research Award WinnerMedical News Today (press release), UK - 19 hours agoDr Margaret Watson has been announced winner of the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust's (the Trust)...
Greed blamed for obesity epidemicTimes of India, India - 9 hours agoTo address this, John Speakman of the University of Aberdeen, UK, and Klaas Westerterp of Maastricht University in the Netherland...
Cutting edge equipment which will enhance the assessment of critical childhood brain disorders such as autism is to be purchased by the University of Aberdeen, thanks to the generosity of an Aberde...
Malaria drug offers hope for Alzheimer's sufferersCraegmoor News, UK - Aug 11, 2008Dr Claude Wischik, of Aberdeen University, rejected the popular consensus that the build-up of amyloid was the cau...
Phase II of Centre for Health Science 'opens wide'Allmediascotland, UK - Aug 11, 2008... Institute and the University of Aberdeen with a mission to advance knowledge of health and healthcare servic...
BusinessWeekRethinking Alzheimer'sBusinessWeek - Aug 8, 2008Dr. Claude Wischik, at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, rejects amyloid as a cause of Alzheimer's. He has long studied another pro...
Arsenolipids In Fish OilChemical & Engineering News - 20 hours agoJörg Feldmann, professor of chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, comments that the newly arsenic-containing compou...
Process & Control TodayCALL FOR OUTSTANDING WOMEN TO “SET” THE STANDARD IN 2009Process & Control Today, UK - Jul 30, 2008Last year’s portraits can be viewed at the Royal Society, the Royal Academy ...
Schizophrenia genes found at lastNew Scientist (subscription), UK - Jul 30, 2008David St Clair of the University of Aberdeen, UK, and colleagues discovered that when regions on chromosomes 1 and 15...
Four Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Address a Variety of Treatment ...FOXBusiness - Jul 30, 2008In research reported at ICAD 2008, Claude M. Wischik, Professor in Mental Health, University of Aberdeen...
dBTechnoAlzheimer's drug offers fresh hopeFinancial Times, UK - Jul 29, 2008By Clive Cookson, Science Editor An experimental Alzheimer's drug developed by scientists at Aberdeen university could gi...
An Aberdeen student has landed a prestigious award from an American medical society for his research into air pollution in Nepal.
Jody’s proud to be first in family to graduateAberdeen Press and Journal, UK - Jul 17, 2008“I am a single parent and could not have continued without the support I received from my family. “My tuto...
A major American conference will hear this week of the contemporary initiatives and leading technology being used by the University of Aberdeen to communicate with students.
Consultation into Rowett plansPress and Journal, UK - Jul 11, 2008A PUBLIC consultation is to be held into plans to create a world-class nutrition research centre in Aberdeen. Members of Aberdeen C...
From the WireAlterNet, CA - Jul 9, 2008"There is a very long list of health hazards from being overweight," said Ghiyath Shayeb, the study's lead researcher at the University of Aberdeen. ...
Researchers at a University of Aberdeen unit are today celebrating two decades of helping to shape local, national and international health care.
MEP's warning over fast tracked wind farmsStrathspey Herald, UK - Jul 2, 2008It was produced by The Macaulay Institute and Aberdeen University for the Scottish Government and involved a stakeholder...
Taking an academic approach to lifeThe Herald, UK - Jun 27, 2008"The headmaster (Fraserburgh Academy) used to come round with forms for university entrance, but they were for Aberdeen University wh...
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