Professor Sin-Wang Chong has become the first member of the University of St Andrews to receive a National Teaching Fellowship, one of the UK's highest honours for excellence in higher education teaching and leadership.
Researchers at St Andrews and Dundee have won £1m to uncover how insulin molecules assemble and function inside pancreatic cells, opening new paths towards improved diabetes treatments.
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.
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.
Professor Eli Zysman-Colman has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Tilden Prize for pioneering mechanophotocatalysts and TADF compounds for sustainable photocatalysis. He receives £5,000, a medal and certificate.
The University of St Andrews is celebrating the achievements of members of our community who have been recognised in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours.
Sir James MacMillan, acclaimed Scottish composer and St Andrews professor, has been appointed to the Order of the Thistle by His Majesty the King, recognising his outstanding contributions to music and culture.
Professor Mark Chaplain, Gregory Chair of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at St Andrews, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
Professor Kishan Dholakia has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
The prestigious accolade recognises the advancement of learning and useful knowledge, which is at the centre of public life, across the arts, business and technology and science sectors.