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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&#...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EU poetry award for Hertford graduate
Warm congratulations to Hertford student, South African poet Athol Williams, who has been awarded the Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Streetclass diseases’. Athol’s third volume of poetry, Bum...
Neil Tanner, the Nobel Prize, and heavy water
Earlier this year, we celebrated Neil Tanner’s initiative in promoting access to Oxford by applicants from state schools. But Neil was not only a remarkable tutor; he was also a very astute physicist with an impressive...