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18 September 2017

Weber and Brenda Lo, and Eddy and Emily Tang honoured and celebrated by St Hugh’s College
St Hugh’s is very pleased to report that Mr Weber Lo and Mrs Brenda Lo, and Mr Eddy Tang and Mrs Emily Tang, were appointed as Elizabeth Wordsworth Fellows of the College, in a ceremony in Mordan Hall on 13th September 2017. The philanthropic fellowship known as the Elizabeth Wordsworth Fellowship, after our founder, is granted by Governing Body to those whose exceptional philanthropy, support and guidance to the College merits such distinction. The Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE...
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14 September 2017
Henry and Joanna Chan of Hong Kong admitted to Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors
Today, in the Convocation House of Oxford University, St Hugh’s Wordsworth Fellow Henry Chan and his wife Joanna Chan were admitted to the Chancello...
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8 September 2017
Paris colloquium to commemorate Charles Baudelaire
Ève Morisi, Associate Professor of French Literature, has organised a three-day international colloquium at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study ...
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29 August 2017
Julia Wood Prize Competition, 2017
This year the number of entries to the Julia Wood Prize rose again to a new record total of 275. The intensity of the competition meant that the judg...
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15 August 2017
News of the passing of alumna Mrs Jeanette Cockshoot
We have received the very sad news that Jeannette Cockshoot née Johnson (English Language and Literature, 1944) passed away on 21st July 2017.
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21 July 2017
St Hugh’s alumna Dame Helen Ghosh appointed new Master of Balliol
Dame Elish Angiolini, Principal of St Hugh’s, has offered her congratulations on behalf of the entire College to our alumna Dame Helen Ghosh (Modern...
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12 July 2017
University Mindfulness Centre returning to St Hugh’s for its Summer School
The University of Oxford’s Mindfulness Centre is again holding its annual week-long Summer School at St Hugh’s College, from 28 August to 1 Septem...
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6 July 2017
Come and find out more about studying at Oxford!
Applications are now open for the Year 13 Oxford Application Information Day, held on Saturday 16th September. The Application Information Day will a...
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5 July 2017
Dame Elish opens new Community Justice Centre
Dame Elish was in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire last week to open a newly refurbished Community Justice Centre. The centre works to reduce re-offending a...
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27 June 2017
Gold for Oxford in Teaching Excellence Framework
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) has awarded Oxford the highest rating of ‘gold’. St Hugh’s College Principal the Rt Hon Dame Elish Angi...
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23 June 2017
Dame Elish awarded honorary degree from St Andrews
St Hugh’s Principal the Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of St Andrews. Dame...
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23 June 2017
University Open Days 2017
On Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th St Hugh's will be opening its doors as part of the Universit...
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22 June 2017
St Hugh’s Theo Davies-Lewis interviews Lord Heseltine
Theo Davies-Lewis, a first year Archaeology and Anthropology student, has interviewed the former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine. Theo spoke to ...
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2 June 2017
Memorial Event for Jamie Gardiner
Some members of College may not yet know that Jamie Gardiner (2013-2016, History) was killed in a mountaineering accident in Norway on 2 January 2017....
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31 May 2017
Bookfeast Festival invites 1800 children to St Hugh’s
The College has just hosted this year's five-day Bookfeast festival, aimed at promoting reading to local primary-aged schoolchildren. Run by...
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31 May 2017
St Hugh’s in the running again for top Town and Gown team
St Hugh’s College fielded its largest ever team in Oxford’s Town and Gown race recently. The 10K run, organised in aid of Muscular Dystrophy UK, i...
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25 May 2017
The St Hugh’s Law Lecture
  We were delighted to welcome Mr Rimsky Yuen, SC JP, Secretary for Justice, Hong Kong Government, to St Hugh's. He spoke at the St Hugh's Law ...
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3 May 2017
Dora Biro Paper on Cumulative Culture in Avian Navigation
A recent paper co-authored by St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow i...
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2 May 2017
Vicki Stott’s Marathon Charity Achievement
For anyone at St Hugh’s, it’s impossible to miss the fitness and fundraising activities of our College Bursar, Vicki Stott. Vicki is often sportin...
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4 April 2017
Dr Peter Leary wins Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book
We are delighted to announce that the work of Dr Peter Leary, Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History, has been recognised by the American Conference for...
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30 March 2017
Professor Watts Featured in ‘Voices From Oxford’ Video
Tutorial Fellow in Biochemistry and distinguished biophysicist, Professor Tony Watts, Vice Principal of St Hugh's, was interviewed recently by Profess...
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29 March 2017
St Hugh’s Student Rowing Success Stories
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16 March 2017
Marc Lewon awarded Professorship in Basle, Switzerland
Following a rigorous process of audition, St Hugh's doctoral student Marc Lewon has been appointed Professor for Medieval and Early Renaissance Lute ...
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8 March 2017
Anna Haxworth Music Prize awarded to Masters Student Taro Kobayashi
The recent Anna Haxworth Prize Competition provided a wonderful evening of musical mastery. The prize is awarded in memory of Anna Haxworth, alumna o...
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7 March 2017
Women At St Hugh’s Today – A Celebration
To celebrate International Women's Day, some of the many women who are prominent in the life of St Hugh's comment on bei...
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28 February 2017
Eminent interdisciplinary scientist, Dr Subra Suresh, elected Honorary Fellow
Dr Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA, was recently elected to an Honorary Fellowship at St Hugh's. A former d...
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15 February 2017
The Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC announced as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
St Hugh's College Principal, Dame Elish Angiolini QC, today joins a select group of outstanding academics, celebrated professionals and royalty to be ...
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8 February 2017
Touring Music Ensemble Play in Chinese New Year
We were joined by Distinguished Friend of St Hugh’s and generous donor, Edwin Mok, and Professor Sung, Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University...
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6 February 2017
Top Honour for Baroness Warnock
Baroness Mary Warnock, Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's, has been awarded the highest honour in the 2017 New Year's Honours List. The patron of the Progre...
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1 February 2017
Dinner, a Dram and a Ceilidh to Celebrate Burns Night
Burns Night is always celebrated in style at St Hugh's, and this year was no exception. A formal dinner for College fellows, students and guests on Ja...
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30 January 2017
Happy Chinese New Year!
St Hugh's marks the Spring Festival and the start of a prosperous new year, The Year of the Rooster, on 1st February at The Dickson Poon Uni...
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