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Making the link
The FE/HE Transition Project will build upon excellent links between the partners to help students transfer from college to university. Students with Higher National Certificates and Diplomas can continue their studies by joining the second and third year of appropriate degrees. The project is funded by the Scottish Higher Education...
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University of Aberdeen to give royal welcome to The Queen
Her Majesty The Queen will address The Scottish Parliament when it meets at the University of Aberdeen’s King’s College Conference Centre on Tuesday, May 28, 2002, it was announced by Buckingham Palace today ().This will be the first time the Queen has formally addressed the Parliament while it is sitting....
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Aberdeen University scholars meet HRH The Prince of Wales
Aberdeen University students awarded bursaries through The Prince of Wales Scholarship Scheme, met His Royal Highness at a special reception at Birkhall, on the Balmoral Estate, yesterday evening (Monday, January 21, 2002).The scholars, whose interests range from Accountancy to Zoology and from English to Tropical Environmental Science are all first...
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Aberdeen appoints new Director of Health Economics Research Unit
The University of Aberdeen is delighted to announce that Bob Elliott, Professor of Economics at Aberdeen, has taken up a part-time post as Director of Health Economics Research Unit (HERU).Professor Elliott will continue with his role within the Economics Department and will contribute 50% of his time in directing HERU,...
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On the road to success
STRICTLY EMBARGOED: Do not publish or print until 0001hours, Tuesday January 22, 2002The first comprehensive record detailing the cultural traditions of Scottish Travelling People is to be researched, recorded and introduced to Scottish schoolchildren thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £90,000, which has been awarded today to the...
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Aberdeen zoologist solves 90-year-old penguin egg mystery
The mystery surrounding a 90-year-old Royal Penguin egg (Eudyptes schlegeli), recently discovered in a dusty cupboard in the Zoology Museum at Aberdeen University, has finally been solved.Museum Curator Dr Martyn Gorman has uncovered a fascinating story connecting Aberdeen and the North-east with the heroic and dangerous epic Antarctic expeditions of...
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Aberdeen receives funding towards screening for osteoporosis risk
The University of Aberdeen has been awarded a collaborative research grant worth over £530,000 with Highland Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and a pharmaceutical company, Organon, to undertake a study of the value of screening for osteoporosis risk in women aged 60-80 years in the Highland region.Osteoporosis is the major cause...
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One million Euro grant for medical imaging in Aberdeen
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen’s prestigious Centre for Biomedical Functional Imaging have been awarded a grant of 1.049 million Euros (£650,000) by the European Community, this being the largest grant it awarded.The funding will be used to investigate ways of imaging how the body works and how this information...
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UK neonatal staffing study shows staff workload is risk factor for infant death in neonatal intensiv
A team of researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen, Sheffield and Sydney have carried out a comprehensive study of UK neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), which highlights that high staff workload poses a threat to outcome of infants in intensive care.There is conflicting evidence about the optimal way to organise...