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School of Physics and Astronomy rank 8th Overall in the UK by GPA and 1st in Scotland.
School news
Final-year undergraduate projects poster presentation
Final-year undergraduate projects poster presentation 2022
Staff wellbeing coffee/tea morning
Staff wellbeing coffee/tea morning
Silver and Bronze STEM for Britain award winners
Congratulations to Georgia Shillito and Ancy Anna, who won the silver and bronze medals respectively in the Physics category of the STEM for Britain awards 2022 held on the 7th March at the House of Commons.
Burns conference 2022
Burns conference of 2022
Winter Graduation 2021
The School held an informal celebration event in the morning.
Prof Graham Smith has been awarded the Bruker Prize 2022
Congratulations!
Stephanie Campbell wins OUP Academic Poster Prize at NAM 2021
The poster is titled "Using HI Gas to Model Dark Matter Haloes in MaNGA".
Physics and Astronomy Final Year Project Prizes 2021
Congratulations to all the recent graduates of the School of Physics and Astronomy!
CHEOPS unexpectedly spotted exoplanet Nu2 Lupi d
Rare planet found in space telescope photobomb.