Avenue (issue 56)

Avenue The magazine for alumni and friends of the University of Glasgow

Making the cut We celebrate 50 years of student television

Walk this way Glasgow’s new app to get you walking

Big news for big data And other research news from across the University

Issue 56 June 2014

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Welcome

Contents

Welcome to the latest edition of Avenue, our twice-yearly magazine for alumni and friends of the University.

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At the University’s London Burns Supper earlier this year, I had the pleasure of again talking with television writer and producer Steven Moffat. Steven, as well as being a graduate of the University, is a proud former GUSTie. Glasgow University Student Television (GUST) members past and present are celebrating the station’s golden anniversary this year, and in this issue of Avenue we take a look at how GUST has helped to kick-start the careers of many graduates (page 8).

As well as celebrating 50 years of student television, we are preparing for a special year of sport. The first ever Sport Alumni Ball will take place this summer, coinciding with the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (page 20). Also launching in time for the Games is a new walking app called MyCity: Glasgow, which has been developed by a team of researchers here at the University, along with local partners. You can download MyCity: Glasgow for free; through the app you’ll discover Glasgow and improve your fitness at the same time. And you don’t have to be in Glasgow to use it (page 12).

You’ll also notice that several articles tell you there’s more to read online. We’re dedicated to advancing how we bring Avenue to you, and the new online version of the magazine not only allows you more ways to access the articles, it means we can also bring you some extra content, such as video or expanded versions of a story.

As always, I hope you enjoy reading this issue of Avenue and continue to get involved with the University wherever you are in the world.

Recent activities and achievements

Making the cut

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Walk this way

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Careers in progress

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Alumni news and events

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Report to the General Council

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Glasgow celebrates 50 years of student television A new app to get you walking during the Commonwealth Games Career updates from alumni Clubs, reunions and personal news Minutes from the Half-Yearly Meeting of the General Council, including the Principal’s report

Obituaries 25 Deaths of members of the General Council

Exhibitions and events What’s on at The Hunterian

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Half-Yearly Meeting of the General Council Saturday, 19 July 2014 Alumni are invited to join the Chancellor and the Principal at the General Council Half-Yearly Meeting on Saturday 19 July at 11am. The venue is to be confirmed.

Read the report of the last meeting on pages 22 and 23.

Professor Anton Muscatelli Principal and Vice-Chancellor

Cover image: Anna Garoucheva Gonzalez, current member of Glasgow University Student Television.

How to contact Avenue Editorial Strategy Committee: Executive Editor: Ailie Ferrari Editor: Lynne Maclagan Cathy Bell, Lesley Richmond, Emily Howie, Alan Macfarlane, Helen McAvoy, Jasmin Singh.

See following contact details. All addresses are University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. Alumni news: Development & Alumni Office, 2 The Square Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4951 Email: alumni@glasgow.ac.uk

Giving to Glasgow: Development & Alumni Office, 2 The Square. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4951 Email: campaign@glasgow.ac.uk Changes of address and obituaries: Development & Alumni Office, 2 The Square Tel: +44 (0)141 330 7146 Email: alumni@glasgow.ac.uk Letters to the Editor: Communications Office, 1 The Square Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4919 Email: avenue@glasgow.ac.uk © University of Glasgow June 2014. ISSN 0950-7167.

Produced by the Communications Office, University of Glasgow.

Photography by the University Photographic Unit.

Additional photography by Shutterstock, Development & Alumni Office, The Hunterian, Archive Services, Theodore Wood, European Space Agency/Science Photo Library, James Byrne, F5 Networks, Inc. Printed by J Thomson.

Views expressed are not necessarily those of the University or the editors. All rights reserved. Nothing may be reproduced without written permission from the Editorial Strategy Committee.

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News Big news for big data The University’s expertise in big data will significantly expand thanks to £14 million of funding from the Economic & Social Research Council to establish the Urban Big Data Research Centre in Glasgow, as well as funding for three major research projects to help analyse big data in the arts.

The Urban Big Data Research Centre is one of three new data research centres for the UK announced by the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts MP. As lead partner in the project, Glasgow will share in the £14 million of funding to establish the centre.

The other partners are the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, Reading, Bristol and Illinois-Chicago.

‘Data is a huge priority for government as it has the potential to transform public and private sector organisations, drive research and development, increase productivity and innovation, and enable market-changing products and services,’ says David Willetts MP. ‘The new data research centres will help the UK grasp these opportunities and get ahead in the global race.’

The unique facility will bring together a mix of expertise in urban social sciences and data sciences to address problems of dynamic resource management, social justice, lifelong learning and urban engagement.

Queen presents award to the University A delegation of leading researchers from the Boyd Orr Centre for Population & Ecosystem Health went to Buckingham Palace in late February to receive the Queen’s Anniversary Prize. They were joined by the Principal, Professor Anton Muscatelli, and the Chancellor, Sir Kenneth Calman.

The award recognises the centre’s applied research into the links between human activity, ecological changes and the overall health of ecosystems that include humans, livestock and wildlife. Recent research themes have included diseases which cross from animals to humans – zoonotics.

They include rabies, foot-and-mouth disease, bovine tuberculosis and malaria.

The award also highlighted the success of the centre in building close ties with external research institutions to support major research initiatives, including over £40m in grant income from a diverse array of UK and international funding sources.

The centre fosters collaboration between researchers working across a wide range of disciplines, including veterinary science, mathematics, ecology, evolutionary biology, physics, engineering, economics and the social sciences.

Among its successes are: • Major contributions leading to the declaration of global canine rabies elimination as an objective of the World Health Organisation, Food and Agriculture Organisation and the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health); • An extended collaboration to pioneer the use of whole-genome sequencing to trace foot-and-mouth disease transmission; • An extensive programme of work on the epidemiology of bovine TB, including the first ever use of whole genome sequencing to track the disease between hosts, and the development of innovative approaches to surveillance at a national scale; • A partnership that includes 11 different African institutes via the Wellcome Trustfunded Afrique One consortium.

Professor Rowland Kao, director of the centre, says: ‘Our centre is committed to breaking down traditional boundaries across academia and promoting new research partnerships that have a direct and positive impact on communities around the world.’

You can read about the centre’s research at www.glasgow.ac.uk/ avenue.

Meanwhile, researchers from the University’s College of Arts are building on their big data capabilities thanks to funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the Economic & Social Research Council.

Lexicographer Dr Susan Rennie will lead one of these projects: the first ever historical thesaurus of Scots, classifying every word in the Scots language, from earliest records to the present.

You can read more about this and the other projects at www.glasgow.ac.uk/ avenue.

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News in brief New funding for wind tunnel The University has been awarded £1.7 million from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and the UK Aerodynamics Centre to upgrade one of the School of Engineering’s four wind tunnels.

Glasgow is one of seven UK universities – the only one in Scotland – that has been selected to form the National Wind Tunnel Facility, creating new opportunities for pioneering aerodynamics and fluid dynamics research, as well as aiding the development of key technologies in the wind energy sector.

With plans being made to enhance the capabilities of the tunnel, particularly by introducing a gust facility and equipping it with state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment that will allow real-time measurement of off- and on-body flows, the facilities will be available for use by researchers and industry.

It will be able to simulate a wide variety of environments to build understanding of both low- and high-speed conditions. The UK’s aerospace industry is the second largest in the world, employing more than 230,000 people and contributing £24 billion to the economy each year.

Space research is go at Glasgow Scottish space research has been given a major boost with the announcement of nearly £4 million in support for projects on solar flares and the exploration of Mars. The University’s Space Glasgow group is spearheading 2 of 12 new UK-led projects that have received funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for space-related research.

Boost to talent scholarships For the first time, the University has awarded £2000 talent scholarships to 21 postgraduate students from the talent scholarship fund.

The scholarships, supported by philanthropic donations to the University, are for students with excellent academic records, whose financial circumstances mean that without this funding they might not be able to take a place at the University.

World lead in suicide prevention Professor Rory O’Connor from the University’s Institute of Health & Wellbeing has been elected president of the International Academy of Suicide Research for the next two years, the first UK-based holder of the post. The Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, which Professor O’Connor leads, is Scotland’s leading research group looking at suicide and self-harm, promoting collaboration between researchers and experts working in social, psychological and biomedical sciences.

Copyright for creatives Creative industries contribute more than £70 billion a year to the UK economy, and a new website has been launched to help those working in the music, film, literature, visual arts and technology industries through the complications of copyright law.

Academics from the Universities of Glasgow, Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Reading, Exeter and Strathclyde collaborated to write and develop the new resource. www.copyrightuser.org

30 years since The Smiths played QMU It is 30 years since The Smiths played at the Queen Margaret Union. On 2 March 1984, having reached number two in the UK Albums Chart, the band played the Union as part of their The Smiths Tour. Following the band’s request for cut flowers, many dozens of daffodils disappeared from the University grounds that night and were later thrown into the crowd.

Read the full stories online at www.glasgow.ac.uk/avenue.

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News Faces could show less emotion than first thought It has long been believed that there are six basic emotions universally recognised through facial expressions regardless of language or culture – happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust. But researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology have uncovered evidence that could challenge this view, suggesting that there are in fact just four, with fear and surprise sharing a common signal – the wide open eyes – and anger and disgust sharing the wrinkled nose.

Techniques and software developed at the University enabled the study, which is the first to objectively examine how the brain coordinates its different regions for the processing of facial expressions. The Generative Face Grammar, developed by Professor Philippe Schyns, Dr Oliver Garrod and Dr Hui Yu, uses cameras to capture a three-dimensional image of faces of individuals trained to be able to activate all 42 individual facial muscles independently.

Studying the range of different muscles within the face – or action units – involved in signalling different emotions, as well as the timeframe over which each muscle was activated, the team found that fear/surprise, and anger/disgust were confused at the early stage of transmission, only becoming clearer later when other action units were activated.

Students vote Edward Snowden as Rector The University’s students have elected Edward Snowden as Rector for the next three years. Mr Snowden, an American computer specialist and former CIA employee, is currently a fugitive in Russia. The results of the online election were announced to candidates and their supporters in the Bute Hall shortly after polls closed on 18 February.

‘I am humbled by and grateful to the students of the University of Glasgow for this historic statement in defence of our shared values,’ says Mr Snowden. ‘We are reminded by this bold decision that the foundation of all learning is daring: the courage to investigate, to experiment, to inquire.

‘This election shows that the students of the University intend to lead the way and it is my great honour to serve as their Rector.’

The Rector is elected by the University’s students and, as well as representing the students, is ex-officio chairman of the

University Court, the body which administers the University’s resources. In the run-up to the election Mr Snowden was favourite to win and won the election with a clear majority, beating Alan Bissett, Kelvin Holdsworth and Graeme Obree.

Edward Snowden follows in the steps of Charles Kennedy, Rector for two terms, from 2008 to 2014. ‘It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University for the past six years,’ says Mr Kennedy. ‘The post of Rector is an important one, and I would like to wish my successor all the very best for his term of office.’

Lead researcher Dr Rachael Jack says: ‘Our results are consistent with evolutionary predictions, where signals are designed by both biological and social evolutionary pressures to optimise their function. What our research shows is that not all facial muscles appear simultaneously during facial expressions, but rather develop over time.’

The findings were published in the journal Current Biology.

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News Our changing campus The third and final round of public engagement on the Campus Development Framework, which will guide the reshaping of the Gilmorehill campus, drew to a close in May. The consultation gave University staff and students, and the wider general public, the opportunity to express their views in a survey. A public exhibition outlining the vision for the future development was on display in the John McIntyre Building during April. www.glasgow.ac.uk/campusdevelopment.

Meanwhile, other sites around the University are also being improved, see below:

New building for virus research

Change of SCENE

Dental School developments

The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), which is currently split between the Garscube campus and the Gilmorehill campus, will move to one site at Garscube this summer. A new building, which will significantly enhance the centre’s laboratory facilities, will open alongside the existing Garscube CVR facilities.

The University’s teaching capacity in ecology and environmental sciences will significantly expand with the opening of a new facility this summer at the Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Natural Environment’s (SCENE) site in the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park.

Doors opened to a new and muchneeded clinical research and training facility at Glasgow Dental School in May.

