WELCOME TO THE MAY ALUMNI E-BULLETIN | UNIVERSITY NEWS New £12m research hub to tackle digital challenges in rural areas. Read more... Scholars' reception recognises University donors. Read more... Curriculum reform up for discussion during Scottish Government visit to Hong Kong. Read more... Prince Charles makes private visit to Old Aberdeen Campus. Read more... Crown tower scoops 'Royal' award. Read more... |
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ALUMNI EVENTS AND REUNIONS 14 May, Aberdeen - Join us on the opening night of the University's Word festival when General Council members will gather for an exclusive event. Libby Purves, OBE, comes to Word with her latest novel - but tonight, she joins us for a candid discussion about her career. This event will take place on Thursday 14 May at 6.00pm in King's College Conference Centre. To book your place contact h.veitch@abdn.ac.uk. 15 - 17 May, Homecoming Weekend - There is still time to register to come back to campus between the 15th and 17th of May. You can take a tour of the campus, do some Family History Research at Special Archives, attend the Word events, join us for a ceilidh and much more. To book tickets, please click here. 27 May, Royal Over-Seas League, London - Join the Secretary of the University, Mr Steve Cannon for a reception at the Royal Overseas League, St James's Street, London at 6.30pm. For more information, or to book your place email h.veitch@abdn.ac.uk. 7 June, Denver - Join Professor Andy Hurst, Professor Colin North and Professor Ben Knellor from the school of Geosciences and Ms Ali Macleod from the Development office for drinks and an update on activity at the University. To book a place email h.veitch@abdn.ac.uk. 8 June, Denver - Join Staff from the School of Geosciences at the AAPG alumni reception from 5.30pm. More details will follow shortly. To register your interest please email h.veitch@abdn.ac.uk. | SIGN UP TO GET A UNIVERSITY EMAIL ADDRESS FOR LIFE As a member of the alumni community you are entitled to our new e-mail for life account. The web based e-mail accounts, hosted by Microsoft, will carry an @aberdeen.ac.uk address and have a 10 Gbyte mail box, 5 Gbytes of file store on the web, online address book, calendar facility and junk mail filtering. However, like many free accounts it will carry limited advertising. E-mail addresses are based on your name and year of graduation from university eg: john.smith.57@aberdeen.ac.uk. If you would like to request an account, register for our online community and tick the subscription option Alumni E-mail for Life Account Request. Our IT department will contact you to set up your account. |
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TICKETS FOR WORD ARE GOING FAST! Hope you have managed to book your tickets for Word as places are filling up quickly! As you know some highlights for Word 09 include BBC Security correspondent Frank Gardner and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne. They will be joined by Rebus creator Ian Rankin, George Mackay Brown biographer, Maggie Fergusson, Britpop godfather Luke Haines and American writer Adriana Trigiani, who wrote hits such as The Cosby Show and A Different World, will read from her new novel, Very Valentine. If you have not booked tickets yet, please do so as soon as possible in case you miss out! To book tickets, click here.
| YOUR ALUMNI ANNUAL FUND NEEDS YOU! The Alumni Annual Fund is celebrating its ten year Anniversary and has currently raised over £250,000 this year so far! This is the most we have raised in our ten year history. Thank you again to everyone who has already donated this year. Our 2008/09 campaign finishes in July and with less than £20,000 needed to reach our target, we need your support! Your gift will help to fund scholarships, medical research, sport and the new Library. Please help by donating here. |
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UPDATE FROM THE STUDENT PRESIDENT, DUNCAN MACKAY Hello Alumni, I hope you’re enjoying Spring as much as AUSA is at the moment! It seems that every time I write for the e-bulletin I discuss how busy we are, and this month is no exception! Following the return of students from their Easter break we were in the midst of Elections fever, with a successful three days worth of hard-campaigning which saw turn-out rise and a lot of passionate students who are keen to get involved in the running of AUSA. This month also saw the climax of Charities fortnight whose highlights included Gala Saturday, the Student Show (this year it was tremendous ‘Dial M For Mastrick’) and the return of the Torcher Parade. The Torcher Parade is still Europe’s largest torchlit procession and involved a lot of hard work from volunteers and staff alike, especially after last year’s unfortunate events which led to its cancellation. We are hoping to raise more for charity than ever before and believe we are well on our way to surpassing the amount dispersed to charities that was handed out last year. On a final note I had delighted to announce that within the next year AUSA will have new premises. After much lobbying and hard-work, AUSA has managed to secure the Butchart Recreation Centre as a new facility after the opening of AberdeenSportsVillage on Linksfield Road. Whilst Butchart won’t be a union in the traditional sense, we believe it will be a hugely successful students’ centre where societies and student activities can flourish. Until next time, good health to you all, Duncan | CNR SCHOLARSHIPS CNR International (UK) Limited has announced the launch of eight new undergraduate scholarships in the College of Physical Sciences and the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. The scholarships have been set up in memory of four former employees of CNR, who have passed away in recent years, and will provide support to the scholars selected for the duration of their degree courses. The scholars participating in the scheme are studying in the areas that the four former employees of the company were engaged in, namely Petroleum Geology, Petroleum Engineering, Accounting & Finance and Engineering. |
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LIBRARY WEB CAM The Library project has taken a major step forward as the demolition of the single story extension to The Queen Mother Library was completed earlier in the month. This now clears the site entirely for construction of the new Library which will begin in Summer 2009. We have set up a selection of web-cameras which will allow you to track progress of the construction and keep up-to-date as the building takes shape. The cameras can be viewed at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/newlibrary/webcam/webcam.shtml and we eagerly anticipate the breaking of the ground for this project.
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