12 June 2010
Aberdeen professor receives OBE

Responding to the news of his honour, Professor Houlihan said: "I am absolutely thrilled to receive this, as everyone can imagine. My whole professional life has been in universities and research institutes and it has been a privilege to teach undergraduates and do research with postgraduates and other colleagues.

"Starting as an undergraduate I have found that universities have given me a fantastic intellectual and social life that was beyond my dreams in my secondary school in the east end of London. In addition I am very happy to have had the opportunity to be involved in working with schools in public engagement of science projects and to lead Satrosphere to its current success."

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