News archive
600th anniversary service of thanksgiving
Wednesday 19 December 2012
St Andrews alumni celebrate 600th Anniversary with service of thanksgiving in St Paul’s.
St Andrew launches new museum guide
Thursday 29 November 2012
Ancient saint in St Andrews to launch modern museum guide.
Students bring University crest to life
Wednesday 07 November 2012
University of St Andrews continues to shape human formation.
St Andrews first for Lord Mayor's show
Tuesday 06 November 2012
St Andrews students prepare to perform in pageant.
Royal patron to attend St Andrews charity dinner
Friday 26 October 2012
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to attend 600th Anniversary Fundraising Event in London.
Relaying the foundations of the University
Monday 08 October 2012
Call for volunteers to join 600th Anniversary cycle relay.
The R&A to fund St Andrews International Scholarships
Monday 24 September 2012
£500,000 mind broadening support fund announced.
Indiana Jones and the snowball of doom
Thursday 20 September 2012
Understanding climate change with Professor F Hoffman.
St Paul meets St Andrew
Wednesday 19 September 2012
St Andrews’ Alumni host Service of Thanksgiving in St Paul’s.
600th anniversary has sax appeal
Monday 09 July 2012
16th World Saxophone Congress comes to St Andrews.
Time travel virtually possible
Friday 22 June 2012
St Andrews Computer Scientists work with art historians and archaeologists to reconstruct St Andrews Cathedral in a virtual world.
A week to remember
Friday 08 June 2012
Packed programme of 600th anniversary events unveiled for Graduation Week.
Sean Connery tells the story of St Andrews
Sunday 13 May 2012
From 007 to 600: Sir Sean Connery narrates 600 years of history.
Beach clean up
Friday 13 April 2012
Help clean St Andrews’ beaches for your chance to win a land yachting voucher.
University lumbers up for 600th anniversary
Wednesday 21 March 2012
University of St Andrews to plant 600 trees to mark its 600 years.
Snake vs cyclops
Thursday 15 March 2012
Which would win in a fight? Head down to the new exhibition at the Gateway to make up your mind…
Students come out in force to kick-start Class Gift campaign
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Students come out in force to kick-start Class Gift campaign.
The blitz is back
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Director of Edinburgh Film Festival to Judge 60 Hour Film Challenge.
Mediaeval music weekend
Friday 17 February 2012
600th anniversary celebrations continue with weekend of Mediaeval music and culture.
University opens doors to other worlds
Friday 02 December 2011
Open night at University of St Andrews observatory.
Patron saint for 600th anniversary
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Iconic painting of The Crucifixion of St Andrew goes on display in MUSA.
Launch of the Chancellor's Circle
Thursday 10 November 2011
Sir Menzies Campbell recognises legacy gifts with new society.
600th anniversary celebrations get jazzed up
Wednesday 05 October 2011
The University of St Andrews’ JazzFest 600 kicks off
St Andrews 600th celebrations have eye to the Kaleidoscope
Thursday 29 September 2011
New festival celebrates arts, music and sustainability in St Andrews through the eyepiece of University invention.
Man's damage is ruining our oceans say experts
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Deliberate damage to our oceans is a far greater threat than realised, according to experts at the University of St Andrews.
Celebrating St Andrews' second founder
Thursday 22 September 2011
Symposium marks publication of new biography of James Irvine.
600th anniversary lecture: Ever to Excel
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Dr Norman Reid to deliver a special lecture on the process of narrating six centuries of striving history.
Robert Crawford to star at Edinburgh Art Festival
Wednesday 03 August 2011
Poet's writings to appear in photography exhibition.
Life in St Andrews
Friday 24 June 2011
Celebrity photographer shoots Attenborough for St Andrews portrait series.
Everest student thanks St Andrews
Wednesday 01 June 2011
Record-beating student pays tribute to University for success.
The talk of the town
Monday 30 May 2011
Sir David Attenborough to give public lecture as part of the University's 600th anniversary celebrations.
St Andrews treasure hunt in the quad
Thursday 26 May 2011
Antiques Roadshow visits Scotland’s first University
St Andrews student on top of the world
Thursday 26 May 2011
22-year-old conquers Everest and becomes youngest Scot to complete the seven summits challenge.
Young composers sound the 600th
Friday 08 April 2011
Grand finale for University of St Andrews 600th Anniversary Composition Competition.
BBC One's Antiques Roadshow visits St Andrews
Tuesday 05 April 2011
The Antiques Roadshow will be filming for its 34th series at the University of St Andrews.
The height of success
Wednesday 23 March 2011
St Andrews student sets out to be youngest Briton to climb Everest.
St Andrews the best University in the world
Friday 25 February 2011
Prince William and Catherine Middleton come ‘home’.
HRH Prince William of Wales - Coming Home
Friday 25 February 2011
HRH Prince William of Wales launches 600th anniversary celebrations
Launch of the 600th Anniversary Celebrations
Friday 25 February 2011
Speech by Professor Louise Richardson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor.
St Andrews to launch scholarship in honour of HRH Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton
Friday 25 February 2011
University to present wedding gift to couple during official visit
Birthday messages come flooding in for University of St Andrews' 600th
Friday 25 February 2011
President Clinton leads tributes to Scotland’s first university
HRH Prince William of Wales to launch University of St Andrews' 600th Anniversary
Monday 14 February 2011
St Andrews alumnus Prince William, accompanied by alumna Miss Catherine Middleton, will return to the University of St Andrews to launch its 600th Anniversary later this month (Friday 25 February 2011).
600th anniversary composition competition
Friday 08 October 2010
University of St Andrews challenging young composers to sound the 600th
Pope heralds University of St Andrews' 600th anniversary
Friday 17 September 2010
Pope Benedict reflects on historic links with Scotland's oldest University.
St Andrews ringing the changes
Friday 10 September 2010
Chapel bells will bring another first for Scotland.
Aging Bull - conservation work completed on founding document
Monday 28 December 2009
Conservation work has been completed on the Papal Bull which granted medieval Scotland its first university – the University of St Andrews.
Where Tomorrow Begins exhibition to tour Scotland
Tuesday 18 August 2009
New exhibition on university research comes to Dundee
Laying the foundations of the Anniversary
Saturday 18 July 2009
Dr Norman Reid examines the founding of the University
Ground-breaking research at the heart of the new School of Medicine
Thursday 18 June 2009
Interdisciplinary research to be at the core of new Medical School
Principal outlines her vision of the University's future
Monday 18 May 2009
Dr Louise Richardson sets out her plans for the University