News roundup – November, 2022
Each month we bring together all of the latest news from our extended Univ family. From Alumni and College news, to updates on Univ North and our Profile and Treasure features. We hope you enjoy this month’s news from Univ — all in one place…
If you have news to share or ideas for features please email communications@univ.ox.ac.uk
College News
• Our latest Treasure Feature explores some of the letters of early 20th century Univ Bursar AB Poynton; read .
• Becca Tanner (2019, Earth Sciences), UCBC Women’s Captain, reports on the .
• Read the Old Members’ Trust Graduate Conference and Academic Travel Fund Report by Claas Mertens (2020, DPhil International Relations) on the .
• Find out more about sustainability at Univ and the University’s “” campaign.
• Our latest “Global Conversation” features Baroness Amos in conversation with António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; listen to the .
• Univ is proud to showcase a small selection of recent examples of .
• Showcasing material at the Weston Library from the archive of the Griffith Institute, whose director is Dr Maren Schentuleit, Univ’s Supernumerary Fellow in Egyptology and Coptic Studies, is “”.
• On 4 November, Dr Robin Darwall-Smith (1982, Classics), Univ’s Archivist, spoke at an event at Jesus College called .
• Read the Univ Old Members’ Trust Graduate Travel Report by Andrew Bridger (2020, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry) on .
• Sustainable Students Oxford (SSO) currently has three upcoming opportunities for .
• In our latest in a series of features contrasting images from Univ’s history to their modern equivalents, we look at bringing to life one of van Linge’s glorious .
• Our latest Keasbey Travel Grants Report, by Ping-Luen (Baron) Ho (2018, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry), is on the .
• Paula Domingo Pasarín’s (2021, MPhil Slavonic Studies) Roger Short Memorial Fund Travel Diary explores the .
• This week we are incredibly proud to have published our 150th profile on .
• Combining the musical forces of The Chapel Choir, Martlet Voices & guest instrumentalist, Richard Tunnicliffe, find out more about .
• We’re putting out a call for information about a mysterious recipe written in a 16th century hand in this month’s .
• Thanks to our new Student Ambassadors we have added even more reviews to our Staircase12 .
• Our latest travel report is by Chia-Hsin (Wendy) Tsai (2018, DPhil Earth Sciences) on the 2022 .
• Flora Waller (2021, MPhil Greek and/or Roman History) reports on .
• Univ is proud to showcase a small selection of 2022 publications from our .
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Alumni News
• On Saturday 22 October a group of Univ Boat Club Old Members gathered together for the .
• The final two events organised by Dr Jennifer Wong (1998, English), Visiting Fellow at TORCH Oxford for 2022-23, take place on 29 November at .
• We take a look back through the year in books to discover our .
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Univ North
• SDC has been selected as the likely preferred construction contractor to build Ģtv’s .
Read all of our or explore our dedicated .
Profiles
• In our latest Profile Feature we meet third year History and Politics student .
• In our second Profile Feature of the month we talk to Dr (2021, DPhil Clinical Medicine).
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Reviews
• Sumayyah (History) reviews Edward Said’s .
• Kate (Biomedical Sciences) looks at how Denis Noble reassesses the traditional “gene-centred” view of biology in .
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In Brief
• Professor Ben Jackson, Leslie Mitchell Tutorial Fellow in Modern History and Professor of Modern History, has published a review of Hayek: A Ģtv, 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell & Hansjörg Klausinger in the latest edition of .
Published: 1 December 2022