We were very sorry to hear that distinguished St Anne’s alumna, the novelist Jill Paton Walsh (English, 1955) has passed away at the age of 83. The London-born writer won numerous awards for her children’s books, including The Whitbread Prize in 1974 for The Emperor’s Winding Sheet. She self-published her third novel, Knowledge of Angels, …
This Black History Month, Lorelei Piper nominates Ella Fitzgerald, and shares an inspirational documentary. Lorelei says: “I just discovered that this documentary about Ella Fitzgerald, called “Just One of Those Things”, is up on iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000jr4f/ella-fitzgerald-just-one-of-those-things. I saw this in Oxford at the Phoenix picture house when it was first released in 2019 and it’s absolutely …
Scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Physics, including St Anne’s DPhil student Nicolas Shiaelis, have developed an extremely rapid diagnostic test that detects and identifies viruses in less than five minutes. The method, published on the preprint server MedRxiv, is able to differentiate with high accuracy SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, from negative clinical samples, …
This Black History Month, we have asked members of College to nominate black people who inspire them. Here, Advisory Fellow Tom Ilube nominates author Tade Thompson. https://youtu.be/-2FRSQUOIrI
I’m not that great at introductions at all, but my name is Bilal. Some of you may know me as the JCR Vice President. Most of you will probably know me from last year, as the guy outside Hussain’s Kebab van every evening waiting for my large cheesy chips with barbecue sauce. But more recently, …
This Black History Month, our College Nurse, Clare Woolcott, nominates Miriam Mikeba. Clare says: “ Her music was the backdrop to my childhood in Zambia but she was much more than her music. I have attached her obituary below: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/10/miriam-makeba-obituary