Lily Cole To Receive Honorary Doctorate

British model-turned-actress Lily Cole is to be awarded an honorary doctorate from a Scottish university.

The _I_maginarium of Doctor Parnassus star will receive the Doctor of Letters from Glasgow Caledonian University in recognition of her "outstanding contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes" at a special ceremony on 3 July (13).

Cole, who graduated from Britain's prestigious Cambridge University in 2011, worked with the university's Professor Muhammad Yunus on her new social networking site _I_mpossible.com, where users can offer up their skills and services for free.

She says, "I am honoured to have been offered this distinction by Glasgow Caledonian University, especially as I have great admiration for the work of Gcu's Chancellor, Professor Yunus. He is an advisor on _I_mpossible.com and I have been very inspired by the time I have spent with him in Davos (in Switzerland), London, Washington D.C., and Bangladesh where I saw his work in action.

"I have set up several businesses as social businesses and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good."