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• Midges ‘actively spread’ bluetongue epidemic

  08 Feb 12

• ‘Goldilocks’ gene could determine best treatment for TB patients

  03 Feb 12

• Brain size could determine whether you are good at maintaining friendships

  01 Feb 12

• Half of species found by ‘great plant hunters’

  01 Feb 12

• Oxford University access activity sees results

  31 Jan 12

• Images for great plant hunters story

  27 Jan 12

• 2,000,000 degree matter mimics stars

  26 Jan 12

• Laser hints at how Universe got its magnetism

  26 Jan 12

• Museums awarded major Arts Council grant

  25 Jan 12

• ‘UK’s infrastructure systems need to be more joined up’ says major new report

  24 Jan 12

• Courts endangering religious freedom, Oxford academic warns

  24 Jan 12

• Study of why men ‘exhibit warrior tendencies’

  23 Jan 12

• Voltaire’s English alter-ego unmasked by new letters

  20 Jan 12

• Wikipedia founder launches free speech project in Oxford today

  19 Jan 12

• Join in the star party with Stargazing Oxford

  17 Jan 12

• Effective regulation is key to the sustainability of litigation funding warns report

  16 Jan 12

• Informal economy is ‘neglected in responses to climate change’

  11 Jan 12

• Oxford education within reach for more students

  11 Jan 12

• Exhibition remembers refugees who fled to Oxford before and during World War II.

  11 Jan 12

• For crying out loud!: Baby cries get a speedy response

  10 Jan 12

• What happens to the young and educated without a job?

  06 Jan 12

• First trial of a new hepatitis C vaccine shows promise

  04 Jan 12

• ‘Lost world’ discovered around Antarctic vents

  04 Jan 12

• Treating sleep problems may be important in schizophrenia

  22 Dec 11

• Ten scholarships available for study at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government

  19 Dec 11

• Social media in protests: Study finds ‘recruiters’ and ‘spreaders’

  16 Dec 11

• Dwarf star triggered nearest type 1a supernova

  15 Dec 11

• Wildlife broadcasters and film-makers ‘should pay for ecosystem services’

  09 Dec 11

• Rare gene variant implicates vitamin D in multiple sclerosis

  08 Dec 11

• ‘Alien’ eggs benefit mockingbirds

  07 Dec 11

• Oxford’s student support most generous in country

  07 Dec 11

• STUDY SAYS ‘MOST POOR PEOPLE DON’T LIVE IN THE POOREST COUNTRIES’

  07 Dec 11

• Treating the brain with tiny electric currents may aid stroke recovery

  07 Dec 11

• Being told painting is fake changes brain’s response to art

  06 Dec 11

• EURO 2012 COULD HIT SCHOOL EXAM RESULTS

  02 Dec 11

• Large study will help guide women’s choices in where to give birth

  25 Nov 11

• Synaesthesia linked to a hyper-excitable brain

  18 Nov 11

• Starlings help to explain irrational preferences

  18 Nov 11

• Oresteia reunion and exhibition staged at Oxford University

  17 Nov 11

• Oxford University scientist wins ‘Woman of the Future’ award

  17 Nov 11

• ‘Being an outsider made me creative,’ Meera Syal tells Oxford University audience

  15 Nov 11

• Amplifier helps diamond spy on atoms

  11 Nov 11

• Stem cell approach primes immune system to fight cancer

  10 Nov 11

• New research provides clues to why humans are so sociable these days

  10 Nov 11

• Major national differences in reporting of climate scepticism says study

  10 Nov 11

• Universities continue outreach success with local schools and colleges

  09 Nov 11

• Quartet wins Music Faculty’s ‘Battle of the Bands’

  07 Nov 11

• New Zealand triathletes select Iffley Road as 2012 base

  04 Nov 11

• Earliest modern humans’ in Europe identified by Oxford researchers

  03 Nov 11

• Study: Voluntary disclosures about hedge fund performance are ‘reliably unreliable’

  03 Nov 11

• Patagonian poetry comes to Oxford

  02 Nov 11

• Oxford study asks first-time fathers ‘How do you feel about having a baby?’

  01 Nov 11

• Oxford historian wins international book prize

  01 Nov 11

• Dementia costs Europe £165 billion a year

  27 Oct 11

• First patient receives novel gene therapy for type of blindness

  27 Oct 11

• Images for gene therapy story

  27 Oct 11

• Largest study of causes of cancer in India begins

  25 Oct 11

• Oxford student explores ‘alternative world’ of premillennial movements

  19 Oct 11

• Meera Syal named as next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor at Oxford

  19 Oct 11

• Brits are choosing portable devices to go online and they’re not just passive consumers

  17 Oct 11

• The other half of the story: Study uncovers Britain’s real views on immigration

  16 Oct 11

• Robot cars: more time, fewer prangs, less congestion

  10 Oct 11

• Blavatnik School of Government announcements

  06 Oct 11

• Does rote learning poems bring comfort and strengthen identity?

  06 Oct 11

• Images for Wildcat car story

  05 Oct 11

• ‘Would it matter if tigers became extinct?’ Sample questions give an insight into Oxford interviews

  04 Oct 11

• Curb bankers’ pay by capping each bank’s bonus pool, says study

  26 Sep 11

• Feathered friends help wild birds innovate

  20 Sep 11

• A good laugh with others really does ease the pain, says study

  14 Sep 11

• Oxford scanner reveals secrets of documents, ancient and modern

  13 Sep 11

• Images for OMS story

  12 Sep 11

• Supernova will ‘brighten up’ 7-8 September

  07 Sep 11

• Henry VIII’s Nonsuch Palace 'recreated', thanks to Oxford research

  06 Sep 11

• Oxford University Vice-Chancellor visits Germany

  01 Sep 11

• Rock rafts could be ‘cradle of life’

