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News stories from 2009

• ‘Tetris’ may help reduce flashbacks to traumatic events

• New University additions to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

• Mink control vital to save water voles

• What’s bugging Oxford school children?

• Prestigious medicine prize awarded to Oxford University researcher

• Tigers ‘took the Silk Road’ to Russia

• Death surge linked with mass privatisation

• High-yield rice to feed the world

• Important medieval records to go online

• Flying start for young entrepreneur

• Bodleian saves earliest English-language opera

• ‘Hospital at home’ programmes are no extra risk to patients

• President-Elect Obama takes oath of office on Bible published by OUP

• Seabird’s ocean lifestyle revealed

• Oxford marks anniversary of Berlin Wall fall

• Oxford administrator installs sculpture in University building

• Oxford launches search for next Professor of Poetry

• What’s Happening to Our News?

• Oxford professor to lead improvements in trauma care

• International internships on offer

• Science Minister visits Oxford

• Paul Gambaccini gives first 2009 News International Broadcast lecture

• Government funding for Young Lives

• Oxford colleges feel the benefits of diversification

• Oxford celebrates Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday

• Professor of Internet Studies appointed Chair of Ofcom Advisory Committee

• Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2009

• New labs boost vaccine research

• Poetry is beautiful, but science is what matters

• Study finds link between vitamin D and genes in multiple sclerosis

• New President for Corpus Christi

• Climate change may kill the Amazon rainforest

• Celebrating Darwin 200

• Sir David King warns of climate change conflict

• Oxford University plans greener future

• Ruskin teams up with Phoenix Cinema

• Heathrow’s proposed third runway 'has little benefit for UK'

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

• New landmark for Broad Street

• Greek mythology comes to life

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

• New Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research

• Top composer visits Oxford

• Humanities awarded US funding of almost £3 million

• Oxford’s iTunes U site tops 500,000 downloads

• Scientists mine drugs database for new diabetes treatment

• Pitt Rivers Museum refurbishment almost complete

• Allegri String Quartet in residency at Oxford

• Morris dancing celebrated at Bate Collection

• Moot points for Oxford

• Corpus Christi triumphs in University Challenge

• New addition to First World War Poetry Archive

• One or two drinks a day increase the risk of cancer in women

• HIV is evolving to evade human immune responses

• Celebrating 100th anniversary of Philip Bate

• Prime Minister gives Romanes lecture

• £1.75 million gift to Wadham

• Black women have double the risk of pregnancy complications

• Oxford launches science podcast

• 250th anniversary of Robert Burns

• Oxford fields five Olympic rowers in Boat Race

• World Book Day at the Bodleian Library

• Oxford top of RAE funding

• Buses display new Ashmolean campaign portraits

• International aid cannot improve security, study says

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

• South African opportunities for students

• Sir Roger Bannister starts Oxford relays

• Trading places with a baroness

• Futurist pledges $50m in matched funding

• More state school undergraduates this year

• Oxford Humanities receives more than £30m in funding

• Rainforest duets are a ‘battle of the sexes’

• JM Coetzee to make rare visit to Oxford

• New Bodleian building to be renamed Weston Library

• Moderate obesity takes years off life expectancy

• See your name at the heart of the new Ashmolean

• Obesity gene associated with polycystic ovary syndrome

• 21st century plans for Bodleian Library

• Oxford researchers get SET for Britain

• Seoul National University gives Korean classics to Bodleian

• Funding for Caribbean climate change project

• Local schools see ‘research in action’

• To be or not to be

• New map shows malaria challenge

• Long-term effects of the Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down

• Providing hope in Africa’s battle against cervical cancer

• Oxford-Google Digitization Project reaches milestone

• Boat Race triumph for Oxford again

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

• Celebrating the Commonwealth’s role in higher education

• International students win British Council award

• Academic dress on show in new book

• VC answers local questions

• Young adults at future risk of Alzheimer’s show different brain activity

• COG provides a new link for classics outreach

• Funding for study into benefits of breast feeding

• Picnics inspired by gardens in literature

• What’s next? Students consider their options in Oxford

• Researcher discovers rare Cardinal Newman letter

• Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall

• Duke of Kent visits Oxford laboratories

• Linguistics Professor honoured in India

• Hedgerow trees ‘key to UK biodiversity’

