Honorary Fellow Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, FRS, is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester. Professor Dame Rothwell work has contributed towards major advances in the understanding and treatment......
Vera Brittain (1914, English) has been featured in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. The article, ‘Horror of war without its glory‘, was written by Drusilla Modjeska, who grew......
Jean Wilks, alumna and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, has died at the age of 97. Educated at North London Collegiate School, Jean Wilks began her studies in English at......
The Principal and Fellows of Somerville College were saddened to learn of the recent death of James Higginbotham, Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics at the University of Southern California. A......
Somervillian Nasim Asl (2013, English) was involved in the I, too, am Oxford campaign from its inception, running the website and uploading its content to ensure significant coverage. Now the......
Trevor Manuel, Co-chair of the Global Ocean Commission (GOC), and Simon Reddy, Executive Secretary to the Commission, attended meetings at the Vatican last week to discuss the Commission’s vision for......
Amber de Vere and Sophie Philbrick Got the Blues: Somerville Women’s rowing heads upstream Two of Somerville’s women rowers were awarded Blues in 2014, following their performances at the Henley......
Stephanie Lucas, a teacher at Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic School Sixth Form Centre in Port Talbot, Wales, has won a University of Oxford Inspirational Teacher’s award following a nomination from......
Google has celebrated the 104th anniversary of Dorothy Hodgkin’s birth with a ‘Google doodle’, the illustration that appears on the search home page of the world’s most visited website. Newspapers......
Dr Maan Barua (2013, Social Sciences) has been awarded a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the political role and significance of human-monkey relations in modern India. Dr Barua......