  01 Sep 11

• Vitamin A supplements 'could save the lives of thousands' a year

  26 Aug 11

• Supernova images - updated

  26 Aug 11

• ‘Nearest supernova for 40 years’ say scientists

  25 Aug 11

• Study: Vitamin A supplements could save the lives of 600,000 infants a year

  25 Aug 11

• Researchers produce complete map of gene activity in the brains of mice

  24 Aug 11

• Public support for the media biased against online news says Oxford report

  22 Aug 11

• Oxford study shows one in six IT projects end up ‘out of control’

  22 Aug 11

• Plants and fungi play the ‘underground market’

  11 Aug 11

• New two-drug approach to treat type of respiratory disease

  10 Aug 11

• Rat makes its own poison from toxic tree

  03 Aug 11

• The changing landscape of England – from the Bronze Age to the Normans

  01 Aug 11

• Why plant ‘clones’ aren’t identical

  29 Jul 11

• Graduate leaders ‘drive up standards’ in nursery provision

  28 Jul 11

• Scientists create global map of religious forests to protect biodiversity hotspots

  27 Jul 11

• It’s dim up north – so Northerners need bigger brains to see properly

  27 Jul 11

• Public to hunt for lost gospels, literature & letters

  26 Jul 11

• Images for papyri story

  25 Jul 11

• Fickle pollinators ‘lured away’ by farms

  22 Jul 11

• Puffins ‘scout out’ best migration route

  21 Jul 11

• Activists from ’68 revolutions interviewed for database

  15 Jul 11

• Biofuels study gives clue to forest ecosystems

  15 Jul 11

• Insect ‘incest’ signals an end to males

  14 Jul 11

• Accentuating the positive may eliminate the negative in teenagers with anxiety

  13 Jul 11

• Modern polar bears are descended from extinct brown bears from Ireland

  08 Jul 11

• Coaching has a ‘significant result’ on SAT scores says Oxford study

  06 Jul 11

• Oxford appoints new Director of Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance

  05 Jul 11

• Oxford University Open Days give visitors a taste of life at Oxford

  22 Jun 11

• 97 out of every 100 children in rural China who needed glasses didn’t wear them

  22 Jun 11

• Study explores what is likely to bring a sense of well-being in old age

  21 Jun 11

• Most elliptical galaxies are ‘like spirals’

  21 Jun 11

• Nerve cells grown from stem cells give new insight into Parkinson’s

  17 Jun 11

• Atlas3D images

  15 Jun 11

• Parrots and crows show their inventive side

  09 Jun 11

• Have Oxford academics found ‘the real Ophelia’?

  08 Jun 11

• Images for kea parrots & crows

  03 Jun 11

• Teeth of hominids suggests early cavemen had ‘foreign brides’

  01 Jun 11

• Lord Macdonald selected as next Warden of Wadham College Oxford

  01 Jun 11

• How the arts and humanities gave Andrew Motion ‘his life’ – poet to defend arts at Oxford University’s Romanes Lecture

  31 May 11

• UNIVERSITY CHURCH APPOINTS NEW ARCHITECTS TO TELL OXFORD'S STORY

  26 May 11

• Pakistan and Queensland floods, will they become more regular events?

  26 May 11

• Oxford appoints its first Chair in modern Israel studies

  26 May 11

• Men and women could be doing an equal share of housework by 2050 says study

  20 May 11

• Mineral discovery reels in wild silk harvest

  19 May 11

• Cell therapy aims to prevent transplant rejection

  19 May 11

• Wild silk images

  18 May 11

• Bird on wire: poem’s strange beauty wins national prize

  11 May 11

• Dating of Neanderthal fossil suggests they died out earlier than previously thought

  09 May 11

• Prolonged breastfeeding may be connected to fewer child behaviour problems

  09 May 11

• North Africa in transition: mobility, forced migration and humanitarian crises

  06 May 11

• Daily pill for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

  05 May 11

• Painful periods increase sensitivity to pain throughout the month

  04 May 11

• Top ten policies to tackle climate change

  04 May 11

• New look for old High Street favourite

  28 Apr 11

• ExxonMobil Foundation scholarships to train next generation of global health leaders

  26 Apr 11

• Race against time and natural disasters to record language spoken by three people

  21 Apr 11

• Young detectives get chance to solve Oxford murder

  20 Apr 11

• Swapping ‘dance partners’ in the brain is key to learning

  19 Apr 11

• Loch fossils show life harnessed sun and sex early on

  13 Apr 11

• Images for Loch fossils story

  11 Apr 11

• BNP support determined by whether or not whites and non-whites mix

  07 Apr 11

• Oxford to award those who have helped to shape the Internet

  06 Apr 11

• People willing to pay painful price for friendship

  04 Apr 11

• University of Oxford’s PGCE course ranked as ‘outstanding’ across the board

  28 Mar 11

• Hertford College names Will Hutton as new principal

  28 Mar 11

• Oxford to welcome Christchurch students

  24 Mar 11

• Oxford’s Kellogg College comes of age

  23 Mar 11

• Research innovation wins grant awards for Oxford researchers

  23 Mar 11

• New method delivers Alzheimer’s drug to the brain

  21 Mar 11

• Free spectacles raise attainment levels for schoolchildren in developing countries

  18 Mar 11

• Oxford University Cricket Club Blues embark on first ever Indian tour

  18 Mar 11

• Eight new scholarships available at Oxford for African graduates

  16 Mar 11

• Health of 250,000 British Asians to be studied

  16 Mar 11

• Proposed tuition charges at Oxford between £3,500 and £9,000

  15 Mar 11

• Judging couples’ chemistry influenced by serotonin

  11 Mar 11

• New statistics on admissions and household income of Oxford students

  11 Mar 11

• Best selling science author speaks at Oxford

  09 Mar 11

• Oxford launches ‘killer app’ for research

  04 Mar 11

• Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2011

  03 Mar 11

• Comprehensive schools do not reduce social mobility, say researchers

  02 Mar 11

• Celebrated quintet perform for Oxford

  23 Feb 11

• Oxford artist inspired by the sea

  22 Feb 11

• Greenhouse gases contributed substantially to the risk of floods in Autumn 2000

