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Herts of Gold
Hertford alumni were given a flavour of Hollywood when Hugh Grant dropped by our fundraising event in support of the Bridge to Bridge Oxford to Venice bike ride. Guests were entertained by stories from a range of speaker...
Graduate engineering prize
Congratulations to Dr Daniel Mulvihill, who completed his doctorate at the Department of Engineering Science and Hertford College last year, for winning the 2013 Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Tribology Tr...
Henry IV in cinemas
If you are heading to the cinema this evening to see the RSC’s live stream of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1, or later in the month to Part 2, look out for Hertford English fellow Emma Smith talking about t...
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...