Month: November 2013

November Graduation 2013

Congratulations to the Masters Class of 2013, and PhD student Galhenage Perera, who graduated today. Students were invited to a reception in the school to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. Our graduates have moved on to a wide variety of interesting and challenging employment and further study opportunities, and we wish them November Graduation 2013

Industrial Action Next Week

Dear Students, As you probably know, all three main University trades unions have called for a second strike day on 3 December. Since it’s revision period, not much teaching is scheduled for that day. If you do have a revision tutorial, catch-up lecture or meeting with your supervisor scheduled, we would expect it to go Industrial Action Next Week

Sapere project comes to a successful end

Over the past three years the School has been involved in the Sapere project, funded by the European Commission. Sapere has been looking at new ways to build large-scale pervasive systems, moving away from traditional client/server approaches to explore biochemically-inspired system models in which services and users can “bond” spontaneously as they encounter each other Sapere project comes to a successful end

Enterprise First: How to Start a Tech Startup

Enterprise First is the UK’s top graduate startup accelerator, sponsored by government as well as global companies such as McKinsey, KPMG and Microsoft.  Please see the event description below and check out the facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/451961804910008   How to Start a Tech Startup Entrepreneur First is coming to St Andrews to deliver an intensive, practical workshop Enterprise First: How to Start a Tech Startup

Evolution of our existing institutional research information infrastructure : a facilitator for Open Science?

Anna Clements, Head of Research Data and Information Services, University of St Andrews. Open Science’ seems to be one of the hottest topics around with organisations and funders from the G8 downwards stressing the importance of open data in driving everything from global innovation through to more accountable governance; not to mention the more direct Evolution of our existing institutional research information infrastructure : a facilitator for Open Science?

Tales from the Real World

School President James Anderson and Careers Adviser Ben Carter invited recent graduates Matt Hailey, Ali Scott, Craig Garrigan and Steve Lowson back to the School yesterday to share their experience of working in the real world since graduating, with our final year students. They have been successful in securing positions at highly regarded companies including Tales from the Real World