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4 April 2022

St Hugh’s welcomes alumnae back for Jubilee Lunch celebrations in College, 26 March 2022
On 26 March 2022 we were delighted to welcome back alumnae who matriculated in 1950, 1951, 1960, 1961, 1970 and 1971 for the St Hugh’s College Jubilee Lunch hosted by the Principal. Guests enjoyed glorious weather as they explored the College grounds with the Gardens Team, before coming together for drinks and photographs in the gardens and a wonderful celebratory lunch in the Dining Hall. We are pleased to share a selection of photo highlights from the day, captured by Stuart Bebb. Cong...
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4 April 2022
Dr Chris Pull delivers captivating lecture on preventing infectious disease
Dr Chris Pull’s recent online lecture entitled ‘Preventing epidemics – what do ants have to teach us?’ provided a fascinating insight into how...
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4 April 2022
St Hugh’s alumna is one of lead authors of paper introducing new tool for restoring and attributing Greek inscriptions using Artificial Intelligence
Congratulations to Thea Sommerschield (Greek History, 2015), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and Fellow in Helleni...
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23 March 2022
St Hugh’s Graduate selected to play in Varsity Rugby Match
Congratulations to our Graduate Student, Emily Blake (PGCE Mathematics, 2021) who has been selected to play for the Oxford 2022 Women's Rugby Varsity ...
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22 March 2022
St Hugh’s alumna launches first season of BBC progamming as Head of Arts and Classical Music TV
Congratulations to Suzy Klein (Music, 1993) who was appointed BBC Head of Arts and Classical Music TV in October 2021 and whose first season of new pr...
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17 March 2022
St Hugh’s Fellow and DPhil student achieve simultaneous publications
St Hugh's Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology, Professor Peter Mitchell and his DPhil Student, Gonzalo Linares Matas (Archaeology,2019) have had their pap...
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16 March 2022
Fellow’s paper announced as Distinguished Paper at conference
A paper, co-authored by Professor Alessandro Abate and entitled "Sampling-Based Robust Control of Autonomous Systems with Non-Gaussian Noise" has been...
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16 March 2022
St Hugh’s alumna chosen among TIME Magazine’s “Women of the Year”
Congratulations to Amal Clooney, Lebanese-British human rights lawyer, Honorary Fellow and alumna who has been chosen among TIME Magazine's "Women Of ...
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11 March 2022
The Howard Piper Library launches online exhibition
The Library’s latest exhibition, ‘Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century printing houses: a selection from St Hugh’s rare books collection’, has re...
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11 March 2022
St Hugh’s announces the winner of the Edith McMorran Prize 2022
Congratulations to Isabel Parkinson (DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages - German, 2021) who has been awarded the Edith McMorran Verse Translation Pri...
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10 March 2022
St Hugh’s Boat Club celebrates top performances at this year’s Torpids
Congratulations to St Hugh's Boat Club (SHBC) who had a spectacular week at Torpids with both the M1 and W1 boats bumping on three of the four days. W...
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2 March 2022
The Invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation
[This statement was updated on Wednesday 9 March] The St Hugh’s community has been shocked and appalled by the Russian Federation’s in...
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24 February 2022
St Hugh’s achieves a Gold Standard in its recent Health and Safety Audit
Following an annual Health and Safety Audit undertaken by health and safety consultants, Stallard Kane, the College has been award a Gold Standard for...
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23 February 2022
LGBT+ History Month: Students celebrate with fundraiser Bake Off event
In the spirit of LGBT+ History Month, the MCR and JCR collaboratively organised a fundraiser Bake Off event last Sunday. While students showcased thei...
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22 February 2022
The Geochemical Society and The European Association of Geochemistry awards St Hugh’s Fellow
Congratulations to Professorial Fellow in Geochemistry, Chris Ballentine who has been honoured with the title of Geochemistry Fellow by The Geochemica...
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21 February 2022
The Mary Renault 2022 essay competition is now open!
The Mary Renault Prize is a Classical Reception essay prize for school or college sixth form pupils, awarded by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh...
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21 February 2022
The Julia Wood 2022 essay competition is now open!
Established in 1971, in memory of a St Hugh’s College historian, the Julia Wood Prize is an annual History essay competition open to Sixth Form pupi...
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21 February 2022
LGBT+ History Month Profiles: Vedika Maheshwari, MCR Equalities Representative
LGBT+ History Month is an opportunity to increase the visibility and awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, their history, lives ...
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17 February 2022
Four St Hugh’s Fellows awarded Record of Distinction
Many congratulations to four St Hugh's Fellows who have been awarded the title of Professor in Oxford University’s Recognition of Distinction Scheme...
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16 February 2022
St Hugh’s announces decision to adopt the Oxford Living Wage
Following a decision made by the Governing Body on Thursday 10 February, St Hugh's College has committed to pay all of its staff at least the
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16 February 2022
LGBT+ History Month Profiles: Georgie Milner Day, Inclusion Officer for Oxford University Sports
We are delighted to announce that St Hugh's third year student, Georgie Milner Day (Human Sciences, 2019) has been appointed as this year's Inclusion ...
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10 February 2022
International Women and Girls in Science Day Profile: DPhil Engineering Science Student Chenying Liu
Chenying Liu (Engineering Science, 2019), is fascinated by origami - its origin as art, it...
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8 February 2022
Celebrating LGBT+ History Month at St Hugh’s College
The St Hugh's community will be marking LGBT+ History Month throughout February with a variety of social and welfare events. We will also be featuring...
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31 January 2022
Calling all St Hugh’s students who would like to be part of the 2022 Telephone Campaign
The College is holding it's 2022 Telephone Campaign between 28 March and 11 April 2022 and is looking for enthusiastic students who want to make a si...
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27 January 2022
St Hugh’s Fellow honoured in the annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Professor Erin Saupe, St Hugh's Tutor in Palaeobiology is one of...
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27 January 2022
St Hugh’s alumnae recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumnae, Rebecca Ellis CBE (Law, 1998) and Genevieve Carnell BEM (History, 2011)  who have...
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26 January 2022
Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award for Creative Writing 2022
Applications for The Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award are now open, with a prize of £250 for the best piece of creative w...
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5 January 2022
St Hugh’s to co-host ‘Opening the PEN Archive, 1921-2021’ event
St Hugh's is delighted to be co-hosting 'Opening the PEN Archive, 1921-2021' with TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) - one of a seri...
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17 December 2021
St Hugh’s alumna, The Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett DBE PC has been appointed to lead the public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has chosen Honorary Fellow and St Hugh’s alumna, The Rt Hon ...
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10 December 2021
Professor Anne Hudson (English Language & Literature, 1957), Honorary Fellow and St Hugh’s alumna, has died
It is with the deepest sorrow that the College has learnt of the death of Honorary Fellow Professor Anne Hudson (1938–2021), who studied English at ...
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6 December 2021
St Hugh’s alumna, Aung San Suu Kyi, sentenced to imprisonment
The College is deeply concerned to hear about the imprisonment for four years (subsequently reduced to two years) of our alumna, Aung San Suu Kyi, on ...
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