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St Andrews in the News
June 2021
Welcome to the June edition of St Andrews in the News.
We hope you enjoy this month’s edition, which features news, live and watch-again events and fascinating alumni stories and experiences. Please c-ontact us if you would like to contribute your story, video or podcast to share with our online community.
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St Andrews Forest plants new energy future
St Andrews graduates the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to their alma mater to plant the first and only tree in St Salvator’s Quadrangle. This marked the launch of the St Andrews Forest – a key part of the University’s ambitious plans to become carbon net zero by 2035.
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Calling the classes of 1991 and 1996
Are you in one of these classes? If so we are running a new pilot programme where we have digitalised the original VHS tapes from ceremonies 25 and 30 years ago and partnered with a company to edit them into unique 50-second clips for each graduate. If you graduated in one of these years, look out for your clip arriving via email. Feel free to share it on social media. We hope to roll out this service to other graduation anniversaries in the future.
Unfortunately, we only have valid email addresses for around a third of these year groups, but we have already made personal video clips for every one of them, so if you know any St Andrews friends not receiving our emails, please let them know they will need to update their details with us and give us their permission.
Thanks to Michael Cunningham for letting us use his clip as an example.
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Wardlaw museum to reopen 26 June 2021
After more than a year’s delay due to the pandemic the University of St Andrews’ flagship museum is set to reopen following a £2.1 million overhaul. Philanthropic donations have been a major factor in enabling it to deliver 50% more space, reimagined displays, a new temporary exhibitions space and a remodelled entrance area and shop.
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University of St Andrews Community Fund
The Fife migrant project has established the first Conversational Café in North East Fife to combat loneliness and promote wellbeing for migrant communities. This has been supported by funding from the University of St Andrews Community Fund - part of the Principal's Strategic Response Fund. We are grateful to all the donors who have contributed to this.
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Olympian appointed as Director of Rowing at St Andrews
Alan Sinclair has joined the University of St Andrews from the Leander Club rowing team, following a ten-year career rowing for Great Britain. Ian Gaunt, Deputy Director of Sport at St Andrews said: "We are delighted to welcome Alan to the team at Saints Sport. Adding an Olympian with Alan's knowledge and experience to the team demonstrates our ambitions for our rowing programme here at St Andrews."
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2021 General Council Business Committee Election
Many thanks to all those who stood for election and who voted to fill six vacancies on the Business Committee from 1 July 2021. Congratulations to the successful candidates. The full results can be accessed via the General Council appointments webpage.
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Summer meeting of the General Council
Due to ongoing Covid restrictions, it will unfortunately not be possible to hold this summer’s meeting of the General Council in person. Instead, members will receive a University update from the Principal and Vice-Chancellor.
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SaintsFunder
This month’s spotlight falls on two recently launched projects: the St Andrews Forest – which aims to offset carbon emissions equivalent to student semester travel as part of the University’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Laidlaw Live: Music from St Andrews – which aims to support live-streamed concerts and nurture musical talent at St Andrews.
SaintsFunder is open to all students, alumni and University staff, so send your ideas to SaintsFunder@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Santander Scholarship Skills – Digital Training for Business Management
Santander are offering a digital training programme together with the IE University in Madrid. Participants will be able to choose one of four classes to boost skills in management and leadership.
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Alumni Updates
This month’s selection features Daniel Malikzade-Afshar who didn’t expect to study here at all, and Ella Crowsley, who discusses the opportunities she has been offered during her time at St Andrews and her internship with the University’s Development Office.
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Saints Talk
Our latest lecture took place on 15 June 2021, when Dr Neil McGuigan (School of History) talked about ‘Malcolm III: usurper, slaver, founding father, clearance chief’. Photo to follow once talk has taken place.
If you have missed this or any of the past Saints Talk Lectures you can watch them again on our YouTube channel.
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Laidlaw Music Centre
Watch again as the Music Centre Scholarship Wind Quintet performs the first of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s Sea Shanties on the beach!
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#CultureAtHome
Enjoy lots of high-quality online performances, music, images, objects, films, poetry, literature and podcasts from the University of St Andrews.
@byretheatre
@MuseumsUniStA
@StAndrewsUniversityLibrary
@UniversityofStAndrewsMusicCentre
#CultureAtHome
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