The CVR works not only on human diseases but also animal diseases, which is unique in the UK, and it has the largest number of human and veterinarian virologists working together. It was set up in 2010 as the result of a competition by the Medical Research Council, which was seeking to establish a centre for excellence in virology in the UK. The new building will have both wet and dry laboratories; a bioinformatic hub; a cryoelectron microscopy suite; laboratories for viruses which require biosafety containment; insectaries – to study viruses transmitted via insects which are expanding worldwide; as well as tissue biobanks.

‘Since the centre was established the number of our researchers and postgraduate students has steadily risen,’ says Professor Massimo Palmarini, director of the CVR. ‘Nevertheless, we have been operating in two different sites of the University. The construction of this new building in the Garscube campus will allow the relocation of the CVR to a single site.

This will facilitate research collaborations – the foundations of all we do!’

This latest phase in SCENE’s development is part of a £7m investment that will help the field station boost the number of students being trained in field biology from the current 600 to 1,600 over the next three years.

The research wing opened in 2007 and has been recognised by a number of awards, including the Carbon Trust’s ‘Low Carbon Building’ award. Also sensitively designed to its surrounding environment, the new teaching facility includes a laboratory with 45 bench spaces, a lecture and dining hall and other learning resources such as an invertebrate specimen room.

Benefitting from the natural environment on the field station’s doorstep, SCENE leads on teaching, training and research in ecology and environmental sciences, and is run by the University’s Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine.

Professor Colin Adams, director of SCENE, says: ‘This development of our excellent field teaching facilities will further consolidate the University as the place to study ecology and environmental topics.’

The £230,000 joint University and NHS project saw a clinical techniques facility on level 7 that was no longer needed converted into a combined clinical research facility and area for basic life support training. The facility is named in honour of Dr Jim Rennie CBE, former Dean of postgraduate dental education for Scotland and erstwhile senior lecturer in Pathology at Glasgow.

‘I welcome this development, which is an excellent example of partnership working between the University and the NHS,’ says Professor Anna Dominiczak, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences. ‘The new facility provides very valuable support for the flourishing research portfolio within the Dental School, whilst the life support training area will further enhance the undergraduate student experience.’

The bespoke accommodation has two dedicated chairs, an essential resource for academic staff and postgraduate students conducting clinical trials. The life support training area includes technology such as video-recording so that students can review their performance in detail and make faster progress.

To read more about the school’s developments and its history, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/avenue.

Get involved Glasgow graduates and academic staff automatically become members of the General Council. Members can be a part of the conversation on how the campus develops by attending General Council meetings. There you will be able to hear what is happening, how the consultation has progressed and voice your thoughts. Find out more about the General Council and dates of the next meeting on page 22.

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News Saved from closure It seems a distant memory now. But it is only 25 years since a government determined to cut public spending tried to close Glasgow’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

‘They primarily looked at the costs of different university courses and at future manpower,’ says Professor Peter Holmes, a head of department then and an editor of the school’s history.* ‘Medical courses were subsidised by the NHS, so the six UK vet schools came out at the highest cost per student.’

Closure of two schools, including Glasgow, was recommended and that was almost the end of a distinguished history that began in 1862. ‘It was devastating news,’ says Professor Holmes. ‘We were determined to fight.’

Sir James Armour was the new Dean of the school. ‘William Kerr Fraser had just been appointed Principal of the University,’ he says. ‘So it was almost the first thing on both our desks.’

‘The year-long campaign that rallied domestic and international support was a

wonderful team effort,’ says Sir James. ‘We got tremendous backing from the University.’

Support from the Evening Times and the Herald was also crucial, says Professor Holmes. ‘We received letters from all over the world, saying “You can’t close Glasgow Vet School”.’

Eventually the powerful campaign – 700,000 people signed the petition – swayed the government and the school was saved.

The strength of feeling then has been supported by hard facts since, says Professor Ewan Cameron, the current Head of School. ‘It was supposed to be a manpower survey but they got it wrong.

Student numbers in UK vet schools have increased steadily and new schools are opening.

‘Glasgow’s School of Veterinary Medicine has gone from strength to strength. But we have always been strong – both in research and in teaching. They got it right in the end.’ * Glasgow Veterinary School 1862–2012.

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Finding Franklin Fresh analysis of forensic and other historical data by Glasgow scientists has cast new light on the fate of Captain Sir John Franklin’s Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage nearly 170 years ago.

The disappearance of the Franklin expedition, which set off in 1845, made international headlines and led to the biggest search and rescue mission in history.

The expedition was the first to use canned supplies, and in the 1980s Canadian scientists found high levels of lead in ice-preserved remains, prompting the theory that lead poisoning played a large part in the men’s deaths. But Professor Keith Millar of the Institute of Health & Wellbeing and Professor Adrian Bowman of the School of Mathematics & Statistics, working with their colleague, archaeologist and author William Battersby, have found that while there was evidence of lead poisoning, rates were in line with normal rates for 19th-century Britain.

Statistical estimation showed great variation in lead levels, suggesting that only some of the men had symptoms. This is backed up by written records from the expedition, showing that the first two years went well, with the crew doing extensive exploration on land and building winter camps. This would not have been possible if they had all suffered from lead poisoning, which causes psychological and neurological damage.

It is now known that the expedition set out at a time when Arctic climatic conditions were unusually harsh. The two ships became trapped for two winters in a remote region where neither rescue nor escape was possible.

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News Tackling Type 2 diabetes Researchers from Glasgow’s School of Medicine are collaborating with Newcastle University in a Diabetes UK funded project that will look at whether following a lowcalorie diet could put Type 2 diabetes into remission.

The £2.4 million research project, the largest single research project Diabetes UK has funded in its 79-year history, will involve 140 people with Type 2 diabetes spending between 8 and 20 weeks consuming just 800 calories per day, mainly in the form of nutritionally complete formula shakes.

As normal meals are reintroduced, they will learn how to permanently change their lifestyle.

Participants will be monitored over two years, and results compared to another 140 people with Type 2 diabetes following what is currently accepted as the best advice for managing weight. Some will have MRI scans to help researchers understand what is happening inside their body.

‘The reason for doing this research is that we do not know whether the extra effort, and possible stress, of following a very restrictive diet for several months will indeed bring benefits in the long term,’ says Professor of Human Nutrition Mike Lean (pictured). ‘This is why we need to study sufficient numbers of people for long enough to be sure that the benefits outweigh the costs.’

Free online learning The University’s first Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) started in May. The course – ‘Cancer in the 21st Century’ – is one of two Glasgow courses to launch this year on FutureLearn, a UK-led platform for delivering high quality, free, online courses.

The second course, ‘Right vs Might in International Relations’ starts on 23 June and runs for six weeks.

TEDx connects

Glasgow is one of 26 university partners of FutureLearn, which is backed by the Open University. While not credit-bearing, free, online courses are seen as an excellent way for increasing knowledge and interest in different subject areas.

The University hosted its first TEDx University of Glasgow conference on 15 March. At the event, speakers from the University and further afield shared ideas and experiences around the theme of connectivity, broken down into technology, multiculturalism and intersubjectivity.

Professor Frank Coton, Vice-Principal for Learning & Teaching, said: ‘Our partnership with FutureLearn will allow us to reach out to a whole new group of learners and underlines the commitment of this University to widening access to education.’

The University will be launching more courses, see www.futurelearn.com.

Seven of the University’s international students led the TEDx programme, which brought people together to build on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) ethos of Ideas Worth Spreading. The non-profit organisation, which began in California 26 years ago, hopes that TEDx events around the world will help people to connect the best stories, ideas and experiences, which will inspire world-changing thinking and initiatives.

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Making the cut Glasgow celebrates 50 years of student television, where many of television’s writers, producers and presenters cut their teeth and learned the skills needed to get ahead in television.

Bobby Rae is GUST’s 50th anniversary coordinator.

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When Glasgow University Student Television (GUST) was founded in 1964, it was a standalone society dedicated to the appreciation of a relatively new phenomenon.

Today, it is an integral part of the student media arm of the Students’ Representative Council, serving as both a social outlet for students and a University-funded service. For the 50 years in between, GUST has been the impetus for the forging of lifelong friendships, the winning of countless awards and the carving out of fledgling careers in what is a notoriously competitive industry.

television stations with really cheap cameras,’ says former GUST controller and Scotland Tonight assistant producer James Cheyne (MA 2005). ‘Right now, there’s almost certainly a future Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Ewan McGregor or Steven Spielberg hanging about in one of these university offices somewhere, waiting to be discovered. Student TV is giving them the opportunities to develop, the opportunities to learn, the opportunities so that when they go to a job interview, they’re just going to blow them out of the water.’

Television writer and producer Steven Moffat (MA 1983), of Doctor Who and Sherlock fame, believes GUST certainly influenced his and others career direction. Among his contemporaries, John Hardie (MA 1983) now runs ITN, Hamish Barbour (MA 1983) is MD of IWC Media, and married couple Peter Jamieson (MA 1984) and Julia Knowles (MA 1983) are each renowned producer-directors in their own right. There continues to be a great success rate among recent ‘GUSTies’ in securing employment in television journalism or production.

‘Right now, there’s almost certainly a future Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Ewan McGregor or Steven Spielberg hanging about in one of these university offices somewhere, waiting to be discovered.’

A lasting legacy

Enthusiasm for the station lasts long after members graduate. Though no longer a student of the University, former controller Bobby Rae (MA 2011, LLB 2013) is still an honorary GUST member. Having given seven years’ service to the station, Bobby has been drafted in as GUST 50 coordinator. Piecing together the evolution of the station has been a long and steady process, and there are many gaps still to be filled. Much like the technical knowledge of the longest continually operating student-run television station in the world*, GUST’s history has been passed on from one cohort of members to the next.

‘No one comes in to teach us how to do things,’ says Bobby. ‘Quite often what happens is that members will go out on work experience placements where they learn skills and they then bring those skills back to teach others.

The big thing about the GUST 50 project is creating a legacy and part of that is about ensuring that people continue to pass on their knowledge and skills. So as well as beginning to archive our footage, we have written various working practice guides that will be accessible via a dedicated microsite.’

Former GUSTies who now work in the industry shared their expertise with current members and students in a day of workshops held as part of this year’s celebrations. The workshops touched on all aspects of TV, from making news and drama to production management.

‘It’s almost frightening to think of the power that’s being developed in small student

James Cheyne, assistant producer, Scotland Tonight

Broadcasting bonus

In 1967 the University established a television studio in Southpark House that remains in use to this day by the University’s own Media Production Unit and Film & Television Studies students. GUST jumped at the chance to use the new facility and by the early 1970s the station was starting to look a lot like it does today. The National Student Television Association (NaSTA) was established in 1973, with GUST one of its founding members.

An amazing stroke of luck meant that GUST was able to buy a radio frequency (RF) transmission line at some point in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Legend has it that the price paid was just £1, as it was purchased from a BT subsidiary that was going out of business. The RF line gave GUST a direct

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Former GUSTie Kirsty Malcolm now works as an STV News video journalist. *According to NaSTA

2004 Rather than transmit dead air, GUST would switch to a camera pointed on the office goldfish Gustav.

Gustav died live on air while the crew were eating a latenight dinner in the Union.

10 1960s Programmes were not recorded in the early days, but played live in lecture theatres and other parts of the campus.

1973 The National Student Television Association (NaSTA) was established, with GUST one of its founding members.

1964 Glasgow University Student Television was founded as a standalone society dedicated to the appreciation of what was a relatively new phenomenon.

1967 The University established their television studio in Southpark House, and it is still in use today by the Media Production Unit, Film & Television Studies students and GUST.

Late 80s/early 90s Legend has it that GUST bought a RF line for just £1, which allowed them to transmit programmes across campus, with screens in places like the QM and the Hub.

feed from the office to the studio and then out across the campus. For almost 20 years, Glasgow students could tune in to the latest GUST programmes on screens in the QMU and GUU and even in student halls of residence.

the recent switchover from taped-based to high-definition cameras, a laborious and costly process.

GUST programming has always been a mixture of the serious and the not-so-serious.

Among the Betamax tapes to be catalogued and archived is footage of celebrities like Jude Law and Sean Pertwee being interviewed together before they went stellar, and Stephen Fry discussing ‘his G-Spot’ in a tongue-incheek promo for the station’s now 20-yearold arts programme. The first music video of Glasgow alumna and multi-award winning singer songwriter Emeli Sandé, Kill the Boy, was directed and produced by none other than GUST.

