>The University of Glasgow is set to award seven honorary degrees during its summer degree ceremonies between 1 ﾖ 13 July 2005. The list of the 7 graduands, their achievements, and the date of the honorary awards are as follows:

Muriel Robison (LLD): Friday 1 July, 11amPrincipal Legal Officer with the Equal opportunities Commission Scotland since 1994. Muriel Robinson studied Law at the University of Edinburgh, and completed a Diploma in Legal Practice there in 1987. She then undertook a Masters of Business Administration at Strathclyde University, completed in 1993. After qualifying as a Solicitor employment included work in private practice, specialising in civil litigation, including sex discrimination and equal pay. Muriel Robinson founded the Scottish Discrimination Law Association (SDLA), which brings academics and equality experts together to discuss equality law developments. The SDLA, responds to consultations on EU, Scottish Executive and UK Government proposals. She also coordinated Equality Exchange, an active forum for the dissemination of advice and good practice across a range of equality issues for employers.

Professor NC Craig Sharp (DSc): Saturday 2 July, 11amA key founder of sports science in the UK Professor Craig Sharp's career has bridged the clinical, academic and political world between veterinary physiology and the Olympic athlete. University of Glasgow graduate Professor Sharp lectured at the Veterinary Faculty (1956-1958). He later changed fields and in 1971 was appointed to the inaugural Lectureship in Sport and Exercise Physiology at the University of Birmingham, becoming founder Director of the Human Motor Performance Laboratory there. In 1987 he collaborated with Dr Mark Harries to set up the British Olympic Medical Centre at Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre. In 1992 he was appointed to the Chair of Sports Science at the University of Limerick, and in 1994 was appointed to the Chair of Sports Science at Brunel University. He has been advisor to a large number of elite competitors and teams, including David Moorcroft (5000m world-record holder, 1980) Stephen Redgrave (Olympic Rowing Champion 1984-2000) and Glasgow Rangers FC. He was selected as official/coach at four Olympic Games between 1972 and 1988, three of them as a canoe coach/trainer, and numerous World and European championships in squash and canoeing. In 1988 he was awarded the SAAA's Dunky Wright Memorial Medal for research services to Scottish Athletics. In 2002 he was awarded the International Olympic Council's prestigous 'Sport and Wellbeing' award, for services to International and UK Gymnastics.

Professor Peter Gavin Hall (DSc): Tuesday 5 July, 4pmProfessor of Statistics at Australian National University for the past 20 years, Peter Hall has been on one of the world's most prolific researchers in the fields of theoretical and applied statistics. International prestige is indicated by the many awards received, including those of Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and an honorary degree from Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Professor Emeritus Michael R Williams (DSc): Tuesday 5 July, 4pmOne of the University of Glasgow's first graduates of computer science (1968) Professor Michael Williams has had a distinguished career at the University of Calgary, in the Department of Mathematics and then as a Professor of Computer Science. He has made outstanding contributions to the history of computing. Computer science is a subject hat has developed with remarkable speed over the past 50 years, and Professor Williams has been central to the recording and researching of the historical background to computing. His prolific career has produced 8 books, 73 research papers and articles and many technical reviews.

Professor Charles Alexander Jencks (DLitt): Wednesday 6 July, 4pmProfessor Charles Jencks, a distinguished American architect, land artist and architectural historian, is renowned as the critic who first defined post-modernism in architecture. Over the past 25 years he has created the post-modern garden at Portrack, north of Dumfries. He is the author of many books on architecture and culture and lectures across the globe. He has made a number of television programmes on architecture and designed influential buildings, furniture, and landscape gardens.

Professor Dieter Georg Schmitt (DEng): Thursday 7 July, 11amVice President for Research and Future Projects with Airbus, the major European civil airline constructor, Professor Dieter Schmitt is an eminent engineer with an outstanding industrial and academic career. He completed his mechanical engineering studies in 1968 at Technical University in Darmstadt and continued at the Institute of Aeronautics in Darmstadt as scientific assistant until 1975. He received his Doctorate in 1976, when he was already a flight engineer at MBB (Messerschmitt B￶lkow Blohm) in Hamburg. He coordinated all aerodynamic aspects of Airbus Industries in Toulouse, France as a manager of aerodynamics. He also served as general manager of Research and Technology, Vice President of Future Projects, and Chief Engineer before taking up his current post in 2002.

Andrew Charles Goldsworthy (DLitt): Wednesday 13 July, 11am (Crichton Campus)An internationally renowned artist who works with nature and natural materials, Andy Goldsworthy has established his reputation through artworks, exhibitions and publications. He regards most of his creations as temporary, and photographs each piece after it is made. He generally works with twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns. Besides the U.K., his work has been created at the North Pole, in Japan, Australia, and in the U.S. Born in Cheshire in 1956 and brought up in Yorkshire, Andy Goldsworthy is now based in Dumfriesshire. He is a Visiting Professor of the University and has offered his archive and permanent collection to the campus.

Kate Richardson (K.richardson@admin.gla.ac.uk)

Photographers are welcome to attend the ceremony and are asked to meet 15 mins before the beginning of the event at the bottom of turret G.

For more information contact Mike Findlay the University Press Officer on 0141 330-35355 or email: m.Findlay@admin.gla.ac.uk.

First published: 29 June 2005