  17 Feb 11

• The placebo effect: expecting the best, fearing the worst

  17 Feb 11

• One third of us have tried dating websites with middle-aged suitors using them most

  14 Feb 11

• New scholarships for African students announced during Kofi Annan’s visit to Oxford

  13 Feb 11

• Oxford study produces pack on how to teach deaf children and others weak on maths

  11 Feb 11

• Ghost Forest finale to inspire future generations

  10 Feb 11

• Debut book wins accolade for Oxford climate policy researchers

  10 Feb 11

• Prime ministerial TV debates made the young ‘more interested in the campaign’

  07 Feb 11

• Hidden pornographic poems explain 'bestseller' success of C18 poetical volumes

  04 Feb 11

• Atom-thick sheets unlock future technologies

  04 Feb 11

• First IVF babies born using new chromosome counting technique

  04 Feb 11

• New study probes principles of banking

  03 Feb 11

• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers lecture in Oxford

  02 Feb 11

• The genomic revolution and personalised healthcare to be subject of first Oxford London Lecture

  31 Jan 11

• Secrets of Swift’s intimate letters revealed

  28 Jan 11

• New African wolf discovered

  27 Jan 11

• New study tests treatments for uterine fibroids

  26 Jan 11

• Restoration of University Church will restore Oxford’s tallest spire – but leave Cromwell’s bullet holes untouched

  26 Jan 11

• Laing O’Rourke and Oxford University announce construction engineering centre

  24 Jan 11

• Fishy tale inspires student singers and Oxford children

  24 Jan 11

• Art students dip into the world of work

  21 Jan 11

• 10 billion bits of entanglement achieved in silicon

  20 Jan 11

• Dangerous environments ‘make parents more caring’

  19 Jan 11

• OECD Study: Lurid language, poor analysis, heavy lobbying inhibiting governments’ plans to provide cyber protection

  17 Jan 11

• Light touch makes non-superconductor a superconductor

  13 Jan 11

• Major archaeological project examines interactions that changed China

  10 Jan 11

• Study suggests economic insecurity can make you obese

  07 Jan 11

• International honour for Oxford language expert

  06 Jan 11

• New team to lead maternal and newborn health programme

  06 Jan 11

• Lessons in the language of Christ attract record numbers

  21 Dec 10

• Computers spot mistletoe hugs and kisses

  20 Dec 10

• Smaller than small: Oxford professor questions stuff about space and time

  16 Dec 10

• Volunteers to hunt for ‘lost Earth-like planets’

  16 Dec 10

• Eight teachers win inspirational teaching award from Oxford University

  14 Dec 10

• International award for Oxford music expert

  13 Dec 10

• blank‘Black provinces still worst off’ in study of health spending in South Africa

  09 Dec 10

• 35,000 new species ‘sitting in cupboards’

  08 Dec 10

• A tutor’s-eye view of Oxford admissions interviews – as they happen

  08 Dec 10

• Can foreign correspondents survive in a transformed media age?

  08 Dec 10

• Young poets’ competition aims for biggest entry yet

  01 Dec 10

• New study assesses the water availability in major river basins in a warmer world

  29 Nov 10

• Targets must tackle global warming rate

  26 Nov 10

• New Institute of Rheumatology to be built on Old Road Campus

  26 Nov 10

• New book highlights Oxford’s 900-year involvement in the development of medicine

  25 Nov 10

• Oxford more popular than ever with international students

  23 Nov 10

• Evolution study says socialising led to bigger brains in some mammals

  22 Nov 10

• Crisis? What crisis? Study of the future of the international news industry

  22 Nov 10

• Could history lessons inform NATO’s pull-out from Iraq and Afghanistan?

  19 Nov 10

• All viruses ‘are potential stowaways in our DNA’

  19 Nov 10

• Women’s experiences of NHS maternity care outlined in new national survey

  17 Nov 10

• Speech monitoring could track Parkinson’s

  17 Nov 10

• Computer users simulate extreme weather at home

  17 Nov 10

• Major international study to test new drug to cut heart disease

  17 Nov 10

• Climate science ‘under-reported’ at Copenhagen summit says study

  16 Nov 10

• Study confirms overactive FTO gene does cause overeating and obesity

  16 Nov 10

• Plans to make Oxford a US-style centre for successful innovation in healthcare

  12 Nov 10

• Tetris flashback reduction effect ‘not common to all games’

  11 Nov 10

• Oxford achieves a UK first with programme for young carers

  11 Nov 10

• Electric brain stimulation improves maths performance

  05 Nov 10

• The length of the finger points to promiscuity of early humans

  03 Nov 10

• £3m donation funds new research centre at Magdalen College, Oxford

  03 Nov 10

• Pembroke College, Oxford to expand significantly

  02 Nov 10

• £10m gift towards dedicated building for the study of China at Oxford University

  27 Oct 10

• Lizard sex linked to climate

  27 Oct 10

• Images for lizard story

  25 Oct 10

• Jane Austen’s famous style may not be hers after all, Oxford University academic finds

  23 Oct 10

• First Indigenous Australian scholars settle into life at Oxford

  21 Oct 10

• Launch of Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture

  20 Oct 10

• ‘What is “normal” for humans?’ Sample questions give an insight into Oxford interviews

  19 Oct 10

• New study questions whether Neanderthals made jewellery after all

  19 Oct 10

• WWI ships chart past climate

  12 Oct 10

• Study of 50 million Facebook users shows our ‘herding instinct’ turns on and off

