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21 May 2025
Catz Professor publishes a Landmark Experiment in Psychiatry and Psychology
Professor Ole Jensen, Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology and Non-Stipendiary Professorial …
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18 September, 2019
Hong Kong Dinner
The Pro-Master, Professor Peter Battle, will be visiting Hong Kong in September, and looks forward to welcoming alumni and members…
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5 July 2019
Fellow Awarded Institute of Physics Medal and Prize
Catz Fellow, Professor Ian Shipsey, has been awarded the Institute of Physics 2019 Chadwick Medal and Prize. This award recognises…
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28 June 2019
A New Home for Catz Graduates
St Catherine’s opened its doors as a College in 1962 in what was a revolutionary event for the University. Not…
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28 June 2019
Remembering Professor Roger Ainsworth
On 13th March, friends, family and colleagues of the late Professor Roger Ainsworth gathered in the University Church of St…
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28 June 2019
Catz Student in Historic Boat Race
Graduate student Augustin Wambersie (2018, Engineering Science) represented Oxford in the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race in April this year….
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28 June 2019
Outstanding Violin Gifted to Catz Students
Alumnus Arnold Freedman (1949, Medicine) died in November 2017, bequeathing his violin – a highly valuable instrument with remarkable heritage…
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28 June 2019
Catz Alumnus Fighting Dementia with ‘Magic Table’
Catz alumnus John Ramsay (2003, Modern Languages & Linguistics) is the co-founder of socially responsible company Shift8*, which he launched…
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28 June 2019
Catz Alumna Speaks on Microsoft Education Panel
In January this year, Catz alumna Michaela Brady (2017, MSc Social Science of the Internet) presented on a panel at…
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19 June 2019
Professor Kersti Börjars Appointed as New Master
St Catherine’s College is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Kersti Börjars as Master of the College. She will…
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13 June 2019
Five Members of Catz Community Receive Queen’s Birthday Honours
We are delighted to extend our congratulations to several members of the Catz community for receiving recognition for their work…
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24 May 2019
Honorary Fellow, Professor Goodenough, Awarded Royal Society’s Copley Medal
We are delighted to announce that Professor John Goodenough, Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s, has been awarded the Royal Society’s…
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8 April 2019
Catz Fine Artists host An Insight into their work
With our award-winning Arne Jacobsen buildings, Barbara Hepworth sculpture, and Tom Philips tapestries hanging in Hall, St Catz has a…
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7 March 2019
Professor Peter Battle elected Pro-Master
Professor Peter Battle, Fellow and Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry at St Catherine’s, has been elected Pro-Master of the College. He…
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7 March 2019
Students Shine at Catz Exchange Conference
Last month the college hosted the seventh annual Catz Exchange, an interdisciplinary conference organised by and for members of the…
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7 March 2019
Fellow Receives Commercial Impact Award
Professor Byron Byrne, one of our Fellows in Engineering Science, recently won an Impact Award from the University’s Mathematical, Physical…
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7 March 2019
Alumna Artist Creates Installation for Catz Ball
Svetlana Grishina (2008, Fine Art) is a contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited all over Europe and explores themes…
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7 March 2019
Colorintech Founder Featured as Top Tech Leader
Catz alumnus Ashleigh Ainsley (2011, Geography) was recently featured by the Financial Times as one of the top 100 black…
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7 March 2019
Catz Alumni Take On University Challenge
We were delighted to have a team of alumni – Michael Billington (1958, English), Susie Boyt (1988, English), Peter Knowles…
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7 March 2019
Alumni News in Brief
Richard Atkins QC (1985, Law) was last year elected, and is now serving, as Chair of the Bar Council for…
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25 February 2019
Roger Ainsworth (1951-2019)
St Catherine’s College is deeply saddened to share the news that the Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth, died on 23 February…
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30 January 2019
Fellow wins Costa Book of the Year
We are delighted to announce that Professor Bart van Es, one of our Fellows in English, has won the 2018…
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22 January 2019
Sir Michael Atiyah (1929 – 2019)
St Catherine’s College is saddened to share the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, Honorary Fellow, passed away on 11th January,…
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18 January 2019
Research Team wins Royal Society of Medicine Prize
A research team at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), made up entirely of St Catz Alumni, Fellows and…
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9 January 2019
Catz student wins Gold at iGEM competition
Congratulations to second-year student Laurel Constanti Crosby (2017, Biological Sciences), who was part of the undergraduate Oxford iGEM team that…
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7 January 2019
Catz Alumnus recognised in New Year’s Honours
We are immensely proud that Catz alumnus Professor Geoffrey Maitland (1965, Chemistry) has been made a CBE in the 2019…
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7 January 2019
David Daniell (1929-2016)
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Honorary Fellow and alumnus Professor David Daniell (1949, English), who died…
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23 November 2018
Third Year Student Launches Youth Law Journal
Josh Tray (2016, Law) is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the YLJ (Youth Law Journal), an online legal and political…
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23 November 2018
Second Year Student Mentors at Oxford-Based Summer School
Amie Campbell (2017, Mathematics and Statistics), JCR Access Rep, shares her experience of being a Student Ambassador at the UNIQ…
