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Award for public service
Alumnus & Honorary Fellow Richard Fisher has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service. This award is given to individuals who have served with distinction in public life and have shown a special co...
Kay Davies Lifetime Achievement
Congratulations to Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy and Fellow of Hertford who has won the 2014 WISE Lifetime Achievement Award. WISE helps inspire women to pursue STEM subjects; this awar...
Student research published
Well done to Aoife Duff (Human Sciences, 2011), who has had a paper published on research she undertook for her undergraduate dissertation. Aoife’s paper, ”Bidirectional interactions between HIV/AIDS and Indi...
Roy Foster: ‘A Good Read’
Carroll Professor of Irish History Roy Foster is on this week’s A Good Read on BBC Radio 4, discussing a favourite book. His choice, William Maxwell’s The Chateau, is a lyrical and often funny novel that t...
Principal’s Honorary Doctorate
Congratulations to Will Hutton, who has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by York St John University, for services to Higher Education.
Remembrance Day
Hertford College marked Remembrance Day by flying the college flag at half mast and laying poppy wreaths from the JCR, MCR and SCR at the World War One memorial in Chapel. College members also gathered together in OB Qua...
Pathways at Hertford
On Tuesday we were delighted to host the first of this year’s Investigating Options Days for Y11s from state schools. The days, which are part of the university’s Pathways Programme, are designed to help stu...
Hertford MBA and Radiohead
Thom Yorke’s decision to release his latest album on the BitTorrent platform was supported by consultancy from Oxford MBA students including Hertford’s Phil Barry (2013). Phil worked on his Strategic Consulti...
Calling Hertford pianists!
We are hugely grateful to Mrs Joan Coles, mother of Hertford alumnus, who has given us a Boston Steinway grand piano. It is now installed in the Drawing Room of the Old Lodgings and available to be booked for practice.
Portraits ripple effect
Our initiative in replacing the Hall portraits – the Hertford College Women portrait display – continues to gather followers. After Brasenose College JCR voted to follow suit, there is also student pressure...