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SEPTEMBER 2016


It's the summer vacation - On the 16 September Balliol threw open its doors for our third Open Day of the summer welcoming over 1,000 prospective applicants, teachers and parents. Visitors were treated to tours of the college from our current undergraduate volunteers, attended subject talks with tutors and left with a copy of our college prospectus, JCR bookmark and course outlines, all carried out in branded Balliol bags which acted as a walking advertisement for the College all over Oxford. READ MORE
Kate Kettle, The David Freeman Outreach and Student Support Officer
 


COLLEGE NEWS


New scholarship for a refugee student
Balliol College encourages applications for its new Balliol Students’ Scholarship which is open to refugees wishing to study for an undergraduate degree commencing in October 2017.
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Collegiate system contributes to Oxford's No. 1 ranking in the world
Oxford University has been ranked first among the global universities, and considers the collegiate system to lie at the heart of its success.
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First Chinese Rhodes Scholar at Balliol
One of the first Rhodes Scholars ever to come from China is to join Balliol.
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Student wins Sir Peter Morris Prize in Surgery
Balliol clinical student Jamie Mawhinney (2012) has won a surgery prize named after Sir Peter Morris,  Emeritus Fellow.
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Restoration of two Chapel windows begins
Work has begun on the restoration of two stained glass windows on the north side of the Chapel.
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ALUMNI UPDATES


Australian Law Award
Congratulations to Dominique Hogan-Doran (1994) on winning Barrister of the Year award in the 2016 Australian Law Awards.
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Descendants of Master A.L. Smith celebrate anniversary
Around 120 descendants of A.L. Smith (Master of Balliol 1916-1924) gathered at Balliol on 25 September to celebrate 100 years since his election as Master.
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First bictoin donation
Balliol has received its first donation from an Old Member in bitcoin - possibly the first bitcoin donation in the collegiate University.
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READ AGAIN: DEMOCRACY & SOCIETY


People-powered politics
We live in a democratic society where we have the right to vote and freedom of speech but in which the actual amount of power we have – our ability as individuals to make any significant change – is
minimal. Floreat Domus 2011
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FEATURED EVENTS


26th Annual Meeting of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors
On 15 September Balliol hosted the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors for dinner as part of their 26th annual meeting. 
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UPCOMING EVENTS



Balliol Society Weekend
Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 October
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Two Johns Dinner
Friday 28 October
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Balliol Medical Society Annual Seminar & Dinner
Saturday 5 November
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Usborne Dinner
Thursday 17 November
The Reform Club, London

Younger Society Dinner
Saturday 3 December
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The Varsity Matches
Thursday 8 December
Twickenham Stadium

Balliol Entrepreneurs Evening
Thursday 26 January
London

Greville Smith Society Lunch
Friday 17 March - New date
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Jowett Bicentenary Weekend
Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 March
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Gaudy for the years 2003-2005
Saturday 8 April - New date
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The Master's Lunch
Wednesday 19 April
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Intercollegiate Golf Tournament
Friday 21 April
Frilford Heath Golf Club

The Varsity Matches 2016
Balliol alumni tickets are now available for the 135th Varsity Match and the 30th Women’s Varsity Match at Twickenham Stadium on Thursday 8 December.
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RESEARCH AND PROJECTS


An electric car may be dirtier than a petrol one
Professor Jason Hill, one of Balliol’s visiting Oliver Smithies Lecturers, has demonstrated that an electric car may be dirtier than a petrol one.
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Biological relativity: new book by Denis Noble
Denis Noble (Emeritus Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology), is to publish a new book, Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity.
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Nicholas Crouch Library project begins
A Library project has begun to make an important early printed book collection accessible through cataloguing and conservation.
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PUBLICATIONS BY OLD MEMBERS



If you would like us to mention in this section any significant work published this year or last, please contact Ginny Matthews.

Michael Hodges (1970), The Parish Churches of Greater London (Heritage of London Trust, 2015) 

Iain MacDonald (1976), with Walter Zucchini and Roland Langrock, Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, second edition (Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2016)

Jane Norton (2007), Freedom of Religious Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Nicholas Tate (1961), What Is Education For? The views of the great thinkers and their relevance today (John Catt, 2015)

Professor Gareth Williams (1963), Do You Hear the People Sing? The Male Voice Choirs of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2015)


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