We are pleased to announce that Nancy Naomi Carlson is the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2022, for her translation of Khal Torabully’s Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude (Seagull Books, 2021) According to the publisher, “Deftly translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Cargo Hold of Stars is the song of an uprooting, of the …
We are pleased to announce that we have appointed four new Tutorial Fellows who will take up their positions this Trinity Term. Christian Coester will take up the role of Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science, alongside a departmental Associate Professorship. Christian Coester received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in 2020, where …
We are pleased to share the news that Massimiliano Gubinelli has been appointed the new Professorial Fellow in Mathematics, alongside a departmental post as Wallis Professor of Mathematics in Oxford. Max did his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Pisa, and held professorships at Paris -Sud and Paris Dauphine before taking up his …
We are proud to share the news that Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry, Professor Volker Deringer, has been awarded the prestigious Harrison-Mendola Memorial Prize 2022 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes are awarded for the most meritorious and promising original investigations in chemistry and published results of those investigations. Awardees are early …
We are very pleased to share the news that St Anne’s Fellow, Professor Charlotte Deane of the Department of Statistics, has been appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to COVID-19 research. Professor Deane said: ‘I am absolutely delighted to receive this honour. I was very fortunate …
Scientists explain why Uranus and Neptune are different colours Layers of haze particles are responsible for the different blue hues of the ice giants Neptune and Uranus. Neptune and Uranus have much in common – they have similar masses, sizes, and atmospheric compositions – yet Neptune looks distinctly bluer than its planetary neighbour Uranus. New …
If you will be in and around on Oxford on Saturday, you may be interested to know that a St Anne’s student, Miles Weatherseed, will be taking part in the Iffley Festival of Miles, an event organised by St Anne’s JCR member, Tom Barrett, among others. Miles will be aiming to run a four-minute mile …
Prof Bent Flyvbjerg, alongside Keble College Fellow Dr Atif Ansar, has conducted research into 203 NASA and Space X missions, finding that Space X was, overall, ten times cheaper and twice as fast as NASA on comparable missions. The research will be published this week in the article “How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus …