Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #univofstandrews, aggregated by home.social.
#ChemicalEngineering
Finished the excellent American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE #ChEnected class: AI for Chemical Engineers, taught by Ozgur Akgun @ozgurakgun of #univofstandrews.
#AI Topics: Predictive, Prescriptive, & Generative AI.
Key Skills: what's possible & what's not.
How did #UnivofStAndrews benefit from, participate in, or support, British colonialism? Our report 'The University of St Andrews and the legacies of empire, 1700-1900' is now available https://legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
The detail of our findings may be of most interest to those closely associated with #standrews #Fife and #Tayside, or #Scotland; but I hope that our approach will be of interest to a wider audience. #history #histodons
We also have a recent post on a fascinating very early #woman #History lecturer #univofstandrews :
Elizabeth Hewat: graduate of
#EdinburghUni, wartime replacement lecturer in
History #UnivofStAndrews
1919-20.
Had hoped to be ordained as #Church of #Scotland minister in 1920s. Later, missionary, scholar, educator in China and India.
https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/02/elizabeth-g-k-hewat-1895-1968/
The latest post for our Women Historians project is about #byzantine historian Ruth Macrides PhD (1949-2019). (#StAndrewsHist #univofstandrews #univbirmingham)
It hints at the challenges of academic careers facing women (married women?) in the late 20thC. #histodons
https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/06/03/ruth-macrides-1949-2019/
Dr Edith Johnston's international academic career took her from school in #Belfast to MA PhD
#UnivofStAndrews to jobs at Sheffield #UniSheffield and #MacquarieUniversity
(and visiting fellowships in N America), then back to Ireland
Read more at https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2021/07/24/edith-johnston-phd-1956/
She was the first St Andrews woman PhD historian (that we know of) to successfully pursue an academic career - and so we celebrate her this #WomensHistoryMonth #histodons
To celebrate International Women's Day, and throughout #WomensHistoryMonth, the School of History at #UnivofStAndrews will be sharing the stories of some of our historic women historians of St Andrews. First up is Caroline Doris Ketelbey, who was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Modern History in 1935. She had previously been a teacher at St Leonards School; and would later be a visiting professor at the (future) University of Ghana.
Read more at
https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2022/04/05/doris-ketelbey-ma-frhists-an-impressive-career/
We're having an event at #UnivofStAndrews this afternoon to celebrate the first women to be awarded #PhDs in #History at StA - and to discuss the ways in which experiences of early-career women historians have (or have not) changed over the last 100 years.
#histodons at a distance can read our web essays about Edith MacQueen (PhD 1927), Edith Thomson (PhD 1928), Elizabeth Menzies (PhD 1954) and Edith Johnston (PhD 1956).
See 'Life stories' at https://women-historians.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Contributions welcome!
JOB opportunity: 12 months teaching post in 20thC European history at
#univofstandrews #StAndrewsHist
JOB 12-month Fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Early Modern Scottish History (c.1500-1707)
#univofstandrews #StAndrewsHist
For more information, see:
https://vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/7245/0/381329/889/associate-lecturer-education-focused-in-early-modern-scottish-history-aoac2170rxnb
PhD FUNDING for a project in Scottish History at St Andrews [any period, any topic. Could be #histsci #bookhistodons etc]
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📢 Strathmartine Trust Scottish History Scholarship📢
The Strathmartine Trust has renewed its support for one Scottish history PhD student at the University of St Andrews (full fees & maintenance grant) for 3 years.
Deadline 21 March 2023 5pm.
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Details not yet on website; DM @ISHRStAndrews@twitter for more info & how to apply
Some nice press on the newly opened SETI Post-Detection Hub in St. Andrews, Scotland:
https://www.livescience.com/alien-contact-protocol.html
Written by Isobel Whitcomb for #LiveScience #SETI #ukseti #univofstandrews #setijon #PostDetection #outerspacestudies #ET #speculativeethics #xenolinguistics #scotland #research
Wow, it’s really something to keep up with all the press about the opening of the Post-Detection Hub in #Scotland.
Here’s a nice piece on space.com.
"If extraterrestrial life sent us a message tomorrow, how would humanity respond? According to researchers, we don't know yet — and that's a problem."
https://www.space.com/alien-contact-protocol.html
#SETI #PostDetection #scenarios #UnivofStAndrews #contact #xenolinguistics #outerspacestudies #speculativeethics #ET #communication #outerspace