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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, is now in its 36th year, and attracted some 5,000 participants throughout the city. Well over 90 of these were from the St Hugh’s team, which comprised College students, Fellows, staff, friends and family, and even a brave running dinosaur. We were very narrowly pipped at the post for the coveted Largest Team Title, which was won by Ori...
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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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5 January 2017
Publication of Research Paper on the Disruption of Infectious Pathogens, Co-authored by Professor Stuart Conway
A high profile research paper, co-authored by St Hugh's E. P. Abraham Cephalosporin Fellow in Organic Chemistry, 
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20 December 2016
Launch of Career Development Fellowship in Chinese Commercial Law
On 1st December, St Hugh's held a reception at the House of Commons to celebrate the launch of our new Career Development Fellowship in Chinese Commer...
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19 December 2016
Professor Anthony Harnden appointed to the Governing Body of the General Medical Council
Professor Anthony Harnden, Governing Body Fellow of St Hugh's, is among four new members to be appointed to the govern...
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19 December 2016
Fellow in Medicine, Dr Damian Jenkins MBE, wins Royal Society of Medicine Prize
St Hugh's Fellow in Medicine, Dr Damian Jenkins MBE, has recently been awarded the prestigious Colt Prize by the Royal...
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19 December 2016
St Hugh’s Thanksgiving celebrations
On 24th November, our North American fellows, staff, students and friends gathered together for the College's popular Thanksgiving celebrations. The e...
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19 December 2016
Professor George Garnett lectures on Barking’s medieval past
On 23rd November, Professor George Garnett gave a medieval history lecture entitled Barking’s First Golden Age
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15 November 2016
Alumna Ursula Owen Features in Recent BBC Documentary
A recent BBC documentary following the founding and subsequent history of feminist publisher Virago Press features St ...
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14 November 2016
St Hugh’s Law Society Welcome The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP
On the evening of 10th November, the St Hugh's Law Society welcomed The Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, former corp...
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8 November 2016
Freshers’ Family Lunch at St Hugh’s
On Sunday 6th November, the College welcomed the families of new Undergraduate and Graduate students for lunch and to meet the Tutorial Fellows at St ...
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8 November 2016
Professor Margaret Esiri Edits her Mother’s Wartime Diary
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8 November 2016
St Hugh’s Diwali Celebrations
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2 November 2016
Dr Sam Giles wins L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship
Our congratulations go to Dr Sam Giles for receiving one of the 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Fellowships in...
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2 November 2016
Dr Anke Hein to Publish New Book in 2017 with Springer
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1 November 2016
New Weston Library exhibition involves Dr Susan Valladares
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31 October 2016
Dr Susana Carvalho Wins Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research
Dr Susana Carvalho, Associate Professor in Palaeoanthropology, and lecturer at St Hugh's College, has received a
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