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Glasgow University Mountaineering Club is an outdoor association whose membership is composed of students and staff. Its origins are known from the late 1930s when students were already meeting on the Arrochar Alps ; however, the club was officially constituted at the university in March 1941.
One such Glasgow alumna was Isabel MacPhail: when war broke in 1914, she and her sister Katherine went to Serbia to work in the Scottish Women’s Hospital. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] MacPhail was awarded a number of decorations for her service: the French Medaille d’Honneur , the Serbian Cross of Charity and the Serbian Red Cross Nursing Medal.
The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451. Historical lists of chancellors , rectors and principals of the university are contained in those offices' respective articles.
University of Glasgow Professorships at the University of Glasgow can take either of two forms: an established chair or a personal professorship. An established chair is one which has been set up by endowment and is intended to last indefinitely, i.e. that when a chair is vacated, someone else will be appointed to it. Personal professorships are conferred on individuals and exist only so long ...
Glasgow Life is the principal trading name and brand of Culture and Sport Glasgow, a charity based in Glasgow, Scotland.It is an Arms' Length External body from Glasgow City Council, [2] with operating responsibility for managing the arts, music, sports, events, festivals, libraries and learning programmes for the council. [3]
Allan Glen's School was, for most of its existence, a local authority, selective secondary school for boys in Glasgow, Scotland, charging nominal fees for tuition.. It was founded by the Allan Glen's Endowment Scholarship Trust on the death, in 1850, of Allan Glen, a successful Glasgow tradesman and businessman, "to give a good practical education and preparation for trades or businesses, to ...
Lourdes Secondary School, established in 1956, is a school in the south-west of Glasgow which serves a large catchment area, including the communities of Cardonald, Craigton, Crookston, Drumoyne, Govan, Hillington, Ibrox, Kinning Park, Mosspark, Penilee and Pollok. [1] It has an enrolment of approximately 1,200 pupils and 90 members of staff.
In 2020, Sayantan Ghosal, Professor in Economics at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, was appointed to the chair. [ 8 ] Over the course of his career, Professor Ghosal has gained widespread recognition for his research in economic theory and its applications.