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.

Chomsky lecture - video online

Thursday 21 June 2012

The Great Charter: Its Fate, Our Fate

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.

600th anniversary carved in stone

Friday 27 April 2012

University presented with unique carving.

Scotland’s singing University stages Mozart’s Requiem

Friday 27 April 2012

Call for choristers.

Beach clean up

Friday 13 April 2012

Help clean St Andrews’ beaches for your chance to win a land yachting voucher.

On The Rocks 2012

Thursday 12 April 2012

Student arts festival kicks off this weekend.

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.

Open minds

Thursday 17 November 2011

Free invitation to join in 600 years of learning.

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.

St Andrews to honour David Attenborough

Friday 20 May 2011

Summer 2011 honorary degrees announced.

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