News and updates from Balliol College

 

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June 2023

‘The end of term has been distinctly bittersweet for the MCR. As is tradition, we celebrated the culmination of the year with a lovely garden party in the Holywell Manor garden last Saturday. Submitting final work, sentimental goodbyes, and end-of-year events have all served as a reminder of how lucky I am to be in such a rich academic and social community as Balliol. As I start my term as President, it is my primary goal to continue to foster this close-knit environment for the incoming MCR.’

Mara Kelly (2022, MPhil History), MCR President elect

COLLEGE NEWS

Birthday Honours 

Professor Paul Newman (1991), BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford, is among the Balliol people in the King's first Birthday Honours list.

Darwin Initiative Award

Katrina Davis (Fellow and Tutor in Zoology) has received a Darwin Initiative Award to fund a marine conservation project, which aims to help threatened ‘marine megafauna’ such as sharks and rays. 

Raising aspirations

Balliol’s Gregson Teacher Scholarship award, designed to increase attainment in schools with large numbers of disadvantaged students or without a history of successful application to Oxford, has had a positive impact at a Hertfordshire school.  

Women in Science Award

Professor Frances Kirwan (1981 and Emeritus Fellow) is one of five 2023 laureates of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.  

Floreat Domus 2023

The latest editions of Floreat Domus and its supplement, News and Notes, are in:

STUDENT NEWS

Musical premiere

An arrangement of a composition by Carol Jones (2018, DPhil Music Composition) is to be premiered at the High Barnet Chamber Musical Festival on 30 June 2023.

Summer Eights

There were a number of successes for Balliol’s rowers at Summer Eights this year, especially for the Women’s 1st Eight - as Balliol College Boat Club’s Sian Dennett reports.

BALLIOL ON THE WEB

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PUBLICATIONS

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.