Robert Gordon University applied arts and design, and architecture. In addition, the university's academic and research staff produce world-class research in a number of areas. RGU is a campus university and its single campus in Aberdeen is at Garthdee, in the south-west suburbs of the city amid parkland on the banks of the River Dee. The university also operates an Administration Building in Aberdeen city centre, at Schoolhill. Until summer 2013 a second campus was also located here and at St. Andrew Street nearby, but this campus has now closed apart from the Administration Building, which is to be retained. Academic departments located
Robert Gordon (minister) Campbell, with whom he had a large family. Two of his sons, Robert and Donald Campbell, became ministers in the Free Church. Robert Gordon (minister) Rev Dr Robert Gordon DD FRSE (5 May 1786 – 21 October 1853) was a Scottish minister and author. Originally prominent in the Church of Scotland, and serving as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1841, following the Disruption of 1843 he joined the Free Church of Scotland and became a prominent figure in that church. He was the inventor of a self-registering hygrometer. He was born 5 May 1786 at Old Crawfordton, Glencairn, Dumfriesshire,