• Susannah Pahl (2020, MEng Civil Engineering) was part of the team that won the Geotechnical Early Careers Challenge. The Early Careers Challenge was launched by Ground Engineering (GE) magazine and Mott MacDonald in 2023.

• We are delighted to announce that Univ Library is once again holding our poetry competition, open to all Univ members and Old Members, over 5th and 6th Week. When we ran this competition last year we were bowled over by the quality of the poems Univites sent us, and we had loads of fun reading them all. We hope this year will prove just as successful!

• Nicholas Halmi, Margaret Candfield Tutorial Fellow in English, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Fellow Librarian, has been elected to the Zentrum für Klassikforschung (Research Centre for European Classicism) of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

• We consider the anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and how as an academic institution we have been able to support individuals from Ukraine.

• In recognition of Mike’s enormous contribution to so many areas of College life, we propose to establish in his memory the Dr Michael Nicholson Prize.

• The Library Team is pleased to report that the appeal of Eldon and Stowell extends beyond the Univ community (although we had always suspected as much). In the first week of January 2024, we welcomed Keith and Rita Wood to the Old Library so that they could photograph our iconic marble statues for digital models.

• Recently, I was able to travel to the FELIX Laboratory in The Netherlands with my colleagues in the Mackenzie Group in order to perform experiments on gas-phase metal clusters thanks to funding from the University College Old Members’ Trust travel fund. Read more.

• In September 2023, I attended the Seventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Read more.

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• Instrumentalist Catriona Bourne (2011, Music) is playing flute and harp at the Elgar Room as part of Menaka PP Bora’s exciting evening of conversation, dance and music.

• On the evening of January 9th, The Sky Lounge, perched on the top floor of Hong Kong’s fantastic Upper House Hotel provided an elegant and intimate venue for the Univ drinks reception.

• In January, Uran Ferizi (2003, MMaths) became the new Albanian Ambassador to London.

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• The new tower crane on site at Univ North has been named Sparkle, by Zoe Ryan. Zoe is a nursery-aged artist who won the “Name the Crane” competition organised by SDC, the Univ North contractors, and University College, Oxford.

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• Albert Camus’ L’Étranger or The Stranger was actually the first novel I read cover to cover in French. Read more.

• I will admit that Lessons in Chemistry technically isn’t a chemistry book, but it is an extremely good read. Read more.

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• Professor Tamsin Mather, Supernumerary Fellow in Earth Sciences, has been interviewed on various news channels in the past few days about the Iceland volcano eruption, which has seen the town of Grindavik evacuated.

• Professor Daniel Freeman, Professor of Clinical Psychology, wrote an article in the New Statesman about psychosis.