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When Elliott Martens and Lasse Rasmussen were still students at the University of Aberdeen, they hit on the idea of making wine from fruit after being concerned by the amount of soft fruit waste created by local businesses.

Soon after, they co-founded Two Racoons with the intention of making good…

Steve Aitken grew up in Aberdeen and studied at the University, graduating BSc Hons Computing Science in 2001. After spending time working in Canada, he returned to the UK and set up his own business, Intelligent Plant, which specialises in the performance monitoring of equipment and processes through analysis and…

It may be almost 50 years since David Henderson graduated from the University of Aberdeen but the passion he expresses for his time at the University has certainly not diminished.

Much of this passion is focused on his time playing both football and cricket for the University. A third football…

Italian Giulia Marzetti has stated that her MEng in Chemical Engineering from Aberdeen has been pivotal in getting her to where she is today, which has recently included her being named as one of the WISE Top 50 Women in Engineering.

Here she tells us about her time in Aberdeen…

Have you ever wondered what your university classmates might look like/be like 36 years after you graduated?

This was exactly what the BSc Honours Biochemistry class who graduated in 1987 pondered as seven of the 21 of us met up in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire on Sunday 16 July 2023.  I have…

The University of Aberdeen is delighted to have five international alumni shortlisted for the prestigious Study UK Alumni Awards organised by the British Council.

The Awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of alumni from UK universities who are now living outside the UK, and showcase the global impact of these individuals…

Eleonora and Suganth are from opposite sides of the world. In university halls, they not only met each other but formed a tight-knit family with other residents who still gather to attend weddings, birthdays, and just to see each other again. This is their #LoveAtUoA story.

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Eleonora…

In this interview, University of Aberdeen alumna Kimberlie Hamilton talks about fostering a connection to the University through history. Both her stepchildren have studied at the University of Aberdeen, and she herself has studied here twice. Kimberlie co-leads the John Macleod Memorial Statue Project, founded to draw attention to a…

This Valentine's Day we are celebrating the story of Tanatthep Tianprasit and Yada Dejchai who met at the University in September 2017. Tanatthep received a Royal Thai Government Scholarship to undertake a PhD in Law at University from 2014-2018 and Yada received the Elphinstone Scholarship from the University to undertake…

By way of introduction, my name is William P. "Paddy" Rice and I was a B.Sc (Agric) graduate in 1960. I have been overseas most of my working life - in Guyana, Bahamas and much of the Caribbean, and came to live in the USA with my wife Dorothy in…