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Next month, (Wednesday 18 March) the University and Lend Lease (the main contractor on the new Rowett building) will undertake a one-day community volunteering project with Cordyce School in Dyce. The School has identified three outdoor areas that are to be transformed in a day-long ‘blitz’ – revamping these outdoor areas to...

An all day "Come-and-Sing" choral workshop involving staff and students from the university was held on Saturday 24th January in the MacRobert Building Lecture Theatre. An element of community outreach was also an important facet of the event, since nearly half of the 50 participants were 'guest' singers from choirs...

Aberdeen has a strong reputation in the commercialisation of scientific ideas going back many years with people such as Professor Bill Harris and Professor Norman Hardman in the vanguard of this movement.   Sadly, 2014 saw these two pioneers pass away. Their legacy however remains, with commercialisation of the University’s intellectual property portfolio...

It was announced this week that The May Festival has been selected by Visit Scotland to receive funding from its Year of Food and Drink event fund. The festival will receive £7,750 in funding will allow the University to bring a fantastic and innovative programme of food and drink events to...

  Aberdeen Sports Village has been nominated as one of the best sport, health & fitness facilities in the UK as part of the ukactive Flame Awards 2015. Further information on ukactive and the Flame Awards can be found here. As part of the judging process, ukactive wants to know the thoughts...

Invitation to Founders’ Day   Sunday 8 February 2015   11am, King’s College Chapel, University of Aberdeen   I warmly invite you to attend this important commemorative occasion.  On Founders’ Day we pay tribute to our historic origins as an ancient university and we light a candle to give thanks for the vision of Bishop Elphinstone and...

The University of Aberdeen Gilbert and Sullivan Society is once again treading the boards and will present a lesser-known work: Princess Ida. Gilbert's "respectful perversion" of Tennyson's romantic poem The Princess is often seen as merely a Victorian male chauvinist's satire on advanced education for women; but Gilbert is not so naive, and...

STAFF MEETING ROOMS - NEW BOOKING PROCESS! Members of staff can now exclusively use Outlook to schedule (book) meetings rooms for University business. A fact sheet has been produced, outlining the simple steps for booking a meeting room using your existing Outlook. This new process includes the following rooms: Edward Wright F61 Edward Wright Annex...

The Centre for Academic Development recently launched its CPD Framework for Learning and Teaching after securing its professional accreditation by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The Framework is fully aligned with the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education (UKPSF).  Three flexible routes to professional recognition...

Staff and students at Aberdeen now have access to over 1 million TV and radio programmes from 2007 onwards.