Rather than transmit dead air when it ran out of programmes to broadcast, GUST trained a camera on the office goldfish. Gustav was the station’s placeholder until the day he died on air – so the story goes – just as the crew had settled down to eat dinner in the Union refectory.

Chris Hall (MA 2007), who now works alongside property experts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer as senior production coordinator at Raise the Roof, remembers hearing about Gustav’s death by text message. ‘I seem to remember text messages going round saying Gustav is dead,’ says Chris, who became GUST’s Controller in 2005, the year after Gustav’s death. ‘People were watching the dead fish floating around for about an hour until we realised.’

It was also during Chris’s time with GUST that the station stopped broadcasting via the RF Line, when the line was sold off and then not replaced. The station began posting more and more videos online, a trend that has continued.

Digital broadcasting has since allowed student TV to really take off, and all of the Glasgow station’s programmes are now available online at www.gust.tv. Live broadcasts include the Freshers’ address. Quality has improved with

‘Most student TV stations have enormous budgets, which obviously does increase production values,’ says Technical Coordinator Arif Nadeem. ‘Most of our programmes don’t really require any budget at all and whatever money we have goes towards equipment. I think one of the reasons we do so well at the NaSTA awards is because we show that you don’t have to have the best equipment, it’s about the idea and how you execute it with what you do have.’

Betamax gems

GUST is run by the ‘top four’ – the controller, two heads of programming (creative and factual) and the technical coordinator – and currently has 64 members. It is the only student media team that’s elected, with the successful candidates taking up their posts for the following session in July. This allows plenty of time to prepare for Freshers’ Week, an intense period in the GUST calendar. More Freshers’ Week programming was produced in 2013 than ever before.

‘We produced five programmes every single day,’ says current controller Alicja Tokarska (pictured below), whose personal highlight was interviewing The Maccabees, who DJ’d at the QMU. ‘That is usually a 24/7 process – the office is never empty. This year, Go Think Big reviewed Freshers’ Week coverage from universities all around the country and ours was selected as the best in the UK.’

The crew was there to tell the story when the Bower Building went up in flames, and covering serious news has brought GUST industry attention on more than one occasion.

When BBC News had a technical glitch while trying to cover the student protests, it was GUST that stepped in to film on the team’s behalf. In the 1990s, BBC Scotland commissioning editor Ewan Angus enlisted GUST to produce a student night that went out on BBC2. And two of the crew famously filmed the Edinburgh riots that kicked off during the G8 summit in 2005, having ‘embedded’ themselves with a group of anarchists.

For James Cheyne, the footage helped to secure him one of six places on the highly coveted Sky graduate trainee programme.

‘We filmed this incredible footage,’ he says. ‘It turned very violent quite unexpectedly – people were running into traffic and were hit by cars, cars were turned over. We marched up to the mainstream media, some of whom had pulled back a bit, and offered them the footage for £300. In the end, I settled for £150 and a good word for the Sky News traineeship.

‘I think I was the only candidate accepted who didn’t have a journalism-related degree or postgrad and that was down to the experience that I had had in GUST.’

NaSTA-tastic

Testament to the talent and hard graft of crew old and new is the shelf heaving with awards that skirts the perimeter of the GUST office in the John McIntyre Building. GUST has been crowned Best Broadcaster more than any other student TV station in the UK and at its peak took the top NaSTA title ten years in a row.

11 2014 GUST celebrates 50 years of student television and looks forward to continuing to evolve with the ever-changing world of television.

2004/2005 The station purchased the www. gust.tv domain and began posting more and more videos online.

Mid-2000s GUST stopped broadcasting via the RF line when the company who owned it sold it off and it wasn’t replaced.

2011 GUST updates its technology and buys its first high-definition digital camera.

Were you a member of GUST? Help Bobby piece together a full and accurate story of GUST’s history. This article and timeline shows some of what we think we know so far, but we need past members to help confirm these dates and fill in the gaps.

Email your memories and photos to gust50@ gust.tv.

The annual NaSTA conference and awards is one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year and GUST throws itself wholeheartedly into preparations. Compiling entries invariably necessitates all-night editing sessions and the journey to the host university is often an event in itself. While smaller stations send just one or two delegates, the band of 30 eager GUSTies that made the 12-hour pilgrimage to Exeter by bus in 2013 is typical of past turnouts.

STV News video journalist Kirsty Malcolm (MA 2010), who joined GUST in 2005, was heavily involved in preparations when Glasgow hosted the NaSTA conference in 2010. She credits the experience with giving her opportunities she would otherwise never have had to make industry contacts – some of whom she is still in touch with today.

‘Nobody likes you just asking for work experience – you have to be more inventive than that,’ says Kirsty. ‘Saying that you’re organising the National Student Television Association awards sounds really good and you get to talk to people you probably wouldn’t get to talk to normally. Even the year before the awards I used it as an opener to ask STV director of content Alan Clements for his contact details. Everyone else was going up and giving him their CVs, but he didn’t give his contact details to anyone else from GUST that night.

‘Some people are in GUST to be creative or just for the fun of it. But if you are on a bit of a mission to get somewhere, it is very good at helping you to make those industry connections.’

Steven Moffat’s screenwriting tips Don’t believe the hype There’s no such thing as talent, and people who believe in talent are just making excuses for themselves. People think you’re born with a certain amount of ability and that isn’t improvable. That maybe is true for running but it’s not true for writing.

Hone your skills Becoming a writer is more possible than you think and way harder. Writing is a craft and you can get as good as you want to be.

‘Once someone has been in GUST for a couple of years it does stay with them,’ says Bobby. ‘No matter how successful you get or where you go in television, you know that it all began in a little office at the top of the John McIntyre building.’

Write about what you love

You can read more about the experiences

and memories of GUST members past

and present online, see www.glasgow. ac.uk/avenue.

Success is only the moment in your life when what you happen to like doing happens to be what everyone likes watching. It’s not a great moment of genius on your part: you just got lucky.

Anniversary celebrations

A dinner and party to celebrate 50 years of GUST will take place in October, and it’s expected to sell out fast. For more information and tickets, see www.gust.tv/50.

Don’t try and write what you think other people would like because you don’t know. Forget looking at research and what people are into these days. Just write the thing you really want to do.

Keep it in perspective

Explore all avenues It’s the people that you meet and the things that you do at university that can really help you. Certainly being involved with GUST was one of them, and from my generation a load of GUST members got on television and became big names.

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Walk this way Take up walking, improve your fitness and discover the city of Glasgow at the same time. The University is launching a new app to encourage us all to do just that, and it can be used from anywhere in the world.

You don’t have to be an elite athlete competing in the Commonwealth Games to be fit and healthy. All you need to do is walk. The catch, of course, is that it has to be regular – 150 minutes a week, according to the latest recommendations. So, among its preparations for the Games, the University has developed an app that will get us motivated and keep us moving.

‘It’s called MyCity: Glasgow and we plan to launch it on 23 June, in time for the Games,’ says Dr Cindy Gray at the Institute of Health & Wellbeing. ‘There will be versions for Android and iPhone and it will be free.’

Based firmly on behaviour change research, the app adapts to the user, says Dr Gray. ‘The first day you get no target. Next day it sets you 1,000 steps. So it’s training you to use it.

From then on it looks at your activity over the previous days to calculate your goal each day.

If you sit behind a desk, your goal will be lower.

If you walk lots, it’ll be higher. But it will always be achievable. We want people to play the game and to show the concept works.’

The feature that gives the app its name is the set of links to landmarks around the city – in this case, Glasgow. ‘It’s a pilot study,’ says Dr Gray. ‘If it works well, we can readily adapt it to other sporting events in other cities. So, once you’ve chosen your avatar and your country, from those competing at the Games, the goals you achieve and the engagement you show with Glasgow will go towards your country’s position on the MyCity leaderboard.’

Avatars that appeal to people were crowdsourced, Dr Gray says. ‘So, we’ve got a boy, a girl, a panda – we’re hoping there might be a pregnancy – a duck, a giraffe, an octopus. They will have athletes’ names, so the dog will be Wiggins, the duck Daley, and so on.’

The app, which has been produced in partnership with Dr Marilyn McGee-Lennon at Strathclyde University, Glasgow Life, Glasgow City Marketing Bureau and Glasgow 2014, takes advantage of built-in smartphone features, such as GPS for location and an

accelerometer for counting steps. ‘If you have it in your pocket or your bag, it registers reasonably brisk walking, but not shuffling around the house,’ says Dr Gray. ‘We’ve been working closely with Computing Science and they developed the software to count the steps.’

A user’s sense of accomplishment comes not just from reaching their walking goals but from building the city, she says. ‘Each time you reach your daily goal a new Glasgow building appears on your screen. There are 42 buildings incorporated in the app, so the game is designed to run for six weeks before and during the Commonwealth Games. Over that period, you ‘build’ the city of Glasgow, with all the Games venues and iconic buildings, such as the Mitchell Library, the City Chambers, the School of Art and the People’s Palace.’

The app can be used to motivate walking anywhere in the world, but the added value from using it in Glasgow during the Games comes from earning rewards by undertaking challenges, such as walking the Games Marathon Route or completing MyCity treasure trails.

‘There will also be a prize draw for people who keep using the app,’ says Dr Gray. ‘The Institute of Health & Wellbeing is all about sustained behaviour change. We want people to become more active and to keep it going.

MyCity: Glasgow will help them do that.’

Gold-winning game changers

The MyCity: Glasgow app received its own Gold medal in the Creative & Cultural category at the Game Changer awards in April. Universities Scotland and Colleges Scotland teamed up to host this one-off award ceremony to recognise and celebrate the many contributions that staff and students in Scotland’s further and higher education sectors are making to ensure that Glasgow 2014 is a fantastic success and delivers an enduring legacy. A total of 21 colleges and universities took away medals, with the University winning three Gold, two Silver and two Bronze medals for initiatives they were either leading on or working on along with other universities.

Download for free

From 23 June MyCity: Glasgow can be downloaded free from Google Play or the Apple Store.

Around the Games

• Researchers at the University are engaged in a number of projects relating to the preparation, management and legacy arising from the Games; including research programmes looking at the promotion of physical fitness, the security of the Games and the impact of the Games in the East End of Glasgow.

• In July we are co-hosts with the University of Edinburgh for 33Fifty, a Commonwealth Youth Leadership programme which will see 100 young people spend two days at the University, participating in seminars, workshops and masterclasses.

• At the University’s annual Commemoration Day on 18 June, the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, HRH Prince Tunku Imran, and the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, General Kamalesh Sharma, will be awarded with honorary degrees.

• From 9 to 11 June, the University will host the Scottish Student Sport’s annual threeday conference.

• The University’s chaplain, the Reverend Stuart MacQuarrie, will be chaplain to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

• The University is holding a varied cultural programme of events at the University before and around the Games, including music events and a Scottish Gold exhibition at The Hunterian.

You can find out more about the University’s Commonwealth Games activities, events and research at www.glasgow.ac.uk/ commonwealthgames.

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Careers in progress From following a passion to finding a niche, three alumni share their career stories. Avenue speaks to entrepreneur Carol Deeney, legal director and football lover Patrick Stewart and statistician and blogger Graeme Archer.

Entrepreneurial spirit Carol Deeney, MA 2008 Current position: Founder and owner of Deeney’s Scottish Flavour, London Carol has been serving up a taste of Scotland at markets across London since 2012. The success of her haggis toastie – the ‘Macbeth’ – inspired her to launch the Deeney’s haggis range in time for Burns Night.

Q: How did you get into running your own business?

A: I moved to London to work in advertising.

But after almost three years I really wanted to get back into hospitality – I grew up in my parents’ restaurant. Street food was a low-risk option to get things off the ground. I quite quickly built up some good markets and, now that I have some staff, we do weddings, ceilidhs and festivals too.

Q: How did your time at the University help?

A: Some might struggle with where to start, but my degree gave me knowledge of every area of business planning. I was also exposed to some fantastic ideas at Enterprise Society meetings. But the big thing for me was doing my third year at the University of Toronto, that was a fantastic learning curve.

Q: How are you growing the business?