  12 Oct 10

• Reducing the UK’s reliance on migrant labour ‘needs more than a cap on immigration’

  12 Oct 10

• Apple-shaped or pear-shaped, it’s partly down to your genes

  11 Oct 10

• Cruise to trace ocean's vital nutrients

  08 Oct 10

• Rare melt key to 'Ring of Fire'

  07 Oct 10

• Jazz singer tops bill at Black History Month in Oxford

  06 Oct 10

• Transcript from Vice-Chancellor's Oration

  05 Oct 10

• Birds could signal mass extinction

  04 Oct 10

• Oxford University archive retrieves smutty lost 'Milton' poem

  22 Sep 10

• Sir David Weatherall wins top US medical prize

  22 Sep 10

• Oxford University launches the Blavatnik School of Government

  20 Sep 10

• Foraging for fat: crafty crows use tools to fish for nutritious morsels

  17 Sep 10

• Oxford University report: Mutuals deliver economic stability

  17 Sep 10

• How do you follow Sir David Attenborough? Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum records new audio guide

  16 Sep 10

• Images for launch

  15 Sep 10

• Wildflower ‘armours’ itself against disease

  10 Sep 10

• Acting selfish? Blame your mother

  01 Sep 10

• Trevor Nunn named as next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor at Oxford

  27 Aug 10

• Oxfordshire students taught Latin on Saturdays by University receive GCSE results

  24 Aug 10

• Faithful females key to evolution of bird societies

  19 Aug 10

• Study suggests high stress levels may delay women getting pregnant

  11 Aug 10

• New vaccine approach could turn HIV’s sugar coating into its Achilles’ heel

  20 Jul 10

• Oxford University and UNDP join forces to launch a better way to measure global poverty

  14 Jul 10

• Facebook and Twitter: the real winners in elections?

  12 Jul 10

• Major international study examines whether 'being poor' causes shame

  05 Jul 10

• Prolonged training at altitude could decrease athletes’ performance

  29 Jun 10

• 12 new genes linked to type 2 diabetes

  27 Jun 10

• Old males rule the roost even as sex drive fades

  25 Jun 10

• Oxford science exhibits to wow crowds

  24 Jun 10

• Radiocarbon dating of plant remains pinpoints chronology of ancient Egyptian kings

  18 Jun 10

• Geoffrey Hill triumphs as Professor of Poetry

  18 Jun 10

• Oxford University Open Days draw visitors to city centre

  17 Jun 10

• New research into which nation talks about football the most in cyberspace

  17 Jun 10

• Six new planets discovered by CoRoT telescope

  15 Jun 10

• Dictionary scholars debate slang, standardisation and the 'special relationship'

  15 Jun 10

• Rare genetic variations involving whole sections of DNA implicated in autism

  10 Jun 10

• Oxford museums to offer new training opportunities in heritage education

  08 Jun 10

• Oxford University looks to wisdom of the crowd for ways to reduce maternal deaths worldwide

  07 Jun 10

• The dark side of mining for gold: research suggests mining in Africa is spreading TB

  01 Jun 10

• Study suggests third party litigation funding ‘does nothing’ for ordinary consumers

  01 Jun 10

• Chinese scholars win £90,000 Pacific Alliance Scholarships to study at Oxford

  01 Jun 10

• Oxford University granted planning permission for new buildings by Rafael Viñoly Architects and Bennetts Associates at Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

  28 May 10

• Grown-up galaxy shows Universe of extremes

  25 May 10

• Mistakes can explain 'cooperative' behaviour

  18 May 10

• Oxford study finds that ivy can protect walls

  14 May 10

• Decoding our network communities

  14 May 10

• Oxford study of wartime experiences of Jewish professor and expert in Celtic Art

  14 May 10

• Sir Ka-shing Li donates £5 million to Oxford University for global health programmes

  13 May 10

• Online Companions: 'must-have' technology to provide comfort in old age?

  13 May 10

• Major study into workforce of children caring for AIDS-sick adults in South Africa

  12 May 10

• Poetry Professor nominations close – 11 candidates confirmed

  10 May 10

• Oxford research funding scheme scores rapid $100m success

  28 Apr 10

• Chimp mothers carry mummified infants

  27 Apr 10

• Elephants have word for 'bee-ware'

  27 Apr 10

• Exhibit celebrates 120 years of South Asians at Oxford

  26 Apr 10

• Hubble’s 20th birthday treat

  24 Apr 10

• Chimp mummy images

  22 Apr 10

• Elephant rumble video

  21 Apr 10

• Elephant word images and audio

  21 Apr 10

• Travel disruption keeps Bodleian Library's Magna Carta in New York

  21 Apr 10

• Oxford University team measure ash fall

  20 Apr 10

• Oxford reaches £800m fundraising landmark with donation for research into a disease that turns muscle to bone

  15 Apr 10

• Images for FOP case study

  14 Apr 10

• Images for pigeon flocks story

  06 Apr 10

• Pigeon 'backpacks' reveal flock leadership

  06 Apr 10

• Budding detectives get chance to solve Oxford murder

  31 Mar 10

• British Muslim leaders 'not doing enough to engage with extremist arguments'

  30 Mar 10

• Oxford centre publishes recommendations for improving NHS healthcare

  30 Mar 10

• Scientists look for examples of people's writing for new Alzheimer's study

  26 Mar 10

• New cancer biomarker may herald personalised medicine

  23 Mar 10

• University of Oxford releases preliminary figures for 2010 entry and 2009 entry figures

  22 Mar 10

• Discovery of CoRoT-9b: a cool transiting Jupiter

  18 Mar 10

• Who should get the bouquet on Sunday? Mothers or grandmothers?

