GLASGOW WORLD CHANGING
WORLD CHANGING CAMPUS With your support we will create a better home for world-class learning and discovery, a place where the big ideas of tomorrow are taking shape today and a place where the best students, regardless of background, are inspired to become tomorrow’s world changers. Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal of the University of Glasgow
Over the next five years, a £1 billion programme of investment will herald the most significant development of our estate in over a century. The University of Glasgow has acquired the site of the Western Infirmary, offering the scale of opportunity that comes rarely in the lifetime of any institution, to extend and consolidate our Gilmorehill campus. From its earliest beginnings the University has continued to expand its focus, evolving into an internationally renowned centre of learning and research excellence with expertise in almost every field of modern discovery. But the global problems of the future need new ways of working. We need to bring together the best minds of today and tomorrow within world-class facilities – large interdisciplinary research spaces that offer flexibility and stimulate collaboration, and modern study spaces that benefit from the latest enhancement in technological infrastructure and connectivity – and we need to ensure that Glasgow remains an attractive and exciting destination for talented staff and students worldwide. Glasgow World Changing is an exciting opportunity to invest in our people and to create a campus that will enable a future of worldclass education, research and communities with global impact. The redevelopment of Gilmorehill is the most significant expansion and development of a UK university city campus for over a century, and the most dramatic evolution of the University since our relocation to the West End in 1870. Work with us to create a world-class campus fit for today and the future and help drive forward this momentous chapter in our distinguished history.
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1 Learning & Teaching Hub 2 Research Hub
Phase two – new facilities to support
3 Chemistry & Engineering Complex 4 Alliance of Chronic Disease, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, Social Justice 5 Arts Quarter
Public spaces
6 University Square 7 Innovation Square
Shared space
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WORLD CHANGING IMPACT What Google has done for the internet, I would like to do for the discovery and distribution of prescription drugs. Regius Professor of Chemistry Lee Cronin (pictured) plans to digitise chemistry, leading to the discovery of new drugs and a code that can be downloaded to make these drugs readily available anywhere in the world.
Glasgow World Changing embraces so much more than additional land and buildings. With your support our inspiring people can continue to advance learning and innovation for centuries to come. Over the last five centuries our academics have given the world the central tenets of economics, the second law of thermodynamics, the engine of the industrial revolutions, antiseptic surgery and, more recently, we’ve made significant advances in a range of fields including cancer sciences, cardiovascular disorders and gravitational waves. Today we are hard at work making world-changing discoveries for the benefit of society, progressing some of the most pressing questions of our time in areas as diverse as quantum technologies, the future of cities, international development, human rights, global security, sustainable development and personalised medicine. Almost 150 years ago, a group of farsighted supporters enabled Glasgow to fulfil its ambitious plans and relocate to Gilmorehill. Without their support and generosity the world would be a very different place today. As friends of the University, we are asking you to join this lineage of supporters. While no one can say exactly where the next 150 years will take us, with the opportunities provided by the new campus, you can help us imagine and shape the future. With your support we can create a legacy for future generations, and an environment that will enable our University community, the people of the city of Glasgow and the world to flourish.
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WORLD CHANGING RESEARCH Can you imagine a world without Glasgow? No ultrasound, no television, no antiseptic, no helium, no coma scale, no beta-blockers. The Research Hub is a cornerstone project in Glasgow’s ambition to be a world-class research campus. It will provide the University with a space devoted to nurturing a comprehensive programme of interdisciplinary, thematic research that will address the global, social and technological challenges facing society today. The Hub will provide our leading researchers, in all disciplines, with the opportunity to overcome the traditional academic silos that can limit collaborations, and help us tackle existing and future problems in new and imaginative ways.
