(from left) Deputy Principal (Research & Knowledge Transfer) Professor Alan Miller, Director of Research 7 Enterprise Gillian McFadzean and Baker Hughes Technology Fellow, Dr Dan Georgi.

Heriot-Watt's 2012 Industry Day proved to be a huge success, with representatives from academia, industry and research centres coming from across the UK and beyond to discuss the future of advanced sensor technology.

The event, held at the Edinburgh Conference Centre on the 9th February, showcased Heriot-Watt's ambitious commitment to ...

Nearly 40 research leaders from a wide range of biological, engineering and mathematical sciences attended a special Research Futures symposium at Heriot-Watt University last week to discuss the early outcomes of their joint research collaborations and propose new ideas for even closer research cooperation between the two institutions in the ...

The Senate has agreed to recommend to the Court that the office of Vice-Principal (Malaysia) be established and that Professor Bob Craik, Deputy Principal (Learning and Teaching) be appointed to that office for the period to July 2017. The office holder will act with the delegated authority of the Principal ...

Six ideas submitted by Heriot-Watt University students were chosen as finalists for the Scottish Institute for Enterprise New Ideas Competition.

The finalists have been invited to the Start Up Day on Saturday 11 February to learn from experts on how to improve their ideas and participate in workshops to develop ...

Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan, a Heriot-Watt graduate (BEng Offshore Engineering 1992; Honorary Doctorate 2011) hosted a group of 32 MSc students taking this Semester’s course on ‘Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation Measures’. The students, on a range of Masters programmes from around the University (SLS, MACS, EPS and SML) ...

Professor Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General , will be giving a lecture on 'The Search of a Deeper Understanding of our Universe at the Large Hadron Collider: the World's Largest Particle Accelerator' in Lecture Theatre 4, Heriot-Watt Edinburgh Campus on Wednesday 7 March at 3.45pm.


With the start of the Large ...

Dr. Alasdair Allan, MSP, Minister for Learning and Skills (with responsibility for Gaelic & Scots) together with a group of staff and pupils at James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh recently met with colleagues from the University's SCHOLAR programme.

They were given an overview of SCHOLAR and the Minister was ...

Keith Wallace was elected 121st President of The Watt Club at its Annual Meeting on 19 January.

The Watt Club is the University's alumni association, the oldest of its kind in the UK with all alumni automatically becoming members upon graduation.

The original aim was to ‘sup together on the anniversary ...