The late great Nichelle Nichols once said “Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a girl’s game. It’s everyone’s game. It’s about where we are and where we’re going.” Here at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, we love…
Cooper Gallery is delighted to present Chimera, an exhibition bringing together new and existing works by Nashashibi/Skaer – the joint practice of Turner Prize nominated artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer. From the ancient Greek for a female goat, ‘chimera’ today refers to…
Camperdown Works in Lochee, Dundee was undoubtedly the city’s most famous industrial complex, and its iconic chimney “Cox’s Stack” remains one of Dundee’s most recognisable landmarks. Owned by the Cox Brother, who were already established in the linen trade in…
Archive Services tell us more about the fascinating collection of photojournalist Alexander Low who recently gifted the Archive his own collection of papers and photographs as well as material created by his ancestors. His Low family papers, as well as…
Find out more about Accountancy at the University. Kenneth Baxter from Archive Services traces its origins from part of Law to a thriving department in its own right. Watch Kenneth’s film below
The first of three blogs about the Alexander Low collection held by Archive Services. Most of us have some old family photos, letters or documents tucked away in a drawer or in the attic, but how many of us have…
What do coral, an octopus and a snake have in common? They are among the various specimens getting a bit of TLC in this year’s wet specimen preservation session. Let me explain… A huge selection of our collections are ‘wet…
What makes Scotland’s culture vivid and important? Today – and in the future? A brand new publication of creative writing inspired by the archives of The Saltire Society was launched at a special event at the Society’s Headquarters last month. Released…
A partnership between the University Archives, Mount Stuart and the Centre for Scotland’s Land Futures led to an amazing experience for three Humanities undergraduates. Here they describe their fantastic two week internship at Mount Stuart working with the archives and…
Every year, students on the MScs in Medical Art and Forensic Art & Facial Imaging at the University of Dundee present their work as part of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design ‘Master’s Show’. For the last…