• Museum reopening weekend celebrations

• Science podcast: dark matter to architecture

• Kyoto treaty is ‘failing the world’s poor’, say scientists

• Self-reported health of women in old age has improved

• The habits of a car-reliant nation

• American Academy announces fellows

• Grant secures future for Archive

• Meditation provides hope for people with depression

• Experiences of osteoporosis shared online

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

• Budding detectives solve Oxford murder

• TB vaccine enters new clinical trials

• Dr John Hood to join Robertson Foundation

• No doubt for Tower Poetry winners

• Quantum cat’s ‘whiskers’ offer advanced sensors

• Tahiti corals clue to ‘dynamic’ glaciers

• Summer schools set to expand

• New study targets healthy development of unborn babies

• Nominations for Poetry Professor close

• Oxford researcher named international student of the year

• New ‘gene’ identified that may increase susceptibility to autism

• Oxford athletes impress in London Marathon

• Oxford tops Complete University Guide

• Save ‘trillionth tonne’ warn Oxford scientists

• Pitt Rivers Museum reopens

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

• New Fellows are elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences

• Ash shows past eruptions ‘underestimated’

• Outdoor photography exhibition at Ashmolean

• Bumblebee flight ‘triumph of power over finesse’

• Language centre launches at Kellogg

• Oxford celebrates Sir Isaiah Berlin centenary

• Lightweight electric motor on track

• Digital information technology weakens institutional power in a crisis

• Oxford leads the Guardian league table for fifth year

• Election looms for Professor of Poetry

• Funding for study into how religious beliefs become radicalised

• Discovery of facial malformation gene

• New Royal Society Fellows announced

• Ruth Padel elected Professor of Poetry

• International agreement on striking gold

• New donor recognition society launched

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

• Wadham receives early birthday present

• Smoking ceremony held at University Museum

• Oxford student awarded prestigious Trudeau Scholarship

• ‘Tamed’ virus wipes out cancer cells safely

• New audio tours for applicants

• Professor of Poetry

• Science podcast: pheromones & diabetes

• Full mouse genome reveals treasury of new genes

• Isis announces record revenues

• Benefit of aspirin for healthy people is uncertain

• Japanese Language Centre launches

• Global links will breed more dangerous parasites

• Patient website highlights early form of breast cancer

• Celebrating gravity’s light-bending landmark

• Times Good University Guide puts Oxford in top spot

• Ruskin Degree Show 09

• Beehive fence deters elephant raiders

• Historic Blackfoot shirts to visit Canada

• Spires, arches and towers of Oxford inspire primary artists

• Nuffield Review of 14-19 education and training

• Philosophical links with Sweden

• Smoking costs NHS over £5 billion a year

• Study reveals how cancers spread to the brain

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

• Judging books by their cover

• 500 years since Henry VIII’s accession

• Forty years since man first landed on the moon

• World-class pianist gives Oxford masterclass

• Unseen Wren drawings exhibited

• Swine flu origins revealed

• Painting a bleak picture

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2009

• Saving the Large Blue butterfly

• Study suggests gulf between news reports and public experience

• New webpage shows 100 Oxford students talking about university life

• Alice Prochaska next Principal of Somerville College

• Ethics professor named Australia’s top emerging thinker

• Oxford on Twitter

• Reduction in suicides after withdrawal of painkiller

• David Willetts visits Oxford

• Kellogg College celebrates new home

• Survey points up challenges for a Digital Britain

• Oxford graduate helps England cricketers to victory

• Titian’s 'Triumph of Love' saved for the nation

• Latest University Online Debate

• Honorary degrees awarded at Encaenia

• Oxford plans ‘personalised healthcare for life’

