UG Project prizes 2026
Many congratulations to graduating students winning project prizes, class medals, and other prizes
School news
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).
Biophotonics Summer School 2026
School of Physics and Astronomy hosted the third edition of the St Andrews Summer School in Biophotonics.
New breakthrough spots deadly methanol without opening bottles
A new optical technique developed by researchers at the University of St Andrews and Adelaide University allows toxic methanol in alcoholic spirits to be detected without opening the bottle.
Renowned professor elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Professor Kishan Dholakia, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews and Director of the Centre of Light for Life at the University of Adelaide, Australia, has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy
Lecturer in Advanced/ Photonic Materials - AC2483
Lecturer in Advanced/ Photonic Materials - AC2483