We’re very pleased to share the news that a poem by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, DPhil Candidate in English Literature, has received further critical acclaim following the shortlisting of Yousif’s collection for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. ‘Writing the Camp’ was published as one of “fifty poems about what it means to be …
We are delighted to share the news that Prof. Saiful Islam, St Anne’s Professorial Fellow in Materials Science, has been made an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association for his work on new materials for lithium and sodium batteries, solid oxide fuel cells and perovskite solar cells in the field of energy. The 2022 …
We are delighted to share the news that Caleb Leow (History and French) has won third place in the Oxford Poetry Prize 2022 with his poem, “Tongues”. The prize is open to all and is awarded for a single poem in the English language. It was judged this year by Emily Berry, who observed, “in …
Education and Early Life Merze Tate’s application to American Association of University Women (1932) Merze Tate was born in 1905 in rural Western Michigan to a family of African-American settlers. From the start, she displayed remarkable academic talent, despite having to walk four miles to and from school every day. Unfortunately, her high school was …
Professor Terry Lyons, St Anne’s Supernumerary Fellow and Wallis Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, has recently delivered an Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture entitled “Signatures of Streams”. The lecture was recorded and is now available to watch online, here. The abstract of the lecture is as follows: “A calculator processes numbers without caring …
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories, in two volumes, was published on 27th October, edited and with an introduction by St Anne’s Fellow, Professor Patrick McGuinness. Patrick is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and the Sir Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow in French at St Anne’s. Born in Tunisia …
We are pleased to share the link to Professor Imogen Goold’s most recent Gresham Law Lecture as part of a series on Medical Law and Ethics. Professor Goold was appointed Visiting Gresham Professor of Medical Law in 2021. Should We Permit Voluntary Assisted Dying? “The English courts have wrestled with challenges to the restrictions on …
Prof Christian Coester Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science Email: christian.coester@cs.ox.ac.uk Academic background Christian Coester received his DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in 2020, where he was supervised by Elias Koutsoupias. After postdocs at CWI in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv University and a Lectureship at the University of Sheffield, …
In August 2022, we were delighted to host students from the Aim for Oxford programme for their summer residential in Oxford for the first time. Aim for Oxford is a sustained contact programme that is run jointly by St Anne’s, Christ Church and Trinity Colleges (Oxford for North East) and is solely for state-educated students …