The student residences project is now at an advanced stage of designing a set of building proposals for residences accommodation at the Edinburgh and Scottish Borders Campuses.

In advance of making an application for planning permission the University is holding exhibition and drop-in sessions, one each at the Edinburgh and ...

The Collections Trust and Scottish university museums have announced a new partnership to make collections available online using the Culture Grid.

The partnership will support University Museums in Scotland (UMIS) in a £318,000 project led by the University of Aberdeen to electronically record their holdings through collection-level descriptions, item ...

A collaboration between Professor James Ritchie, Mechanical Engineer of the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the world leading Scottish alloy recycling firm Caledonian Alloys, have been presented with a prestigious award as one of Scotland’s Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) at the Scottish Knowledge Transfer Partnership Awards ceremony ...

Photo by Mark Timmins

Staff from the School of Textiles and Design have helped pupils from secondary schools across North Lanarkshire to create their own Glam Metal brand.

Pupils from 16 schools took part in the project, designing and making 200 garments and accessories which were showcased in four catwalk shows and an exhibition at ...

Heriot-Watt University is to lead a European-wide consortium which will help early-stage researchers in the science of Astrochemistry embark on a research career.

The project, LASSIE, is an Initial Training Network (ITN) funded under Marie Curie Actions within European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. It will receive funding of EUR 6.1 ...

Dr Rowan with Dr Meril Mathew, post-doctoral fellow at the Energy Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay

Dr Brenda Rowan from Heriot-Watt’s School of Engineering and Physical Sciences has recently returned from a workshop at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay. Dr Rowan was part of a team of Scottish researchers who attended an Indo-Scottish workshop organised by the Energy Technology partnership and the IIT. ...

Due to increased demand from UAE and abroad, the Heriot-Watt MSc Energy course is now being offered as a taught programme at Heriot-Watt University's Dubai Campus.

Students can choose from a full time (one year) or part time (two year) option with classes for both options being held in the evenings.

The ...

Philippe de Wilde and Ibrahim Venkat

Heriot Watt University was selected as a finalist for this years Thales Scottish Technology Prize for two entries:

Daniel Clark and Spela Ivekovic - Optimal Triangulation from Stereo Pairs of Cameras
Ibrahim Venkat and Philippe De Wilde Bayesian - Object Recognizer Ahead of HuMANs

For more information on the Thales ...