• Teaching award for pioneering use of technology

• Study reveals scale of UK’s reliance on migrant care workers

• Half of all premature deaths of Russian adults down to alcohol

• Genetic changes involved in learning disability identified

• Sir Roger Bannister visits the University Club

• Oxford and Prince’s Foundation cooperate for sustainable cities

• Online help for people considering clinical trials

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

• Student consultants help local businesses

• New Abrahamic Religions Chair appointed at Oxford

• School pupils study Shelley in his former college

• Oxygen key to ‘cut and paste’ of genes

• McGill and Oxford form neuroscience partnership

• Al Gore to speak at Times/Smith School Forum

• Follow Japan as world model in climate policy

• Two ‘Women in Science’ awards go to Oxford

• Recession linked to heart attacks, murders and suicides

• Oxford dominates maths prizes

• Oxford spin out company secures £1 million investment

• Michael Frayn next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor

• Getting a taste of university this summer

• Privacy and media intrusion

• Royal Society award winners

• Following Oxford’s Science Trail

• Oxford choir sings for Harry Potter film

• Sir Adam Roberts takes up reins at British Academy

• Darcey Bussell and Natalie Davis honoured

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

• Seven Oxford academics become Fellows of the British Academy

• Schoolchildren get the bug

• Mutation causing one type of male infertility found

• Oxford academic honoured by French government

• Grants boost Modern Languages at Oxford

• Oxford tops external research income

• New light shed on a fragment of C S Lewis’ writing

• When did humans return after last Ice Age?

• Transparent aluminium is ‘new state of matter’

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

• Islamic Studies chair appointment

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

• Drug-resistant malaria in Cambodia

• Today’s parents ‘not to blame’ for teenage problem behaviour

• New approach primes cancers for more effective radiotherapy

• Men who do chores are more likely to get the girl

• Oxford academic brings music to Dover Castle

• Oxford alumna conquers Indian Ocean

• Crows can use ‘up to three tools’

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

• Oxford linguist honoured by Obama

• Cut marks on bone could be evidence of cannibalism among Early Britons

• Antivirals ‘little or no effect’ on flu complications in children

• Oxford site on iTunes U hits one million

• Rats show effects of high-fat diet after nine days

• New chapter for wildlife conservation at Oxford

• Colleges release exam results for 2009

• Haida visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum

• Blue skies thinking nets Oxford two awards

• Oxford park 'has best views in Universe'

• New test offers better diagnosis of asbestos cancer

• Climate change adaptation will cost significantly more

• Manuscripts of war poet Edmund Blunden go online

• £272,000 boost for Oxford’s Museums

• $1m to improve 'hotspot' conservation

• Are tigers ‘brainier’ than lions?

• Icy journey finally uncovers magnetic monopole

• Rival bird species evolve to sing same tune

• New centre builds on China research links

• Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin

• Balzan Prize returns to Oxford

• Light electric motor spins out

• Study highlights problem of sickle cell anaemia in African children

• Sunday Times lists Oxford as best university

• Oxford professor wins new immunology award

• Tercentenary of Samuel Johnson held at Oxford

• Darwin art competition winner announced

• Unveiling of new gargoyles at Bodleian

• Science podcast: Big Bang and Alzheimer's

• Voltaire’s Candide celebrates 250th anniversary

• Pulling together increases your pain threshold

• Groundbreaking ceremony for Bodleian storage facility

• The man who could have been Henry VIII

• HIV’s ancestors ‘plagued first mammals’

• Secrets of long-haul insect flight revealed

• Smoking and heart disease risks can cut life span by 10 years

• Journalists need ‘new, collaborative ways to tell stories’

• ‘Be deer aware’ says new campaign

• P D James talks about detective fiction at the Bodleian

• ID card can learn lessons from history

• New building and two new professors for Oxford-Man Institute

• Study of new swine flu vaccines for children

• Return Northern Rock to the mutual sector, says Oxford report

• What could 4 degree warming mean for the world?

