Graduation address: Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE
“It takes courage to venture beyond consensus, to sit with uncertainty, to temper conviction with tolerance.”
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Laureation Address: Frank Gardner OBE
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. Laureation by Professor Frank Lorenz Müller, Assistant Vice-Principal (Dean of Learning and Teaching) and Provost of St Leonard’s College.
Graduation address: Professor Dan Clayton, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
And before you leave, take a final look around the place you have made home, where you have made your student stories and memories, and then think about the kind of places you want to be in, and make, and fight for, in…
Laureation Address: Sir Rory Collins FRS
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Medicine. Laureation by Professor Deborah Williamson Dean of Medicine.
Graduation address: Alastair Merrill, Vice-Principal (Governance)
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Laureation Address: Alan Cumming
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. Laureation by Bishop Wardlaw Professor Kathryn Rudy, School of Art History and St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
Graduation Address: Professor Christopher Baddeley, School of Chemistry
“It is your generation that, given appropriate resources, have the talent, expertise and powers of persuasion to identify and deliver solutions.”
Laureation Address: Professor Philip Rees CBE FBA
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science. Laureation by Professor Nissa Finney, School of Geography and Sustainable Development.
Graduation Address: Dr Catherine Eagleton, University Librarian and Director of Collections and Museums
"Curiosity is what has brought you here, and it is what will carry you forwards..."
Laureation Address: Dr Eugene Koonin
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science. Laureation by Professor Malcolm White, School of Biology.