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13 January 2021

St Hugh’s Stipendiary lecturer awarded research funding
Christopher Pull, PhD, Departmental Lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology and Stipendiary Lecturer at St Hugh's, has been awarded a John Fell Fund to work on the "role of experience in social immunity in ants”. Christopher's research will look at whether social animals such as ant colonies can learn from prior disease outbreaks, and so eradicate them more effectively from their societies in the future. Christopher said, "the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates a key draw...
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11 January 2021
Catherine Ennis, 1955-2020
With great sadness the College has learned of the death of Catherine Ennis, of cancer, on Christmas Eve 2020. Catherine Ennis had been Organist and...
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4 January 2021
Congratulations to distinguished conductor, Professor Dame Jane Glover, CBE who has been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh's alumna and Honorary Fellow, Professor Dame Jane Glover, CBE (Music, 1968), who has been mad...
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17 December 2020
Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus: Transportal Literatures of Empire, Nationalism, and Sectarianism
Congratulations to our alumnus Dr Daniele Nunziata (World Literatures in English, 2013) on the publication of his book Colonial and Postcolonial C...
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16 December 2020
Renowned actress, Rebecca Front, elected Honorary Fellow
St Hugh's Governing Body recently voted to elect Rebecca Front to an Honorary Fellowship. This was in recognition of her contribution to the British e...
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14 December 2020
St Hugh’s professor and senior researcher in Kenya awarded for their collaboration
St Hugh's Professor Susana Carvalho and fellow African senior researcher, Frederick Manthi, have been presented with one of only eight AfOx ReDA award...
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8 December 2020
St Hugh’s professor appears on Radio 4 show, ‘Start the Week’
Associate Professor, Fellow in Palaeonathropology, Professor Susana Carvalho, appeared as one of the special guests on the BBC Radio 4 show 'Start the...
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4 December 2020
Professor Adrian Moore on life as a philosopher
Professor Adrian Moore gave a wide-ranging interview last month, well worth read...
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3 December 2020
Professor Anthony Harnden discusses vaccine rollout on BBC Newsnight
St Hugh's Fellow Professor Anthony Harden appeared on BBC Newsnight on 2 December to discuss the logistics of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine rollout. ...
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1 December 2020
St Hugh’s Virtual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Our annual Advent Carol service took place on Sunday 29 November, with around 300 people from all parts of the St Hugh's community joining us virtuall...
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30 November 2020
Professor Erin Saupe delivers fascinating insight into mass extinction on Earth
On Tuesday 23 November, Professor Erin Saupe's virtual lecture, "‘The end of the world as we know it: mass extinctions in the past, the present and ...
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19 November 2020
Dr Jane Glover CBE (Music, 1968) given Gamechanger Award by Royal Philharmonic Society
Many congratulations to St Hugh’s alumna and Honorary Fellow Dr Jane Glover CBE, who has been recognised by the Royal Philharmonic Society with a pr...
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17 November 2020
Virtual Diwali 2020 Celebrations
Screens across St Hugh's lit up with "Happy Diwali" messages delivered virtually by College Principal, The Rt Hon. Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC FRSE, P...
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17 November 2020
Black History Month: Virtual Film Screening
On Sunday 8 November, St Hugh's students were treated to a virtual screening of "Queen and Slim", a 2019 American road crime drama centred on a young ...
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6 November 2020
“Snapshot 2020” Exhibition
Each term, we put on a display of items from the library and archive collections in our library exhibition cases. Inspired by the nationwide projec...
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26 October 2020
Black History Month profile: Patrice Wellesley-Cole (Law, 1971)
In the early 1970s Patrice Wellesley-Cole (Law, 1971) was the only black undergraduate at the College, and she describes her time at Oxford as "one of...
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21 October 2020
Black History Month profile: Melvin Mezue (Neuroscience, 2010)
As part of our programme for Black History Month 2020 we are taking the opportunity to recognise and share the outstanding contributions alumni of Afr...
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21 October 2020
In Conversation with Kalli Purie (PPE, 1991), Vice Chairperson of the India Today Group
On Friday 9 October 2020 we were honoured and delighted to welcome award-winning entrepreneur and businesswoman Kalli Purie (Philosophy, Politics and ...
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21 October 2020
St Hugh’s Alumnus publishes book to critical acclaim
Dr Daniel Lee (History, 2006) has received high praise for his new book entitled "The SS Officer's Armchair". The book tells the story of the life of...
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19 October 2020
Matriculation 2020
Congratulations to all our students who matriculated on Saturday 17 October 2020! While the ceremony took place remotely, students were able to celeb...
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14 October 2020
Black History Month profile: Lady Ademola (English, 1932)
Kofoworola Ademola was the first black African woman to achieve a degree at Oxford. Kofoworola arrived at Oxford University in 1932 to study Englis...
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6 October 2020
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow commemorated with blue plaque in St. Giles’
Oxford's first woman don, Annie Rogers, has been commemorated for her work as a ceaseless campaigner for women's full membership of Oxford University....
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5 October 2020
In Conversation with Kalli Purie (PPE, 1991), Vice Chairperson, India Today Group
Award-winning entrepreneur and businesswoman Kalli Purie (PPE, 1991), Vice Chairperson of the India Today Group, to give an exclusive online interview...
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23 September 2020
Professor Eidenmueller joins European Court of Auditors’ expert panel
Professor Eidenmueller, Fellow of St Hugh's College, has joined a panel of external experts who are tasked with evaluating and discussing the key mess...
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1 September 2020
St Hugh’s Alumnus and Fellow in Medicine shares Trinity Term reflection
As Michaelmas Terms fast approaches, we asked St Hugh's Alumnus and Fellow in Medicine, Dr Damian Jenkins MBE (Physiological Sciences, 2000), to refle...
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20 August 2020
St Hugh’s alumnus triumphs in Fantasy Football
Former MCR President Josh Bull (Maths, 2014) has beaten 8 million entrants to be crowned winner of the Fantasy Premier League. Josh said: “I wasn...
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17 August 2020
Statement from St Hugh’s College regarding 2020 Admissions
Since the announcement of A-Level results on Thursday 13 August and the issues that have arisen as a result, St Hugh’s College has been consulting w...
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3 August 2020
Finalists welcomed into St Hugh’s alumni community
Earlier this month, the St Hugh’s Alumni Association released a video to welcome our wonderful finalists into the College’s alumni community. The...
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28 July 2020
St Hugh’s hosts its first virtual lecture with Professor Michael McMahon
We were delighted to welcome over 170 alumni and friends to virtually join us as Professor Michael McMahon, Professor of Economics at the University o...
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24 July 2020
St Hugh’s Professor Horst Eidenmueller awarded funding for COVID-19 legal project
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16 July 2020
Congratulations to Aviv Reich (English, 2017) for essay prize success
Warm congratulations to St Hugh's student Aviv Reich (English, 2017) who has won the £400 British Association for Jewish Studies Prize for an outstan...
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