A: We have worked with Bel’s Butcher in Edzell to develop our own haggis range, which includes the 2kg Chieftain for the Address to a Haggis. We brought the range to our stall in time for Burns Night and now it’s about getting it into retail shops and small supermarkets to reach as many people in London as possible.

Q: What do you love about what you do?

A: There’s such a buzz. I love meeting new people and going to new places. That sort of freshness in my job is great. I like that it is quite demanding too. You have to constantly problem-solve – how do I get there, what will I need, what’s the weather going to be like – and the excitement keeps you going. There’s also fantastic flexibility. Essentially you make your own decisions.

Q: Where do you see yourself going next?

A: Ultimately, my dream is to have a restaurant, where I can just turn the key and everything is there. But there will also be the outside catering, the market stalls and stalls at festivals and other events. It’s about having as many different aspects of the business running at once. I have this opportunity – I might as well try it all and see what works. www.deeneys.com

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A way with words and numbers Graeme Archer, BSc 1990, PhD 1994 Current position: Director of clinical statistics with GlaxoSmithKline and Telegraph political columnist Learning how to work as a self-directed investigator through his time at university has pushed Graeme Archer in directions he never would have imagined.

As director of clinical statistics for GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Alternative Discovery & Development group, Graeme leads groundbreaking research and development in drugs for ophthalmology, rare diseases and the emerging markets. In his spare time, he turns the analytical skills honed during his PhD in statistical inference to writing an acclaimed political column for the Telegraph.

Graeme enjoyed university life all the more during his second degree, and by the time he handed in his thesis, he was set on staying on at Glasgow. But the research post that had Graeme’s name on it turned out to be in Italy.

Following five years at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Graeme returned to the UK to join GSK in 1998.

For the love of football Patrick Stewart, LLB 1994 Current position: Director of legal & business affairs at Manchester United Had it not been for the Erasmus student exchange programme, Patrick Stewart would probably not be where he is just now – director of legal & business affairs at Manchester United.

Patrick, who was brought up in Aberdeen, became one of the first in-house lawyers to be appointed by a football club, north or south of the border, when he moved to Manchester United in March 2006. But that career success might never have been achieved had he not been the first-ever Law student at the University to take part in Erasmus, established in 1987 by the European Union.

The programme took him to the University of Mainz in Germany in 1991, where he studied Law through German for a year, improving his language skills, studying new aspects of law, but most importantly, stepping outside what he describes as his comfort zone.

After practising at two law firms in Edinburgh – W & J Burness (as it then was) and Maclay, Murray & Spens, where he worked on a shirt sponsorship deal for Hibs with Le Coq Sportif – he realised that it was possible to marry his

love for football with his legal training.

That career-changing moment led to a position with Team Marketing, the Lucernebased marketing agency that deals with the sponsorship and television rights for the UEFA Champions League.

‘My German and my experience in Mainz were absolutely pivotal to getting that job,’ he says.

It in turn led to his dream job as Manchester United’s first in-house lawyer, where a wideranging legal role includes negotiation of a record-breaking shirt sponsorship deal with US car brand Chevrolet and professional contracts for players and managers.

Patrick’s academic mentor was Jim Murdoch, Professor of Public Law, who was recently appointed international dean for mobility.

Patrick was also a founder member of the Kelvin Ensemble, in which he played the French horn.

Carol, Patrick and Graeme have given a little of their time through the Glasgow Careers Alumni Network, a global community that supports the future employability of our students. You can too, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/ glasgowcareersalumninetwork.

Statistics isn’t Graeme’s only passion. During his time at the University, he found refuge in the English literature section of the library, and specifically in Iris Murdoch’s novels. He was also a member of the Glasgow University Young Conservatives and remains as committed to the party today.

Graeme talks fondly of his time at Glasgow: ‘The left and right sides of my brain were brought to maturity by the daily run of the place – both the academic side and the culture of it all.’

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Alumni news Notes from No 2

Karina collects Young Alumnus Award News from Emily Howie, alumni manager in the Development & Alumni Office at No 2 The Square.

We had a busy and enjoyable start to 2014, with a number of successful alumni events happening around the world. It was encouraging to see how well supported and attended these events have been, and in particular to see our international alumni having the chance to celebrate their Scottish heritage at our Burns Suppers. You can read about these on page 21.

There are a number of other celebrations coming up that will bring together alumni who are linked by their similar interests, and notably this year it’ll be alumni who took part in sport or student television during their time at the University.

As you will have read in the GUST feature story (see page 8), Glasgow’s student television station is celebrating a very special anniversary this year. It’s wonderful to see that past and present members will have the chance to get together this October to celebrate the evolution and achievements of the station, which has had a huge impact on the careers of so many graduates.

Another association that has played a major role in the university experience and sporting careers of countless alumni is Glasgow University Sports Association (GUSA, or GUAC as it was previously known). Past members, along with alumni who participated in sport during their time at the University, will attend the University’s first Sport Alumni Ball on 19 July, just before the Commonwealth Games kicks off in Glasgow.

I’ve been enjoying the buzz around Glasgow as it gears up for the beginning of the Games. The University has been holding a number of public events, and here in the Development & Alumni Office we have also enjoyed following the journey of the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton Relay. After having travelled an impressive 190,000km in just 288 days, the baton returns to Glasgow in time for the Games’ opening ceremony on 23 July. You can find out more about what’s happening at the University around the Games on page 12.

In the last issue of Avenue, I asked for your photos and stories of the MacBrayne Halls.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me interesting stories and photos so far; keep them coming. I would also like to hear from alumni who stayed in Queen Margaret Halls in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. If you were a resident, please get in touch and share your stories and memories.

Thank you for taking the time to read this latest issue of Avenue, and I hope you’ve also had a look at the online version of the magazine, where we feature extra content, including expanded news, history, videos and alumni stories. See www.glasgow. ac.uk/avenue.

Please continue to send me your news and reunions to: alumni@glasgow.ac.uk, or Development & Alumni Office, 2 The Square, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ.

At the University’s Christmas dinner, Chancellor Sir Kenneth Calman presented conservation pioneer Karina Atkinson (BSc 2007) with the prestigious Young Alumnus of the Year Award 2013 for her work in Paraguay.

‘When I found out that I’d won the award, I was very surprised and also humbled to be a part of it,’ says Karina, who runs the award-winning conservation organisation Para La Tierra in Paraguay. ‘There are lots of people around the world doing fantastic and important work and I’m really lucky to be part of that network. My time at Glasgow gave me the self-confidence to do the things I wanted to do; it inspired me to follow my dreams.’

Scientist wins top award Dr Martin Lavery (BSc 2009, PhD 2013), a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Physics & Astronomy has been awarded the Scopus Young Researcher Award 2013. The member of the University’s optics group was the winner in the physical sciences category, thanks largely to his published research into the properties and applications of orbital angular momentum – the property of light that gives it a twist.

New Year Honours 2014 Dr Donald A Cameron (BSc 1961, DEng) received an MBE for services to Design & Manufacturing.

Professor Anthony O B Finn (MA 1974) received a CBE for services to Education.

Students studying in Queen Margaret Halls in 1964.

Emeritus Professor Peter W MacFarlane (BSc 1964, PhD, DSc) received a CBE for services to Healthcare.

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Alumni news

Executive of the year John McAdam (BSc 1972), one of the University’s earliest graduates in computing science, has won one of the most illustrious business titles in Seattle, recognised as the US centre of technology since the 1980s.

The former student from Wishaw, now president and chief executive officer of the tech company F5 Networks, was awarded the title of 2013 Executive of the Year by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Previous holders of the annual award include Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.

John took over F5 Networks in 2000, just before the bottom fell out of the dotcom

market. But he has diversified the company and grown it from a staff of 300 to 3,500 in the intervening years.

It is all a far cry from when he graduated with a first-class class Honours degree in 1972 when the technology was still in its infancy and he worked with an English Electric KDF9 computer which filled a whole room and was less powerful than an iPhone is today.

John completed his computer studies with a scholarship from one of the early computer technology companies in Scotland, Honeywell, and remembers his time at university fondly: ‘Computing was as exciting then as it is now.’

To read more about John’s career, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/avenue.

Commemorating 100 years since WW1 To mark 100 years since WW1, the University has established a Commemoration Group to coordinate the centenary activities. The Great War impacted on the whole University, with contribution and sacrifice cutting across boundaries between staff and students and across all faculties. Reconciliation and education will be important themes, with many events planned for the University Memorial Chapel, itself opened in 1929 to mark the loss of so many friends and colleagues. There are currently 761 names of the Fallen recorded in the Chapel. With information now widely available online, new names are continually being submitted for inclusion in both the Rolls of Service and the Fallen. To ensure the story is as complete as possible, the group welcome more submissions. You can email your story to rollofhonour@glasgow.ac.uk.

To find out about commemoration activities and events see www.glasgow.ac.uk/ww1.

Auld students of Kolkata Glasgow Auld Students of Kolkata recently celebrated their 60th anniversary with a special dinner on 11 January and a musical evening on 22 February at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata.

Asoke Kumar Mukherjee, who graduated in 1961 with a BSc in Civil Engineering, was just 16 years old when he arrived in Glasgow. ‘So to all intents and purposes, our friends and classmates became our families.’

The group, graduates from the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, regularly meet to catch up, socialise and reminisce about their time in Glasgow. Several members studied in Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s, and can recall a time when there was no such thing as emails and telephone calls, and when a six-week wait for a letter from home was the norm.

Prabhat Kumar Bisnu, convener of the Glasgow Auld Students group since 1963, agreed: ‘Glasgow is our second home: the experience, the friends, the countryside visits and above all the Scottish people’s affection towards us made it unforgettable. I’ve never visited Glasgow since 1962 but I miss it from the core of my heart.’

‘When we went to Glasgow in the 1950s we felt that we had left our home forever,’ says

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Reunion reports Organising a reunion?

We can provide advice and help you with contacting your classmates. To submit a notice for inclusion in the next Avenue, please contact the Alumni Office on the details below.

The reunion notice should include the class and year, dates, location, contact details and a very short description.

Email: alumni@glasgow.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)141 330 7146 www.glasgow.ac.uk/alumni

BVMS Class of 1963 Fourteen of our graduating year of 38 students, three of whom were female, got together to celebrate the anniversary of their final year at the School of Veterinary Medicine.

On Saturday morning, we assembled at the Small Animal Hospital at Garscube. We started with a tour of the new hospital, and our jaws continued to drop as we passed from consulting to operating rooms and the imaging suite. At the Weipers Equine Centre we received a warm welcome from Professor Sandy Love. Our eyes were opened to the new farm animal teaching unit and we reminisced about days in the byres and loose boxes under the eagle eye of Professor Ian McIntyre.

The evening saw us in the Bothy on Byres Road where a Scottish menu, along with many a dram, enhanced the telling of yarns and escapades. After the meal, the tales continued into the wee small hours until we admitted that our stamina was fading. We vowed that we would see each other in five years back in Glasgow.

1988 graduates Over 260 guests enjoyed a delicious meal in the Bute Hall at the 2013 Christmas dinner.

The University Chapel Choir once again entertained the guests with a wonderful Christmas repertoire. A special welcome was given to those celebrating their jubilee reunion, marking 25 years since their graduation.

Karina Atkinson (BSc 2007) was awarded the Young Alumnus of the Year Award for 2013 and proposed the toast to the Alma Mater. See Karina’s photo on page 16.

The 2014 Christmas dinner will take place on Saturday 6 December. A special welcome will extend to the 1989 group.

1968 Civil Engineers Twenty-five graduates from 1968 with their partners enjoyed yet another reunion dinner – this time the 45th – in Randolph Hall at the University. This group holds a formal dinner every five years, with other activities in between, such as weekends away, beer nights and informal lunches. It has also established the GU68 Engineers Trust, to help engineering students of today with their project work, and has made 34 awards so far. The trust was funded originally by the 1968 graduates, but is now being supported by other years. If you want to get involved in any of the above in the future, contact either Hugh, email Hughoneillbuild@aol.com or Andy, email buchanan@isc-ltd.com.

1983 BDS

1988 Chemistry

After 30 years with only one reunion – celebrating 10 years since graduation – it takes a fair bit of effort to organise a weekend get-together. Thanks to Annibale Coia, Alyson Wray, Viv Binnie and David Watson, the Accidental Dental Graduates of 1983 gathered in Glasgow from 21 to 23 June 2013 to celebrate.

