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A project team of e-Learning and Veterinary Nursing staff at SRUC's Barony campus has been shortlisted in the “Innovation In Training” category in the Scottish Training Federation (STF) Awards.

An SRUC graduate has been shortlisted for the title of Agricultural Student of the Year at the 2018 British Farming Awards.

The president of the SRUC student body has welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to make sanitary products freely available to pupils, students and learners across the country.

"There are genuine potential game-changing opportunities both for new and conventional horticultural and agricultural systems that can come from the collaboration between IGS and the James Hutton Institute" Scottish-based agritech business Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd has unveiled its first indoor vertical farming demonstration building at the James Hutton Institute near Dundee. The facility, formally opened by John Swinney, MSP for Perthshire North and Deputy First Minister of Scotland, is arguably the world's most technically advanced indoor farm. More information from: Kate Forster

A motor racing marketing guru who went on to create an award-winning gin company is set to explain the winning formula for diversification.

Scotland’s Rural College has been recognised for the global impact of its dairy research by a leading scientific journal.

Obesity has become one of the most significant challenges to human health. But now scientists at the University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute have discovered a tiny group of brain cells that could be harnessed to tackle obesity according to a new study published in Cell Metabolism.

raspberry "We’ve tried for a long time to try to understand the basis of flavour in raspberries and what we found was it was determined to a very large extent by environmental factors" Scientists of the James Hutton Institute are investigating the development of resilient flavour characteristics in UK raspberries, as part of Innovate UK-funded research into new fruit breeding models and decision support tools. More information from: Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media Manager, Tel: +44 (0)1224 395089 (direct line), +44 (0)344 928 5428 (switchboard) or +44 (0)7791 193918 (mobile). read more

Professor Steve Hillier "We are always looking to improve our methods and our participation in the Reynolds Cup has helped to keep us at the leading edge, internationally, of the development of quantitative mineralogical analysis of soils and rocks" Researchers from the James Hutton Institute were named winners in a contest which is considered by some as the world championship in mineralogy. The results and the winners of the 2018 Reynolds Cup edition were presented at the Annual Clay Minerals Society meeting in Urbana-Champaign. More information from: Adam Walker, Communications Officer

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has become one of only two institutions in Scotland – and only ten in the UK – to offer a degree in Veterinary Nursing.