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Sabrina Tickle, cofounder of The Wee Haven Youth Project, more commonly known as the WHY project in Edinburgh, shares why youth work matters more than ever and what it means to be winner of the University’s Being Edinburgh Alumni Award 2026.
Every forest, river and coastline tells a story about how our planet works. Since 1966, students on the Ecological Science programme have been learning how to read and tell those stories.
NASA veteran Dr Kathy Sullivan is joining a diverse group of accomplished individuals who are receiving honorary degrees at our summer graduations.
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