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Experimental academic and artist collective The Tenementals launch innovative listening post installation with call to Glasgow venues

Posted on: Feb. 20, 2025
The Tenementals, an award-winning academic-artist collective which includes staff members from The Glasgow School of Art, are inviting Glasgow venues to host their groundbreaking interactive installation following its debut at the University of Glasgow.    The initiative launches with a special event at the University’s Advanced Research Centre on 14 March  from 7.30 – 9.00pm.  The launch will be precede
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The Glasgow School Of Art’s expertise plays key role in world-first augmented reality innovation

Posted on: Mar. 27, 2024
  The Glasgow School of Art has played a key role in world-first technology which uses augmented reality (AI) to explain cleft lip and/or palate surgery to parents of young babies. Following three years of successful trials NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has announced this new innovative is ready to be rolled out for widespread patient use.  The Cleft Lip
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Prof. Paul Chapman, Director of Emerging Technology at the GSA collaborates with University of Strathclyde to develop a new Augmented Reality initiative

Posted on: Jan. 12, 2024
  CMAC, The University of Strathclyde’s medicines manufacturing research centre announced the next phase in its strategic partnership with The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) on Wednesday 10 January 2024. The University of Strathclyde’s medicines manufacturing research centre, CMAC, announce the next phase in their strategic partnership with The Glasgow School of Art (GSA). The focus of this collaboration is to
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NEWS RELEASE: Scottish primary school children help co-create new virus app

Posted on: Jun. 08, 2022
The app is being presented at the Glasgow Science Festival and is available on the Apple App store. A new app, designed to help children understand more about respiratory viruses,  has been co-created by staff from the University of Glasgow, The Glasgow School of Art and local primary school pupils in Glasgow.    The timely Co-Immunicate app is designed to
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MEDIA RELEASE: Angle of Vision (Pap-Øy-cene) – new work by Saoirse Higgins to be shown at the Pier Arts Centre

Posted on: Jul. 16, 2021
Exhibition, curated by Susan Brind and Mónica Laiseca,  runs from 24 July to 29 August 2021 Distant Views of the Land. Film still © Saoirse Higgins 2019 Angle of Vision is an exhibition of new work by Saoirse Higgins, an artist based in Papa Westray, Orkney, addressing contemporary island life will open at Pier Arts Centre, Stromness on 24 July 2021. The
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NEWS RELEASE: Glasgow Masters students harness power of Medical Visualisation to address major global health issues.

Posted on: Feb. 11, 2021
mobileApp to encourage people to take up the invitation for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening and help prevent deaths in the over 65s increasing understanding of FGM/C and healthcare for women living with it 3D printing used to create affordable, haptically-accurate breast models to help more women examine themselves and increase early detection of tumours tackling low rates of medication adherence
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NEWS RELEASE: Head of Strategy at the GSA Innovation School to be Co-I on National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub

Posted on: Jan. 21, 2021
Madeline Smith, Head of Strategy at the GSA Innovation School, is to be a Co-I in the National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub which was announced by UK Research and Innovation on 20 January 2021.  Led by the University of Exeter, the hub is supported with £3.5 million UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) investment. It will coordinate the national research effort to
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NEWS RELEASE: Can VR and gaming help people with MS to improve limb function?

Posted on: Dec. 04, 2019
MS Society backs research project looking at how technology can be used to increase participation in exercise and improve upper limb function. Amy Webster’s MSc project tested serious games as a means to increasing participation in exercise. A Glasgow School of Art Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy graduate, Amy Webster, has secured a funding commitment from the MS Society to
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NEWS RELEASE: GSA Innovation School propositions for Precision Medicine in cancer care to be showcased at Can Do Summit

Posted on: Nov. 18, 2019
The innovative propositions will be exhibited at Glasgow Science Centre on Wednesday 20 November 2019. A publication aligned to the Precision Medicine project will be launched at the event. GSA graduate, Erlend Prenderghast’s, Trial Seek, one of the propositions for Precision Medicine in cancer care to be shown at the Can Do summit In 2018 final year students in the Innovation School
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NEWS RELEASE: Virtual Fingal’s Cave comes to the Edinburgh Festival

Posted on: Aug. 16, 2019
Opportunity to experience one of the UK’s most celebrated landmarks in glorious VR  Image: from Staffa and Fingal’s Cave VR  “it was one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld. It exceeded, in my mind, every description  I had heard of it… composed entirely of basaltic pillars as high as the roof of a cathedral,  and running deep into
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