A change of destiny for one alumna
Helen Hwang came to study at the University of St Andrews in 1986 as part of a Junior Year Abroad (JYA) while she was an undergraduate at the University of…
Category: Undergraduate
International St Andrews: from Edgecliffe to Madagascar
Michael Docherty graduated with an MA in Philosophy in 2004 and tried several different career paths before he took up the post of Administrative Director in Centre ValBio, Madagascar. In…
Entrepreneurial St Andrews alumni: Giulia Melchiorre
I started my St Andrews journey in September 2011, when I arrived in Scotland for the very first time. With its long-standing, quirky traditions, strong sense of community and amazing…
A career studying rocks from other worlds …
Dr Jessica Barnes graduated from St Andrews with a first-class BSc in Geosciences in 2011 and is now working for NASA on a project which will continue the scientific legacy of…
What can I do today to change the world?
Asha de Vos (BSc 2002) was undertaking research on a ship in the middle of the ocean when she heard that she had won the South Asia Regional Award of…
Searching for Sisu in St Andrews
Geordie Stewart conquered Everest while he was studying at St Andrews. Having graduated, and become the youngest person to reach the highest summits on all seven continents, here he tells…