In the limelight – Fiona Stafford to talk trees on Radio 3
Fiona Stafford was brought up in largely rural areas, but it was only as she read Hardy, Wordsworth, Clare and Heaney that trees began to dominate the view. That, she......
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Maan Barua wins 3-year British Academy Fellowship
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......
Google doodle celebrates Dorothy Hodgkin
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......
Somerville student nomination among winners of Oxford Inspirational Teachers Awards
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......
Got the Blues – Somerville Women rowers heading upstream
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......
Global Ocean Commission meets with Pope and advisors in Rome
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......
IN MEMORIAM – James Higginbotham, first male Fellow of Somerville College
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......
Two Somerville Fellows receive ultimate recognition as Fellows of the Royal Society
Professors Marian Dawkins and Rajesh Thakker, both Fellows of Somerville College, were elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society on 30 April, 2014. Marian Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour,......
Somerville & its students feature in US TV story on Oxford English Dictionary
Somerville College and a handful of its students were featured in a CBS television news story about the future of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The news story was broadcast......
Dinner celebrates University Challenge campaign
Somerville’s memorable University Challenge campaign, which saw the College representing Oxford in the final of the competition, was celebrated at a dinner in Hall held on 24 April. Each of......