Late September 2013 saw a gathering of the Chemistry class of 1988 to celebrate 25 years since graduation. Although numbers attending were slightly lower than in 2008, when the class held a 20-year reunion, an enjoyable weekend was had by all. It was a great opportunity to renew friendships and relive memories, some of which are now fading slightly. A meal and drinks in the city centre on the Friday night (and the wee hours of Saturday) was followed by a leisurely morning stroll up Woodlands Road in glorious weather to the School of Chemistry where Professor Joe Connolly treated the class to an extensive tour of the facilities – where things really have changed in 25 years!

Most of the group met for a drink and chat at Òran Mór on the Friday night. Others joined for the meal and drinks reception at the Central Hotel on the Saturday night, making it a total of 47 present. We were entertained by a trio of musicians and heard some reminiscences from Alasdair Buchanan and Father Desmond Keegan. An excellent slide show was put together by Ross MacRae and gave us a chance to see edited highlights of our time as students.

We remembered two of our number (Mike Herbert and Chris Hogg) who are sadly no longer with us, as well as those who could not join us on this occasion.

Overall it was a very successful and enjoyable event, with many lost friendships rekindled.

After coffee and cakes with an assortment of class photos from 1988, kindly provided by Dr Bob Peacock, the group settled in on Ashton Lane to really drink in (pun intended) the wonderful West End atmosphere. More former classmates arrived and a great evening of chat, Byres Road pubs and pakora ensued.

Once again it had been a fantastic weekend.

Some of the classmates had travelled long distances from abroad to be there – just showing how strong the pull of renewed friendship and this wonderful place is. The next gathering is planned for 2018 (if not before) in Glasgow.

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Reunion reports GUVM ’52 Year Club The year has met regularly since the 25year reunion held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London in 1977.

Ten members of the year, together with partners, convened at the Pond Hotel on Friday 4 October 2013 for a buffet supper.

On Saturday we toured Garscube; the highlights of the tour were the visits to the Weipers Equine Centre and the new Small Animal Hospital, to which many of us had contributed. We had an enjoyable time talking to staff, who had kindly interrupted their weekend to show us round. Our thanks to Sandy Love and colleagues for their time, and our further thanks to Sarah Hunter of the Alumni Office for the excellent organisation.

In the evening, we gathered for our last Reunion Dinner with much reminiscing about our student days. We finished the evening with our traditional toast to absent friends, many of whom had been remembered with affection during the course of the evening.

We parted company on Sunday morning, vowing to keep in touch.

Vet alumni reunion weekend 2013 (Vet 151) The School of Veterinary Medicine’s reunion weekends go from strength to strength.

The Vet Alumni Reunion Dinner will take place on 1 November 2014. For more details contact Sarah.Hunter@glasgow.ac.uk or call +44 (0) 141 330 7145.

On Friday 30 October and Saturday 1 November 2013, the School of Veterinary Medicine welcomed back many graduates and friends, including reunion groups who graduated in years ending 3 and 8.

The weekend included the Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Os Jarrett, tours of the Vet School and a CPD programme. This was followed by a celebration reunion dinner and ceilidh in the Bute Hall, which was attended by over 220 graduates. For details of the next vet alumni reunion dinner see page 20.

Glasgow University Aberdeen Club

Queen Margaret Halls mini-reunion

On 8 November 2013, at the Royal Northern and University Club, 60 members and guests thoroughly enjoyed the annual dinner of the Aberdeen Club. Speeches were given by Professor Gordon Cameron, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen; Professor Sir Graeme Catto, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen and former Chairman of the General Medical Council of Scotland; and from Vice-Principal Professor Frank Coton, who brought everyone up-to-date with current developments at the University.

In September 2013, four Queen Margaret Hall residents from 1959–1961, Gillian Walters (née Fisher), Elizabeth Hunter (née Walker), Shirin Lockhat (née Vawda) and Parveen Mirza (née Sufi) spent a weekend together at Elizabeth’s house near Cambridge and, of course, being ladies, they lunched in Cambridge.

The president of the club, Sheriff Douglas Cusine, presented Professor Frank Coton with a cheque for £600 for the scholarships fund.

The club meets three times a year and new members are always welcome. For further information contact Evelyn Dobson, tel +44 (0)1224 868275.

Glasgow University Women’s Club London The club held a very enjoyable spring lunch on Saturday 1 March at St Columba’s, Pont St, with 31 members and guests in attendance.

Lunch was followed by an interesting talk by Steve Hawe of the charity Beanstalk, which provides voluntary reading help in schools across the country.

For more information on how to join, or if you would like to attend an event as a guest, please contact the membership secretary: Marjorie Bremner, membership@gu-london. org.uk. www.gu-london.org.uk.

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Reunion notices 1979 Delta Club Friday, 31 October to Sunday, 2 November 2014, St Andrews Delta 79 Medical Year Club is holding its 35th reunion at The Old Course Hotel in St Andrews.

Contact: Gail Addis, email gail.addis@mac. com

GUST Golden Anniversary 18 October 2014, Glasgow University Union A dinner and after-party, including a ceilidh and DJ, to celebrate 50 years of Glasgow University Student Television. For more information and tickets, see www.gust.tv/50.

Sport Alumni Ball Saturday, 19 July 2014, Glasgow Sport & Recreation invite you to reminisce with old friends and teammates, whether you were an active participator in sport or a proactive member of GUAC or GUSA (as it is now known) at the inaugural Sport Alumni Ball in Glasgow. For more information and to book, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/alumni/events.

2014 Christmas Dinner Saturday, 6 December 2014 A special welcome is extended to 1989 graduates who will be celebrating 25 years since graduating.

Contact: Email alumni@glasgow.ac.uk

1979 Pharmacology

Commemoration Day on Wednesday 18 June.

Contact: Olive Melvin, email bill.melvin@ btinternet.com or call +44 (0)1563 820 958

1964 History Advance notice: September 2014 Several of the 1960–64 class hope to gather for a reunion at the University in midSeptember. Arrangements are at the planning stage and we need your support. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved to celebrate 50 years since graduation.

Contact: Beth Melrose, email: elizabethannemelrose@gmail.com

1964 Notre Dame

Friday, 7 November 2014 Contact: Evelyn Dobson, call +44 (0)1224 868275

Thursday, 28 August 2014, Randolph Hall A reunion to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our graduation. We will have Mass at 11.30am at the University Chapel, followed by lunch in the Randolph Hall.

Contact: Helen Tennant (Dawson), email gerardtennant@btinternet.com

Vet Alumni Reunion 2014 (Vet 151)

1964–67/68 Law

Saturday, 1 November 2014 The Vet Alumni Reunion Dinner Contact: Sarah Hunter, email Sarah.Hunter@ glasgow.ac.uk or call +44 (0)141 330 7145

Friday, 17 October 2014 A 50-year reunion dinner is being planned for 17 October 2014 for all those who began their LLB degree course in 1964 – a once in a lifetime experience.

Contact: Morag Macdonald Simpson, email ardshiel@btinternet.com

University of Glasgow Club of Aberdeen

1954 Natural Philosophy Summer 2014, Glasgow The Nat Phil 1954 class might be gathering for a reunion at the University in the summer of 2014. To gauge interest Alan Cairnie is contacting classmates and would be delighted to hear from any.

Contact: Alan Cairnie, email cairnie@cogeco. ca or call +1 613 341 8681

1964 Classics Saturday, 21 June 2014 A reunion to celebrate 50 years since graduation.

Contact: Gordon Hepburn, email gordon@ hepburn13.freeserve.co.uk

1964 Dental Year Group Tuesday, 17 to Thursday, 19 June 2014, Glasgow A 50th Anniversary reunion of this group will be held from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 June 2014 in Glasgow. This will include the

1969–1975 Delta Club Friday, 17 to Sunday, 19 April 2015, Dunkeld The 1975 Delta Club is having its 40th reunion in April 2015. The reunion will take place at the Hilton Dunkeld House Hotel.

Contact: Muriel Smith (Shannon) at murielssmith@btinternet.com or Bill Thomson at wthomson4@sky.com

1973/4 Biochemistry Reunion Saturday, 21 June 2014, Glasgow We have contacted most of you, and over 20 people will be attending the reunion. We would like to find everyone who started Junior Honours Biochemistry in 1972. If you are interested and/or have contact details for other class members please get in touch.

Contact: Alistair Lax, email alistair.lax@kcl. ac.uk

October 2014 A reunion is planned for October 2014.

Contact: Ian Thomson, email IanChris@ madasafish.com

1984 Chemistry September 2014, Glasgow To mark the 30th anniversary of the Honours Chemistry Class of 1984, Stuart Cameron is looking into the possibility of holding a class reunion. Get in touch if you are interested.

Contact: Stuart Cameron, email scameron@ btinternet.com

1984 Delta Club Saturday, 4 to Sunday, 5 October 2014, Glasgow The 1984 Delta Club is having its 30th reunion in October. The highlight will be a dinner at the University on Saturday, 4 October.

Contact: Helen Hunter, email info@delta84. co.uk

1989 BSc Geology Class August 2014 There is going to be a reunion of the 1989 BSc Geology graduates in August 2014, to mark a quarter of a century since graduating (a drop in the ocean in geological time).

Contact: Ian Bray, email iansjbray@yahoo. co.uk

1994 Geology July 2014 The reunion will take place at the University.

Please get in touch for more information or if you would like to attend.

Contact: Graham Bryce, email graham@ dugeo.com

Delta 94 Year Club Saturday, 13 September 2014, Glasgow The Delta 94 year club reunion will take place in September in Glasgow.

Contact: Juliet Sim, email julietsim@nhs.net

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Alumni events Alumni around the world get together to celebrate their connection with the University of Glasgow.

Representatives from the University attend these social events to meet with, encourage and grow our esteemed network of graduate, current and future students. To find out about these events, including dates and locations, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/alumni/events.

Hong Kong

Botswana Queen’s Baton Relay welcomed by graduates in Botswana on 30 January.

Boston 20 February 2014 The Boston Burns Supper made a welcome return in February at the Hampshire House in Boston. The event was well supported with over 60 alumni, applicants and friends in attendance. A group of current study abroad students from Glasgow, who were midway through their study abroad year at Boston College, also joined the event. Singer Kirsten Cairns performed as part of the evening’s entertainment, and the musical trio of Tom Pixton, Mike Macnintch and Jen Schoonerver kept guests on the dance floor. Special thanks go to our Boston Alumni Association coordinator Stewart Craig (BSc 2000, EdD 2013) for his help in organising the event.

23 November 2013 Professor Nick Pearce, Head of the School of Culture & Creative Arts, opened the first exhibition devoted to the images of China taken by the Scottish photographer John Thomson (1837–1921) at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. Born in Edinburgh two years before the invention of the daguerreotype and the birth of photography, Thomson first travelled to Asia in 1862, where he set up a professional photographic studio.

Over 40 graduates and their guests joined the sellout crowd to listen to Professor Pearce’s talk about Thomson’s legacy and the many challenges encountered by a photographer at that time. The event concluded with a private drinks reception hosted by the Principal, who updated those in attendance with the latest news from Glasgow.

his family for very kindly opening up their home for the occasion and for their most generous hospitality. A highlight of the evening included the pipes and drums performance by a detachment of the Malaysia Pipe Band Club, who plan to travel to Glasgow to attend the World Pipe Band Championships in 2014.

London 17 January 2014 2014 saw another successful London Burns Supper at the Caledonian Club. Clark McGinn (MA 1983) delivered a spectacular Address to the Haggis and a highly entertaining Toast to the Immortal Memory. The entertainment continued with Robert Barr, who gave the Toast to the Lassies, followed by Professor Adrienne Scullion’s Reply; both had the room captivated. The dinner was followed by a very energetic ceilidh. Thanks go to Tunnocks, who sponsored the evening. The 2015 event will take place on Friday, 16 January.

Mainz

Jakarta 26 January 2014 Alumni were invited to the Four Seasons Hotel, Jakarta for a Burns-themed night with an address by Scots alumnus Scott Younger, as well as Scottish drinks, snacks, poems and songs. This was followed by a rousing ceilidh, courtesy of the band Adwi Adwaito and the Jockarta Ceilidh Crew. The crowd danced to the best-loved Scottish country dances including Strip The Willow, The Dashing White Sergeant and The Gay Gordons.

