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Skip navigation to content. University of St Andrews. Brexit - Information for staff. Frequently asked questions and useful links on the impact of Brexit. You can now log an IT Service Desk call. Service is available to all staff and students. The University of St Andrews has been awarded a Bronze University Award by the Athena SWAN Charter for women in science. Photo of the week. Medal success at the Skiff Rowing World Championships. Photo of the week. Monday 19 September 2016. Week 2 Semester 1. 2016 T...
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OpenAccess@StAndrews: New open access data repository for autism research
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Information and news about open access to research. New open access data repository for autism research. The iHART project is funded by a $9 million grant from the Hartwell Foundation. A charitable organisation that grants awards for biomedical research to help children. iHART will be led by Dennis Wall, a specialist in autism spectrum disorder and Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Through the portal users will also be able to integrate their own data.
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Research@StAndrews blog: The first common market
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University of St Andrews. Thursday, 26 February 2015. The first common market. Long before we had mountains of grain and vast lakes of wine accumulating to excess across the continent our ancestors had worked out that the best entrepreneurial way to stay ahead was through trade with as wide a market as possible. A study to be published in Science this week describes the first evidence for grain traded across Europe 8000 years ago, 2000 years before the accepted beginning of farming in Britain. Concern ov...
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Research@StAndrews blog: The Building Blocks of Life
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University of St Andrews. Monday, 1 December 2014. The Building Blocks of Life. Searching for the essence of life on Earth, understanding climate change and investigating the spread of diseases - these are a few examples of the fundamental research that academics at St Andrews will be tackling with new equipment won under a competitive £0.5M NERC. The NERC capital equipment fund bid was led by Drs Andrea Burke. From the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. From the Schools of Biology. Multiple...
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OpenAccess@StAndrews: Open Data: Wiley to partner with Figshare
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Information and news about open access to research. Open Data: Wiley to partner with Figshare. In recent years it has become increasingly important for researchers to publish the data underlying research. A search of Sherpa/Juliet. A search engine that compiles funder mandates and policies relating to open access) confirms this, revealing that there are 41 funders that require open access to research data, with a further 18 that encourage it. Http:/ www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/stats.php? New - RSC (Royal Soc...
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Research@StAndrews blog: New lab to unravel the mysteries of Earth and life
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University of St Andrews. Thursday, 31 July 2014. New lab to unravel the mysteries of Earth and life. On Thursday July 17th, Drs Aubrey Zerkle. Held a grand opening for their new geobiology laboratory space in the Bute building. Approximately 40 members of staff from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Were in attendance, as the laboratory was formally christened the "Peter James Clark Centre for Philosophical Geobiology". As evidenced in modern environments and recorded in the rock record.
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OpenAccess@StAndrews: LIBER 2015 paper wins award
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Information and news about open access to research. LIBER 2015 paper wins award. The emerging role of institutional CRIS in facilitating Open Scholarship. Was recognised by the LIBER. Conference Programme Committee with the Innovation Award given to the 3 most innovative and relevant papers submitted to the conference. St Andrews, together with Aberdeen, was the first UK University to introduce a CRIS. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). For enquiries email: open-access-support. Related St Andrews blogs.
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Research@StAndrews blog: The Southern CO2 that helped end the ice age
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University of St Andrews. Tuesday, 17 February 2015. The Southern CO2 that helped end the ice age. Scientists have long puzzled over the processes that caused CO 2. To rise and help end the last ice age. Leading theories have involved increased CO 2. Release from the deep ocean around Antarctica, but there has been no direct evidence to prove this happened. Our study used the geochemistry of tiny planktonic fossil shells to reconstruct the amount of CO 2. To the atmosphere, but 100 times faster, will do ...
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Research@StAndrews blog: Carnegie Trust success for coral reef team
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University of St Andrews. Thursday, 28 May 2015. Carnegie Trust success for coral reef team. Research Fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences ( DEES. Has been successful in securing a Collaborative Research Grant from the Carnegie Trust. For the Universities of Scotland, together with Drs Nick Kamenos (University of Glasgow) and Sebastian Hennige (Heriot-Watt University). 162:1077–1085: DOI 10.1007/s00227-015-2650-8. Subscribe to this blog. University of St Andrews. This is the first...
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Research@StAndrews blog: Sulfate on the early Earth – how low was low?
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University of St Andrews. Monday, 24 November 2014. Sulfate on the early Earth – how low was low? Findings recently published in Science (“Sulfate was a trace constituent of Archean seawater”, DOI: 10.1126/science.1258966. Suggest that sulfate – a key biological nutrient – could have been incredibly scarce in the Earth’s ancient oceans. Research vessel on Lake Matano, Indonesia. PHOTO by Sean Crowe, University of British Columbia. A Lecturer in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. This blo...
