Dr. James Sleigh awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship
Somerville Fulford Junior Research Fellow Dr James N. Sleigh has been awarded a four-year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship.......
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Cabinet Minister from India visits Somerville
See PHOTO GALLERY India’s minister for primary, secondary and higher education visited Somerville College on 21 January to meet with Dr Alice Prochaska, Somerville Principal, to hear about the development......
Somerville Dame recognised by Science Council
Dame Kay Davies has been named one of Britain’s top ten ‘Explorer Scientists’ in a list of Britain’s top 100 scientists compiled by the Science Council. Dame Kay, a Somerville......
Somerville Professor wins government funding for new Oxford doctoral training centre
A new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Autonomous, Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS) is to be run in Oxford thanks with government funding, following an application overseen by Stephen......
Somerville’s University Challenge run continues
Somerville College won the first of its two quarter-final bouts in University Challenge on Monday evening, correctly answering questions on Juvenal, the Gini coefficient, Hieronymus Bosch, Go, leading figures in......
Somerville Fellows win three major Science Research Awards
Dr Jonathan Marchini, Somerville Fellow and Tutor in Statistics, has won a 5-year European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant worth €1.6 million (£1.3 million) to fund two postdoctorate degrees. The......
Somerville Fellow finds Dumas’ 3 musketeers lacked muskets
Fellow Profile: Simon Kemp, Domus Fellow in French Taking up the position of Schools Liaisons Officer for French at the university was not a move calculated to win Somerville Fellow......
Somerville research fellow plumbs canine character
Somerville Junior Research Fellow Dr Máté Nagy has been interviewed by the BBC about his research into canine behaviour. Dr Nagy, the Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville, had found......
Somerville links to Monuments Men
Scheduled for release today, Monuments Men tells the story of the Anglo-American team of artists, art historians, museum curators and directors who worked to locate and preserve European monuments, works......
New year, new honours
Two Somervillians were recognised in the New Year’s Honours List while several Somerville alumni and Fellows have received awards or other forms of recognition in 2014 as well. Baroness Onora......