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PhD researcher helps bring global symposium on Indigenous knowledge and museums to St Andrews
Academics, curators and artists from four continents gathered at the University of St Andrews for an international symposium co-organised by a Museums and Heritage Studies PhD researcher.
St Andrews earns top sustainability food award
The University of St Andrews earned the highest three-star Food Made Good Standard, recognised for local sourcing, plant-forward menus, solar-powered prawn farming and strong environmental and social initiatives.
St Andrews' Dr Kirsty Ross recognised for advancing open knowledge
Dr Kirsty Ross of the School of Computer Science has received a Wikimedia UK Silver Jubilee Award for her work widening access to open knowledge through teaching, research and outreach.
A week to remember: Celebrating the Class of 2026
From proud moments in Younger Hall to celebrations in St Salvator's Quad, our summer graduation ceremonies have brought together students from around the world to mark the culmination of their University journey.
Rector of the University of Bonn Awarded Honorary Doctorate by St Andrews
St Andrews awards honorary degree to Professor Dr Michael Hoch, Rector of the University of Bonn, in recognition of his distinguished contributions to molecular biology.
Small town, big thesis - how Cupar helped write history
Residents of Cupar have helped one determined student cross the finish line of her PhD, not with library books or footnotes, but with waves, whiteboard updates, and a card through the letterbox.
'Stellar death is not the end': New discovery glimpses what will happen when our sun dies
Researchers found that planet WD 1856 b is significantly warmer than expected and determined how it most likely reached its very tight orbit around the white dwarf.
Historic moment as St Andrews installs new Chancellor
Dame Anne Pringle was formally installed as Chancellor during today's graduation ceremony in Younger Hall.
St Andrews researchers help launch decade-long quest to map the Universe
Researchers at the University of St Andrews are celebrating the start of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping unlock new discoveries about the changing Universe.
Summer graduation celebrations begin in St Andrews
A week-long celebration began today (Monday 29 June 2026), as the town welcomed the first of more than 2,200 graduating students from 80 countries to cross the stage in the Younger Hall
Entrepreneurs more likely to be based in left wing areas
New study is challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between politics and entrepreneurship.
New data shows drop in Scotland's harbour seal numbers and sparks concern for grey seal population
New figures show a marked drop in the status of Scotland's harbour seal population, as well in summer grey seal abundance, according to surveys conducted by the Sea Mammal Research Unit
Scientists catch sperm whale dialects evolving in the Mediterranean Sea
Using 20 years of recordings researchers showed that whales living in the eastern Mediterranean had developed a new form of the vocal dialect used by animals in the western basin.
ERC Advanced Grant for groundbreaking zoonosis research
An ERC Advanced Grant will support Professor Christos Lynteris's groundbreaking research into the emergence of zoonosis and its role in shaping modern medicine, public health and state governance.
New optical technique allows toxic methanol in alcoholic spirits to be detected without opening the bottle
Methanol contamination of spirits such as whisky, gin and vodka causes hundreds of deaths each year and can lead to serious physical consequences
Higher extinction risk is associated with higher frequency of decreasing local prevalence of species
Analysis of one of the most comprehensive long-term databases ever created, BioTIME - a major tool to study biodiversity change also developed at the University of St Andrews.
1,500 year old woman challenges modern assumptions about disability
New international research reveals how a woman who lived with a lifelong physical impairment more than 1,500 years ago was supported, valued and buried