Glasgow University will award the following honorary degrees in summer 2006:

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS

FRANCIS JACOBS, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Communities

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LETTERS

SIR BERNARD CRICK, Emeritus Professor, University of London

PROFESSOR IAN DIAMOND, Chief Executive, Economic & Social Research Council

EMERITUS PROFESSOR MICHAEL SAMUELS, Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Glasgow

SANDY STODDART, Sculptor

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

DR ALLAN BAXTER, Senior Vice-President, Drug Discovery, Glaxo Smith Kline

PROFESSOR CHRISTIAN BR￉CHOT, Director General, Institut National de la Sant￩ et de la Recherche M￩dicale, France

PROFESSOR JARED DIAMOND, Professor of Geography & Environmental Health, University of California

PROFESSOR IAN HALLIDAY, Former Chief Executive of the Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council

PROFESSOR ANTHONY LEVER, Former Director of the Medical Research Council Blood Pressure Unit, Glasgow

PROFESSOR DAME NANCY ROTHWELL, Neuroscientist & Vice-President for Research, University of Manchester

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF ENGINEERING

PROFESSOR DENNIS BERNSTEIN, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY

STELLA MARSDEN, Animal welfarist & conservationist

DR DAVID ONIONS, Veterinarian & scientist

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY

ELIZABETH CAMERON, The Right Honourable, the Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow

THOMAS DIVERS, Chief Executive, Greater Glasgow Health Board

IAIN GRAHAM, Chief Executive, Graham Technology

SIR THOMAS BLANE HUNTER, Philanthropist & entrepreneur

DONALD PAUL KAHN, Philanthropist

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

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First published: 20 January 2006