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'As I write, in Week 7 of Hilary Term, spring is popping in Oxford and the Balliol gardens are a riot of croci and aconites. This year I’m giving the Dervorguilla lecture on hunting in art in the wonderful Historic Collections housed in St Cross, which was a church when I lived next door in Holywell Manor as a graduate student. I can’t thank the Library staff enough for their help and everybody in Balliol for the kind welcome this term.' Gwyneth Lewis (1985, Honorary Fellow), Artist in Residence |
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We are delighted to introduce the recipients of this year's William Westerman Pathfinders Award. They will be travelling across North America and Asia this summer to meet with Old Members and to carry out a project. |
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Robert Ewart (2020, DPhil Theoretical Physics) has been awarded a PhD Research Award from the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS). |
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Eleanor Baker (Lecturer in English) recently took 16 undergraduate students on a 10-mile walk through Oxfordshire to bring the materials of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to life. |
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Moosa Harraj (2023, MPhil in Economics) has been elected President of the Oxford Union for Michaelmas 2025. He currently serves as the Union's Librarian. |
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Jeffrey Tse (2021, DPhil in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning) has been awarded First Prize in UCL's Statistical Science poster competition. |
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Balliol has partnered with The Brilliant Club, a social mobility charity to improve access to competitive universities for students from less advantaged backgrounds. |
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Balliol recently hosted the Japanese Ambassador to the UK, Hiroshi Suzuki, as part of his two-day visit to Oxford. |
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A rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 has been unearthed by Leah Veronese (2018). |
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Deanpen Japrung (2006) has been named a Finalist for the British Council’s Study UK Alumni Awards in the Science and Sustainability Award category. |
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Lisa Nicholas (2000) has published a new crime novel, Sister, Liar, Suspect, Sleuth (Bloodhound Books, 2025), the first in the Mila Kiss Mysteries series. |
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PUBLICATIONS |
If you would like us to mention any significant work published this year or last, please send details to Yingying Jiang. Previously submitted publications are listed on the alumni publications page. |
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