Singing History with Chloe
Talking to 19 year old folk singer Chloe Matharu is a delightful experience. Listening to her is even better. Born and bred in Edinburgh, she says, “Someone was always singing around the house, although my family would never consider themselves as musical. My mother has a lovely voice and she used to sing with us a lot as children so I think this is what fired my love of songs.”
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Norman Drummond – Not Just Visiting
I first met Norman Drummond four years ago when he addressed an Edinburgh headteachers conference. Our backgrounds were light years apart but the power of his message and the force with which he communicated it, knocked me over. Tom Farmer described him as ‘an inspirational visionary’. This ‘inspirational visionary’ has recently been appointed as visiting professor in educational leadership at the University of Edinburgh.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle, the Flower of Haddington
Jane Welsh Carlyle, the wife of poet, writer and philanthropist Thomas Carlyle, was the only daughter of Dr John Welsh, a highly respected G.P. who had a flourishing practice in Haddington.
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A New Principal for a New Decade
Professor Steve Chapman was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh in September 2009. His impressive c.v. includes a NATO fellowship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair of Biological Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and eventually Vice Principal there for Planning Resources and Research Policy. He has published over 200 scientific papers and in 2005 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Now, many people consider scientists to be rather boring people, even “geeks” but not this one! Read the rest of this entry »
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