• Alumni Weekend 2009

• Hydrogen-making algae’s ‘Achilles’ heel’ discovered

• Oxford professor first non-American to win bone research award

• Classicist honoured by British Academy

• Monkeys' grooming habits provide clues to how we socialise

• Incoming Vice-Chancellor starts work

• New director for John Adams Institute

• Parasite bacteria can help fight disease

• Smoking during pregnancy a cause of social inequality in stillbirths

• Global broadband quality improves but UK is lagging

• Teenagers ‘promised’ big prizes in poetry competition

• Campaign total exceeds £750 million

• Installation ceremony for new Vice-Chancellor

• Planning permission granted on Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

• Simon Fisher wins young neuroscientist prize

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography marks anniversary

• Are mobiles and social networking sites changing the way we behave?

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

• Mobile service is 'Oxford in your pocket'

• Steampunks invade Oxford

• Stephen Garrett named Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media

• Juggling enhances connections in the brain

• Nobel Peace Prize winner comes to Las Casas Institute

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

• Oxford to welcome new Royal Society Professors

• Oxford’s 21st century campus revealed

• Lord Mandelson visits Oxford

• Event celebrates Black Oxford

• Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders

• Oxford gets some carnival spirit

• Live countdown to the trillionth tonne

• Enrolment nearing completion in swine flu vaccine study

• Sir Jonathan Phillips elected Warden of Keble

• Study finds best use of insulin as diabetes progresses

• Oxford professor awarded the Légion d'Honneur

• Afghan student among the first Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholars

• Wiser OWL learns to unravel doctor talk

• First Indigenous Australian students to attend Oxford

• £5 million to better understand Parkinson’s

• Marking 1000 days until London 2012

• Ashmolean Museum refurbishment complete

• World War One poetry goes virtual

• Record application numbers for Oxford University

• Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

• Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

• New Pro-Vice-Chancellor appointed

• New TV series explores history of Christianity

• Can biodiversity persist in the face of climate change?

• Siegfried Sassoon electronic collection launches

• Academics win Philip Leverhulme Prizes

• Sir Martin Taylor to be next Warden of Merton

• Oxford’s Gamelan retuned

• School boys tackle Oxford

• Keep up to date with Oxford’s rowers

• Rich countries 'should pay' to transfer low carbon technology

• Las Casas director appointed government advisor

• New Shakespeare Archive launched

• Dr Nick Brown elected as next Principal of Linacre

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

• Consultation on sports complex

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

• Centenary celebrations of Chair of the Romance Languages

• Oxford helps plant ‘Ghost Forest’

• Study uses brain scans to discover how children ‘read’ faces

• Emeritus Professor wins prestigious classics prize

• Christmas Light Night

• ‘Cosmic fruit machine’ matches collisions

• Oxfordshire patients to benefit from robotic surgery

• Lecture asks 'a question that concerns all our democracies'

• Scholarly achievement of the highest order wins music award

• Teaching excellence rewarded

• ‘Unite against injustice’, says Amartya Sen

• Conference marks the 140th anniversary of Gandhi

• Twitter, Google and LinkedIn founders talk business

• Museum anniversary events begin

• Over-the-counter eye drops raise concern over antibiotic resistance

• Olympic Minister visits Oxford

• Christmas display at the Bodleian

• Website of patient experiences expands

• Oxford professor wins medical award for stroke research

• 'SAFE' way to reduce emissions

• Public sector workers ‘more likely to have baby’

• Queen officially opens new Ashmolean Museum

• Risk of blood clots after surgery higher than expected

• New rules for court reporting puts the privacy of children ‘at risk’

• Top European prize for MS research goes to Oxford scientist

• Mining a Year of Speech

• Seed Fund sows success

• Scientists reveal how malaria parasites outwit our immune systems

• Web search and ‘everyware’ targeted by Oxford scientists

• Oxford begins search for next Professor of Poetry

• Updated Hubble reveals most distant galaxies yet

• Bodleian’s winter exhibition

• Oxford launches Master's degree in law and finance

• Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu infects seven on Vietnamese train

• Public services in the 2010s

• KEEN students win inclusion award

• Sir Roy Strong donates archive to Bodleian Library

• Oxford University centre to run Commission on Ownership

• Combination therapy better than leading drug for bipolar disorder

• Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

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

• New Green Templeton Principal announced

• Review of the year

• New Year Honours 2010

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