November 2022
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‘It’s been a whirlwind of activities from Day One of my Fellowship. I am enormously grateful for the dazzling warmth and kindness with which Balliol welcomed me at the beginning of this term — from the phenomenal College staff to my wonderful new friends and colleagues who make me feel like I’ve been here for years. At any lunch or dinner, one is guaranteed a thoughtful neighbour and an engrossing discussion. I look forward to learning more about everyone’s work and couldn’t be more thrilled to be part of Balliol.’
Linda Eggert (Early Career Fellow in Ethics in AI)
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The College was greatly saddened by the death of the former Nuffield Professor of Surgery, described by the NDSS as ‘one of the greatest Oxford medicine figures’.
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Professor Martin Burton elected Master of Sidney Sussex
Professor Martin Burton, Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine, and Vice-Master (Executive), has been elected as the next Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
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Mathematical biologist Professor Philip Maini (1979) is the first guest of Vicky Neale (Whitehead Lecturer in Mathematics and Supernumerary Fellow) in her new podcast exploring how maths and statistics help cancer treatment.
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Professor David Clifton (Research Fellow in the Sciences and Lecturer in Engineering Science 2014–2018) has been awarded the IEEE Early Career Award for his research on AI for healthcare.
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Maria Czepiel (Lecturer in Spanish) has discovered lost works by the Spanish Renaissance poet Garcilaso de la Vega (1501−1536).
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Jemima Chen, a second-year undergraduate studying English and Italian, is producing Oxford University’s second ever feature film, Breakwater.
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Balliol invites applications from established scholars to visiting research Fellowships or Lecturerships in the name of Nobel Prize winner Professor Oliver Smithies (1943 and Honorary Fellow 2004-2017).
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Balliol’s new development at the Master’s Field has won a certificate in the New Buildings category of the Oxford Preservation Trust Awards 2022.
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The Library is looking for Balliol food photos for their forthcoming exhibition. Can you help by sending any of yours? There are prizes to be won!
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As part of Balliol’s continuing efforts to reduce its carbon impacts, more recycling opportunities have been installed in various locations in the College.
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Professor Leela Gandhi (1986) has been awarded the University of Tubingen’s Alfons Auer Ethics Prize for her work on postcolonial ethics and theory.
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The Hon Bob Rae PC QC (1969) is to receive a Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians.
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We would be delighted to hear from you for next year's edition of News and Notes (for publication in Floreat Domus 2023): please send your news by email before 31 January 2023.
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PUBLICATIONS
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- Simon Commander (1972) and Saul Estrin, The Connections World: The Future of Asian Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- Martin Edwards (1974), The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators (Collins Crime Club, 2022)
- Adrian Moore (1978), Gödel’s Theorem: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2022)
- David Kinloch (1982), Greengown: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2022)
- Jonathan Morgan (1995), Great Debates in Tort Law (Bloomsbury, 2022)
- Seán Muller (2007), The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences (Springer, 2022)
If you would like us to mention any significant work published this year or last, please send details to Anne Askwith. Previously submitted publications are listed on the alumni publications page.
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