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Atlantic Rowing Challenge
Euan Friend (2017, MEarthSci Geology/Earth Sciences) will be competing in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge this December. More here.

Univ entrepreneurs: Rohan Gunatillake
In the latest of this series on Univ’s entrepreneurs we talk to Rohan Gunatillake (1999, MChem Chemistry). Read about him here.

MBE for Covid-19 research
Professor Charlotte Deane (1993, Chemistry) has been appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to COVID-19 research. Read more.

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Univ to receive unprecedented $35 million
Univ North can only be realised thanks to the innovative financing arrangement supported by generous philanthropist, Mr David Frederick – Read more here.

Biodiversity & ecology at Univ North
How is biodiversity and ecology being considered at Univ North? Find out here.

Funding awarded from the Wolfson Foundation
Univ has been awarded up to £230,000 from the Wolfson Foundation. This generous support will go towards the cost of study facilities within the new Univ North development. Read more.

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Lovisa Reiche, 2019, MPhil in Economics, WCR Women’s Officer – read it here.

Gariyasi Garg, 2020, PPE – read it here.

Tess Raven, Events Officer – read it here.

Jessica Kaye, 2020, History and Politics – read it here.

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Rowan (Oriental Studies) reviews John H Taylor’s Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. Read it here.

Annabelle (PPE) reviews Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom. Read it here.

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• Valerie Amos, Master of Univ, who has received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). More here.

• David Campanale (1982, PPE) won Exclusive of the Year in the BBC News Awards for 2021, for his investigation, with Matthew Hill, into the Uyghur detention camps in Xinjiang: “Their goal is to destroy everyone”. The piece was also awarded runner up, News Report of 2021, by the Association of International Broadcasters and was nominated by BBC News for a Royal Television Society award in the News category. Read it here.

• Joshua Richards (2013, History and Politics) was ordained as deacon of St Mary Upper St, Stepney in a service at St Pauls Cathedral on 2 July.

• Professor Tian Yuan Tan, Professorial Fellow and Shaw Professor of Chinese, was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s “In Our Time” discussing the most celebrated poets of eighth-century China, Li Bai and Du Fu, and their influence from the Tang era to the present day.

• Sarah Harper, professor of gerontology at Oxford, who chaired the expert group of a report into Britain’s ageing population under the Cameron government comments in The Guardian’s “I’m one of the lucky ones, I’m financially OK”: welcome to ageing Britain, where pensioners outnumber children – read it here.

• Adam Smith, Edward Orsborn Professor of US Politics and Political History at Oxford University, wrote Why America is in such a mess for The Sunday Times. Subscribers can read it here.

• Tamsin Mather, Supernumerary Fellow, was interviewed on NHK World-Japan (NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation – Japan’s only public media organization) for the segment Understanding Volcanoes. Watch it here.

• Professor Ngaire Woods, founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University, shared her expert comment in a discussion about hard and soft power. Listen here.

• Valerie Amos, Master of Univ, features in Vogue’s list of this year’s 25 most influential women. Read more here.

• Professor Nicholas Halmi’s, (Margaret Candfield Fellow in English) article on Univ’s Shelley Memorial first published two years ago on the Rêve (Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition) website, has recently been translated into French, German and Italian.

Dr Maximilian Kiener, Research Associate and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy, completed a book entitled Voluntary Consent (forthcoming with Routledge), signed a contract with Hart for another book entitled Answering Others: Moral Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence, and is currently also editing the Routledge Handbook of Responsibility. In addition. Max has also been working for the European Commission on effective and ethical communication; The University of Oxford gave Max an Award of Excellence for his overall performance.