News roundup – February, 2023
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 鈥 all in one place…
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College News
鈥 Read the Old Members鈥 Trust Graduate Conference and Academic Travel Fund Report by Max McCrea (2021, DPhil Physical and Theoretical Chemistry) on the in Rethymnon, Crete.
鈥 Three Univ students are in the running to play in this year鈥檚 on Saturday 25 March at Twickenham Stadium.
鈥 On Thursday 26 January, the Shakespeare Society, Univ鈥檚 literary society, held an unstructured evening with .
鈥 Professor Daniel Freeman has just been appointed as at the University of Oxford.
鈥 Read the Old Members鈥 Trust Graduate Travel Report by Judy Sayers (2019, DPhil Chromosome and Developmental Biology) on the .
鈥 Part-funded by Univ, Ukrainian writer and historian Dr Olena Stiazhkina has been announced as the second .
鈥 Our latest Roger Short Memorial Fund Travel Diary, by Lucie de Gentile (2018, BA聽Literae Humaniores), is .
鈥 From 22 February, The University鈥檚 Environmental Sustainability team is hosting their first ever .
鈥 The Univ Seminar, 鈥淐鈥, took place on 2 February 2023 live from The House of Commons.
鈥 Univ is considering joining with other colleges and the University in trialling arrangements with a .
鈥 On Friday, 3 February, Univ held its inaugural for the whole College community to enjoy.
鈥 This month鈥檚 Treasure explores women鈥檚 literacy & participation in book culture by taking a look at the College鈥檚 .
鈥 Our latest Travel Report is by Hannah Asiki (2020, Chemistry in Cells 鈥 New Technologies to Probe Complex Biology and Medicine) on the on Computational Tools for Drug Discovery.
鈥 Sunday 12 February saw UCBC take our Men鈥檚 and Women鈥檚 first VIIIs up to Bedford for a day of racing; read the .
鈥 We welcome a 鈥渢ricky鈥 visitor to Main Quad, in our feature .
鈥 Meet five amazing Univites involved in LGBTQ+ activism in various fields from law and journalism to geophysics in .
Read all of Univ’s or explore .
Alumni News
鈥 Charlotte Bunney鈥檚 artwork (2017, Classics) is being auctioned as part of an online silent auction to fund the University鈥檚 second-ever student feature film,聽.
鈥 Last month, Euan Friend (2017, MEarthSci Geology/Earth Sciences), alongside his brothers Jack, Hamish, and Arthur, completed the Talisker Whisky .
鈥 Last year, Christina Lamb OBE (1983, PPE), Honorary Fellow, was named in the Society of Editor Awards.
Read all of Univ’s .
Profiles
鈥 Meet artist, printmaker, published poet, filmmaker, lecturer, cultural provocateur and occasional musician, (1959, Education and PPE).
鈥 Our latest Profile is on student ambassador , (2019, Earth Sciences).
Explore all of our .
Reviews
鈥 Charlotte (Chemistry) reviews Rachel Ignotofsky鈥檚 inspirational book .听
鈥 Zoe (English Literature) reviews Arundhati Roy鈥檚 1997 semi-autobiographical novel .
Discover more student-led .
Publications
鈥 Alex Braslavsky (2018, Modern Languages 鈥 Slavonic Studies) published her first book of translations of Polish poetry: On Centaurs & Other Poems (World Poetry Books, 2023), the first selected volume in English of Zuzanna Ginczanka, a visionary Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish poet.
鈥 Dr Se谩n Haldane (1961, English) published An Evil Tale I Heard 鈥 sequel to the award winning The Devil鈥檚 Making.
In Brief
鈥⒙犫楾he Thaw鈥檚 Provincial Margins: Place, Community and Canon in Pages from Tarusa鈥, Slavic Review, 80.4 (2021), 792-815 by Professor Polly Jones, was awarded an honourable mention in the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Women’s Forum Prize.
鈥 Speaking on BBC Radio Oxford Trish Greenhalgh (1980, Medicine), Professor of Primary Care at the University of Oxford, argued that mandates on facemasks should be reintroduced for public transport. Her reasons include high current Covid-19 rates; the fact that public transport is one of the most risky places for transmitting Covid-19; and that if everyone wears a mask, transmission rates of Covid-19 would fall dramatically.
鈥 Writing in Alex Benn, Senior Lecturer in Law, argues that classism is a prolific form of discrimination, and deserves equal billing with the better-known forms such as racism and sexism.
Sarah Harper, Supernumerary Fellow in Gerontology, comments in (The Independent, 22 Jan) which explores the physical, political and financial challenges facing us as the global population ages. She has also made recent contributions to the BBC鈥檚 Newsday and to LBC.
Published: 28 February 2023