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Schofield on Pfizer & AstraZeneca
Get a view from Hertford Professor Chris Schofield about what the proposed Pfizer takeover of AstraZeneca could mean for science and the development of much-needed new drugs to treat conditions such as Alzheimer’s. Chr...
Engineering accolade
The work of Hertford Engineer, Professor Manolis Chatzis, and his collaborator, Professor Andrew Smyth of Columbia University, has been selected for special mention in the Newsletter of the Engineeering Mechanics Instit...
Pathways Resumes
With the summer term underway both here and in schools, the Oxford Pathways Year 10 programme is swinging back into action. Today we’re pleased to be welcoming groups from Westleigh High School in Lancashire and Tw...
Rocking Brighton
It’s Brighton today for Jamie Castell – Hertford’s Outreach Fellow – and Luke Chapman (pictured) from the University’s central Admissions Team. In their green (Greene?…) setting, they’ll...
Co-education: 1974-2014
The Oxford Mail has just published some reminiscences from women who were among the first to come to the formerly male Oxford colleges in 1974, including a mention of our exciting women’s portraits project. Don...
New Hertford novelist
Congratulations to Hermione Eyre (English, 1998), whose first novel has been receiving rave reviews! Viper Wine tells the story of seventeenth-century beauty Venetia Stanley, but it is no ordinary historical novel, mixin...
‘Earth has not anything to show…’
As I write, Dr Jamie Castell, Hertford’s Outreach Fellow, is leading workshops on sonnets by William Wordsworth and Carol Ann Duffy at Aylesbury High School (pictured). This evening he travels to Canterbury to repr...
3D printing spinout
Hertford’s Professor of Chemical Biology, Hagan Bayley’s research into 3D printing of synthetic tissue will be developed by a spin-out company, OxSyBio. As Hagan explains, the techniques aim to produce synthe...
Was Prospero Shakespeare?
Nice plug for Hertford English Fellow Dr Emma Smith’s Shakespeare podcasts in today’s Guardian bookclub – on Shakespeare’s late play The Tempest and the persistent suggestion that its central ma...
Essex–Kent dash
Having spent yesterday at the Getting In Conference at Essex University, today Dr Jamie Castell, our Outreach Fellow (pictured), will be making a dash from the far reaches of Essex to North Kent. After delivering worksho...