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University of Edinburgh

April 2024

  • Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

    Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child

    Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adults
  • Peter Higgs at the Science Museum in London, 2013.

    Peter Higgs obituary

    Theoretical physicist whose name was attached to the Higgs boson, a sign of the mechanism underlying the structure of atoms
  • Prof Peter Higgs in his old office at Edinburgh University with a description of the Higgs model, written by him on the blackboard.

    Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

    Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

March 2024

  • Pete McGregor

    Other lives
    Pete MacGregor obituary

  • White houses on coast

    Fears for future of Gaelic language as community workers’ jobs under threat

November 2023

  • University of Edinburgh staff greeting representatives from Mudan, Taiwan, at the university on Friday.

    Scottish university returns tribal warrior skulls to Taiwan

    University of Edinburgh repatriates ancestral remains of Paiwan fighters in ‘milestone of transitional justice for Indigenous peoples’

October 2023

  • William Duncan

    Other lives
    William Duncan obituary

  • The Student, based at Edinburgh University

    Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure

June 2023

  • Isabelle Murray, with shoulder-length hair, leans against a concrete wall, hands folded, in front of the University of Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall

    ‘I haven’t had a single normal year at university’: the UK students graduating without a graded degree

    An unlucky cohort of undergraduates has been plagued by Covid restrictions, education strikes and finally a marking boycott

May 2023

  • The University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, viewed from the gardens in George Square.

    Edinburgh University tries to defuse row after trans rights protests over film

    Executives holds talks with both sides after screening of gender critical documentary was cancelled

February 2023

  • Kenneth Fowler in 2009

    Other lives
    Kenneth Fowler obituary

    Other lives: Scholar of the hundred years war and faculty dean for history at Edinburgh University

December 2022

  • Bob Morris

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    Bob Morris obituary

    Other lives: Historian whose research on 19th-century Leeds showed a ‘property cycle’ among the middle classes

February 2022

  • John Sawyer

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    John Sawyer obituary

  • David Liverman

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    David Liverman obituary

January 2022

  • Fraser Woodburn

    Other lives
    Fraser Woodburn obituary

  • Sir Geoff Palmer

    Scotland’s first black professor accuses academics of racism in slavery row

November 2021

  • An undated drawing of Lord Byron

    Prized personal items of Lord Byron go on display in Edinburgh

    Exhibition at city’s university explores poet’s links with Greece and support for its independence

October 2021

  • Gordon Millan

    Other lives
    Gordon Millan obituary

    Other lives: Strathclyde University professor who was a renowned expert on the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé

August 2021

  • From Monday, fully vaccinated travellers from the EU and US will be treated the same as UK residents

    Scientists warn of risks in easing UK controls for vaccinated arrivals

    Edinburgh epidemiologist concerned about spread of ‘escape mutants’ that may defy vaccines

March 2021

  • McEwan Hall, part of Edinburgh University, which has apologised for failing in the support it provided.

    Edinburgh University admits failings after student kills herself

    Exclusive: Internal review finds gaps in response to repeated warnings about Romily Ulvestad’s mental health
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