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Rattle doubles up honours at Encaenia
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The University honoured outstanding contributions in the fields of music,
literature, mathematics, statistics, ancient history, medicine, and law at
Encaenia on Wednesday, 23 June.
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New teaching course unveiled
:
A postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, which
begins at the University in Michaelmas Term, has attracted strong interest,
with participants drawn from a wide range of academic and research staff
from the University and colleges.
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Camel helps raise funds for Kenya
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A party of walkers, accompanying a camel, completed the 85-mile walk from
Oxford to Cambridge University in six days to mark the bicentenary of the
Church Mission Society.
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New Professor of Applied Mathematics
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Dr Stephen Jonathan Chapman, who since
1995 has been Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Mathematical
Institute and is Fellow by Special Election of St Catherine's College, has been
appointed to the professorship of Mathematics and its Applications.
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Doors opened to East End pupils
:
The special links between Oxford colleges and East End schools were
reinforced when a group of 30 pupils from Harbinger's School, East London,
made a visit to Brasenose College under the auspices of the Stepney
Children's Fund school
`twinning' scheme during Trinity Term.
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Medical numbers increased:
Oxford has been given an extra 57 places for medical students, as part of a
Government initiative to address the shortage of doctors. Of these, 37 are for
additional students on the existing pre-clinical course. The remainder are on
a new course for suitably qualified graduates, who wish to pursue a career
in medicine.
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Award for Professor Reed:
Professor Jim Reed,
Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, has been awarded
the Gold Medal of the International Goethe Society, Weimar, in the 250th
anniversary year of Goethe's birth. Professor Reed is currently Schiller
Visiting Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
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American Philosophical Society :
Professor William Hamilton and Professor Sir John Boardman are among nine
new foreign members of the American Philosphical Society. Sir John, an
Honorary Fellow of Lincoln and Merton Colleges, was Professor of Classical
Archaeology (1978–94). Professor Hamilton is Royal Society Research
Professor in Zoology and Fellow of New College.
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Dr Robert Hiorns:
Dr Robert Hiorns,
University Lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Fellow of Linacre
College, has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics
and its Applications, the largest body in the world
representing mathematicians in industry, education, and government.
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Cardinal Lustiger preaches:
The University's annual St John's Day Sermon was delivered on 27 June by
His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris. He delivered
his sermon on the theme `Truth' from the stone pulpit in St John's Quadrangle
at Magdalen College. Among the congregation were the Chancellor, Lord
Jenkins of Hillhead, the UK Ambassador to France, and the French Ambassador
here.
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