April 2024

‘Preparing the e-News for the last time, I’ve been marvelling at all the stories it has been my privilege to share. From University Challenge to motor-racing in the 1950s, from the evolution of galaxies to shark conservation, from a Balliol ghost to an optoelectronic nose, they have variously inspired, entertained, educated or (I’m thinking quantum computing) challenged me. As I set off for pastures new, I thank the Balliol community for all the interest and enjoyable conversations my work here has entailed, and I hope you will carry on sending your stories for my successor to showcase to the world.’

Anne Askwith (Publications and Web Officer)

COLLEGE NEWS

ERC Advanced Grant

Professor Jin-Chong Tan (Professor of Engineering Science, Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science) has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project that could transform the field of nanoenergy conversion.

Offerholders' Day

An event held on 25 March was a chance for this year’s offerholders to visit College, meet their tutors, have a look round, ask questions and allay any nerves before starting their undergraduate courses in October 2024.

New book by Professor Conway

Professor Martin Conway (Professor of Contemporary European History, MacLellan-Warburg Fellow and Tutor in History) is the co-editor of a new book, Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe.

Student wins book collecting prize

Hermán Luis Chávez (2023, MSt Modern Languages - Spanish) has been awarded the 2024 Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting for their essay on the composer Atiliano Auza León (b.1928) and 20th-century Bolivian Art Music.

BCBC goes to Chester

Over the Easter vacation the Balliol College Boat Club attended a training camp in Chester as part of their preparations for Summer Eights.

ALUMNI NEWS

High Commissioner appointment

Lindy Cameron (1991) has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of India, becoming the first woman to hold this role.

Legacy Award for Balliol medic

Yusuf Ben-Tarifite (2018) has received a Legacy Award for helping students from diverse backgrounds pursue careers in medicine, presented to him by Prince William at an award ceremony in London.

Excellence in Transplantation Award

Dr Robert Montgomery (1990) has been awarded the Excellence in Transplantation Award by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) in the US.

Alumnus wins PhD prize

The Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) has awarded Marco de Jong (2018) the Tracey Banivanua-Mar PhD Prize for 2024 for the thesis he wrote about Pacific environmentalism while he was at Balliol.

Runciman Award shortlist

Balliol classicists Professor Emily Wilson and Professor Peter Sarris (both 1990) have been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, an award given annually for a book about Greece.

BALLIOL ON THE WEB

Obituaries:
· The Honourable James Knatchbull-Hugessen (1951): Globe & Mail
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Professor John Tasioulas (1989, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI): ‘First-Generation Philosopher’, #first-genphilosophers
Jonathan Cohen (1967): 'Decrypting the Code to Crypto Success: The Story of Investor Jonathan Cohen', News Channel Nebraska
John Maier (2015): ‘Thrashed on University Challenge’, The Times
Professor Adam Smyth (Fellow and Tutor in English Literature): featured in Open Book, BBC Radio 4
Professor Adam Smyth (Fellow and Tutor in English Literature): book review by John Sutherland, The Spectator
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Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi (1927), featured in ‘Where traditions meet: Aitchisonians who were named as Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year’, TNS
Christopher Hitchens (1967): 'The life and times of Hampshire born Christopher Hitchens', Hampshire Life

PUBLICATIONS

Timothy Ades (1960) (transl.) Morgenstern's Magic (High Window, 2024)
Anthony Ferner (1968), Small Wars in Madrid (Fairlight, 2024)
Lawrence Keppie (1969), Slingers and Sling Bullets in the Roman Civil Wars of the Late Republic, 90–31 BC (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 108, 2023)
Nicholas Mansergh (1969), The Irish Construction Cycle 1970-2023 (Eastwood, 2024)
Daniel Susskind (2006 and Career Development Fellow in Economics 2018–2020), Growth: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, 2024)

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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