  12 Mar 10

• Author comments on blood pressure variability and stroke as published in Lancet and Lancet Neurology

  12 Mar 10

• Measuring a mother’s love: mother is ‘more essential’ than breadwinner father

  12 Mar 10

• Experts on 10th anniversary of the first draft human genome

  11 Mar 10

• Report puts electoral systems under the microscope

  10 Mar 10

• Millennium Development Goals being 'missed' due to narrow disease focus

  02 Mar 10

• Images for Toba super-eruption story

  22 Feb 10

• New evidence shows populations survived the Toba super-eruption 74,000 years ago

  22 Feb 10

• Fossils net plankton-eating giant

  19 Feb 10

• Irish and British researchers uncover DNA genome sequence of extinct ancient cattle

  19 Feb 10

• New method makes vaccines stable at tropical temperatures

  18 Feb 10

• Nominations for next Professor of Poetry open

  18 Feb 10

• Hairy secret of foraging plants discovered

  17 Feb 10

• Images for giant plankton-eater story

  16 Feb 10

• Applications open for Oxford’s new UNIQ Summer Schools

  10 Feb 10

• Experts on voting behaviour and elections

  09 Feb 10

  Experts on voting behaviour and British elections

• Images of fossilised trails

  03 Feb 10

• Fossils show earliest animal trails

  03 Feb 10

• Doctors need to take note of parental concern, one of several red flags that can indicate a serious childhood infection

  03 Feb 10

• Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2010

  02 Feb 10

• Final consultation on Iffley Road sports complex

  27 Jan 10

• Studies of cancer stem cells can forge ahead thanks to Oxford research

  26 Jan 10

• New Oxford institute will be a centre of excellence for research into fertility and reproduction

  21 Jan 10

• Search for ice sheet ‘tipping point’

  13 Jan 10

• Study identifies genes associated with common type of arthritis

  10 Jan 10

• Combination therapy better than leading drug for bipolar disorder

  23 Dec 09

• African leaf-eating primates are ‘likely to be wiped out’ by climate change

  17 Dec 09

• Oxford University centre to run the Commission on Ownership

  16 Dec 09

• University of Oxford to launch Master's in Law and Finance

  14 Dec 09

• Oxford begins search for next Professor of Poetry

  09 Dec 09

• Updated Hubble reveals most distant galaxies yet

  09 Dec 09

• Web search and 'everyware' targeted by Oxford scientists

  07 Dec 09

• Why is India developing solar power so slowly?

  03 Dec 09

• The quest for lost gems

  03 Dec 09

• International conference in Oxford asks 'what do atheists believe?'

  02 Dec 09

• Is making carbon 'SAFE' the answer?

  30 Nov 09

• Public sector workers ‘more likely to have baby due to family-friendly policies’

  29 Nov 09

• Selling antibiotic eye drops at chemists has seen a 50% increase in their use

  27 Nov 09

• ‘Cosmic fruit machine’ matches collisions

  24 Nov 09

• Leading Italian news publisher says conflict between press and Prime Minister in Italy is 'a question that concerns all our democracies'

  24 Nov 09

• Queen's Anniversary Prize for Oxford University's museums, libraries and archives

  18 Nov 09

• Ethics academic pledges £1 million of career salary to charity

  12 Nov 09

• Climate change experts

  12 Nov 09

  Climate change experts at the University of Oxford

• Developed countries ‘must finance low carbon technology’ in China and India

  11 Nov 09

• Siegfried Sassoon electronic collection launches

  09 Nov 09

• Oxford scientists ask if biodiversity is persisting in the face of climate change

  05 Nov 09

• New TV series explores history of Christianity

  04 Nov 09

• Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

  03 Nov 09

• Record application numbers for Oxford University

  02 Nov 09

• Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

  30 Oct 09

• First Indigenous Australian students to attend Oxford University

  27 Oct 09

• Wiser OWL learns to unravel doctor talk

  27 Oct 09

• Lifetime achievement award for Oxford Professor Vernon Bogdanor

  25 Oct 09

• Live countdown to the trillionth tonne

  22 Oct 09

• Get astronomer’s view of the night’s sky

  22 Oct 09

• Enrolment nearing completion in swine flu vaccine study

  21 Oct 09

• Our evolutionary past may hold the key to understanding how we choose our leaders

  21 Oct 09

• Remote-controlled flies point to what memories are made of

  20 Oct 09

• Enrolment nearing completion in swine flu vaccine study

  20 Oct 09

• Oxford University's 21st century campus revealed

  20 Oct 09

• Our evolutionary past may hold the key to understanding how we choose our leaders

  20 Oct 09

• Oxford to welcome new Royal Society Professors

  20 Oct 09

• Stephen Garrett named Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media

  14 Oct 09

• Images for Mobile Oxford story

  12 Oct 09

• Mobile service ‘puts Oxford University in your pocket’

  12 Oct 09

• Juggling enhances connections in the brain

  12 Oct 09

• ‘Why would you read Twilight?’: Sample questions give an insight into Oxford interviews

  08 Oct 09

• How are mobile phones and online social networks changing the way we behave?

  07 Oct 09

• Planning permission granted on Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

  06 Oct 09

• Lead author explains BMJ study on smoking during pregnancy and social inequality in stillbirths and infant deaths

  02 Oct 09

• Incoming Oxford Vice-Chancellor starts work

  01 Oct 09

• Monkeys' grooming habits provide new clues to how we network and socialise

  30 Sep 09

• Government must return Northern Rock to the mutual sector, says Oxford report

  27 Sep 09

• World Car Free Day - Ways to get more of us out of our cars

  22 Sep 09

• Tax relief, trusts and regulation: protecting the diversity of local and regional news

  22 Sep 09

• Journalists need 'new, collaborative ways to tell stories'

  18 Sep 09

• Secrets of long-haul insect flight revealed

  17 Sep 09

• HIV’s ancestors ‘plagued first mammals’

  17 Sep 09

• Team athletes have higher endorphin release when they train together

  16 Sep 09

• Image & video for insect flight story

  15 Sep 09

• Author Philip Pullman unveils new Bodleian grotesques based on children's designs

  14 Sep 09

• Rival bird species evolve to sing the same tune

  09 Sep 09

• Images for Yasa electric motor spin-out

  09 Sep 09

• Images & audio for birds sing same tune release

  03 Sep 09

• Are tigers 'brainier' than lions?

