University to honour illustrious figures

Graduands will also collect their awards

Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith are among those to be awarded honorary degrees by the university.

Eleven distinguished individuals will be honoured during the university’s summer graduation ceremonies to be held from today until Friday at the Younger Hall.

They are Professor Robert Keohane, professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University; and Professor Nannerl Keohane, political philosopher, who will be honoured today.

Tomorrow, Professor Herbert Roesky of University of Göttingen; and Dr Cerf will appear and it will be the turn of artist Anselm Kiefer; Dr Nicholas Penny, the director of the National Gallery, London; and Dr Alice-Mary Talbot, director Emerita of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.

The final batch of honorary degrees, on Friday, will go to Sir John Skehel, vice-president and biological secretary of the Royal Society; Professor Robert Webster of St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Tennessee; Professor Jean Lave of University of California, Berkeley; and Professor McCall Smith.

Some of the graduands at last year’s St Andrews ceremony.