St Andrews: an escape and an awakening
Liz Gerschel (MA 1972) was one of the first women to walk in the Kate Kennedy Procession and has spent a lifetime campaigning for race, gender and disability equality. She…
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As a member of our Family Programme, Fiona Goodchild supports women’s football at St Andrews. Her generosity…
Date Monday April 6, 2026
Category Donor Stories
Dr Mark Clampin (PhD 1986) is the Deputy Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate, at NASA, providing executive leadership for…
Date Thursday April 2, 2026
Category Alumni Stories
The University’s Making Waves Campaign reached the halfway mark this month, with donations totalling £150,067,929 thanks to the support…
Date Thursday March 19, 2026
Category Making Waves Campaign
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Donor Story: The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
The University of St Andrews has an international reputation for high-quality neuroscience research, with academics publishing in top-tier journals including Nature, Science, Cell, and Nature Neuroscience. In the…
A New York Times bestseller shaped at St Andrews
Peter Burns (MA 2004) has spent almost two decades writing non-fiction and working as Managing Director at Polaris Publishing. In 2025, he realised his lifelong ambition of becoming a published…
Voices behind the screen
For Molly Ryan (MLitt 2022), coming to St Andrews for a postgraduate degree marked a change of direction from museums and heritage into a career in film. She reflects on…