08 Jan 08

Institution of Engineering and Technology Measurement Prize Medal

The Invensys University Technology Centre (UTC) for Advanced Instrumentation, in the Department of Engineering Science, has won the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) annual Measurement Prize Medal.

This prestigious award recognises outstanding work in the field of metrology and the UTC won the Medal for its groundbreaking work on digital coriolis mass flow metering.

The overall prize includes £1000 in cash, the Medal and certificates of recognition. These were presented at the annual IET Wheatstone Measurement Lecture and dinner in London on 5 December by guest speaker Professor John Pethica, Chief Scientific Adviser with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory.

Leverhulme Trust Awards 

Oxford researchers were recognised at the November meeting of the Trustees of the Leverhulme Trust. Out of 25 new Major Research Fellowships across UK universities three went to Oxford researchers with grants totalling around £290,000. Major Research Fellowships enable well-established and distinguished researchers to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance capable of completion within two to three years.

Dr George Garnett, Tutorial Fellow in Modern History at St High’s College has been awarded a Fellowship for The Norman Conquest of England: a History of its History.

Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History will be researching From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism c. 1970-2011.

Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War  has been awarded a Fellowship for the study of The First World War.

The Leverhulme Trust also made a Research Project Grant to Dr Dimitry A Filatov for Speciation on Mount Etna: a multigenic anaylsis of adaptation in Senecio. Research Project grants are for original and innovative research projects of high quality and potential.

Modern Language Association of America Prize 

Professor Roger Lonsdale, Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol from 1963-2000, is this year´s winner of the Modern Language Association of America´s Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition for his edition of Samuel Johnson´s The Lives of the Poets.

The award citation states that: ‘Roger Lonsdale´s magnificently managed, beautifully produced four-volume edition of Samuel Johnson´s The Lives of the Poets is the first scholarly edition of this major work in over one hundred years. Lonsdale brings fresh editorial work with manuscripts, a book-length introduction at once scholarly and literate, and a wealth of annotation that draws on the last century of scholarship to illuminate both the poets and Johnson´s essays on them (fifty two chapters of combative, entertaining, literate writing) in the broad context of the century in which The Lives was written, published, and first read. Lonsdale´s vital labors reestablish the durable importance of Johnson´s great work.’