  02 Sep 09

• Oxford park ‘has best views in Universe’

  25 Aug 09

• Scientists explain why birds get sex on the brain in the Spring

  12 Aug 09

• Cut marks on bone from Kent’s Cavern suggest mortuary rituals of Early Britons

  12 Aug 09

• Oxford researcher adds music to Dover Castle restoration

  04 Aug 09

• Men who are happy to do housework are more likely to get the girl

  03 Aug 09

• Oxford’s first top honours student in beginners’ Russian

  29 Jul 09

• Wind estimate ‘shortens Saturn’s day by five minutes’

  29 Jul 09

• Transparent aluminium is ‘new state of matter’

  26 Jul 09

• Oxford University shows support for LGBT staff

  22 Jul 09

• Mutation causing one type of male infertility found

  20 Jul 09

• African men who have sex with men are ostracised from HIV services

  20 Jul 09

• Oxford choir sings for Harry Potter film

  16 Jul 09

• Tighten up definition of ‘public interest’ to safeguard privacy

  13 Jul 09

• 'Save lives' by spending £115 per head to get jobless into work

  08 Jul 09

• Oxygen key to ‘cut and paste’ of genes

  03 Jul 09

• Genetic changes involved in learning disability identified

  26 Jun 09

• Oxford University plans ‘personalised healthcare for life’

  25 Jun 09

• Definition of a refugee needs updating, report tells United Nations

  25 Jun 09

• Recognise key role of migrant care workers in our ageing society says study

  25 Jun 09

• WCSJ Madgalen event scientist profiles

  24 Jun 09

• Survey suggests proportion of Britons reading online news has doubled in two years

  22 Jun 09

• Survey reveals why some people are saying 'No thanks' to Digital Britain

  22 Jun 09

• Study suggests a gulf between how the news is portrayed and public experience

  15 Jun 09

• International network receives $20m to combat malaria drug resistance

  11 Jun 09

• Scientists call for limits on cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide

  10 Jun 09

• How spreading cancers establish themselves in the brain

  10 Jun 09

• Oxford tops external research income

  09 Jun 09

• Largest review of 14-19 education and training in England and Wales for 50 years

  09 Jun 09

• Why musicians fear the recording studio

  08 Jun 09

• Images of beehive fence

  04 Jun 09

• Beehive fence deters elephant raiders

  04 Jun 09

• Oxford celebrates Sir Isaiah Berlin centenary

  02 Jun 09

• Global links will breed more dangerous parasites

  28 May 09

• Small risk of violence in schizophrenia unless drugs and alcohol are involved

  20 May 09

• A shock to the system: Report into the Freedom of Information Act 2000

  20 May 09

• How religious beliefs become radicalised: the dramatic rise of female madrasas

  14 May 09

• New people power of digital information technology undermines reputations of the institutions of political and corporate power.

  12 May 09

• Oxford electric motor set for track tests

  07 May 09

• Images of new electric motor

  07 May 09

• Bumblebee images

  06 May 09

• Bumblebee flight ‘triumph of power over finesse’

  06 May 09

• Chaiten volcano images

  05 May 09

• Ash shows past eruptions ‘underestimated’

  05 May 09

• ‘The world’s oldest manufactured beads’ are older than previously thought

  01 May 09

• Thaleia Zariphopoulou to become first Man Professor of Quantitative Finance

  29 Apr 09

• ‘Save the trillionth tonne’: Scientists present new challenges for climate change policy

  29 Apr 09

• New 'gene' identified that may increase susceptibility to autism

  29 Apr 09

• Work-life balance better in the 18th century

  27 Apr 09

• Oxford University announces new summer schools

  24 Apr 09

• New international study targets healthy development of unborn babies

  24 Apr 09

• Tahiti corals clue to ‘dynamic’ glaciers

  24 Apr 09

• Quantum cat’s ‘whiskers’ offer advanced sensors

  24 Apr 09

• New TB vaccine candidate enters Phase IIb proof-of-concept trial in South Africa

  22 Apr 09

• Meditation provides hope for people with depression

  21 Apr 09

• Study into how the credit crunch is hitting British business and customers

  20 Apr 09

• Duke of Kent visits Oxford laboratories

  15 Apr 09

• Sex rivals fuel 'chemical warfare' in flies

  14 Apr 09

• Hedgerow trees ‘key to UK biodiversity’

  07 Apr 09

• Moths biodiversity images

  07 Apr 09

• Lion skull image

  30 Mar 09

• Family tree of UK’s ‘super-sized lions’ revealed

  30 Mar 09

• Two Caribbean islands become test-beds for $35m climate change project

  23 Mar 09

• 21st century plans for Bodleian Library

  17 Mar 09

• Oxford Humanities receives more than £30m in funding

  12 Mar 09

• JM Coetzee to visit Oxford University

  12 Mar 09

• Futurist offers Oxford University $50 million in matched funding

  12 Mar 09

• Rainforest duets are a ‘battle of the sexes’

  12 Mar 09

• Sir Roger Bannister starts Oxford relays

  11 Mar 09

• Antbird images and audio

  09 Mar 09

• Nigel Portwood appointed as new Chief Executive of Oxford University Press

  06 Mar 09

• Study argues development aid is not effective if basic human security is threatened

