University of St Andrews

Fife, Scotland, 12-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Scientists at the University of St Andrews have discovered that the lighting used in smartphone displays can activate live cells that are genetically programmed to respond to light. Professor Malte Gather from the School of Physics … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 12-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Two University of St Andrews chemists have won prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry awards. Professor Ifor Samuel is the winner of the Society’s Chemical Dynamics Award for 2016 and Dr Catherine Cazin is the Chemistry of Transition … Read the full press release →

Brighton, UK, 23-Feb-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Psychologists at the University of Sussex have found that a person’s core disgust response is reduced if the source is within their own social group. In the study published today in Proceedings of the National … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 28-12-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — A trio of academics from the University of St Andrews have been awarded top research grants from a national funding body. Dr Karen Spencer (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Dr Nicola Allison (School of Geography … Read the full press release →

A panel of leading historians will discuss Europe’s ‘forgotten union’ at a special event to launch a new book by an Aberdeen academic. ABERDEEN, 25-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Professor Robert Frost’s work, The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385-1569, is the … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 12-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Four academics at the University of St Andrews have been honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Sharon Ashbrook is the Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prizewinner for 2015. Professor Ashbrook is a physical chemistry … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 6-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The latest stage in a £14m redevelopment of the University of St Andrews Sports facilities has been launched by Principal and Vice-Chancellor Professor Louise Richardson. The current Sports Centre was built in 1968 when the student … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 6-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Research at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee has confirmed that levels of neonicotinoid insecticides accepted to exist in agriculture cause both impairment of bumblebees’ brain cells and subsequent poor performance by bee colonies. The … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 10-12-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Researchers at the University of St Andrews have produced the world’s first solid-state protein lasers, capable of record performance and some capable of self-assembly, by harnessing the optical engineering skills of bioluminescent jellyfish. The findings, reported … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 10-12-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Researchers at the University of St Andrews have developed a light-based sensor that can be used to control the movement of artificial limbs, according to research published today in the journal ‘Advanced Materials’. Professor Ifor Samuel … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 17-11-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — A groundswell of activity, led by the University of St Andrews and community partners, to make St Andrews a greener, more environmentally conscious place has received a major funding boost; with the announcement of £148,000 Climate … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 17-11-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The University of St Andrews is to host a major fundraising event at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Tuesday 9 December 2014. Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 15-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — A researcher at the University of St Andrews has made one giant leap closer to “a profound moment for humanity”, with a discovery that could help prove the existence of alien life. Working alongside colleagues at … Read the full press release →

A new £1.5m grant will allow researchers at the University of St Andrews to explore light in exciting new ways. Fife, Scotland, 17-7-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The funding, awarded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), will see St Andrews scientists … Read the full press release →

Fife, Scotland, 11-6-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP will set out a positive case for why Scotland’s brightest future is as part of the UK, when he delivers a public lecture at the University of St Andrews next later … Read the full press release →

Professor James Naismith of the University of St Andrews has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Fife, Scotland,7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Professor Naismith (45), currently the Director of the Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC) at St Andrews, is a structural … Read the full press release →

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a sub-atomic particle which gives mass to all the matter in the universe, will be awarded an honorary degree by Scotland’s first University next month. Fife, Scotland, 7-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The … Read the full press release →

Crucial seeds of the Scottish independence movement were sown by a flamboyant American living in St Andrews in the 1930s, according to a Scottish literary expert. St Andrews, Scotland, 31-1-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Professor Robert Crawford, of the University of St Andrews, … Read the full press release →

St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 12-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — A United Nations expert on human rights will speak at the University of St Andrews on the crisis in Colombia. Dr Gustavo Gallón, a lawyer who has represented victims of human rights violations before … Read the full press release →

29-7-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Scientists at the University of St Andrews have shown that bottlenose dolphins can use copying of signature whistles as a way of addressing or labelling animals on an individual basis. The research was carried out by marine … Read the full press release →