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Students in the Quadrangles in 1972

Your memories of Glasgow

In the year of 575, we want your memories of your time at UofG!

 

Deborah Adeniran

WCAA winner

is making strides in cancer research and healthcare provision in Africa.

Professsor Andy Schofield at the University of Glasgow cloisters

Meet our new University Principal

Meet Professor Andy Schofield, our new UofG Principal and Vice-Chancellor.

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Chapter 30

Our renowned MLitt in Creative Writing celebrates its first 30 years.

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Countdown to Giving Day

Join us for the University’s third Giving Day! Find out what’s happening when, and how to be part of the action.

 

Exterior of the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland

From Clyde to Collider

Our researchers are at the heart of the biggest and one of the most famous science experiments in the world.

World Changing Alumni Award 2024 winner Vitalii Klymchuk outside an office with water features and gardens

A brighter future for mental health

Our new World Changing Alumni Award winner is making strides in global mental healthcare.

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Adam Smith 300

Our Adam Smith Avenue archive

Lord kelvin through the years

Lord Kelvin 200

Innovation, invention, inspiration – on his bicentenary, we look at the life and legacy of perhaps our most eminent alumnus of all.

Portrait Daniel Crawford

A new dimension in healthcare

Our World Changing Alumni Award winner for 2023 is helping to revolutionise patient-specific care by turning 2D data into 3D.

An ice formation in the Antarctic

A summer in Antarctica

From the midnight sun to counting penguin chicks, alumna Mairi Hilton chronicles an unforgettable five months helping to run a tiny Antarctic outpost after being chosen from 4,000 applicants.

Alma Mater sculpture by Jephson Robb

Sculpting the future

The Alma Mater sculpture created by alumnus Jephson Robb is unveiled in the East Quad to celebrate philanthropy and thank our donors.

Aligning the stars

How our World Changing Alumni Award winner hopes to combine her passions of cardiovascular science and space exploration.

Drawing of all Nobel Laureats from University of Glasgow - Top row: left to right, William Ramsay, Frederick Soddy, John Boyd Orr, Alexander Todd. Bottom row: left to right, Derek Barton, James Black, Robert Edwards, David MacMillan.

Our Super 8

All the illustrious Nobel laureates associated with UofG over the last 100 years.

WCA winner Fiona McPhail

Winning on the home front

Meet human rights lawyer Fiona McPhail, our 2021 World Changing Alumni award winner.

Graduates throwing their scrolls [Photo: UofG]

We’re celebrating our amazing alumni

Since 2001, we’ve been recognising alumni achievements with our prestigious World Changing Alumni award. Twenty years on, we’re looking back and celebrating all our past winners and their accomplishments.

Selina Hales at Refuweegie

A welcome award for Selina

Meet Selina Hales of Refuweegee, winner of our World Changing Alumni Award for 2020.

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Sunshine superwoman

Eunice Ntobedzi is aiming to bring solar power to more than 660 million Africans who don't have access to electricity.

Illustration representing gravitational waves (photo: Shutterstock)

Determined. Dedicated. Driven.

Glasgow Professor Sir James Hough has spent more than half a century searching for gravitational waves

Madge Easton Anderson, Daily Record 16 December 1920 (photo: courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow).

A legal first

Madge Easton Anderson might not be a name you’ve heard before, but she holds a special place in legal history.

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20 inspiring Glasgow women

From groundbreaking discoveries to world-changing ideas, we celebrate the impact of 20 trailblazing, world-changing Glasgow women.