5 December 2013 Some 25 German alumni attended a festive event at the Kurfürstliches Schloss in Mainz. The drinks reception was hosted by the University’s Vice-Principal of Internationalisation and International Dean for Europe, Professor James Conroy. Professor Conroy made a presentation to the audience, which underlined the continuing strong links between Glasgow and Germany, and gave an overview of forthcoming campus development at Gilmorehill. Alumni were encouraged to sign up to the Glasgow Careers Alumni Network (now in its second year) and to join the Ask Our Alumni scheme to help support current students in their career path.

Chicago 22 February 2014 Over 60 alumni, guests and prospective students came together at the University Club of Chicago for the popular Chicago Burns Supper. Professor David Fearn, international dean for the Americas, welcomed guests and thanked all in attendance for their support of the University’s initiatives. Alumnus and well-known Burns enthusiast Clark McGinn (MA 1983) took centre stage to Address the Haggis. Dr Alexander D Macrae (BSc 1983) and Dr Jane M Tiller (MBChB 1986) delivered an entertaining Toast to the Lassies and Reply respectively. Special thanks to musical group Glen Ayre and Dave Johnston for keeping the ceilidh going into the wee small hours.

New York City Kuala Lumpur 20 October 2013 The Principal was delighted to invite alumni to an open house evening hosted at the residence of Patrick Russell (LLB 1986). Even with the torrential rain, the evening was a great success. Many thanks must go to Patrick and

5 December 2013 Frances Shepherd, vice-president international development, and Emma Sloan, international development officer, invited alumni and friends to join them for an informal pre-holiday drinks evening at the Houndstooth Pub. Alumni enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with fellow graduates from the local area and to meet old friends and new.

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The General Council

The General Council of the University was set up by Act of Parliament to give voice to the views of the graduates and academic staff on the regulation and wellbeing of the University.

A report prepared for the General Council

by Robert Marshall, Clerk to the General Council. clerkgc@glasgow.ac.uk.

The last General Council meeting was held on Saturday, 1 February 2014 in the Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre on the University’s Gilmorehill Campus. The Chancellor, Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, was in the chair.

This article contains an abbreviated description of the business of the meeting.

A full minute can be found at www.glasgow. ac.uk/gcreports.

Election of General Council Business Committee Members

Three Members were elected to serve on the General Council (GC) Business Committee: Kate Dunlop (LLB 2007); Gerry Law (BSc 1980); Lesley Sutherland (MA 1973).

Report of the Business Committee Convener, Mr George Tait

Modernisation and Communication: the Committee remains focused on modernisation: improved GC meeting format and better information; live streaming of the meeting; high-quality video recording.

Business Committee Meetings: Themes include: better relationships with Court, Senate and academic staff; communication with GC Members through the Development & Alumni Office; better GC presence on web and social media.

Business Committee Matters: Court proposes to reduce the number of GC Assessors when making other changes to the composition of Court as part of the process of complying with the new Code of Higher Education Governance. Further consultation will take place.

Western Infirmary Site: the Business Committee has contributed to the consultation taking place about the University’s acquisition of the whole Western Infirmary site.

E-Learning: Professor Frank Coton, VicePrincipal for Teaching and Learning, briefed the Committee.

Science & Engineering College: Professor John Chapman, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Science & Engineering, briefed the Committee on College progress.

Independence contingencies: Secretary of Court David Newall organised an exercise to consider University issues that might arise out of a ‘Yes’ vote.

Principal’s Report, by Principal & ViceChancellor, Professor Anton Muscatelli

Governance: the Principal explained changes in governance of Higher Education Institutions, recognising the value of drawing on a range of skills and experience to guide the University in the 21st century. SFC funding will be a condition of compliance with the new Scottish Governance Code, including a change in Court composition via an Ordinance. Because of the Ordinance process, the date of the next half-yearly GC Meeting will not be set until later

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General Council Business Committee and convener’s comments In my role as convener for the General Council Business Committee I really enjoy getting involved in the discussions around the future wellbeing and prosperity of the University.

If you are a graduate or a member of academic staff of the University, then you are a member of the General Council. You can attend the Half-Yearly Meetings of the General Council, and, like myself, you could get involved with the General Council Business Committee.

The committee has 20 elected members. We meet five times a year and are involved in the governance of the University. As the University has exciting plans ahead to reshape the campus, it’s a particularly significant time to be involved with the Business Committee.

We have vacancies coming up. Could you bring fresh ideas and perspectives? If you’re interested in getting involved with the Business Committee then we’d love to hear from you. Please email clerkgc@glasgow.ac.uk.

George Tait, convener General Council Business Committee

Date of next meeting

Saturday, 19 July 2014, 11am. Venue is to be confirmed.

in the year. Council will be advised of the date and venue of the next meeting.

Financial Growth: the University is doing exceedingly well; growth was 7.3% on a turnover of £450m (2011–12 to 2012–13), allowing investments in the run-up to the Research Excellence Framework exercise, including over £16m in new staff.

Glasgow 2020: Key Objectives are to: deliver an excellent student experience; deliver excellent research; extend the University’s global reach and reputation.

Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR): this exercise is held every five years and is required by the Scottish Funding Council. As in 2004 and 2009, the University is expected to receive the highest possible outcome for 2013.

Research: the financial measure of research success is measured by research spend. The University reached its largest order book ever in the current academic year (over £210m).

Global Excellence Initiative: Benefits of restructuring: as a result of restructuring, the University is able to put together complex interdisciplinary bids, with exciting results.

For the third time, it has been awarded the

Queen’s Anniversary Prize (for the Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health).

REF Submission: 32 Units of Assessment were submitted. Only research at 4-star (worldleading) and 3-star (internationally excellent) will be funded.

Internationalisation: third key objective of the 2020 strategy: to extend the University’s global reach and reputation. The international student population has nearly doubled over the past four years. In the International Student Barometer survey, the University is again top of the Russell Group for Student Satisfaction (89% of students satisfied).

International research income has grown by £5.4m. International partnerships have been established in places such as Columbia (NY), Nankai University (China); Chengdu (China) and Singapore. Finally, the University has steadily climbed the ranks of the QS World University league tables.

Support of Friends and Alumni: the University could not have achieved its current position without the support and help of donors and supporters. It is very grateful and hopes that this support will continue, as the University develops its new ambitious campus development plan following acquisition of the Western site (2015). The University’s

investment strategy in people and facilities over the next 10–15 years could reach £500–750m.

Q&A: in answer to questions, Principal noted that: Russell Group graduates tend to do better in employability and societal impact over the longer term; the review of Modern Languages in 2010–11 took place to better align provision with student interest and the School of Modern Languages & Cultures is now meeting increased demand, and led to additional investment in the school which is doing extremely well at present. The University was keen to expand language provision in areas of high student demand. The impact of zero-hour contracts at the University had been exaggerated and in this University they were used primarily for people who valued flexible contracts, including postgraduate students and retired staff. However, the University was committed to continue to review the use of these contracts with the trade unions.

Closure of the Meeting

The Chancellor thanked all those present and informed the meeting that the date and venue for the next meeting would be announced in good time when the governance process was clearer.

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The General Council Paper A: Report by the Principal On Saturday, 22 February 2014 we welcomed the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and friends for the annual Snell dinner. Normally this is held in Balliol College but this year we hosted the dinner in the Bute Hall. Over 220 guests attended.

The dinner celebrated our links with Balliol and in particular the legacy of John Snell of Colmonell, who in the latter half of the 17th century established a fund to support students from Glasgow to attend Balliol. They became known as the Snell exhibitioners. From that small beginning great things happened. The roll call of Snell exhibitioners is distinguished, among them Adam Smith. Snell’s generosity and initiative not only benefited individuals, but forged the links with Balliol we celebrate to this day.

In a way the dinner was a timely reminder of our timeless validity. It was a coming together of two great institutions which believe in the liberating and empowering benefits of education. But our capacity to deliver this mission rests on some important fundamentals.

We must be financially sound. We’ve worked to achieve this. Over 2011/12 to 2012/13 we’ve managed a growth in income of 7.27% and this growth is reflected across all our colleges.

Our budget for 2013/14 projects further growth (7.3%), and again this is projected across all colleges.

This success relies principally in our capacity to grow our teaching and research income, something, as I reported at the General Council meeting in February, we’ve managed to achieve.

But this success in turn depends on us achieving excellence in the student experience, research and global reach, our three strategic priorities.

Assessing our excellence

Measuring ourselves against the best is therefore important. The University has been in the throes of completing two major external assessment exercises which help drive the excellence agenda and identify and validate our excellence wherever it exists.

One assessment focuses on the quality of our student experience and the academic standards of our awards. It is called the Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR).

Required by the Scottish Funding Council and carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland), the University must submit a ‘reflective analysis’, a substantial document which provides an overview of all learning and teaching activities and our own assessment of our performance in this area. The University was then visited by an external team (19–20 February and again on 24–28 March 2014) who met with a range of colleagues. The outcome of the review is received in early April.

The University was reviewed in 2004 and 2009 and received the highest possible outcome.

We want to achieve this again and we believe we will.

The quality of our research is also assessed externally and across the UK by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. We completed our submission in November.

Staff and their research were returned in 32 Units of Assessment along with case studies on impact; a total of 4,090 outputs were submitted.

The biggest change over previous assessment exercises was the requirement to identify the impact of our research. Though a challenging exercise, it reveals, at least in part, the importance of what we do across business and industry, the physical world, the arts and culture, history and heritage, education, health and wellbeing, policy and governance.

The outcome of REF 2014 will be notified to institutions in December 2014 and, critically, it will have consequences for our grant funding in 2015/16.

Creating partnerships

As John Snell reminds us, the quality of what we do also relies on, and creates, partnerships. Recent successes, such as securing the lead role in two multi-million pound innovation centres (Stratified Medicine Scotland and CENSIS), receiving a share of £14 million funding to create and host a unique ESRC facility: The Urban Big Data Research Centre, or the success of our Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystems Health in winning a Queen’s Anniversary Prize (the latter two are featured in this edition of Avenue) prove the point. They’re all built on collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches that blend a mix of internal and external, national and international, partnerships.

And again, like Snell, our partnerships are intended to enhance the staff/student experience. The recent launch of an innovative early career scheme with our strategic partner, the University of Columbia (New York), enabled nine PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from Glasgow to travel to New York, and three Columbia researchers to come here to benefit from resources and specialisms not available at home. By September 2013 we established two international hubs/ campuses: one in Singapore, and one in Chengdu (China), with a Joint Graduate School with Nankai University Tianjin planned for autumn 2014. I visited Nankai in March to take our discussions forward. This will be the first joint UK–Chinese graduate school. By 2016 Glasgow will have over 2,000 students studying for Glasgow degrees in China and Singapore.

Investing in our resources

But our potential to deliver excellence depends too on investing in our resources and estate.

John Snell didn’t just fund a scholarship. He donated books to our library and gave funding to complete the bell tower of the Old College.

Development of our campus is vital, and this edition of Avenue highlights the importance we give to this strategy, particularly over the months that lie ahead. Our ambition will be translated into an estates strategy which will go to our governing body towards the end of 2014 for approval.

If approved, our investment in people and facilities over the next 10–15 years could reach £600–750m, a bigger capital investment than the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and a huge boost for the economy.

As Snell reminds us, we’ve relied on the help and support of alumni, friends and trusts to deliver our plans. The minutes of the February General Council meeting record just what an impact such support has had. Over the last 15 years, £41m of the total cost of new builds (£101m) was raised through philanthropic funds. We are what we are today – a research powerhouse and a place of teaching excellence – because people have believed in us and what we can achieve.

John Snell understood the value of giving to people and places, investing in a future he would not see but he was content to support.

As we build for the future today, our approach is the same: it’s about creating opportunities for people through the excellence of our research and teaching, our partnerships and infrastructure, enabling our staff and students to raise their capabilities to new heights and possibilities.

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Deaths of Members of the General Council noted from March 2013 to February 2014 Names are listed alphabetically within each year of graduation decade.