The Hub will be an innovative, future-proofed, flexible environment that will attract, stimulate and enable interdisciplinary and worldchanging research. Beyond this, it will be a focus for our entrepreneurial staff, enabling industry collaboration and promoting a culture of innovation. Professor Jon Cooper, Vice-Principal of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange
Facilities will include highly adaptable research space, including state-ofthe-art laboratories for engineering and life sciences, through to studios for electronics, computing and the arts. There will be translational space for spin-in and spin-out activities, enabling collaboration with industry, government and the third sector. In addition, there will be a dedicated centre for entrepreneurship providing our staff and students with cuttingedge facilities for growing new ventures. At the heart of the Research Hub will be a Data Centre which will provide a new and exciting vein of interdisciplinary research. It will enable rich comparisons and investigations, such as searching for correlations between cancer rates and income, or cross-referencing infectious outbreaks with geographical site surveys. World-changing research at Glasgow will be further supported by our phase two projects for chronic disease, health & wellbeing, chemistry & engineering, social justice and the arts. Through your support we can bring multidisciplinary talent together to play a leading role in resolving some of the world’s greatest research challenges. 4
Artist’s impression of the Research Hub 5
WORLD CHANGING EDUCATION Glasgow has a heritage of providing opportunity. In 1837 we were the first University to award a medical degree to an African American, James McCune Smith. Since then we have led the way in widening access to higher education in Scotland. Over 25% of our students come from the 40% most deprived areas in Scotland. We are firmly committed to ensuring that financial restrictions will never be a barrier to the brightest and best succeeding with us, and with your support we are able to offer all levels of scholarships to students from a wide variety of backgrounds. At Glasgow, our aim is to nurture true talent and offer the best environment for it to flourish. The new Learning & Teaching Hub will be an inspirational and diverse learning space that will give all of our students the support they need to succeed. This flagship development will be a creative environment, combining flexible study and social learning space with multi-styled and technology-enabled teaching. Around the clock access to this building will ensure that it is possible to succeed regardless of background or circumstance.
The Learning & Teaching Hub will be a highly visible commitment of our provision of a world-class learning and teaching environment for generations to come, and will demonstrate our investment in our students from all backgrounds. Professor Frank Coton, Vice-Principal of Academic & Educational Innovation
Inspiring and nurturing our world changers of tomorrow, by providing them with high-quality teaching facilities and the financial support to access them, is the very heart of our campaign.
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Artist’s impression of the interior of the Learning & Teaching Hub 7
WORLD CHANGING OPPORTUNITY The support of charitable trusts and foundations, corporate partners and our family of alumni and friends will be crucial in creating a University campus, not only fit for the 21st century, but which is a legacy for the benefit of generations to come. The Memorial Gates (pictured) remind us of some of the inspirational people who shaped the first 500 years of the University of Glasgow: supporters such as the Marquess of Bute and William Hunter who made a considerable investment towards the move to Gilmorehill in 1870. Over the past 20 years the support of Glasgow alumni and friends, both in their lifetime and through bequests, has helped to provide cuttingedge facilities in areas such as cancer research and animal health & welfare, as well as state-of-the-art teaching facilities. Today, your lasting legacy could be recognised in the fabric of our new campus.
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Each great institution has a few moments when its place in the world is defined and changed forever. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of a ÂŁ1 billion investment in our future and the most dramatic evolution of our campus in over a century. Sandy Black, Chairman of the Campaign Leadership Board and benefactor donor to the Campaign
Your gift can support • world-class campus • flagship projects in research and learning • people through scholarships. We have a unique opportunity to recognise the support of alumni and friends on the redeveloped campus through donor recognition schemes in all buildings. Contributions of every size will be very welcome and you too can leave a lasting legacy.
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Benefactor £20,000,000 £10,000,000 £5,000,000 £2,500,000 £1,000,000 Lead £500,000 £250,000 £100,000 £50,000 Major £25,000 £10,000 Foundation £5,000 £500+
Join us to make a difference. We would love to hear from you. All gifts can be made monthly or annually over five years. Gifts can also be made through your will. T: +44 (0)141 330 4951 E: campaign@glasgow.ac.uk
ANTISEPTIC IN SURGERY WORLD’S FIRST ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF A FOETUS
DISCOVERY OF
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NEON ZENON KRYPTON HELIUM PROTACTINIUM
TELEVISION
BETA-BLOCKERS GLASGOW COMA SCALE USING STATINS TO PREVENT HEART ATTACKS
ECONOMIC THEORY
KELVIN SCALE OF TEMPERATURE WORLD’S FIRST HOSPITAL X-RAY DEPARTMENT
IVFSTEAM POWER
HARNESSING
DETECTING GRAVITATIONAL WAVES CHANGING THE WORLD FOR 560 YEARS
Development & Alumni Office, 2–3 The Square, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ T: +44 (0)141 330 4951 E: campaign@glasgow.ac.uk glasgow.ac.uk/givingtoglasgow Produced and designed by the Development & Alumni Office and the Marketing, Recruitment & International Office. Photography by the University Photographic Unit. Printed by J Thomson. ©University of Glasgow April 2016. The University of Glasgow charity number SC004401.