Upcoming events

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  1. Remembering Service

    Remembering Service

    The Chaplaincy extends a warm invitation to our community members who have experienced the death of a family member, friend, student, peer, or colleague. Regardless of your faith or philosophy of life, you are welcome to join us for a reflective service featuring readings and music. There will also be an opportunity to light...

  2. Compline for Graduation

    Compline for Graduation

    A service of night prayer, with music and spoken prayers and silence. Open to all graduating students, their families and guests, and all others, regardless of their faith or philosophy of...

  3. Grief Group

    Grief Group

    Staff lunch

    This group is open to all staff who are grieving, whether your loss is recent or in the past. It offers an opportunity to find common ground with others if you are feeling isolated and alone and is a safe place to discuss and share various aspects of grief. Drinks and light lunch provided,...

  4. Rocket Rumble (7+)
    Limited access

    Rocket Rumble (7+)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Join us as, at the Wardlaw Museum, we start our space journey. Work out how we could get to outer planets and launch your own mini space mission. Learn, craft and explore as we look into our new exhibitions ' Alien Worlds'. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...

  5. Microbe Magic (7+)
    Limited access

    Microbe Magic (7+)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Could creatures from Earth thrive on other planets? Is there life on other planets? Come and discover more and make your own mini microbe factory in a recycled bottle. If possible bring your own recycled plastic...

  6. Grief Group

    Grief Group

    Staff lunch

    This group is open to all staff who are grieving, whether your loss is recent or in the past. It offers an opportunity to find common ground with others if you are feeling isolated and alone and is a safe place to discuss and share various aspects of grief. Drinks and light lunch provided,...

  7. The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite postgraduate researchers and early career academics based in the UK and working in the field of classical reception studies to this workshop at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. There is no...

  8. Sunday Worship

    Sunday Worship

    Opening Service

    Come join us for the University Service of Opening in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. The sermon will be preached by the University Chaplain, Revd Dr Donald MacEwan. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person...

  9. Animation Station (7+)
    Limited access

    Animation Station (7+)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Our imaginations are AMAZING! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...

  10. Planet Pioneers (Under 7)
    Limited access

    Planet Pioneers (Under 7)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Are there volcanos in outer space? Are there larva pits on mars? Come along to the Wardlaw Museum and learn about what other planets are like and use your imagination to create your...

  11. Planet Pioneers (Drop-in)

    Planet Pioneers (Drop-in)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Are there volcanos in outer space? Are there larva pits on mars? Come along to the Wardlaw Museum and learn about what other planets are like and use your imagination to create your...

  12. Animation Station (Under 7)
    Limited access

    Animation Station (Under 7)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Our imaginations are AMAZING! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...

  13. Chaplain's Conversation

    Chaplain's Conversation

    with Dr Michael Downes

    In conversation with the Chaplain, Donald MacEwan, Michael Downes will discuss his path to the University, and his thoughts about the future of music in education. Michael is the Director of Music, appointed in 2008. He read English and Music at King's College, Cambridge and completed a doctorate on Debussy at the University of...

  14. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive

    Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive

    An exploratory workshop

    With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The surviving texts date from the 13th to the 28th regnal years of Darius I (509 to 493 BCE), with the majority falling between regnal years 21 and 24. The archive records...

  15. Animation Station (Under 7)
    Limited access

    Animation Station (Under 7)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Our imaginations are AMAZING!!! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...

  16. Chaplain's Conversation

    Chaplain's Conversation

    with Professor Silvia Paracchini

    In conversation with the Chaplain, Donald MacEwan, Professor Silvia Paracchini, will discuss her path to the University, what inspires her research and thoughts about the future of education. Silvia, Professor or Neurogenetics and Genomics, leads the Neurogenetics group who are interested in genetic basis of complex cognitive and behavioural phenotypes using multidisciplinary approaches. Free...

  17. Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?

    Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?

    Impact Workshop, Monday May 27, 2024 Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh

    The human species has forever been adapting to dynamic environmental conditions. The premodern world provides a laboratory of various experiments in human-environment interactions: a rich history of successes and failures, acute and chronic pressures, false-starts and path dependencies, resilience and vulnerabilities---all operating on a global scale over the longue durée. How should we collate,...

  18. When Nature stumbles on a good thing: from promiscuous binding to essential enzyme activity

    When Nature stumbles on a good thing: from promiscuous binding to essential enzyme activity

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Joelle Pelletier, Department of Chemistry, University of...

  19. Grief Group

    Grief Group

    Staff

    This group is open to all staff who are grieving, whether your loss is recent or in the past. It offers an opportunity to find common ground with others if you are feeling isolated and alone and is a safe place to discuss and share various aspects of grief. Drinks and light lunch provided,...

  20. Animation Station (7+)
    Limited access

    Animation Station (7+)

    Summer Space Camp: Museum Holiday Workshops

    Our imaginations are AMAZING!!! Did you know they help us to picture what other planets are like? Come and let your imagination run wild and have a go at stop motion...