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4 April 2018

Drue Heinz (1915-2018)

With sadness, we announce the death of Drue Heinz, philanthropist, Honorary Fellow and friend to the college. You can read her obituary on the website of The Independent.

29 March 2018

Hertford Startup – Undried Ink

Have you ever wanted to be an author? Have you struggled to make connections with the publishers and literary agents that are so often the key to success? If so, a group of Hertford students might have the answer to your...

29 March 2018

Clean Energy – call for mentors

Ani Haykuni is a recent MBA graduate at Oxford Said Business School and, having recently founded a clean energy start-up, she is on a search to find mentors within the clean energy and technology sector. “I am an...

29 March 2018

More new Fellows

We are delighted to announce the election of a further two academics who will join the college’s Fellowship in Michaelmas term: Economics: Dr Teodora Boneva Originally from Germany, Dr Boneva graduated from the Uni...

22 March 2018

Ladybird AI by Mike Wooldridge

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the latest subject to be added to the iconic Ladybird series, in a book written by the Department of Computer Science’s Professor Mike Wooldridge, also Fellow at Hertford College. The La...

14 March 2018

Only Artists – Mark Alexander

Today on Radio 4, former Fine Art student Mark Alexander (1993) spoke with Humphrey Ocean, Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts, about his work as a painter. Mark came to Hertford as a mature student wi...

14 March 2018

Oxford Literary Festival

Michael Wooldridge, Senior Research Fellow and head of the Department of Computer Science, will be speaking about artificial intelligence at the Oxford Literary Festival at 2pm on Monday 19 March. His talk marks the ...

13 March 2018

Head of the River rowing

Both the men and women entered a crew of eight into the Head of the River Race and Women’s Eights Head of the River Race (HoRR, WeHoRR) at the weekend. The event is a “head race” or time trial, with bot...

9 March 2018

Heaven’s Gate #flashbackfriday

Written and directed by Michael Cimino, the 1980 film Heaven’s Gate has gone down in Hollywood history as being one of the all-time greatest movie flops. Costing some $44m to produce, the film only earned $3.5m in...

9 March 2018

Ewa Gluza – Inspiring the Community

As part of centenary celebrations marking 100 years since women were given the right to vote in Poland, the Polish Embassy in the UK has been running an initiative to highlight ‘exceptional women who inspire the Po...