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BU Welcomes Royal Visitor

3 May 2007

His Royal Highness Prince Edward visits BU

His Royal Highness Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex, has visited BU’s Talbot Campus.

The Earl, accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, was met by University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curran, and Chair of the University Board, Mr Alan Frost.

He toured facilities in the newly-refurbished Media School including:

A new state-of-the-art television studio (scheduled to officially open in the Autumn of 2007)
New studios and suites within the National Centre for Computer Animation
A Broadcast News Studio, part of the UK’s only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice.

HRH also visited the our multi-million pound Library and Learning Centre, where he met key staff and students associated with our centres of excellence in Tourism, the Environment, Archaeology, Forensic Science and Social Work.

His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Alan Frost, and Professor Paul Curran at BU

The visit concluded with a specially-arranged event on campus involving local youths and project workers involved in the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme.

The Earl’s visit was the first by a member of the Royal family since January of 2003, when The Duke of Kent officially opened the Library and Learning Centre.

Previous Royal visitors to the University include Her Majesty, The Queen, in the 1970s to the then Dorset Institute of Higher Education, and later by the Princess Royal, to the Institute and the neighbouring College of Art & Design, now the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.