  05 Mar 09

• Oxford University launches science podcast

  03 Mar 09

• £1.75 million gift to Wadham

  02 Mar 09

• Prime Minister visits University of Oxford

  27 Feb 09

• Oxford Humanities awarded US funding of almost £3 million

  20 Feb 09

• OXFORD APPOINTS NEW PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCH

  19 Feb 09

• Meningitis bacteria dress up as human cells to evade our immune system

  18 Feb 09

• Web users to write ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxies’

  17 Feb 09

• Study assesses whether climate change will kill the Amazon rainforest

  09 Feb 09

• Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2009

  05 Feb 09

• Oxford Professor of Internet Studies appointed Chair of Ofcom Advisory Committee

  05 Feb 09

• Oxford celebrates Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday

  05 Feb 09

• Government funding for global study of childhood poverty

  30 Jan 09

• Oxford launches search for next Professor of Poetry

  22 Jan 09

• Oxford administrator installs sculpture in University building

  20 Jan 09

• Mass privatisation in the post-communist world may have cost up to one million lives

  15 Jan 09

• Tigers ‘took the Silk Road’ to Russia

  14 Jan 09

• Prestigious medicine prize awarded to Oxford University researcher

  14 Jan 09

• ‘Tetris’ may help reduce flashbacks to traumatic events

  06 Jan 09

• Oxford University to return remains of the Ngarrindjeri people to Australia.

  16 Dec 08

• Large earthquakes trigger a surge in volcanic eruptions

  08 Dec 08

• Discovery of new gene associated with diabetes risk suggests link with body clock

  07 Dec 08

• Oxford Professor appointed to new US Climate Committee

  04 Dec 08

• Lemur virus reveals HIV’s evolution

  03 Dec 08

• New treatment approach may offer end to suffering from allergies

  02 Dec 08

• World's first credit crunch?

  27 Nov 08

• Lifetime achievement award for Oxford Professor Vernon Bogdanor

  25 Nov 08

• Global survey shows scepticism about perceived moves by IASB to full fair value accounting

  24 Nov 08

• Oxford to accept Engineering applications from Advanced Diploma students

  20 Nov 08

• Kenyan malaria researcher benefits from Oxford University support

  18 Nov 08

• Biomedical research at Oxford University enters new era

  11 Nov 08

• Rabies ‘barrier’ to save rare wolf

  10 Nov 08

• Ethiopian wolf images

  10 Nov 08

• Staying well after depression

  05 Nov 08

• Marriage, single prison cells and mental illness associated with higher suicide risk in prisoners

  04 Nov 08

• Tools give earlier date for ‘modern-thinking’ humans

  30 Oct 08

• Professor Marcus du Sautoy appointed as the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science

  28 Oct 08

• Hybrid quantum memory breaks 1 second barrier

  22 Oct 08

• New role as Oxford history undergraduate for actress Joanne Pearce

  15 Oct 08

• Sixth formers have a taste of life as a law student at Oxford

  14 Oct 08

• Website shares experiences of Parkinson's and autism

  13 Oct 08

• Call centre agents get too personal

  13 Oct 08

• New centre for theology, ethics and public life opens

  10 Oct 08

• Unique fossils capture 'Cambrian migration'

  09 Oct 08

• Cambrian migration images

  06 Oct 08

• Student doodles reveal college life in the 50s

  03 Oct 08

• Understanding embryo implantation offers insight into infertility

  29 Sep 08

• Oxford's new choral professor wins Gramophone award

  25 Sep 08

• Meditation and psychotherapy together could help with health anxiety that affects 5% of population

  24 Sep 08

• Academic launches unique Spanish theatre translation project

  24 Sep 08

• Power of journalism in Africa

  23 Sep 08

• Former BBC journalist and head of policy is new Director at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

  17 Sep 08

• Wild dogs reveal nature's 'poverty trap'

  15 Sep 08

• Intensive glucose control after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes has long-term benefits

  10 Sep 08

• Vitamin B12 may protect the brain in old age

  09 Sep 08

• Oxford leads the way in campaign to promote low-energy homes and cut fuel bills

  08 Sep 08

• Human trials of universal flu vaccine begin

  05 Sep 08

• High incidence of mental disorders revealed in young offender institutions

  03 Sep 08

• Oxford maestro embarks on first UK podium exchange

  27 Aug 08

• Sleight of hand and sense of self

  25 Aug 08

• New light-sensitive pathway in the eye offers drug target to control sleep

  17 Aug 08

• Schoolteacher discovers ‘cosmic ghost’

  06 Aug 08

• Galaxy Zoo Voorwerp Images

  03 Aug 08

• Oxford’s Weidenfeld Scholarships support tomorrow’s leaders

  22 Jul 08

• Oxford University researchers tackle the end of the world

  09 Jul 08

• Voluntary sector agencies promote parents’ role in early learning for children

  08 Jul 08

• New Abrahamic Religions Chair at Oxford University

  07 Jul 08

• Researchers run rings round cell division

  02 Jul 08

• Volcano ‘pollution’ solves mercury mystery

  25 Jun 08

• Power to the people: new online tool to help householders cut their energy bills

  24 Jun 08

• Oxford University to launch UK’s first neuroethics centre

  24 Jun 08

• University of Oxford launches new centre for research in educational assessment

  23 Jun 08

• ‘Ancestral anchovy fillet’ key to vertebrate evolution

  18 Jun 08

• Ultraviolet gives view inside real ‘death star’

  11 Jun 08

• Oxford University launches new linguistics faculty

  09 Jun 08

• ‘Involved’ grandparents significantly associated with better-adjusted grandchildren

  04 Jun 08

• Living with epilepsy

  04 Jun 08

• Provost of Yale nominated as next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

  03 Jun 08

• New centre launched to confront the challenge of technology for developing world

  29 May 08

• £1.25 billion Campaign for Oxford University launched with major donations

  28 May 08

• New DNA evidence overturns population migration theory in Island Southeast Asia

  23 May 08

• People in the UK no longer trust that the government will support them in old age

