Watson-Arnott award winners
Watson-Arnott award winners
School news
Light for Life – Physics & Astronomy annual industry day 2026
The industry day led by School of Physics & Astronomy this year was focused on 'Light for Life
Five St Andrews colleagues join RSE Young Academy of Scotland
The Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) has announced the appointment of 48 new members. Among the new cohort are five colleagues from the University of St Andrews, representing approximately 10% o
International day 2026
International day 2026
UG Project prizes 2026
Many congratulations to graduating students winning project prizes, class medals, and other prizes
Sibbett Memorial Lecture
The School held the first Sibbett Memorial Lecture on the 25th June, delivered by Prof. Donna Strickland, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
A celebration of 40 years of Bruce
To celebrate his contributions over 40 years of employment in St Andrews, the School held an event on the 26th June inviting a number of current and former students and colleagues to share their reminiscences of Dr Bruce
St Andrews and Dundee researchers awarded £1million funding to unlock hidden secrets of insulin
What if the key to improving diabetes treatments lies not in making more insulin, but in understanding how it behaves before it even enters the bloodstream?
‘Stellar death is not the end’: New discovery glimpses what will happen when our sun dies
New research from the University of St Andrews has given a new window into what happens to planets after the death of their star, giving a foresight into the future of planets like Jupiter after the death of the Sun.
St Andrews researchers help launch decade-long quest to map the Universe
Researchers are celebrating the start of one of the most ambitious astronomical projects ever undertaken, as the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).