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College Hall, within the 16th-century St Mary's College building. In 1410, a group of Augustinian clergy, driven from the University of Paris by the Avignon schism and from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge by the Anglo-Scottish Wars, formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, offering courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law.
The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) is a marine science research organisation in Fife, Scotland. It provides the UK's main science capability in the field of marine mammal biology. It is located at the Gatty Marine Laboratory , part of the University of St Andrews .
The laboratory has its origins in the government-funded St Andrews Fisheries Laboratory, which was founded in 1884. [4] The first director, William Carmichael McIntosh , conducted pioneering work on the taxonomy of annelids and the early life histories of marine fish over more than 50 years.
Based at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, CSEAR's primary objective is to gather and make available information about the practice and theory of social and environmental accounting and reporting. In doing so, CSEAR's international network supports students, practitioners, scholars and educationalists in all aspects of the education ...
The Centre was founded in 1994 by Paul Wilkinson and Bruce Hoffman [4] and created the Rand-St. Andrews terrorism incident database which provides data for their studies. [ 5 ] In 1985 whilst head of Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen University , Wilkinson had established The Terrorism Research Unit in the department, which ...
The University of St Andrews Library dates back to the early 17th century but its books have been collected over some 600 years since the university was founded in 1413. It holds one of the most extensive collections of the research libraries in the United Kingdom with more than one million volumes.
The school still operates Scotland's only helium liquefier. During John Allen's time in St Andrews, the North Haugh site was purchased by the university, where the current building of the school is located. [5] The physics department moved to this location in 1965; the building is now named after John F. Allen.
Robert Hugh Gray (died June 2020) was Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting at the University of St Andrews [1] in Scotland. He was also the Director of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR). In the 2009 Birthday Honours list Gray was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).