Congratulations to our new alumni!

More than a thousand students gained their academic awards at four graduation ceremonies on Tuesday 29 November and Wednesday 30 November.

Read more about the winter graduation ceremonies

Award-winning architects appointed to design New College

The University of St Andrews has appointed architects WilkinsonEyre to produce designs for its flagship New College project on the site of the distinctive Madras College school in the historic centre of St Andrews.
Read more about the appointment of WilkinsonEyre.

St Andrews Prize for the Environment

Snowchange Cooperative – the winners of the 2021 St Andrews Prize for the Environment – gave a presentation at the 2022 Final, outlining how this award has supported their Landscape Rewilding Programme.

The Prize has enabled Snowchange to support Finland’s Indigenous Sámi to protect and rewild their critically-important reindeer forests. 

Snowchange consulted with the Sámi elders on how best to use the prize money. The elders decided that they wanted a physical memory of their success that could act as a symbol of hope. The funds were used to purchase 30 hectares of pristine forest in Muddusjärvi, Inari, Finland, which is home to reindeer and contains trees that are over 600 years old (see the image above).

Watch Snowchange Cooperative’s presentation

Launch of Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

The University recently launched the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network (KAN) – a pioneering alumni network to celebrate the ethnic and cultural diversity of our alumni around the world. KAN aims to create a greater sense of belonging and a fairer and more inclusive St Andrews community for alumni, as well as for staff, students and their families.
Watch the morning session of the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network launch
Watch the afternoon session of the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network launch
Visit the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network website

Santander Universities cost of living grants

Siobhan Dooley (MA 2013) is currently working towards completing her PhD thesis at St Andrews. She applied for and won one of the ten £1000 grants that Santander recently offered to help St Andrews students combat the cost of living crisis.

Read more about Siobhan and the Santander grants 

Read more about Santander Universities

Alumni Stories

We welcome stories from alumni about your time here, your journey since leaving and what the University of St Andrews has contributed to that journey.

This month, we feature Andre Phillips (BSc Biology 2014 & PhD 2018) who describes his attempt to Swim Around the Isle of Arran in memory of fellow student Kate Mowatt.

Email the editor at sem28@st-andrews.ac.uk if you would like to share your story.

Displacement and Humanitarian Intervention online course

Are you working in the area of humanitarian intervention? Discover our cutting-edge online course on Displacement and Humanitarian Intervention, taught by an interdisciplinary network of leading University of St Andrews experts.

There are multiple fully-funded spaces available to Scottish residents (subject to availability and eligibility).

Find out more on the Centre for Minorities Research website

St Andrews Alumni Carol Service

We were delighted to welcome so many alumni, friends and supporters to St Salvator’s Chapel on Wednesday for our annual alumni carol service and thereafter to the Old Union for mince pies and mulled cider.

Thank you to all who came along.

Events in London 

We were delighted to welcome so many friends - old and new - to the events that we hosted in London last week. 

Professor Phillips O'Brien
Professor Phillips O'Brien, Head of the School of International Relations, presented a rare insight into his work and an analysis of current events taking place in Ukraine to a full house at the Goldsmiths' Company.

University of St Andrews Alumni Club, London
Christmas Carol Service
It was another full house at our annual carol service at St Columba's Church, Pont Street, where over 600 alumni, friends and supporters gathered for an evening of carols, readings and merriment.

All proceeds from this wonderful event will go towards the London Scholarship Fund

SaintsFunder

There are a number of exciting projects this month. Name a flagstone or seat plaque at the Younger Hall and become part of the symbolic heart of St Andrews; support the St Andrews Forest to help offset carbon emissions equivalent to student semester travel; or help us to expand our racing fleet and compete at the highest level of UK university rowing through Legacy60: The Boat Club's 60th Anniversary Fundraiser.

Thanks to everyone who has supported our SaintFunder projects this year.

SaintsFunder is open to all students, alumni and University staff, so send your ideas to SaintsFunder@st-andrews.ac.uk

Saints Talk programme

Our latest Saints Talk – 'Adventures in three dimensions: How early modern publishers explored new ways of representing the world' – was given by Dr Laura Moretti on Tuesday 13 December 2022.

If you have missed this or any of the past Saints Talk Lectures, or couldn't make the live stream of this one, watch them again on our YouTube channel.

Save the date for Global Burns Night 2023!

The 2023 event will take place online at 7pm on Wednesday 25 January.
Save the date in the your diary now! 

Alumni Weekend 2023!

Save the date for next year’s Alumni Weekend between 16 – 18 June 2023. More details to follow in the new year, including how to book your residential accommodation with a special discount!

Alumni Authors

Laidlaw Live

Access high quality music from the Laidlaw Music Centre – wherever you are in the world.
Watch and listen to music from St Andrews

Reconnect!

If you know someone who would like to reconnect and sign up for St Andrews in the News, they can do so using the links below:

alumni: Update your contact information 

parents/guardians of undergraduate students: Register to join the Family Programme

email: alumni@st-andrews.ac.uk for more information