Some of the winning students with their prizes

Five outstanding students from the Computer Science department were presented with Scott Logic’s Excellence in Computer Science Awards during a reception at the Edinburgh Campus in March.

The awards recognise the top five undergraduates in Year 4 of the Masters programme and Computer Science Degree based on academic performance. Scott ...

Dr Alan Forster, Lecturer from the School of the Built Environment, has been awarded the Emerald Literati Network 2012 Award for Excellence.

Alan received the Highly Commended Paper Award 2012 for the academic journal paper entitled “A framework for specifying natural hydraulic lime mortars for masonry construction” published in Structural Survey ...

As part of the wider University's continuing review of its operations, the School of Textiles and Design at Heriot-Watt's Scottish Borders Campus has developed a five year plan designed to ensure the continued financial sustainability of the School, its teaching and research excellence, internationalisation and the provision of an excellent ...

Lisa Kearney, Combined Studies student, has secured her place at London 2012 Olympics in Judo.

Lisa qualified for the London Games after her success in the final ranking event in Siberia. She will be the first female to compete for Ireland in Olympic judo.

Lisa is coached by two-time Olympian Ciaran ...

Left to right: Heriot-Watt students Truls Oppedal and Astrid Rokne Greve with Herman Grue from University of Edinburgh.

Heriot-Watt Norwegian students, Truls Oppedal and Astrid Rokne Greve, achieved success in the ANSA (Association of Norwegian Students Abroad) Wintergames in Switzerland last month.

Astrid Rokne Greve, first year Engineering student, won the gold medal in parallel slalom for women and silver medal in the bigjump contest.

Truls Oppedal, Business ...

Heriot-Watt Crucible Alumni with project panellists.

The third Heriot-Watt Crucible programme to run in just over a year has ended this month with a wealth of new interdisciplinary collaborations being forged between researchers from four Edinburgh-based centres of excellence in research and innovation.

Early career stage academics from Heriot-Watt University, the University of Edinburgh, the ...

Professor Garry Pender, Head of School of the Built Environment (left) and Graeme Ogilvy, Director for ConstructionSkills Scotland.

The School of Built Environment is collaborating with ConstructionSkills to develop an innovative system to support current apprenticeship training.

The technology would allow existing apprentices to perform real life tasks such as bricklaying and roofing in an Immersive Controlled Environment (ICE). It would be hosted at Edinburgh’s Telford College. The ...

In May the School of the Built Environment will assist in running the Final Conference of MP4 (‘Making Places Profitable, Public and Private Open Spaces’). MP4 is a European-funded Interreg IVB project demonstrating how open space improvements can offer positive socio-economic benefits, and how the benefits offered to communities can ...