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Dundee Reunited 3 summer 2004 the alumni magazine of the univer sity of dundee incorpor ating gr aduates’ council Celebrating 21 Years of Fine Art Profiling three DJCAD alumni Is there life on Mars? What happened to Beagle 2? Pioneering medicine in Newfoundland One alumna tells her story Summer Sensation 2004 The alumni party of the year dundee reunited 3 Dear alumni As I write this we have We are doing a great deal at present to invest in the best possible just received the latest student app- en vironment for the future. An ambitious £160 million building programme lication figures - the highest ever in the encompassing the development of state of the ar t learning facilities and histor y of the Univer sity – including technology is a prior ity. An impor tant step towards our new Campus 2009 more from over seas than ever before . was recently made , when the star t of building wor k on the new Queen Our international research reputation Mother building - to be the centre of computing research and teaching - continues to grow and our renown as was mar ked in a naming ceremony by HRH The Princess Royal. a good place to wor k as well as to lear n is spreading. This was highlighted This year the Univer sity has welcomed more members of the public to recently when the USA’s The Scientist campus events, including the highly popular Saturday Ev ening Lecture magazine r ank ed the Univer sity of Ser ies, celebr ating its 80th anniver sar y, and the inaugural Discover y Days Dundee third in the wor ld after introducing the excitement of cutting edge research by our newest sur veying scientists on the best professor s to a wide audience.We hope to welcome you back to Institutions to wor k in outside the USA. Univer sity events and offer you more oppor tunities to maintain your links with your Univer sity,as we continue on our journey discover ing the future. What makes Dundee attractive to staff and students? Our aspiration towards excellence in research, teaching and learning is undoubtedly one par t of the for mula, but environment and quality of life are also Alan Langlands vitally impor tant. Pr incipal and Vice Chancellor Welcome to Dundee Reunited What’s happening at the University? Lots! You would be proud to that a current student may be contacting you by phone so they can chat see the progress being made: a growing international profile ,the constr uction with you about what life is like as a student today,about specific needs of of new buildings AND we are bucking the Scottish recr uitment trends with the Univer sity and how you can help. Did you know that donating as little more new students than ever before .We hope you will come back and as £10 a month over three year s would mean £461.54 (UK tax payer s) to see for your selv es. the Univer sity when tax is retriev ed? No gift is too small, it all adds up! Our aim is to look ahead and give students the ideal environment to reach There is no pressure on you, our alumni, to either agree to the student’s their full potential. telephone call or to make a donation. Howev er,if you do receive a letter, we believe you will enjoy the subsequent telephone conver sation – an Although there are various fundr aising campaigns underway to suppor t our oppor tunity to reminisce about your time here in Dundee. centres of excellence, the Univer sity has other needs too.There are two areas for which we are currently seeking suppor t: Student Hardship Funds Best wishes, and enhancing our Teaching and Learning Environment. Dianne Pemberton-Pigott Head of Alumni Relations This is your oppor tunity to play a par t in helping your Univer sity. In September 2004 we will be launching our fir st Ann ual Giving PS. If you are an employer,remember the quality of a Dundee graduate – progr amme and will be sending letters to a few alumni at a time to tell you our class of 2004 are seeking positions. From left: Stuar t McConnachie, Sir George Mathewson, Ian Cameron Black, Dianne Pember ton-Pigott and Mur ray Dunn at a reunion for alumni who entered the Univer sity in 1958. dundee reunited 4 Contents In the News . .. University News 4 In the News 7 Dundee - a career resource for life Features 8 Is there life on Mars? 9 Fl ying Doctor 10 Celebrating 21 Years of Fine Art 13 Investing in intellectual ca pital for the future 15 Graduates’ Council Annual Meeting & ‘Discovery’ Lecture Negotiating peace in Sudan 19 Maths mastery - 20 Pioneering medicine in Newf oundland Prof essor Roger Fletcher 22 Postcards elected Fellow of the 24 Where are they now? Ro yal Society 26 Alumni reunions To