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  1. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Philosophy

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Philosophy

    The following Professors will deliver their Inaugural Lectures: Professor Aaron Cotnoir: "Problems of Unity" Professor Simon Prosser: "The...

  2. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: History

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: History

    The following Professors will deliver their Inaugural Lectures: -- Professor James Palmer: "The Appeal of the Apocalyptic at the Dawn of the Middle...

  3. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Physics and Astronomy

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Physics and Astronomy

    Professor Natalia Korolkova: "Artisan light for quantum technologies" Professor Brendon Lovett: "Conquering the complexity of the quantum...

  4. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Chemistry

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Chemistry

    The following Professors will deliver their inaugural lectures: -- Professor Eli Zysman-Colman 'Illuminating a Research Career in Optoelectronic...

  5. Principal's office Open Forum

    Principal's office Open Forum

    The Principal's office will be holding several open fora for staff and students. This week eight forum will be for staff and students and will be held as...

  6. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Classics

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Classics

    The following Professors will deliver their inaugural lectures: Professor Carlos Machado: 'The Story of Servulus' Professor Alice König:...

  7. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Computer Science

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Computer Science

    The following Professors will deliver their inaugural lectures at this showcase event: Professor Richard Connor: 'Finding New Dogs with Old Tricks'...

  8. Enhancement Theme Showcase Event

    Enhancement Theme Showcase Event

    As the current Theme, Resilient Learning Communities comes to a close, all staff and students are invited to join us at our Enhancement Theme Showcase Event. At...

  9. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: International Relations

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: International Relations

    The following Professors will deliver their inaugural lectures at this event: Professor Fiona McCallum Guiney: 'The Future of Middle Eastern...

  10. Principal's office Open Forum

    Principal's office Open Forum

    This week ten forum will be for staff only and will be held as a Microsoft Teams Live Event. Submit questions in advance via this form. The fora held previously...

  11. Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Frank Sullivan

    Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Frank Sullivan

    When Sir James Mackenzie established the Institute for Clinical Research in St Andrews in 1919 he wanted 'To do for medicine what the Atomic Theory had...

  12. Open Forum: finances and our future

    Open Forum: finances and our future

    The Principal and the Quaestor will be present to talk to staff about the University's finances and our future. There will be a Q&A following the...

  13. Booker Lecture

    Booker Lecture

    This year's St Andrews Booker Prize novel is The Long Take, by Scottish author Robin Robertson. The Long Take was contentious when it was shortlisted for the...

  14. Principal's Open Forum

    Principal's Open Forum

    The Principal will be hosting two open fora, on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 September. These will be for all staff and will be held as live MS Teams events with a...

  15. Open Forum: finances and our future

    Open Forum: finances and our future

    The Principal and the Quaestor will be present to talk to staff about the University's finances and our future. There will be a Q&A following the...

  16. Principal's Open Forum

    Principal's Open Forum

    The Principal will be hosting two open fora, on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 September. These will be for all staff and will be held as live MS Teams events with a...

  17. Ask the Experts: Covid-19 and University life

    Ask the Experts: Covid-19 and University life

    Following the success of the first Ask the Experts session for staff on Friday 10 April 2020, this follow-up session is aimed specifically at students. Join our...

  18. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Mathematics and Statistics

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Mathematics and Statistics

    We are delighted to invite you to the Inaugural Lectures to be delivered by: Professor Jonathan Fraser 'Fractals: Exploring Rough Geometry'...

  19. Principal's office Open Forum for Staff

    Principal's office Open Forum for Staff

    The Principal's office will be holding several open fora for staff and students. This week four forum will be for staff and will be held as a Microsoft...

  20. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Psychology and Neuroscience

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Psychology and Neuroscience

    We are delighted to invite you to an Inaugural Lecture Showcase, followed by a drinks reception in Upper College Hall. The Professors from the School of...

  21. Golf Graduations: Jack Nicklaus to be made Honorary Citizen

    Golf Graduations: Jack Nicklaus to be made Honorary Citizen

    The town of St Andrews and its ancient university will honour some of the world's best-loved golfers when The 150th Open returns to the Home of Golf in July...

  22. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nathan Bailey

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nathan Bailey

    What determines the physical structure and behaviour of an individual animal? This talk addresses the evolutionary tension between every organism's own...

  23. Booker Lecture

    Booker Lecture

    This year's St Andrews Booker Prize novel is The Long Take, by Scottish author Robin Robertson. The Long Take was contentious when it was shortlisted for the...

  24. Russia's Invasion of Ukraine:

    Russia's Invasion of Ukraine:

    You are invited to join us as we welcome Professor Stephen Gethins in Conversation with Professor Phillips O'Brien, Director of the Institute for the...

  25. Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Silvia Paracchini

    Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Silvia Paracchini

    Why do 10% of people prefer their left hand? Why do 10% of children struggle to learn to read? Could there be a connection between left-handedness and dyslexia?...

