News round up
Published: 23 January 2018
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to visit next week ... Catherine Steel on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time'... Visualising Medical Heritage and Innovation – Meet the Experts ...
Moderator to visit
Next Tuesday, 30 January, the University will be visited by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
The visit is an annual tradition extending back many years symbolising the University's civic connections. This year's Moderator is the Right Reverend Dr Derek Browning, Minster of Morningside Church in Edinburgh. With degrees from Oxford and St Andrews, he became the first Church of Scotland Minister to graduate from Princeton. His visit will include meetings with students and academics. At 6.00 pm in the University Chapel he will conduct a Service of Communion to which all students, staff and visitors are welcome.
Find out more
Chaplaincy website (includes Chapel web cam)
Catherine Steel on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time'
The University of Glasgow’s Professor Catherine Steel is one of the guests on Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, discussing Cicero on Thursday 25 January 2018.
This will be the Professor of Classics’ third appearance on the In Our Time programme. You can listen to the programme live from 9am on the 25 January or it will be available on BBC iPlayer shortly after the broadcast.
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Visualising Medical Heritage and Innovation – Meet the Experts
A collaboration between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, University of Glasgow’s Laboratory of Human Anatomy, and Glasgow Science Centre.
Venue - Glasgow Science Centre
Date – Friday 16 March, 10am – 2pm
Visualising Medical Heritage and Innovation – Meet the Experts will show how visualisation techniques such as 3D photography, 2D VR models, gaming and animation, can unlock the stories of scientific innovation, the evolution of medical and surgical care, and the latest advances in anatomy teaching. We will also show how medical heritage can be visualised using unexpected raw materials such as paper and poetry.
The event will celebrate Glasgow’s rich medical heritage through world-famous figures such as Joseph Lister and David Livingstone, and point the way to the latest innovations in surgical care. It will be interactive, participatory, and will illuminate medicine, surgery and anatomy as never before!
Programme (six stands)
• The First Stethoscope (RCPSG)
Includes an example of the first wooden stethoscope, animations, and an interactive Make your Own Stethoscope activity
• Virtual anatomy museum (RCPSG)
How can we use technology to visualise a 19th century anatomy museum?
• Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery (RCPSG)
See an example of an original Lister carbolic spray, animations and poems showing the development of Lister’s innovation, introduced in Glasgow in the 1860s, and how it changed medical science.
• Surgeons viewpoint (University of Glasgow / RCPSG)
Meet a real-life surgeon demonstrating advances in medical imaging and visualisation.
• 3D printing of David Livingstone’s Humerus (RCPSG)
Using visualisation to tell the story of the lion attack that almost killed explorer David Livingstone & live 3D printing of a cast of his fractured humerus!
• Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy (University of Glasgow)
Highlighting the amazing work done on student projects on this MSc course - a collaboration between the Laboratory of Human Anatomy, and Glasgow School of Art’s School of Simulation and Visualisation.
Visualising Medical Heritage is a two year digitisation project at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, supported by Museums Galleries Scotland.
This event is part of British Science Week.
First published: 23 January 2018
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