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18 December 2015

Atomic drug development

Interested in Hertford’s work in bio-medical sciences? Read our Senior Research Fellow Dave Stuart’s upbeat review of how technology is speeding up the development of new drugs, including the work of his own...

15 December 2015

Hertford musicians at Christmas

Hertford students and alumni alike have been busy recording new takes on familiar Christmas tunes. Current student Ifan Jenkin is a member of Oxford’s all-male a capella group Out of the Blue (you might remember th...

9 December 2015

Quintessence of dust

Hertford Professor David Thomas has been in the news discussing his research project DO4MODELS which tries to plot the effect of dust on climate. Described by the BBC as ‘a veteran researcher of some of the world&#...

4 December 2015

Shakespeare 400

If you want to get ahead of next year’s 2016 Shakespeare-fest, Hertford fellow Emma Smith has a couple of suggestions. For the parsimonious, look at OUP’s new Illuminating Shakespeare site, which will release...

3 December 2015

School visit rounds off access year

Tomorrow sees the last access visit of the year, as a group from Forest Hall School comes to Hertford on the final day of term. It is the culmination of a busy couple of weeks for the access and outreach team, which host...

3 December 2015

HCMS Christmas Concert

Madalena Leao, HCMS president reports: on Monday of 8th Week, Hertford College Music Society held their termly concert, creatively named a Hertford Christmas Concert. Featuring a latin themed Rudolph the Red Nose Reindee...

3 December 2015

Award supports ambitious outreach

With candidates for interview due to arrrive this weekend, Hertford is looking to the future and the next generation of undergraduates. We are therefore delighted to announce that, together with Emmanuel College, Cambrid...

30 October 2015

Callendar medal for Tony Wilson

We are proud to announce that the much-decorated Professor Tony Wilson FREng has again been recognised for his outstanding contributions to microscopy, imaging and applied optics. The Institute of Measurement and Control...

28 October 2015

Breakthrough in meningococcal disease

Hertford’s Professor of Biology, Martin Maiden, is at the forefront of research into meningococcal disease. A new paper by his research group – including Hertford graduate Dorothea Hill – has identified...

27 October 2015

Homeward bound book

A precious volume of sixteenth-century maps and cityscapes was formally returned by Hertford College to the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin at a special event on 15 October 2015. The volume ­– which binds together a 1...