AI and Human Creativity discussion
Professor Nicholas Halmi joined Professor Pireeni Sundaralingam (1986, Psychology) for an online discussion titled “AI and Human Creativity” with Dr Audrey Borowski, Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Read more here.

Univ’s iNaturalist project
The College now has a dedicated iNaturalist project, meaning that Members of the Univ community can help to monitor biodiversity across College sites. Read more here.

UCBC newsletter TT25
Read an update on UCBC’s Trinity Term activities as well as reflections on the past academic year in a newsletter from President Louisa Boult, with updates from various club members. Read more here.

Bat transect walks at Univ
Two bat transect walks for College students and staff took place in June. Jillian Mowbray, Colleges Sustainability Officer, has provided a report about the walks. Read Jillian’s full report here.

Univ Seminar 2025: Creativity and AI
The 2025 Univ Seminar on the topic of Creativity and AI took place at the College on 3 July and featured a panel of four Univ alumni: Professor Charlotte Deane MBE (1993, Chemistry), Philippa Malicka (2007, English), Dr Chris Mammen (1993, Law) and Professor Pireeni Sundaralingam (1986, Experimental Psychology). Read a report about the event by Corinna Hartinger (2019, DPhil Bioscience) here.

Open Days July 2025
The College welcomed prospective students to learn about life at Univ as part of the two University Open Days on 2 and 3 July. Read a report on the Open Days by Savannah Phillips, Univ’s Schools Liaison and Access Officer here.

Chapel Choir Tour 2025
The University College Chapel Choir will be visiting Marbella at the end of August, performing a concert in the Church of the Incarnation on Sunday 31 August at 6pm. Find out more about the performance here.

2025 Leavers’ Going Down Drinks
On 18 June, finalists and graduate students leaving the College gathered in the Master’s Garden for the 2025 Leavers’ Going Down Drinks, hosted by the Master, Baroness Amos. Read more here.

Univ Spotlight Series Episode One
The College is delighted to share the first episode of the new Univ Spotlight Series, launched this Trinity Term to celebrate academic excellence at Univ. Read more and watch the first episode here.

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Joanna Welsh in Barron’s leadership list
Joanna Welsh (1991, Biology), Chief Risk Officer at hedge fund Citadel, has been listed for a second consecutive year in Barron’s list of 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance. Read more here.

King’s Birthday Honours 2025
This year, four members of the Univ community were recognised for their extraordinary service and contributions in the King’s Birthday Honours List. Read more here.

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Profile: Charlotte Deane
Professor Charlotte Deane MBE (1993, Chemistry), Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford and the Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), told us about her time at Univ and her career ahead of appearing on the panel at the Univ Seminar on Creativity and AI. Read Professor Deane’s profile here.

Biology Spring School 2025
Sofia Fausone (2024, Bioscience) has written about her experience attending the QLife Quantitative Biology Spring School, hosted by the Ecole Normale Superieure in April. This trip was funded by the Old Members’ Trust Graduate Conference and Academic Travel Fund. Read the full travel report here.

Medical Elective in Cape Town
Jaskiran Matharu (2019, Medicine) has written a report following her medical elective in the ICU of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, which was supported by the War Memorial Travel Fund. Read the full travel report here.

AISTATS 2025 in Thailand
Juliusz Ziomek (2023, DPhil Engineering) has provided an account following his attendance at the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025), which was held in Thailand. This trip was funded by the Old Members’ Trust Graduate Conference and Academic Travel Fund. Read the full travel report here.

BioInference Conference 2025
Nic Steyn (2021, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning), has written about his experience attending the 2025 edition of the BioInference Conference, which took place in Bardonecchia in Italy. This trip was funded by the Old Members’ Trust Graduate Conference and Academic Travel Fund. Read the full travel report here.

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Fellows and other academics

•Dr Aylon Cohen, Departmental and College Lecturer in Feminist Political Theory, published “Grooming Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans/Queer Panic as Pedagogy for Democratic Decline”, co-written with Dr. Samuel Galloway, in PS: Political Science & Politics in July 2025.

•Dr Aneurin Ellis-Evans, George Cawkwell Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History, is to publish his second book, Alexandreia Troas in the Hellenistic Period: War, Finance, and Civic Identity (American Numismatic Society, 2025).

•In March 2025 Professor Nicholas Halmi, Margaret Candfield Tutorial Fellow in English and Comparative Literature, presented the plenary lecture at the conference Romanticism across Borders in Paris, and in July his first article in German, “Fürst Franz und die englische Kultur”, was published in a volume on literary culture in Enlightenment Germany.

•Professor Sarah Harper CBE, Univ Supernumerary Fellow, Clore Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, commented on the increase in demand for fertility treatment in South Korea in a BBC News article. Read more here.

•Professor Polly Jones, Schrecker Barbour Tutorial Fellow in Slavonic and East European Studies and Professor of Russian, gave the keynote lecture at the conference Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, held at the University of Warwick in May 2025.

•Professor John Morton, Supernumerary Fellow in Engineering Science, published The Mechanics of Biological Materials (co-authored with M. Elices and G. Guinea), (Routledge CRC Press, July 2025).

•Dr Lea Rees, Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology, has received two grants by the G. A. Wainwright Fund to support her research in the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11) in the Valley of the Kings and one by the Gerda Henkel Foundation to fund her excavation project at Dahshur. A landscape biography of Dahshur, co-authored with Hana Navratilova, will soon be published with Oxford University Press. She has presented her research in Munich, London, Durham, and Prague.

Old Members

•Professor Peter Beresford OBE  (1964, History and Social Studies) published The Antidote: How People-Powered Movements can renew Politics, Policy and Practice (Policy Press, 2025).

•Dr Sara Lodge (1994, English) published The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale, 2024), a revelatory account of real women who worked as detectives in the nineteenth century.