50th Anniversary Celebration
15 1988
The new Heriot-Watt University Students’ Union opens.
1991
Alumna Anna Macleod returns to the University as the world’s first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry.
1977
Heriot-Watt Physics Department opens the first mountain Automatic Weather Station in the UK on the summit of Cairngorm.
The International Centre for Brewing and Distilling is established, with Heriot-Watt the only UK university to offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the subject.
1989
Sir Geoffrey Palmer becomes Scotland’s first black university professor at Heriot-Watt University.
The world’s first programmable optical computer is developed at Heriot-Watt University.
1989 1990
Heriot-Watt University and the Scottish College of Textiles launch a joint Faculty of Textiles.
The University launches the first global distance- learning MBA.
The University’s Orkney campus opens as part of the International Centre for Island Technology.
The James Watt Centre opens, with a 600-seat auditorium.
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