Chancellor marks new era for Easter Bush

Friday 16th January 2015, 2:00pm

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited our new development, located next to The Roslin Institute, prior to construction which commences in March, as part of a visit to the University of Edinburgh.  

The occasion marks the beginning of the third phase of development for the Easter Bush Campus, which also includes the building of an Energy Centre and extensive Infrastructure work. 


Photo of Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal tree planting at Easter Bush Campus - credit University of Edinburgh

innovation centre starts to blossom

The University Chancellor planted a tree to mark the start of work on the Roslin Innovation Centre at Easter Bush.  

The Roslin Innovation Centre will bring together the University of Edinburgh’s veterinary teaching, research and enterprise activities in a vibrant, interactive core at the heart of the Campus.



Staff and students from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute gave HRH The Princess Royal an overview of their work to improve animal health and welfare.  

At Kings Buildings, HRH The Princess Royal saw the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering. Researchers gave a demonstration of the latest facilities for testing the performance of fire protection materials and spoke about research into the spread of forest fires. 

The Chancellor also toured the FloWave Ocean Research Facility at Kings Buildings and was given a demonstration of the test tank. This world-class facility - a circular 25 metre pool, 2 metres deep - is designed for testing marine energy devices.  HRH The Princess Royal watched as researchers showed how the tank can recreate waves and currents from coastlines around the UK, Europe and beyond.

The Chancellor also visited the School of Biological Sciences, where she opened the new Wolfson Laboratories, and was introduced to staff and students who are working to understand and combat a range of infectious diseases.  

The Chancellor was also shown some of the work of the University of Edinburgh's next generation genome sequencing facility, Edinburgh Genomics, and heard about new investment to enable rapid sequencing of human genomes.



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