News roundup – October, 2021
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
Welcome to Univ
Watch the welcome to new students video message from the Master of Univ, Baroness Valerie Amos, .
The Univ Beacon Programme
College has announced the launch of the Univ Beacon Programme, a major new initiative to drive participation and inclusion in education and research. All the details .
Univ Community Choir
The Community choir is back! Find out .
Aspire: Getting Oxfordshire Online
Throughout COVID-19, a considerable focus for Aspire Oxford, one of Univ’s partner charities,聽has been tackling the 鈥渄igital deficit鈥 faced by many adults and young people. Find out more about their work .
New UCBC website and OULRC President
Find out more about the new UCBC Website and their new president Matt Hudson (2019, Ancient & Modern History) .
The Gradlet
The WCR has created the Gradlet as a digital space to showcase the current and diverse members of the graduate body here at Univ. Read more about it .
Moral Injury
Oliver Jones (2018, DPhil German and Russian) has just been announced as the joint winner of the prestigious Forum for Modern Language Studies prize for 2021. Find out more .
Bill Clinton鈥檚 Honorary Doctorate, 1994
In this month’s Treasure Feature we look back at President Clinton’s visit to College in June of 1994. Read all about it .
My Univ: Giles Underwood
Our聽Director of Music talks about his role in College and what Univ means to him .
PPE 100
Just over 100 years since PPE was established as a subject, a new, fully endowed Visiting Professorship in PPE, targeted at the world鈥檚 best academic talent in the 3 subjects, is set to enhance the profile of the subject still further. Find out more .
President of AfriSoc
Ebenezer Azamati (2020, DPhil International Relations) has been named President of The Oxford University Africa Society. Find out more about the Society and Ebenezer .
Univ Futures 鈥 Issue 1
Univ Futures聽is a new annual magazine for donors, to illustrate the impact that philanthropy has had on the College. Find out more and read it online .
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Alumni News
What Does LGBT+ Mean?
James Canning (2015, Physics) recently co-authored聽What Does LGBT+ Mean聽along with children鈥檚 writer Olly Pike and his mother, Mel Lane. Find out more .
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
Pavan Sukhdev (1978, Physics), President of the Board of WWF International has been awarded the 2020 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Read the full .
President of the Royal Philatelic Society
Peter Cockburn (1964, Plant Sciences) was recently elected as the President of the Royal Philatelic Society London. Find out more about Peter .
Singer wins Berggruen Prize
Professor Peter Singer (1969, BPhil Philosophy) was recently announced as the winner of the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. Details .
Christian Cole鈥檚 Univ contacts
Christian Frederick Cole (1851/2-1885) 鈥 both the first Sierra Leonean and first Black African to take the Oxford BA 鈥 remains an elusive historical figure. Find out more about him .
Alexandra Wilson Trinity College portrait
Alexandra Wilson (2013, PPE) is featured in Trinity College鈥檚 new exhibition in the Library reading room, which highlights the work of jurists and scholars of colour. More .
Digital entrepreneurs: Alan Jay
In the latest in this series on Univ’s digital entrepreneurs we talk to Alan Jay (1980, Engineering) cofounder of IMDb. Read it .
Memoona鈥檚 skydive
After her degree, Memoona Ahmed (2018, Experimental Psychology) embarked on an internship at TIC+, a youth counselling service in her local area. To help give back to the service she undertook a charity skydive. Details .
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Univ North
The Stav’s Rose Garden
Find out more about the rose garden at Stavs from Robbie Eason, Head of Grounds Maintenance, and Bruce Taylor, Head Gardener, .
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Profiles
Alan Tewungwa, HR Adviser and Equality Officer. Read it .
Zimpande Kawanu, 2020, MSt World Literature. Read it .
Melvin Obadha, 2019, DPhil Population Health, Junior Dean, Read it .
Rachel Ojo,2020, PPE. Read it .
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In Brief
鈥 Congratulations to Dr Nick Kanellakis, Stipendiary Lecturer, who ran the London Marathon as part of the Oxford University Athletics Club, finishing in a personal best of 2 hours 59 minutes.
鈥 Dr Christian E Mammen (1993, DPhil Law) recorded a podcast with Mairi Gibbs, the COO of Oxford University Innovation, and Rich Lyons, the Chief Entrepreneurship Officer of UC Berkeley. The episode is co-sponsored by his law firm (Womble Bond Dickinson), the Oxford Entrepreneurs Network, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Listen .
Publications
Professor Joe Moshenska, Univ鈥檚 Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Praelector in English,聽has written,聽Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton, it is published by Basic Books.
Dr Graeme Baber (1987, Medicine) has a new monograph forthcoming in November, “The British Judges of the International Court of Justice: Overview, McNair and Lauterpacht” (Nova Science Publishers, 2021).
Published: 29 October 2021