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Hertford Biochemist Christmas Lecturer!
Hertford Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Dr Alison Woollard, will deliver the 2013 Royal Institution’s CHRISTMAS LECTURES, it is announced today. The CHRISTMAS LECTURES, which are as much a fixture in the Christmas s...
Prize-winning architectural dissertation
Hertfordian Dennis Prior has been awarded the prestigious Association of Art Historians Postgraduate Dissertation Prize for Architecture/Not Architecture: Towards a Reconsideration of Architectural Aesthetics and the Fun...
Emeritus Fellow to lead science at Melbourne
We congratulate Professor Karen Day who has been appointed Dean of Science at the University of Melbourne. Professor Day’s research interests include infectious disease and global health with a particular interest in m...
Honorary Fellow on desert island
Our Honorary Fellow Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and prominent international campaigner on human rights, will be the guest on the Radio programme Desert Island Discs tomorrow (28 July). Her professional lif...
Will Hutton receives honorary degree from the University of Greenwich
Will Hutton has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (HonDLitt) degree in recognition of his outstanding contribution to journalism and to advancing public understanding of economic development by the University of...
Access Officer Keynote Speaker
We are delighted that Anna McIntyre, the Hertford JCR Access Officer, will be a keynote speaker at the Opening Doors to Oxbridge and the Russell Group conference in September. The conference aims to boost applications to...
New Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
Hertford Fellow Zhanfeng Cui, Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering, has just been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Cui’s current work is on tissue engineering and bioprocessing. ...
Royal Medal for Sir Walter Bodmer
We are delighted to announce that Sir Walter Bodmer, Honorary Fellow and former Principal of Hertford, has been awarded a 2013 Royal Society Royal Medal. The citation is for seminal contributions to population genetics,...
Kay Davies’ Wellcome appointment
Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy and a Fellow of Hertford, has been appointed Deputy Chairman (!) of the Wellcome Trust, of which she has been a Governor since 2008. She takes up her new role at the s...
Student Roadshow underway!
It’s begun! Six students from Hertford and from the Oxford University Student Union are already in Essex poised to begin the first leg of their Roadshow. Over the next few days they will be speaking to students in ...