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30 April 2024
St Catz Giving Day 2024
Our first-ever Giving Day is live! To encourage a rapid start, generous donors have agreed to match early gifts up to …
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30 January 2018
Professor Heidi de Wet’s study named Editors’ Choice
Our Fellow and Tutor in Pre-clinical Medicine, Heidi de Wet, has had a recent paper from her research group selected as…
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29 January 2018
Two Thousand Years of Puzzling with Chris Maslanka
Our College Enigmatist, alumnus Chris Maslanka (1973, Physics), hosted a new series on the history of puzzles and puzzling on…
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26 January 2018
Honorary Fellow Masaki Orita awarded Japanese order
St Catz Alumnus and Honorary Fellow, Professor Masaki Orita, was recently decorated by HM the Emperor of Japan for his…
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26 January 2018
Festschrift for Professor Peter Franklin
Peter Franklin, Emeritus Fellow in Music has been recognised for his services to music academia with a Festschrift published in…
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24 January 2018
Honorary Fellow Nicanor Parra dies at 103
It is with sadness we share the news that Chilean poet and physicist Nicanor Parra has died, aged 103, at…
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19 January 2018
Alumnus filmmaker wins short film competition
Alumnus Ben Cohen (Geography, 2011) recently won The Pitch competition for 2017. Sponsored by the Bible Society, the competition requires filmmakers to…
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8 January 2018
St Catz Alumni recognised in New Year Honours
Three members of the St Catherine’s community have been recognised in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list. For services to…
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5 January 2018
Catz Alumna wins Costa Children’s Book Award 2017
We are delighted to announce that Catz alumna Katherine Rundell (2005, English Language and Literature) has won the 2017 Costa Children’s…
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13 December 2017
Catz students go for Gold at iGEM competition
The 2017 Oxford iGEM team, which includes two St Catz students, returned from the annual competition in Boston, USA, with…
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29 November 2017
Catz graduate student hosts exhibition on Oxford’s religious diversity
Catz student and photographer Arturo Soto (2016, Fine Art) is putting on an exhibition at Oxford’s Ioannou Centre for Classical and…
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22 November 2017
Sleeping Rough
Sleeping Rough is a docudrama film about UK street homelessness that has directly involved two Catz alumni, and many other college…
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21 November 2017
Let’s Talk About Dying
On 16th November, the College hosted a symposium in the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre entitled Talking About Dying: The Biggest Question. Following…
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9 November 2017
Catz lawyers soar to success
Early this year, Catz alum Lisa Roberts QC (1988, English) was appointed Attorney General of the Northern Circuit, making history…
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8 November 2017
Spotlight On: Wearing the Trousers, by Don Chapman
Alumnus Don Chapman (1952, English) published his latest book in September: Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the…
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8 November 2017
Alumna shines as volunteer abroad
Earlier this year, recent alumna Hannah Partington (2013, Neuroscience) spent three months volunteering abroad in Ghana as part of the…
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8 November 2017
Alumni deliver at Edinburgh Fringe
Two recent Catz alumni travelled to Edinburgh Festival Fringe over the summer, including Anna Livesey (2014, English Language and Literature) who produced Columns for a two week run.
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8 November 2017
Alumni News-in-Brief
Alexander Campkin for Composer in Residence Catz alum Alexander Campkin (2002, Music) was earlier this year appointed Composer in Residence…
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8 November 2017
Mechanical puppet wins National Lottery
The Man Engine, the UK’s largest mechanical puppet built to celebrate Cornish mining heritage has been granted a National Lottery…
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8 November 2017
Fellows impress at Curiosity Carnival
On the evening of September 29th, venues all over Oxford were taken over by researchers from across the University, to…
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8 November 2017
Foreign Minister returns to College
Catz alumnus Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Oman, returned to College on 17th October…
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8 November 2017
Catz community breaking records
The generosity of our alumni and friends has always played a crucial role at St Catz. We are delighted to…
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8 November 2017
Honouring Derek
On the 28th September, we celebrated the opening of the newly renamed ‘Derek Davies Law Library’, in honour of our Founding…
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8 November 2017
Rosen”catz” and Guildenstern brought to life
The College was delighted to host Sir Tom Stoppard earlier this term, on 11th October, for his Inaugural Lecture as the…
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7 November 2017
Fighting Back: Seeking Justice In The U.S. Courtroom
On Tuesday 24 October 2017, we were delighted to welcome back alumnus and California trial lawyer Paul Llewellyn (1994, Jurisprudence)…
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16 October 2017
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Studying English at St Catherine’s is a rigorous and rewarding intellectual challenge that will prepare you to excel in wide…
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16 October 2017
Studying Biochemistry at St Catherine’s College
Carolyn | 4th year Biochemistry undergraduate While biochemistry may be one of the smaller programs at Oxford, it provides excellent…
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16 October 2017
What is so special about studying Materials Science at St. Catherine’s College?
Duncan | 3rd year Materials Science undergraduate “The course material is initially delivered through lectures – around 12 hours of these…
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12 October 2017
Catz student shortlisted for Women of the Future award
Chloe Rooke, a third-year music student at St Catherine’s, has been shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards, which…