1930–1939 Bennett, George Alestair Alison (Rev), MA 1934, died 24/04/2013 Bews, James, MA 1937, died 15/11/2013 Davidson, Elizabeth (Mrs Walker), MA 1933, died 30/03/2013 Fearon, Agnes Louisa (Mrs Curran), MA 1938, died 25/12/2012 Haughton, Frank (Rev), MA 1937, died 31/03/2013 Logan, William Philip Dowie (Dr), BSc 1936, MBCGD, MD, DPh, died 11/12/2012 Lumsden, James Alexander, MBE, LLB 1938, died 31/03/2013

Fife, Robert (Dr), MBChB 1945, died 25/09/2013 Findlay, John, MA 1946, died 17/05/1972 French, Jane, MA 1948, died 09/05/2012 Gibb, Helen Sommerville Tennant (Ms Fergusson), MA 1942, died 14/08/2013 Gibson, Agnes Corson (Mrs Chisholm), MA 1947, died 28/08/2012

Scott, John Alexander Miller (Rev Dr), MA 1943, DD, died 15/05/13 Shaw, Douglas Sime, BSc 1945, died 09/09/2013

Gray, George William (Professor), CBE, FRS, BSc 1947, died 12/05/2013

Singer, Konrad (Dr), PhD 1941, died 2013

Nicholson, Charlotte Annie (Mrs Edgar), MA 1933, date of death unknown

Halliday, Isobel Wightman (Mrs Williams), MA 1945, died 22/08/2013

Rannie, Ian (Professor), BSc 1935, MBChB, died 30/08/2013

Hendry, Arthur Thomson (Dr), MBChB 1941, died 21/03/2013

Spence, John Hourston, MA 1935, LLB, died 04/04/2013

Hill, Jean Paterson Torrance (Mrs Kitchen), MA 1946, died 17/06/2013 Hoffman, Ruth (Dr), MBChB 1945, died 13/12/2013

Wells, Margaret Elizabeth (Dr Inglis), MBChB 1939, died 18/09/14

Hutchison, Winifred Margaret (Mrs Roberts), MA 1949, died 09/06/2012

1940–1949

Jolly, Margaret Finlayson (Mrs Brickell), MA 1944, died 10/06/2013

Allison, Eileen May (Mrs Baker), MA 1945, died 08/01/2013

Sainty, David Livingstone, LLB 1940, died 05/2013

Shelley, John Henry (Dr), BSc 1940, PhD, died 13/12/2013

Mollison, James Watt, MA 1938, died 2012

Allan, Jane Easdale (Dr Cook), MBChB 1942, died 25/03/2013

Rutherford, John Archibald, BL 1947, died 15/11/2012

Gilchrist, Helen Craig (Mrs Bowman), MA 1949, died 10/2013

Guilbride, Francis Terence Langford, BSc 1940, died 14/01/2013

Walls, Elizabeth Ann Cameron, MA 1934, died 26/05/2013

Robertson, Lachlan, OBE, MA 1949, TD, DL, died 10/2012

Kilpatrick, Helen Paterson (Dr Burnett), MBChB 1940, date of death unknown Kirkland, Williamina Margaret (Mrs Forrest), BSc 1948, died 26/11/2013

Steedman, John Robert Hendry, BSc 1949, died 16/04/2013 Sunderland, Anna Gladys (Mrs Bates), MA 1949, died 18/02/2013 Tennant, Eleanor (Dr), MBChB 1941, died 07/10/2013 Thomson, Thomas James (Sir), OBE, CBE, MBChB 1945, LLD, died 20/07/2013 Urquhart, James Macconnell (Dr), MBChB 1941, died 10/03/2013 Vaughn, John (Professor), MBChB 1944, MD, died 2012 Whiteside, Sheila Mary (Dr Gray), MBChB 1949, died 25/12/2013 Williamson, James (Professor), CBE, MBChB 1943, died 29/06/2013

1950–1959 Alexander, Ronald, MA 1953, died 09/2012

Logan, John David, MA 1943, date of death unknown

Andrews, Joyce Ramsay (Mrs Clarke), BSc 1952, died 2013

Andrew, Alexander Miller (Dr), BSc 1949, PhD, died 31/05/2013

Mackie, William Stanley, BSc 1949, ARCST, died 24/03/2013

Arnott, Struther (Professor), CBE, BSc 1956, PhD, died 22/04/2013

Brocklehurst, John Charles (Professor), CBE, MBChB 1947, MD, died 27/06/2013

MacLean, Helen Douglas Jones (Mrs Boulter), MA 1949, died 2013

Arthur, George William, MA 1952, died 31/01/2013

Brown, Daniel McGillivray (Dr), BSc 1944, died 24/04/2012

McBride, Maurice Patrick, BSc 1941, died 26/08/2012

Anderson, Jean Reid (Mrs Sutherland), BSc 1945, died 29/01/2013

Brunjes, Henry Otto, MA 1949, died 18/01/2014

McLaughlin, Josephine (Mrs Brankin), MA 1945, died 07/06/2013

Burnett, Walter (Dr), MBChB 1941, DPh, date of death unknown

McNay, William Gordon, OBE, BL 1949, died 05/07/2013

Calder, Margaret Helen Stewart (Dr), MBChB 1947, died 23/04/2013

Morrison, James Douglas (Professor), AO, FRSE, BSc 1946, PhD, DSc, died 01/02/2013

Cameron, James Adam, BSc 1945, died 07/06/2013

Neil, Doris Isobel Thomson (Mrs MacLean), MA 1945, died 21/09/2013

Carnachan, Gordon Alexander (Dr), MBChB 1946, died 13/06/2013

Nelson, Alfred John (Dr), MBChB 1945, died 2012

Clark, Catherine Elizabeth Patricia (Dr Roberts), MBChB 1943, died 22/12/2012

Nelson, Peter Frederick, BSc 1946, died 06/01/2014 Newton, John (Dr), MBChB 1941, died 30/11/2012

Climie, Robert Burns, MA 1948, died 20/02/2013

Nicoll, Kenneth John, MA 1946, died 17/06/2013

Clyde, John Lawrence, MA 1948, died 25/10/2011

Nisbet, Robin George Murdoch (Professor), MA 1947, died 14/05/2013

Coats, David Jervis (Dr), CBE, BSc 1943, died 09/2013 Crawford, Janet Barclay (Mrs Ramsay), MBE, MA 1941, died 25/09/2013 Dawson, Ebenezer Scott, BSc 1947, died 10/09/2012 Deighton, Ian Armstrong, MA 1940, died 10/01/2013 Dick, James Forrest (Dr), MBChB 1949, died 04/01/2013 Eastop, George, BSc 1946, died 06/04/2013

Paterson, Elizabeth Agnes (Mrs Babister), MA 1944, died 19/01/2013 Paul, John Poskitt (Professor), FRSE, BSc 1949, PhD, died 13/11/2013

Bech, Alexander Nicolai, BSc 1958, date of death unknown Belton, Gerald Fox, OBE, MA 1958, died 08/11/2013 Bestow, Trevor Terance, BSc 1951, died 19/03/2013 Birch, Elsie Rule (Mrs Manson), MA 1951, died 05/05/2013 Bowyer, Mavis Jean (Dr Allanson), MBChB 1952, DRCOG, died 05/09/2013 Boyd, Robert Hutton (Dr), MBChB 1954, died 2012 Brown, ‘Toni’ Edith Middleton (Mrs Thomas), MA 1951, died 30/10/2013 Browne, Matthew Kennedy, OBE, BSc 1951, MBChB, MD, died 10/10/2013 Chadwin, Marion Armstrong (Mrs Morton), MA 1956, died 11/09/2013 Chisholm, Ian Andrew (Professor), MBChB 1956, died 25/09/2013 Cormack, Ian Leslie, MA 1952, died 17/09/2013 Currie, William Mackenzie (Dr Ken Currie), OBE, BSc 1958, PhD, died 29/12/2012

Ramage, James Topley, BSc 1948, ARCST, died 19/10/2013

Dallas, Ronald William, MA 1950, died 19/05/2013

Reid, Alick Mitchell (Dr), MBChB 1949, died 25/09/2013

Davidson, John Stirton (Dr), FRSC, BSc 1954, PhD, CChem, Cert Ed, died 23/06/2013

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Dean, William Forbes, BSc 1951, died 04/05/2012 Devine, Maureen, Diploma 1952, died 03/03/2012 Donnelly, Margaret Christine (Dr O’Halloran), MBChB 1958, died 10/09/2013 Elder, James Gordon, BSc 1951, died 07/06/2013 Farrington, Ira Earle (Dr), MBChB 1953, died 09/11/2013

Roxburgh, James Smith (Dr), MBChB 1952, DPH, DIH, died 22/11/2013

Maclean, Fiona Stewart (Mrs Cameron), MA 1964, died 01/2013

Ryan, Francis Noel, MA 1952, died 28/03/2013

Macleod, Angus (Dr), MBChB 1967, died 01/03/2013

Shipway, James Simpson (Dr), BSc 1951, ARCST, died 09/08/2013

Macrae, Kenneth, MA 1964, died 29/06/2013

Trotter, Robert Kempton, MA 1952, died 12/08/2013

Fogo, James, BSc 1950, died 20/09/2013

Walker, Gavin Walter Blackie, BSc 1958, died 07/04/2013

Glen, Alexander Iain Munro (Professor), MBChB 1954, died 14/02/2013

White, Gertrude Heather Macarthur (Dr Munro), MBChB 1951, died 06/01/2012

Golightly, Roland Douglas, BSc 1951, died 12/12/2012

Wilkie, David (Professor), BSc 1950, PhD, died 03/03/2013

Graham, Rosemary (Mrs Armiger), Diploma 1957, died 28/08/2013

Wilkinson, William Low, BDS 1955, died 09/07/2013

Henderson, Marjory Janet Stafford, MA 1952, died 20/04/2012

Wilson, Leonora Stella Crichton (Mrs Armitt), died 19/08/2013

Hill, Patricia Josephine (Mrs Doyle), MA 1952, died 02/2013

Young, Daniel Greer, (Emeritus Professor), MBChB 1956, died 20/10/2013

Hood, James Robertson (Dr), MBChB 1950, died 14/07/2013

Young, John Murray Miller (Dr), MBChB 1952, died 14/09/2013

Hulley, Katherine Ratcliffe Smith (Mrs Carson), BSc 1956, died 11/08/2011

1960–1969

Jackson, John Muir (Dr), BSc 1956, MBChB, died 24/11/2012

Adam, Alan Wilson, MA 1964, MEd, died 26/10/2013 Adams, Robert Macindoe (Dr), MBChB 1969, died 01/2013

Jardine, Donald Edgar (Dr), MBChB 1952, died 12/09/2013

Barr, Brian MacLeod, LLB 1965, died 29/10/2013

Jones, Charles W D, BDS 1954, died 27/12/2012

Beattie, Jean Anne (Mrs Lamb), BSc 1960, died 19/12/2012

Kelly, Alistair Francis (Rev), BL 1956, died 04/11/2013 Kelly, John (Dr), OBE, MBChB 1956, died 02/08/2013 Kincaid, William, BSc 1950, died 24/10/2013 Macdonald, John, BSc 1951, died 18/08/2013 Macgregor, Berthea Jayne (Mrs Russell), MBChB 1953, BDS, died 12/2012 MacKintosh, Donald Callander, BVMS 1954, died 11/08/2013

Marshall, Iain Stuart, MA 1962, died 26/10/2013 Martin, Edward ‘Sam’ Corfield, BVMS 1962, MRCVS, died 18/07/2013 McCorquodale, Arthur Johnson, BSc 1965, died 26/05/2013 McGregor, Gregor Callum, BSc 1964, died 20/08/2013 McKinlay, Anne (Mrs Agnes Steane), Diploma 1962, died 03/08/2012 Meikle, John Campbell, BSc 1964, died 30/05/2012 Miller, George Lindsay (Dr), MBChB 1960, died 17/12/2012 Moir, Ian Archibald, BSc 1962, died 19/10/2013 Mullin, James, BSc 1962, died 06/04/2013 Murray, Sheila Elizabeth (Dr Day), MBChB 1962, died 08/11/2012 Nicholson, Ernest Wilson (Rev Professor), PhD 1964, died 22/12/2013 Nicol, John Chalmers (Rev), MA 1960, BD, died 22/07/2013 Parker, Martin Richard, MA 1963, died 08/09/2013 Pettie, Bruce Douglas, BSc 1966, MBA, died 21/09/2013

