Scientists at the University of Oxford, led by Somerville Fellow Professor Matthew Wood, have been awarded £1m as part of the BioMedical Catalyst funding programme of the Medical Research Council,......
Members of the Somerville community will be saddened to learn that Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw (1931, Mathematics) died on 10th August 2014 at the age of 101. Dame Kathleen read......
Gillian Bennett (1969, History) has featured on BBC Radio 4 programme Document in an episode called ‘The Hague Warning’. The episode, which aired on Monday 11 August at 8pm, looked......
Professor Charles Spence, Fellow of Somerville College, has been quoted in an article in The Times (paywall) which looks at some of the menu design strategies restaurants employ to encourage......
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Somerville College, is one of three academics who will debate The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s later plays, on ‘In Our Time’, Melvyn......
Stephen Roberts, Professor of Machine Learning in the Department of Engineering Science and a Fellow of Somerville College, has been interviewed by BBC Radio Oxford following the receipt of a......
Three Somerville alumni received Cabinet appointments in the July government reshuffle. Sam Gyimah (1995, PPE) formerly Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Cameron, was appointed Under Secretary of State for Education,......
© 2013 Les Editions Albert Rene Asterix and the Picts, the diminutive Gallic hero’s 35th published adventure and his first in eight years, has been published in English, in a......
David Miliband, former UK Foreign Secretary, told a meeting of the Global Ocean Commission at Somerville College that the debate on the oceans today resembles the debate on climate change......
Following the award of a €1.4 million European Council Research Starter Grant, Dr Natalia Nowakowska, a fellow of Somerville College, has launched a website on the Jagiellonians. Dr Nowakowska won......