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Stethoscope and chart

Urine test to identify heart disease

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:12:00 GMT

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a urine test which could be used to identify people with heart disease

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Controller

Games get better

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:54:00 GMT

New technology to improve the lifelike quality of computer games is being developed at the University of Glasgow.

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Lightbulb2

Switched on to new technology

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:30:00 GMT

University of Glasgow researchers are developing new technology that could replace the household light-bulb within three years.

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Blackcap nest

Animal architecture

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:46:00 GMT

Professor Mike Hansell reveals the ways in which different animals achieve their building feats in his new book on animal architecture.

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University skyline

LIGO sheds light on cosmic event

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:34:00 GMT

Analysis by the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of an intense gamma ray burst occurring last winter.

Test tubes
Test tubes

University research hailed as one of the breakthroughs of the year

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Research carried out at the University of Glasgow has been named as one of the scientific breakthroughs of 2007.

Professor John Cooper
Professor John Cooper

Launch of the Wolfson Chair in Bioengineering

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Professor Jon Cooper has been named as the first Wolfson Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Glasgow.

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Water pipe

Palestinian refugees are living in “slum conditions”

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Palestinian refugees in unofficial camps are living in slum conditions redolent of UK housing from 100 years ago

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Kremlin

Leverhulme funding for ‘Managed Democracy’ study

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:14:00 GMT

Professor of International Politics, Stephen White has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Foundation for a study on ‘Managed Democracy’.

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Smiling students

Telecoms giant invests in University of Glasgow students

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Orascom are to fund six business scholarships at the University of Glasgow

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star of david

The Holocaust and the punishment of atrocity

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:35:00 GMT

The annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture will this year investigate how the Nuremberg trials led to major changes in the prosecution of war crimes and genocide.

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Emily Bell T4

Guardian Unlimited editor to discuss The On-Line Citizen

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:07:00 GMT

The editor of Guardian Unlimited, one of world’s leading newspaper websites, is to discuss The On-Line Citizen at a lecture at the University of Glasgow.

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SuperSTEM

Glasgow collaborates in ground-breaking new microscope

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:29:00 GMT

World leading electron microscope facility, SuperSTEM, a collaboration of leading scientists from three universities including Glasgow, has unveiled a ground breaking new microscope.

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Sleep

Tackling depression through sleep therapy

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Researchers at the University of Glasgow are looking at ways of treating depression by improving a person’s sleep.

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Simon Singh

The mathematics of luck, risk and coincidence

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:59:00 GMT

Are you lucky or just obeying the laws of chance? Author and physicist Simon Singh looks at the mathematics of luck, risk and coincidence in the Kelvin Lecture on 30 January

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University chapel

University welcomes Church of Scotland Moderator and Archbishop Conti

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:47:00 GMT

Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, The Most Reverend Shelagh Kesting, and the Most Reverend Archbishop Mario Conti will visit the University of Glasgow Chapel

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Rob Jenkins1

The face of new technology

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:17:00 GMT

Researchers show how to make face recognition systems twice as accurate

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The Main Building

University of Glasgow posts strong financial results

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT

The University of Glasgow is in the black once again as the financial results for the year 2006/07 are published

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Rose painting

Trying Childhoods exhibition at Scottish Parliament

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:36:00 GMT

The Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow is hosting a special viewing of the Trying Childhoods exhibition at The Scottish Parliament.

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Football

Award for Scottish football's top doctor

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:11:00 GMT

The doctor to Scotland’s national football team has been acknowledged for his services to sport and medicine.

Alex Salmond
Alex Salmond

First Minister to deliver Cardinal Winning Education Lecture

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:29:00 GMT

The First Minister is to deliver the Cardinal Winning Education Lecture at the University of Glasgow this weekend.

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Ian Rankin

Free public lecture by novelist Ian Rankin

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:12:00 GMT

Bestselling crime-writer Ian Rankin is to discuss his literary career and published works during a talk at the University of Glasgow.

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graduation

Nominations for Rector announced

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:09:00 GMT

Four nominees - Aamer Anwar, Patrick Harvie MSP, Charles Kennedy MP, and Hardeep Singh Kohli - are standing for Rector of the University of Glasgow.

John Butt
John Butt

Music professor wins second international award

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:11:00 GMT

Professor John Butt from the Department of Music has won his second major international award for the Dunedin Consort’s recording of Handel’s Messiah

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