Dundee Science Festival
BBSRC Anniversary Future Leader Fellow Dr Lauren Guillette reports on attending the Dundee Science Festival in November: “We had a fantastic time at the Dundee Science Festival held at the Dundee Science Centre. We…
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Polar explorers
Summer is usually quiet news time and a break from teaching. Not so for Biology staff at St Andrews and the good folks of the Cupar Churches Holiday Club. The latter organised a polar explorer week for kids, and Dr…
Calling young Marine Mammal Scientists…
12.5.2015: Sonja Heinrich (MSc Marine Mammal Science course director) was out recruiting future marine (mammal) scientists in a slightly different age group than usual. The Scottish Fisheries Museum is hosting a…
Submarine Culture on the BBC
Dr Luke Rendell talks about studying animal culture in whales and dolphins on BBC's Start the Week.
Animal Cultures – on the road again!
Animal Cultures – a joint Biology/Psychology exhibit is once more ‘on the road’… It’s easy to think of human culture as uniquely isolating us from nature and basic evolutionary processes. Our research has instead…
Microscopes at MUSA
Neuroscience and Biology students, Museum staff and visitors explore the world of the very small at Science Week Event...
Dundee Science Centre Pi
As part of the 2015 Women in Science Festival, St Andrews graduate Dr James McDonagh, PhD student Rosanna Alderson of the University’s School of Chemistry, Dr Daniel Barker and Dr Heleen Plaisier of the School of…
Bioinformatics on the Raspberry Pi computer – Meet the Expert
As part of the 2015 Women in Science Festival, this Pi Day – 14th March – Rosanna Alderson, James McDonagh, Heleen Plaisier and Daniel Barker will be demonstrating 4273pi (http://eggg.st-andrews.ac.uk/4273pi) at the…
You are what you eat!
Put the food you eat under the microscope at this exciting hands-on event. Make your own slides, investigate the structures of different foods and find out how microscopes are used in scientific research today.
St Andrews Biology rated top for research impact
The impact of research undertaken in Biological Sciences in St Andrews has been rated top in Scotland and second across the UK as a whole by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise, which judges the research…