The Robertson Trust: providing financial, personal and professional support
Eilish Campbell is studying for an MA in English and Film Studies and is due to graduate in June 2024. Here she describes how the Robertson Trust Scholarship has been…
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From St Andrews to Harvard – via the Dundas Medal
Roger Flint, BSc (Hons) 2007, was recently awarded the Dundas Medal for his work on creating SPOT – a software app that supports the safer prescription of opioids. Here he…
From approx. 21 words to exactly 50 words
Simon Lamb, BSc (Hons) 2013, describes how he segued from graduating with a degree in Mathematics at St Andrews to becoming the Scriever (writer-in-residence) at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum…
St Andrews – an economic microclimate
Harry Bremner, BSc (Hons) 2018, describes how the ‘economic microclimate’ at St Andrews gave him the entrepreneurial experience to launch Tuggs – the UK’s first freshly-prepared dog food that is…
Leaving a legacy: Silvia Fuhrman
Dr Murray Fuhrman was one of a group of Jewish Americans who were given a warm welcome by the University’s School of Medicine in the 1920s and 1930s when they…
Leaving a legacy: Alexandra Walmsley
Alexandra Walmsley graduated with a degree in Modern History and International Relations from the University of St Andrews in 1993 and went on to complete a PhD in Modern History…
Squeeze the orange
Dr Adam Boggon (BSc (Hons) 2012) is a current Fulbright scholar at Harvard. Here he describes the importance of ‘squeezing the orange’ – a principle he first learned at St…
Santander Universities to the rescue!
Siobhan Dooley, MA 2013, is currently working towards submitting her PhD thesis at the University of St Andrews. She applied for and won one of the ten £1000 grants that…
Swimming for Kate
Andre Phillips (BSc Biology 2014, PhD 2018) describes his Swim Around Arran in memory of fellow student Kate Mowatt.
Discovering the power of words
Molly Arbuthnott (MA 2010) describes how her route to becoming a successful award-winning children’s author involved Art History at St Andrews, primary teaching in Kenya, Italy and London and a…