Binnie, William Hugh (Dr), BDS 1963, died 17/08/2013

Prentice, George Anderson, BSc 1966, died 05/05/2013

Burness, Thomas Johnstone, MA 1963, MLitt, died 29/05/2013

Reford, Francis Surgenor, BSc 1965, died 2013

Campbell, Isobel Patricia Blair (Dr Morton), MBChB 1967, died 18/10/2013 Clark, Alexander (Dr), MBChB 1961, FRCS, died 24/07/2013 Clement, Louise Josephine Mary (Mrs Harrington), BVMS 1967, died 26/06/2013

Robertson, Edward Nicholas, MA 1960, 13/03/2013 Schweiger, Franc (Professor), PhD 1966, died 12/01/2013 Seaman, Anne Kemp Angus (Mrs Rushton), BVMS 1966, died 21/03/2013 Shah, Tulsidas Haridas (Dr), MBChB 1964, died 30/07/2013

Martin, James Alexander (Captain), BVMS 1954, died 10/05/2013

Croall, John (Dr), MBChB 1962, died 11/12/2013

McKichan, Duncan James, OBE, BL 1950, died 30/11/2013

Davidson, Alexander Michael (Dr), BSC 1966, PhD, died 12/05/2013

McMillan, Thomas, MA 1951, LLB, died 09/08/2013

Delany, Michael James (Professor), DSc 1967, died 03/03/2013

McWilliam, Agnes Janet Hamilton (Dr Stone), MBChB 1950, died 31/01/2013

Douglas, Robert (Dr), MBChB 1961, died 27/10/2013

Skinner, Gordon Robert Bruce (Dr), MBChB 1965, died 2013

Miller, John Robert (Rev), MA 1953, died 28/10/2013

Duncan, John Huggard, MA 1965, died 11/07/2013

Smillie, Thomson John, MA 1963, died 18/01/2014

Miller, Madeline Ruth (Dr Megaw), MA 1959, PhD, died 13/07/2013

Fulton, Alistair Bryce, MA 1966, died 03/05/2013

Stockdill, George (Dr), MBChB 1969, died 06/04/2013

Gibson, Malcolm Ritchie (Dr), BSc 1963, died 16/08/2012

Stockwell, Margaret Caldwell (Dr), MBChB 1969, died 08/2013

Gillies, Barbara Fiona (Mrs Allam), MA 1965, died 18/04/2013

Thomson, Gordon MacKenzie, MA 1969, CA, died 08/2013

Hastie, William Hunter, MA 1961, died 30/12/2013

Webb, Kenneth, BSc 1962, died 26/04/2013

Haugejorden, Ola (Professor), BDS 1961, DDPH, PhD, died 28/02/2013

Willock, Ian Douglas (Professor), PhD 1963, died 03/10/2013

Quinn, Edmund Mackin, MA 1953, died 15/02/2014

Judge, Charles William Forbes, BSc 1960, died 24/12/2013

1970–1979

Rankin, Archibald Macpherson (Dr), MBChB 1950, died 09/03/2013

Lang, Marjorie Leslie (Mrs Deakin), MA 1963, died 27/10/2005

Riggans, Mary Patton, MA 1959, died 02/12/2013

Lindsay, Frederic Gibson, MA 1960, died 31/05/2013

Campbell, Brian Cameron (Dr), MBChB 1971, died 10/09/2012

Robertson, Ean James, BSc 1955, died 11/10/2013

Mackenzie, Malcolm Lackie, MA 1960, MEd, died 28/02/2014

Christie, Ann Clelland (Mrs Drysdale), MA 1975, died 24/08/2013

Munro, John MacGregor (Dr), MBChB 1952, died 29/09/2012 Orr, Nigel Macdonald, MA 1953, ARCST, died 2012 Patrick, Henrietta Spence (Mrs Melrose), MA 1951,died 03/12/2013 Patrick, Sheila Margaret (Mrs Douglas), MA 1954, died 19/04/2013

Robertson, William Girardet, BSc 1952, died 25/05/2013

Siddiqi, Obaidul Haq (Professor), PhD 1961, died 21/07/2013 Simpson, Kenneth Graham (Professor), MA 1965, died 28/09/2013

Brown, Morag MacDonald (Mrs Hill), BEd 1975, died 07/04/2013

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Clark, Ronald McDonald (Dr), MBChB 1973, died 18/05/2013

Soylemez, Muhittin (Professor), PhD 1990, died 26/09/2012

Durbin, John Terrence, MBE, LLB 1977, died 17/06/2013

2000–2009

Fox, Mary (Mrs Doyle), Diploma 1973, died 08/06/2012

Banks, Iain (Dr), DLitt (Honorary) 2005, died 09/06/2013

Herbertson, Margaret Stewart, BDS 1976, died 25/10/2012

Liang, Ya, MBA 2005, died 17/02/2014

Hessett, Catherine, BSc 1977, died 28/12/2012 Joakim, Katerine Rena (Mrs Theophanous), BEd 1975, died 15/06/2013 Kafoussis, John, MEd 1972, date of death unknown Livingstone, George, MEd 1974, died 15/02/2013 Matheson, Lister Malcolm (Professor), MA 1971, PhD, died 19/01/2012 McCrosson, John, BDS 1970, died 04/12/2012

Ex-Officio Allan, Jean D, former employee, died 08/2013 Gilles, Dennis Cyril (Emeritus Professor), former Professor of Computing Science, died 05/10/2013 Lewis, Mervyn (Professor Emeritus), former Professor in Taxation, died 17/09/2013

Glasgow Vet College Beck, Robert, MRCVS 1950, BVMS, died 14/12/2013

Melsom, Reidar (Dr), MBChB 1970, died 16/01/2013

Carmichael, Angus Macdonald Ewing, MRCVS 1948, BVMS, died 21/03/2013

O’Reilly, Diarmuid Finbar (Dr), MBChB 1973, died 07/01/2013

Gibson, John Campbell (Captain), MRCVS 1947, BVMS, died 30/09/2013

Reid, William Alexander (Dr), MBChB 1972, died 26/02/2013

Lindsay, Flora Elizabeth Fraser, MRCVS 1947, BVMS, died 05/10/2013

Richardson, James McKinney, BSc 1976, died 07/2013

Marshall, Thomas Boyd, MRCVS 1945, BVMS, died 03/06/2013

Robson, Robert, MA 1976, died 06/09/2013 Silver, Alasdair Clark Bruce, MA 1972, died 11/09/2013 Young, Richard Edward (Dr), MBChB 1971, died 23/12/2013

1980–1989 Barrow, Geoffrey Wallis Steuart (Professor), DLitt (Honorary) 1988, died 14/12/2013 Bond, Peter Thomson, LLB 1983, died 21/03/2013 Clark, Peter (Dr), BSc 1983, died 20/06/2013 Coleman, Gerard William, BSc 1982, 13/04/2009 Frazer, Hugh Samuel, MA 1985, died 04/02/2013 Gillespie, Ruth Selina Sheridan (Mrs Cumming), MA 1980, died 01/12/2012 Lau, Joe Wing-Nin (Dr), BEng 1987, PhD, died 25/02/2012 Macdonald, Alexander Thomas, MSc 1984, died 02/03/2013 Masson, Grant, BSc 1988, died 05/2013 Mathieson, Kirsteen Janet (Mrs Dowie), MA 1982, died 16/09/2013 Scott, Elspeth Warren (Dr), PhD 1988, died 2013 Shaw, Carol Patricia, MA 1980, 08/2012 Sime, Alan Arthur Wallace, BSc 1988, BVMS, died 14/08/2013 Stoker, Michael George Parke (Sir), CBE, DSc 1982, died 13/08/2013 Wilson, Elaine Morrison (Mrs Chestnut), MA 1987, died 11/10/2012

1990–1999 Crombie, Richard McFarlane, MBA 1990, died 09/2013 Duncan, William Fulton, MBA 1990, died 05/08/2013 Mackenzie, Alan Patrick, BEng 1994, died 14/10/2013 McGarrigle, John, MA 1993, died 30/11/2013 Roeren, Vidar Even, BSc 1994, date of death unknown

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Current exhibitions Mackintosh Architecture

18 July 2014 to 4 January 2015 Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission charge) This is the first major exhibition devoted to the architecture of Scottish artist and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Mackintosh Architecture is the result of a landmark research project led by The Hunterian and features over 80 architectural drawings from collections across the UK. Many have never been exhibited before and are displayed alongside specially commissioned film, models and archival material. Challenging the familiar view of Mackintosh as the sole genius, the exhibition presents the wider context of the practice of Honeyman, Keppie and Mackintosh, introducing the contractors, suppliers and clients, with a particular focus on Mackintosh’s designs for dwelling houses.

Sponsored by Turcan Connell with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and The Monument Trust.

To find out more about the research project, see www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk.

Mackintosh Travel Sketches

18 July 2014 to 15 February 2015 Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission free) Sketching was an essential component of an architect’s training, to develop draughtsmanship, an understanding of construction and materials and a design reference library. This new exhibition presents a selection of drawings and sketchbooks from the University’s unrivalled Mackintosh collection. Complementing Mackintosh Architecture, Mackintosh Travel Sketches plots

his travels from early studies in the north of Scotland, to the series of beautiful studies of the castle at Holy Island, Northumberland, and the complex drawings from Cintra in Portugal. Mackintosh’s sketches culminated in the late watercolours painted in the South of France. These are represented by The Fort, an outstanding example of his draughtsmanship and mastery of the watercolour medium.

Coming soon Ingenious Impressions: The Coming of the Book

February to June 2015 Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission free) Featuring international treasures of early print publication, Ingenious Impressions is the first major exhibition on the invention of the printed book. Showcasing the University of Glasgow’s rich collections and the results of the Glasgow Incunabula Project, the exhibition charts the introduction and development of the early printed book in Europe, exploring the transition from manuscript to print and its impact on late medieval society.

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About The Hunterian

The Hunterian is one of the leading university museums in the UK and one of Scotland’s most important cultural assets.

Founded in 1807, it is the country’s oldest public museum and home to one of the largest collections outside the National Museums.

Opening times Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm Sunday 11am to 4pm Free admission to the Museum, Art Gallery and The Mackintosh House.

Admission charge for some exhibitions (free to University of Glasgow staff and students with valid staff/matriculation card).

The Hunterian, University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4221 For updates on programmes and events, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/hunterian.

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National & International loans

The Hunterian’s national and international loans programme allows many more people to enjoy our collections across the world.

Australia: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 1 June to 5 October 2014 Exhibition: Mortimer Menpes. On loan: 4 works including Dolce Far Niente.

Germany: Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Fondation Corboud, Cologne

6 September 2014 to 25 January 2015 Exhibition: Cathedrals, Romanticism, Impressionism, Modernism. On loan: Sisley’s The Church of Moret-sur-Loing.

Hungary: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 21 October 2014 to 22 February 2015 Exhibition: Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age. On loan: Rembrandt’s Entombment.

Japan: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 13 September to 16 November 2014 Exhibition: J M Whistler. On loan: 62 works including Red and Black: The Fan.

UK: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow 18 April 2014 to 17 August 2014 Exhibition: How Glasgow Flourished: 1714 to 1837. On loan: The Newcomen Engine.

USA: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC 2 May 2014 to 14 August 2014 Exhibition: An American in London: Whistler and the Thames. On loan: 4 works, including the oil painting Battersea Reach.

Become a Friend If you become a member of Hunterian Friends you will benefit from a range of exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to charged exhibitions. Hunterian Friends give vital support and make a direct contribution towards new exhibitions and galleries, our education and conservation work and to new acquisitions. To join, see www.glasgow. ac.uk/hunterian/support.

About the artwork: 1. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland Street School, Glasgow, 1904.

2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Daily Record Building, Glasgow, 1901.

3. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Castle, Holy Island, 1901.

4. James McNeill Whistler, Red and Black: The Fan, c.1891–1894.

5. Alfred Sisley, The Church of Moret-sur-Loing, Rainy weather, Morning, 1893.

All © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow 2014

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