QMU Merchandise
Neil Forbes, Scottish Chef
of the Year in the Scottish
Restaurant Awards 2011, will
give visitors top tips on making
the best of local produce.
Accessories
Glassware
Clothing
& lots
more...
www.cafepress.co.uk/qmu
Come and find out which one
you use.
Campus tours will be on
offer for those who are not
familiar with the new facilities.
Alternatively, why not relax
and catch up with friends
over cream teas available
throughout the afternoon.
The QMU Graduates’
Association AGM, and the
Golden Jubilee Reunion
of the Class of ’63 from
The Edinburgh College of
Domestic Science (at Atholl
Crescent), o ne of QMU’s
antecedent institutions, will also
take place on the day of Connect
2013.
Visitors will also be able to put their
own tastebuds to the test in a tasting
session which will demonstrate how
QMU’s scientific and nutritional
knowledge, expertise and excellent
facilities for food testing are helping
small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs).
There will also be a demonstration
of the ground-breaking work by staff
at the Clinical Audiology, Speech
and Language Research Centre
(CASL), using ultrasound. With this
technology we can, for example,
see that there are different ways
of forming the Scottish ‘r’ sound.
Dr Margaret Auld’s
Legacy
In September, QMU hosted some of the friends
and relations of our former governor, and former
Chief Nursing Officer of Scotland, Dr Margaret
Auld.
Dr Auld sadly passed away in September 2010, after
having been a keen and valued supporter of QMU for
many years. As a result of this relationship, Dr Auld
was kind enough to leave a substantial gift to QMU
in her will, with instructions that it be used to benefit
the learning of our Nursing students.
This generous gift allowed the department to
purchase a state-of-the-art Draeger Delta monitor,
for use in our Clinical Simulation Suite. The machine
is comparable to the monitors currently being used
in hospitals and as such allows our students to
have first-hand experience of this important piece of
equipment prior to going out of the classroom on their
placements. The advantage of this is that students will
now be able to confidently handle the equipment in a
real-life situation much quicker than they would have
without the prior experience.
To register your interest in
Connect 2013, and book for the
wine tasting sessions, please
contact the Development team
at E: [email protected].
Dr Auld’s niece, Lesley Jones, along with Dr Auld’s friend
We will be happy to assist
and former colleague, Anne Chilman, visited QMU to see
graduates in arranging
the machine in action and chat to some of our students
their get-togethers,
about the difference it has made to their studies. Fourth year
including assisting with
nursing students John Hodge and Emma Rutherford were on
room bookings for
hand to demonstrate the machine to our visitors and to explain
the day, overnight
the difference it has made to their studies and the studies of their
stays on campus,
younger classmates.
group bookings
If you would like to donate to QMU, or talk about leaving a legacy to
and dietary
us, please get in touch.
requirements.
You can donate online www.qmu.ac.uk/alumni_and_friends/135.htm or
❒
you can call us on T: 0131 474 0000 (ask for alumni) or E:[email protected]
QMYOU / Alumni & Development News
Nursing
The presentations will also
include some showreels by
Walid Salhab, an award-
winning filmmaker and
lecturer in Media Practice,
whose time lapse/stop
motion film of Edinburgh in
winter, “Kinetic Edinburgh
II” has had over three million
hits.
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