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The nine honrands in this year's Encaenia
(from left) Dame Jacinda Ardern, Lord Melvyn Bragg, Clive Myrie, Professor Serhii Plokhii, Professor Timothy Snyder, Professor Colm Tóibín, Sir Mo Farah, Professor Robert S Langer and Professor Erwin Neher

Honorary degree recipients for 2025 announced
Nine people are to receive honorary degrees from Oxford University this year
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Discover more about how Oxford researchers are working to reduce emissions, remove greenhouse gases from our atmosphere and reverse nature’s decline, all while ensuring that we can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing climate

Climate and the environment at Oxford
Working to reduce emissions, remove greenhouse gases and reverse nature’s decline, all while ensuring that we can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing climate
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Wisteria at Worcester College
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Fully-funded graduate studentships for 2025-26
Check our selection of studentships accepting applications now
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Everyone should love what they learn – find the course that’s right for you
Credit: Angel Sharp

Choosing your undergraduate course
Everyone should love what they learn – find the course that’s right for you

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Building on expertise
How the Churches Conservation Trust, in partnership with Oxford experts, is boosting its commercial and trading knowledge to bring about benefits for the heritage sector

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27Apr

Sunday Choral Evensong at St Peter's College

St Peter's College
27Apr

Marconi Day 2025

History of Science Museum

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Oxford skyline in black and white

University response to recent events in Israel, Gaza and the Middle East
Information, advice and support for staff and students impacted
The Pope watches a tree being planted

Oxford in the Conversation
Three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement
Jason Wiliams

From balconies to alleys: How to make our towns and cities greener
30 Apr, 7pm in the Natural History Museum, free but booking required
Tom Crawford on Countdown

What is it like to be on Countdown?
We ask Oxford mathematician Dr Tom Crawford
Joanna Miller

Joanna Miller
Discusses her debut novel The Eights, about the first cohort of women to obtain full degrees at Oxford
Ashley Jackson

Oxford’s War, University and City, 1939–45
6 May, 1–2pm at the Weston, free but booking required
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The Reuters Institute
We need to bridge the fault line emerging in debates about AI and the future of news
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Oxford Martin School
Wildlife trade researchers call for reforms to keep polarisation from tearing CITES apart
Cowboy boots

The OED Blog
These boots were made for… adulterating grain alcohol: the revision of bootleg
Thread reels

The OUP blog
Crafting the queer citational turn
podcast migration

Featured podcast
Immigration policy in transatlantic perspectives
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University response to the invasion of Ukraine
Information, advice and support for staff and students impacted
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Oxplore: the Home of Big Questions
Explore the University’s innovative website for 11-18 year olds

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