Mitchell Hospital, Old Aberdeen

The Mitchell Hospital in Old Aberdeen was founded in 1801. Although called a hospital, it was in fact an almshouse, a refuge for the poor and elderly, before it was converted in the 1920s.

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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rothesay visits campus

The University of Aberdeen recently welcomed its Chancellor, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Rothesay, to campus.

Her Royal Highness officially opened the university’s new Rocking Horse Nursery and also visited the University’s Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. Later she visited the Sir Duncan Rice Library and presented a Coat of Arms to the Burgesses of Guild of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen to recognise their Royal Charter, which was presented 800 years ago by King Alexander ll of Scotland.

The Duchess of Rothesay became the eleventh Chancellor of The University of Aberdeen in 2013. Her Royal Highness visited the University in 2014, when she opened the new Aquatics Centre and presented degrees at a graduation at Elphinstone Hall.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. In Scotland, she is known as the Duchess of Rothesay.

Sir Thomas Sutherland Scholarship

The University of Aberdeen and HSBC are offering a fully funded undergraduate scholarship worth £99,000 over four years to students from India, Indonesia, Thailand, or Malaysia.

If you are academically outstanding, the first member of your family to attend university, and have the enthusiasm and motivation to succeed academically and professionally, you could be the lucky recipient of this amazing opportunity.

For more information, please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/study/HSBC

Sir Thomas Sutherland (1834 – 1922) was a graduate of the University of Aberdeen who founded what was then called the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

 

Next generation MRI scanner development gets multi-million funding boost

Thirty five years after the pioneering development of the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine at Aberdeen, researchers are once again leading the development of next-generation MRI scanners designed to identify key diseases earlier.