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Glowing feedback for STEM Day
We are delighted with the feedback from our recent Access Day for state-schooled Y11 girls interested in STEM Subjects. Many, we trust, will continue with STEM subjects at university, and it seems they were encouraged by...
Chinese Dissertation Prize
Congratulations to Adam Knight, who completed his degree in Oriental Studies this summer, and has just been awarded the Davis Prize for the best Chinese Dissertation.
Prize-winning Geographers
Congratulations to Ella Walsh and Katherine Lanham, Herford undergraduates, who are – respectively – the winner of, and the joint runner-up for, the John House Prize. The prize is awarded for the best overall perform...
Graduate Innovation Competition Climax
From 3.00–5.00pm on Thursday (9 July) the finalists in the inaugural Hertford Graduate Initiative Fund (HGIF) Competition will pitch their entrepreneurial ideas to a panel of Hertford Fellows. (HGIF is part of the H...
Hertford in miniature
The Open Days are upon us and we’re looking forward to giving potential applicants an insight into Hertford and the intellectual, social and other kinds of excitement it can offer. It won’t be an overview of ...
Genetics award for Kay Davies
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy, has been awarded the 2015 William Allan award by the American Society of Human Genetics. The award, first given in 1961, recognises ‘substantial and f...
Hertford Talking: setting the green agenda
We hosted a lively discussion on the green agenda in London on 25 June. Our speakers (all Hertford alumni) included the CEO of the RSPB, the Director at Whitley Fund for Nature, and the Director for Environment and Susta...
Innovation in China healthcare
Congratulations to Hertford DPhil Student Marco Haenssgen, whose work using satellite maps for household survey sampling in rural China has been recognised with an OxTALENT award in the category of Student IT Innovation....
Women in STEM
Our Women in STEM Subjects Access Day is happening next week With talks on everything from engineering solar power for villages in rural Kenya to Game Theory (for computing), the Y11 students from state schools should ha...
Dorset to Frinton (via Camden)
With AS Levels finished, schools are keener than ever to engage with Hertford and encourage their most talented students to aim high. Last week Dr Catherine Redford, Hertford’s Outreach Fellow, made visits to SEEV...