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The year in pictures

Our photo gallery showcases University highlights from 2011/2012.

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  • Professor Peter Higgs
  • Edinburgh was the top performing UK university at the London 2012 Olympics. Highlights include Chris Hoy becoming the most successful British Olympian ever, Katherine Grainger winning gold in the double sculls and Michael Jamieson securing a silver medal in the 200m Breaststroke.
  • Regius Professor Greg Walker with an 1865 letter from Queen Victoria confirming a professorial appointment.
  • Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine
  • Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal was installed as the Chancellor of the University on Monday 26 September 2011. The event took place at the Old College Quadrangle and heralded the reopening of the quad following a significant landscaping project.
  • Students on campus surrounded by bicycles on railings
  • Thanks to the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Hospital for Small Animals, Scooter, a baby barn owl is making a remarkable recovery after being born with a birth defect preventing him from standing up.
  • Prior to entering the Anatomical museum, visitors can see two Asian elephant skeletons.
  • Staff in a chemistry lab, seen through a circular window
  • Student and tutor have a laugh together
  • University students work with local school pupils to introduce them to foreign languages and cultures.
  • A collection of 16th century musical manuscripts by the celebrated Scottish cleric ThomasWode were reunited after 400 years as part of the University’s Singing The Reformation exhibition.
  • Harald Haas
  • Student with an architectural model
  • Students walking up calton hill
  • Zebrafish
  • Jon Snow receiving his honorary degree
  • Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library
  • Fashion commentator Caryn Franklin with tailors' dummies ranging up to size 20.
  • Edinburgh scientists took a robotic football team to the last eight of the robot world cup

Credits

CERN/Claudia Marcelloni, British Swimming, Maverick Photo Agency, Matt Davis, Douglas Robertson, Paul Dodds, Hugh Pastoll, Julie Howden, Katie Reeves, Laurence Winram, The University of Edinburgh, Chris Close.

This article was published on Jan 30, 2013


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