  26. Val McDermid: My Scotland

    Val McDermid: My Scotland

    Please join us at the St Andrews launch of My Scotland, Val McDermid's personal journey through Scotland. Accompanied by over 100 stunning photographs, Val...

  27. Alexander III -- First Among Equals

    Alexander III -- First Among Equals

    Join colleagues to celebrate the publication of Alexander III (1249-1286) -- First Among Equals by Norman H Reid. Norman is former Head of Special...

  28. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Business School

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Business School

    In the year of the launch of the new Business School, we are delighted to be hosting an Inaugural Lecture Showcase, which will be followed by a drinks reception...

  29. St Andrews Prize for the Environment

    St Andrews Prize for the Environment

    Staff and students are welcome to join the final of the 2021 St Andrews Prize for the Environment, where Snowchange Cooperative, Cities Without Hunger Brazil,...

  30. Power to the people

    Power to the people

    Have you heard about the University of St Andrews' ambitious goal to be net zero by 2035? Join us to discover how we plan to achieve this essential...

  31. Beijing Alumni Event

    Beijing Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  32. Shanghai Alumni Event

    Shanghai Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  33. Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

    Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

    Before dying in a duel at the age of 20, Évariste Galois made some of the first discoveries in what came to be known as group theory: the study of symmetry....

  34. Developments in Technology Enhanced Learning

    Developments in Technology Enhanced Learning

    Join the Proctor and the Technology Enhanced Learning project team to hear about recent and future developments in TEL and the way you can shape the way in...

  35. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee

    Professor Lee will address the thinking of the philosopher Zhuangzi who was active in a part of the territory we now call China during the late 4th century BCE,...

  36. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Laura Moretti

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Laura Moretti

    This lecture addresses the display history of the Betende Knabe (Praying Boy), a Greek bronze statue currently housed in the Altes Museum in Berlin, exploring...

  37. Look to nature: the power of nature-based solutions to tackle climate change

    Look to nature: the power of nature-based solutions to tackle climate change

    From trees and peat to saltmarsh and seaweed, in the run-up to COP26, find out more about how we can mitigate climate change through Scotland's precious...

  38. Staff Open Forum on Teaching and Learning

    Staff Open Forum on Teaching and Learning

    The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered significant changes in the way we deliver teaching. Many of us have learned new digital skills over an extremely short...

  39. The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series: Adam Sisman

    The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series: Adam Sisman

    British writer, editor and biographer, Adam Sisman, will deliver the ninth Carnegie Lecture. Sisman received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his...

  40. Making light of the great dark? Andrew Lang on American literature

    Making light of the great dark? Andrew Lang on American literature

    Dr Tom Hubbard was the first librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and has held visiting lectureships or professorships at the Universities of Grenoble,...

  41. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    In the early 2000s it was claimed that Britain was 'sleepwalking to segregation'. Twenty years on an average neighbourhood in Britain is more...

  42. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Ian Johnson

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Ian Johnson

    In 1457, Reginald Pecock, Bishop of Chichester who was born circa 1390 and died around 1460, in the very act of trying to teach orthodox doctrine to the laity...

  43. Pathways in discovery and life: from Bellshill to the US to the Nobel Prize

    Pathways in discovery and life: from Bellshill to the US to the Nobel Prize

    This year's Irvine Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Sir David W C MacMillan, James S McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry...

  44. University Community Fund Showcase Celebration

    University Community Fund Showcase Celebration

    The Principal invites you to join colleagues at an event to celebrate and showcase three years of the University of St Andrews Community Fund and the projects...

  45. The Sustainability Challenge

    The Sustainability Challenge

    The world stands at an important crossroads. From the way we consume energy and food to how we manage waste and resources, the choices we make today will...

  46. Ask the Experts: Covid-19 and the workplace

    Ask the Experts: Covid-19 and the workplace

    Following the success of the first Ask the Expert session for staff on Friday 10 April 2020, this second Ask the Experts live Q&A has been organised for...

  47. Living Labs -- Academic Forum

    Living Labs -- Academic Forum

    This Academic Forum will consider the experience of Living Lab modules at the University of Edinburgh. These are team-based interdisciplinary credit-bearing...

  48. Elizabeth Garrett Mentoring Programme 2021-22: Launch Event

    Elizabeth Garrett Mentoring Programme 2021-22: Launch Event

    This event is the launch event for the 2021-2022 cycle of the Elizabeth Garrett Mentoring Programme, established in 2017 to support women in reaching senior...

  49. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christos Lynteris

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christos Lynteris

    Between the 1890s and the 1950s, bubonic plague became the first disease in human history to lead to a global pandemic that was scientifically understood as...

  50. Inaugural Lecture -- Peter Wahl

    Inaugural Lecture -- Peter Wahl

    The success of today's technology is a result of in-depth materials research. It involves manipulating materials at incredibly tiny scales, just a few...