2011

An exhibition of rare works by William Shakespeare is illustrating the importance of the bard north of the border, in a joint venture by the University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland.

A former music PhD student at the Edinburgh College of Art will compete in the final for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2012.

Edinburgh College of Art has won two major student prizes at this year’s Landscape Institute Awards.

To mark the 60th Anniversary of the School of Scottish Studies, the BBC have produced a documentary.

The University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity is to appoint its first professor of Islamic Studies.

A new exhibition exploring the nature of beauty, featuring works by Yoko Ono and Turner Prize nominees Karla Black and Nathan Coley, has opened at the Talbot Rice Gallery.

Tuition fee rates for the College's undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes can now be found through the University's new online searchable database.

The College is to welcome its first Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professor through the Fulbright Commission's exchange programme.

An Edinburgh College of Art student's film has triumphed at the British Documentary Awards.

Near-death experiences are not paranormal but triggered by a change in normal brain function, according to researchers.

The Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra is to give a performance at Inspace as part of SoundFilmMusic 2.0, an Edinburgh College of Art-wide collaborative film project running during November 2011.

The Edinburgh College of Art will host an exhibition of sculptures, paintings, prints, collages and film by 32 artists from Tohoku (Northeastern Japan) and Scotland, in support of the post tsunami recovery.

The Singing the Reformation exhibition, which brings together the 16th century Wode manuscripts, was recently the subject of the Early Music Show on BBC Radio 3.

Archive Trails is an innovative knowledge exchange project commissioning new works from three contemporary musicians to mark the 60th anniversary of the School of Scottish Studies.

A new centre of excellence for research into dementia has been launched at the University.

Harbouring a mistakenly inflated belief that we can easily meet challenges or win conflicts is actually good for us, a new study suggests.

An award-winning artist’s eye-catching mural, which celebrates Scotland’s links with Islam, was unveiled on Friday 9th September 2011.

An collection of photographs entitled 'Living Buddhism', by renowned photographer Graham Harrison, is being exhibited at the University, accompanied by a number of related events.

 A survey of key international employers rates the University as one of the world’s best for producing quality graduates.

Debut novelist Tatjani Soli and theatre critic Hilary Spurling have won the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, Britain’s oldest literary awards.

Leading Scottish composer James MacMillan CBE opened a landmark exhibition at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 5th August 2011.

The Talbot Rice Gallery, with which the College has strong links, will welcome a total work of art and an exhibition of rare Indian paintings.

The merger of Edinburgh College of Art with the University has taken effect.

The National Museum of Scotland reopens its doors this summer after a £47 million redevelopment.

Two English Literature scholars from the University have backed a scheme that celebrates the life of one of Scotland's greatest writers.

The University has recently agreed to offer joint PhDs with the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Key figures in world finance are to discuss global credit issues at a University conference.

Three awards are offered to senior US academics to contribute to intellectual life at Edinburgh through six month appointments.