Live What You Love
Belinda Wilkes (BSc 1978) began her lifelong passion for astrophysics at the University of St Andrews and ultimately became Director of the Chandra X-Ray Centre, operated for NASA by the Smithsonian Astrophysical…
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Storyteller-musician Sam Shaber spent a First Year Abroad at St Andrews between 1990 and 1991. Her first blog described how her time here…
Date Tuesday October 5, 2021
Category Alumni stories
In this story, Andrew Worsnop (MA 1987) gives a searingly honest description of his long journey to being correctly diagnosed with bipolar…
Date Wednesday July 7, 2021
Category Alumni stories
After Nick Hely-Hutchinson graduated from St Andrews with an MA in History of Art in 1982, he spent his working career in the city.…
Date Wednesday July 7, 2021
Category Alumni stories
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St Andrews – what’s not to love?
Ella Crowsley, a fourth-year undergraduate student studying English, tells us why she chose to come to St Andrews. She describes the experiences that the University has offered her, the opportunities she has been given…
A Random Decision
Daniel Malikzade-Afshar is in his fourth year studying Physics. When he filled in his UCAS form St Andrews was his wild card, so it came as a shock when he discovered he had met the entry requirements and was coming to…
St Andrews Alumni Return to Fife
Twenty years since they met as students at St Andrews, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to their alma mater on Wednesday 26 May to hear from current students about how they have coped and supported each other…