  13 May 08

• ‘Early birds’ adapt to climate change

  09 May 08

• ‘OCCAM’s razor’ to transform real-world mathematics

  30 Apr 08

• Report says give teachers more say in the development of the national curriculum

  30 Apr 08

• Early elephant ‘was amphibious’

  14 Apr 08

• Food bug evolution uncovered

  11 Apr 08

• Appalachian mountains to Oxford: creative writing is ‘passport to social mobility’

  02 Apr 08

• International experts discuss food security in the face of climate change

  02 Apr 08

• Oxford University hosts global moot to debate media law worldwide

  31 Mar 08

• Expert surveys are reliable way of measuring quality of political scientists’ work

  27 Mar 08

• Britain’s biggest meteorite impact found

  26 Mar 08

• International radiocarbon dating experts confirm the Turin Shroud is a medieval fake

  25 Mar 08

• Mars, Earth and Moon from ‘unique planetary nursery’

  19 Mar 08

• Salt-tolerant wheat targeted by Oxford scientists

  17 Mar 08

• Oxford Vice-Chancellor hosts India Oxford Business Forum

  14 Mar 08

• Oxford University launches research project for low carbon computing

  14 Mar 08

• £5m donation will open the Bodleian Library’s collections

  07 Mar 08

• Public asked for contributions to World War I archive

  29 Feb 08

• First joint teachers’ conference at Oxford and Oxford Brookes universities

  26 Feb 08

• Oxford economists show where the power lies in the British milk supply chain

  25 Feb 08

• Major new Oxford study of the nature and origins of religious belief

  22 Feb 08

• Forget the boat race – life-saving and ultimate frisbee will draw the crowds

  15 Feb 08

• Nuffield Review warns that 14-19 education and training is not a business

  14 Feb 08

• Arab street poets sing the praises of George Galloway

  12 Feb 08

• Winning smiles from sixth form biologists at Oxfordshire schools

  11 Feb 08

• Can apprenticeship schemes be successfully revived in today’s labour market?

  23 Jan 08

• New Head of Oxford University’s Social Sciences announced

  21 Jan 08

• Oxford plays host to Finance Minister Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  15 Jan 08

• Policies promoting equality of opportunity would create as many losers as winners

  14 Jan 08

• Saturn’s ‘hot hexagon’ surprise

  03 Jan 08

• Altitude ‘worth half a goal a kilometre’

  19 Dec 07

• Next Head of Oxford University’s Medical Sciences Division announced

  17 Dec 07

• New Director for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College

  13 Dec 07

• Low-cost population maps help poorer countries

  12 Dec 07

• Oxford announces David Walton Memorial Fund for doctoral students of economics

  11 Dec 07

• The University of Oxford and Sir David King create School of Enterprise and the Environment

  11 Dec 07

• The Oxford admissions interview blog is back

  06 Dec 07

• Oxford University announces winners of design-a-gargoyle competition

  05 Dec 07

• Proteins’ ‘breaking point’ found

  04 Dec 07

• Sir David King directs new Oxford School

  29 Nov 07

• Earth and Venus: Twins that grew apart

  28 Nov 07

• Warning signals for drivers who listen to music

  27 Nov 07

• Santander Universities signs 3-year funding agreement with the University of Oxford

  27 Nov 07

• Should I eat the kids? When to care for, abandon, or eat your offspring

  22 Nov 07

• International conference to examine new curriculum for children up to age of five

  22 Nov 07

• Michael Palin to officially open Pitt Rivers Museum's new extension

  14 Nov 07

• The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship Programme

  14 Nov 07

• Nuffield Review says success of new Diplomas depends on what happens to A Levels

  12 Nov 07

• New target for MS treatment found using old drug

  11 Nov 07

• Oxford's Bodleian library holds a quarter of the world’s Magna Cartas

  09 Nov 07

• Oxfordshire schools mark National Chemistry Week

  09 Nov 07

• Violent galaxies ‘spew out’ energetic cosmic rays

  07 Nov 07

• Obesity gene acts on DNA

  05 Nov 07

• Age of earliest human burial in Britain pinpointed

  30 Oct 07

• Aso Group funds graduate scholarship at New College, University of Oxford

  30 Oct 07

• www.YouthHealthTalk.org launches ‘Living life with greater challenges.’

  29 Oct 07

• Caesarean births double the risk of death and illness for mother and baby

  29 Oct 07

• Hapmap phase II

  18 Oct 07

• Half UK will be overweight by 2032

  18 Oct 07

• International assistance needed to improve governance and security in Africa

  15 Oct 07

• Princess Royal opens unique centre for studying autism spectrum disorders and the brain

  12 Oct 07

• Bee buzz could scare away elephants

  08 Oct 07

• Tail cameras provide crow’s-eye view of clever tool use

  04 Oct 07

• Electrons’ ‘love-hate’ clue to superconductivity

  03 Oct 07

• Teaching condom use as a backup to abstinence helps prevent HIV

  18 Sep 07

• Oxford-Man Institute Opens

  17 Sep 07

• For earthquakes ‘speed kills’

  17 Aug 07

• Rubbish heaps ‘helped crops evolve’

  15 Aug 07

• Oxford Colleges release degree results for 2007 (‘Norrington table’)

  03 Aug 07

• No-sex programmes are not effective against HIV infection

  03 Aug 07

• University extends gargoyles’ competition to include schools and colleges

  31 Jul 07

• Oxford honours friends from across the world

  30 Jul 07

• Oxford Law appoints its first Dean

  26 Jul 07

• Famous Oxonians on broadcast, biography and ‘treading the boards’

  16 Jul 07

• Ordinary people’s experiences of bowel cancer screening available online

  13 Jul 07

• Everyone can visit the ‘Galaxy Zoo’

  10 Jul 07

• Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland

  05 Jul 07

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