keep up to date 28 Births, deaths and marriages Professor Roger Fletcher, Head of the with the latest news Depar tment of Mathematics,has been elected 29 Room to Rhyme from Fellow of the highly prestigious Royal Society from the University Seam us Heaney for his master y of maths, including for mulae visit the Press and 30 Alumni and staff party 2004 - that helped put the earliest spacecr aft in the Publications website at 1960s into orbit. The numerous computer Summer Sensation progr ammes based on his wor k, which are in www. dundee .ac .uk/pressoffice widespread use today, are yet another testimony to the enormous significance and Managing editor in valuable nature of his research. Joan Concannon Editor Katherine Beattie [email protected] .uk Resolving international water law and policy, the Univer sity played a Head of alumni relations key role. The IWLRI’s Legal Assessment Dianne Pemberton-Pigott water disputes Model, integr ating three principal disciplines – [email protected] .uk la w,hydrology and economics – will be used Design Dr Patr icia Wouters, Director of the to help resolve international water disputes Crucial - www.designiscrucial.com Univer sity’s International Water Law Research and to develop national water policy consistent Institute (IWLRI), attended the Third Wor ld with international obligations. If you no longer wish to receive copies of Water Forum in Kyoto (2003) – the wor ld’s Dundee Reunited please write to: lar gest meeting on water. The Univer sity hosts a biennial conference Alumni Relations Office highlighting cur rent issues in water law University of Dundee The need for a new "Wor ld Water Ethic", in and policy. For more infor mation see: Dundee DD1 4HN which law plays a fundamental role was identified http://www.dundee .ac .uk/law/iwlri. at the Forum. As the leading research Front cover:The Geddes Quadrangle in institute in water law, and the only academic The water for um web site can be found at: memory of Patrick Geddes, the pioneer of town planning and one of the founding institution to offer postgraduate degrees in http://www.w or ld.water-for um3.com/ fathers of the University. dundee reunited 5 Frank Gehry’s UK first with new Maggie Centre Wor ld-renowned architect Frank Gehr y visited Dundee for the opening of the Maggie centre – his fir st UK building – and was confer red with an honorar y degree by the Univer sity of Dundee Pr incipal Sir Alan Langlands welcomed Frank Gehr y to the Univer sity at the opening of the 'Breathing Space' symposium at the Univer sity's Visual Research Centre in Dundee Contemporar y Ar ts. The symposium, which From left: Pr incipal Sir Alan Langlands, Professor Char les McKean, Fr ank Gehr y,Chair man of Cour t Larry Rolland and featured Frank Gehr y, architects and cancer Univer sity Chancellor Sir James Black. exper ts, addressed the aesthetic of cancer care. The new Dundee Cake - a revolutionary ‘recipe’ Researcher s at the Univer sity have collabo- rated with a Dundee baker to manufacture a new type of flapjack. The ‘recipe’ could revolutionise the diagnosis of a symptom that impair s the body’s ability to absorb and metabolise medication to treat conditions associated with Diabetes, Ir ritable Bowel Syndrome and AIDS. The new flapjack is an original way to diag- nose the rate of stomach emptying. Cur rent methods employ radioactive tracer s, which mak e it too expensive and risky for large- scale screening but the Dundee technology is saf e, accur ate and cheap – as well as tasting good – all improvements on existing methods. Local baker Alan Clark shows off his new ‘Dundee cake’. does in this countr y, stating, “Dundee has Br eaking new ground Pioneering wider access continued its high standards and maintains its into Higher Education position as a national leader in widening access.” in cancer treatment The Univer sity’s Dr Barbara Spr uce has been 2003 marked the 10th anniver sar y of the named as the winner of the fir st Gannochy Univer sity's pioneering Access Summer School. Award from the Royal Society of Edinbur gh, with a priz e of £50,000. More than 750 students have passed through the Access Summer School since it opened at Dr Spruce received the prestigious award for the Univer sity's Wider Access Study Centre her groundbreaking wor k in the field of cancer in 1993. Of the 96% who completed the treatment. She has identified an ‘Achilles' heel’ cour se ,78% have immediately won a place at in cancer cells which may cause some of them the Univer sity of Dundee,while many others to self-destruct, without harming nor mal cells.
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