Marjorie Boulton (1941, English) celebrated her 90th birthday at Somerville today with a talk delivered in a mix of English and Esperanto. Boulton taught English literature for many years before......
Anna Branford (2012, Modern Languages) has been awarded the first Rhabanus Maurus Travel Grant to conduct research into modern languages. The fund was generously established by Catherine Hughes (College Principal,......
Somerville alumna Maggie Gee (1966, English) has been profiled in Scotland’s The Herald for the launch of her latest novel Virginia Woolf in Manhattan. Gee first had the idea for......
Three remarkable Hong Kong Somervillians have been profiled on the College website in recognition of the continued strengthening of ties between the College and its Hong Kong alumni. In March......
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......
Dr Jane Dyson, who will begin a two-year Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville later this year, has co-directed a new short film about life in a village in the Indian......
Somerville’s gardens cover almost half a square kilometre and rely on the work of a team of gardeners to keep lawns mown, weeds at bay and herbaceous borders in bloom.......
Mason Porter, Fellow of Somerville College and Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics, has won the 2014 Erdős–Rényi Prize. The prize is awarded to a scientist under the age of 40......
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......
We are delighted to pass on news of three alumnae who have received official recognition for their work in recent weeks. The Lady Juliet Margaret Townsend (Smith, 1960, English), LVO,......