• Amber Zijlma (2022, MSt Global and Imperial History) presents the Chalet reading party report 2023.

• On 12 October, hardy fund-raisers from the University, Colleges and businesses from across the county supported the Oxfordshire Homeless Movement at this year’s CEO Sleepout.

• Gabija Navickaite (2019, Organic Chemistry for Future Manufacturing) reports on the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.

• Holly James Johnston’s (2019, English) has created a new podcast series, Into That World Inverted.

• Thomas Bartlett recently started at Univ as our new Head Gardener.

• Naroa Ibarra Aizpurua (2020, DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) reports on the XVI European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease.

• Univ’s Hall and menu has been transformed twice in recent weeks for Formals.

• Armando Iannucci (1982, English) returned to College on Tuesday, 17 October to chat with Professor Joe Moshenska and current student members of the Univ Shakespeare Society.

• David Frederick (1983, Politics), Foundation Fellow, has been welcomed into the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors.

• This month we are remembering Roger Short (1963, Classics), British consul general in Turkey who he was killed by a terrorist bomb in Istanbul 20 years ago. The Roger Short Memorial Fund, which supports a travel scholarship programme to Turkey and neighbouring countries, was established in his memory.

• The 2023 issue of the University College Record is now available to read online. The Record is an account of the 2022-23 academic year, and includes Fellows’ news, academic results, College reports and news of departing Fellows and staff. The publication also includes tributes to members of the Univ community who we have sadly lost in the last twelve months.

• Old Members’ Trust Graduate Conference and Academic Travel Fund Report from Esther Jones (2020, DPhil in Molecular and Cellular Medicine) who attended the 4th International Immunology Workshop.

• This month we took a look at a sweet little volume from Univ’s early printed book collections. Cicero’s Orationum volumen primum [– tertium] I, is a modest-looking book to feature in our Treasure series.

• Professor Charlotte Deane MBE (1993, Chemistry), Professor of Structural Bioinformatics, has been named the new Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

• This year, Darren Lomas started at Univ as our new Executive Chef.

• The College deeply regrets to report that Professor Patrick Baird, our Emeritus Physics Fellow, died on Sunday 12 November 2023 aged 77. He had had cancer for the last year.

• On Saturday 18 November, ex-students and colleagues, friends, current members of college and Roy Park’s family gathered for a tremendous dinner in hall to remember and celebrate the life and teaching of the famously unforgettable Glaswegian English fellow, who died in July 2019 at the age of 83.

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• Wequity, co-founded by Gabriel Levie (PPE, 2015), has announced the closure of a €1.1 million latest funding round.

• Janet Rogan (1981, History) has recently taken up the position of CEO of the Royal African Society.

• Emily Lim (2005, Classics), Director of the National Theatre’s Public Acts Programme, was recently interviewed by Dr Lucy Jackson (2004, Classics) about her production of The Odyssey.

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• Dominic (Mathematics MMath) reviews Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities.

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• Baroness Valerie Amos, the Master, heads a stellar list of 10 awardees in this year’s University of Guyana conferral of Honorary Degrees.

• Professor Nandini Das (1997, English), Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Oxford University, presented Shakespeare’s Rival on BBC Radio 3.

• Dr Max Marcus, Stipendiary Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, has been appointed as Departmental Maths Education Specialist at the Department of Biochemistry.

• At the start of the month, Baroness Valerie Amos, the Master, debated “Human security versus National security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?” with Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator, at the Oxford Martin School.

• Baroness Valerie Amos, the Master, spoke at the Peace Processes of the Future Speaker Series organised by Hertford College on 9 November. She discussed, with Paul Polman and Alexander Betts, “Oxford and the SDGS: How can the University be a frontline for a better world?”

• Professor Sarah Harper CBE, Clore Professor of Gerontology, Supernumerary Fellow, and Founding Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, discusses how ageing populations and falling birthrates could change the world with Professor Jim Al-Khalili in BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific.

• Professor Tamsin Mather, Supernumerary Fellow in Earth Sciences and Professor of Earth Sciences, wrote an article for The Conversation about potential volcanic eruptions in Iceland.