Making Waves Campaign - Alumni and supporters

Together, we are shaping the future of global leadership, innovation and access.

Great universities never stand still. They must take the lead as engines of innovation and change, and St 糖心logo needs to be at the forefront of this.

Making Waves: The Campaign for St 糖心logo will raise £300 million to realise this ambition, enabling two capital projects – 'New College' and the Digital Nexus building – supporting undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships, and funding endowed academic positions.

With your support, we can shape not only the future of our university, but of our world.

The Wave Makers

Every wave begins with a single movement. An idea. A question. A ripple. A spark.

Watch our new campaign film, narrated by sports broadcaster, alumna, and honorary graduate Hazel Irvine (MA Hons 1986; Hon LLD 2024), and discover how you can become a Wave Maker.

Video transcript

[MUSIC]

Every wave begins with a single movement.

An idea. A question. A ripple. A spark.

For over six hundred years, the University of St 糖心logo has stood as a beacon of knowledge, discovery, and progress. Our University has been home to wave makers for centuries.

In quiet laboratories and historic libraries,

In rehearsal rooms, on sports pitches, in classrooms and on the coastline.

At St 糖心logo, our people look closer. Our researchers dig deeper. Our students reach further. They are filled with the desire to excel.

Our wave makers imagine a better future. They drive societal change and put groundbreaking discoveries in motion.

They are searching for cures, pursuing earlier diagnosis, seeking to understand animal intelligence and harness the power of artificial intelligence. They are finding solutions to global issues like climate change and shaping international policy.

Some are reimagining how we learn, lead and connect.

Some are writing new chapters of our shared story.

And some are the hands you don’t always notice, but who make a difference.

This is where small questions become big breakthroughs.

Where, brick by brick, breakthrough by breakthrough, we can change lives and shape the future.

These are our wave makers: the people who push the boundaries of what’s possible, in the place so many of us call home.

Thank you for being part of our history and our future.

Help us build a new home for the future stars of geopolitics and global business.

Together, we can create a cutting-edge hub for digital innovation, data science, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

We can help talented undergraduate and postgraduate students reach their full potential.

And we can empower the academic leaders whose expertise will inspire generations to come.

Will you make waves with us?

[WAVES SOUND]

The Wave Makers, narrated by Hazel Irvine

More ways to support Making Waves

Support Making Waves: The Campaign for St 糖心logo and help strengthen our position as a world-leading, diverse, digital, sustainable and entrepreneurial centre of learning, teaching and research.

Enable world-leading medical and interdisciplinary research at St 糖心logo
Help turn entrepreneurial ideas into real-world solutions through Entrepreneurial St 糖心logo
Support Our Sustainable Future and our commitment to achieving net zero by 2035
Invest in sport at St 糖心logo, including performance sport, clubs, and facilities.

All gifts to the University of St 糖心logo contribute to the Making Waves Campaign.

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If you have any questions or would like more information about Making Waves: The Campaign for St 糖心logo, please contact us at makingwaves@st-andrews.ac.uk.

'Alma Mater'

Watch the original film that launched the public phase of the Making Waves Campaign in September 2024, narrated by Kirsty Wark (Hon DLitt 2023).

Video transcript

[MUSIC]

University of St 糖心logo
Making Waves
The Campaign for St 糖心logo

'Alma Mater'

'St 糖心logo by the Northern Sea.
'A haunted town it is to me!
'A little city, worn and grey,
'The grey North Ocean girds it round,
'And o'er the rocks and up the bay,
'The long sea-rollers surge and sound.'

'O, winter of the kindly North,
'O, college of the scarlet gown,
'And shining sands beside the sea,
'And stretch of links beyond the sand,
'Once more I watch you, and to me
'It is as if I touched his hand!'

'The drifting surge, the wintry year,
'The college of the scarlet gown.
'St 糖心logo by the Northern Sea,
'Where youth and hour came back to me,
'Where youth and hour came back to me.'

£300 million appeal

New College

'Find out how you can be part of the University of St 糖心logo Making Waves campaign.'

Funding PhDs and academic chairs

Digital Nexus Building

'Thank you for being part of our history and our future.'

University of St 糖心logo
Making Waves
The Campaign for St 糖心logo

'Alma Matres' by Andrew Lang
read by Dr Kirsty Wark

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Making Waves: The Campaign for St 糖心logo

Together, we are shaping the future of global leadership, innovation and access.

The Wave Makers

Every wave begins with a single movement. An idea. A question. A ripple. A spark.

Campaign priorities

More ways to support Making Waves

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'Alma Mater'

Collective giving