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2 unusual facts about University of St Andrews


Maltravers Herald Extraordinary

The current Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary is former Fitzalan Pursuivant John Martin Robinson, MA (St Andrews) DPhil (Oxford) FSA.

The Experiment

The BBC Experiment was led by psychologists Professor Alex Haslam (University of Exeter) and Professor Steve Reicher (University of St Andrews) who planned and designed the psychological experiment with the series' executive producer Nick Mirsky and producer Gaby Koppel of the BBC.


Anna M. Harkness

This fund bankrolled the establishment of the Harkness Fellowships and the construction of St. Salvator's Hall at the University of St Andrews, the Butler Library at Columbia University, and many of the undergraduate dormitories at Harvard and Yale Universities (known as "houses" and "residential colleges," respectively).

Christian Keysers

He then started his research career at the University of St Andrews by investigating cells in the Temporal cortex with David Perrett, and described cells that respond when the monkey views particular faces in a way that correlates with conscious perception.

DTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase

The first protein structures of a dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase (RmlB) were completed by Jim Thoden in the Hazel Holden lab (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and Simon Allard in the Jim Naismith lab (University of St Andrews).

George Hadow

George Hadow (4 July 1712 – 11 September 1780) was professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, Scotland from 1748 to 1780.

Gregory Currie

Currie is an editor of Mind and Language, an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a Past Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of St Andrews.

Ian Bradley

Following further study at the University of St Andrews, from which he graduated with a first-class honours BD degree in theology, Bradley was ordained into the ministry of the Church of Scotland and appointed Head of Religious Broadcasting for BBC Scotland.

Kenneth Dover

Dover received honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Durham, Liverpool, and Oglethorpe.

Luke Archer

Previously studying at both North Hertfordshire College and Middlesex University, the collection, which was shown at University of St Andrews, Scotland on 16 February 2013, consisted of six individual looks, along with head pieces and accessories created by fellow winner George Jenkins.

Martin Hengel

He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Uppsala, St Andrews, Cambridge, Durham, Strasbourg and Dublin.

Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley

After completing his doctoral research, he was appointed a tutor and librarian at Exeter College, Oxford, after which he took up a research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a lectureship in history at the University of St Andrews in 1964.

Patrick Brydone

After attending St. Andrews University, he went abroad as travelling tutor or companion, with William Beckford and some other gentlemen.

Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications

The editors-in-chief are H. Benisty, (Campus Polytechnique), T.F. Krauss (University of St Andrews), E. Ozbay (Bilkent University), and C.M. Soukoulis (Iowa State University).

Rashid Ahmed Khan Tahirkhaili

Dr Tahirkhaili studied at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, earning a Bachelor's of Science in 1945 and at University of St Andrews, Scotland, earning a Master of Science in 1960, and a doctorate in 1964.

Robert Blackadder

Robert studied at the University of St Andrews (where his name is listed among the students in either 1461 or 1462), and in 1464 he was received as a bachelor in the University of Paris.

Web mortem

Online gamer and distinguished dean at University of St Andrews; Hammond MacLeod finds the body of his current mistress.


see also

Albany Park

Albany Park, St Andrews, a halls of residence of the University of St Andrews, Scotland

GAMA202627

by astronomer Dr Aaron Robotham, jointly from the University of Western Australia node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the University of St Andrews in Scotland, when he searched for groups of galaxies similar to ours in the most detailed map of the local Universe yet, the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA).

James Wilson

After graduating from the University of St. Andrews, he spent two years in Edinburgh and Glasgow studying Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith.

Patrick Bell

Born in the rural parish of Auchterhouse in Angus, Scotland, into a farming family, Bell chose to study divinity at the University of St Andrews.

Paul Bibire

He co-edited with Gareth Williams a book entitled 'Sagas, Saints and Settlements' from a 1996 interdisciplinary symposium at the University of St. Andrews, exploring the history, culture, and literature of the Viking Age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia.

Reicher

Steve Reicher, a professor of social Psychology and head of the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews