Merton News

This academic year, for the first time in the College's history, there are women occupying the roles of Warden, Sub-Warden, MCR President and JCR President.

Akira Wiberg has won the main prize of this year's Max Perutz Science Writing Award; he received the £1,500 prize for his article "Getting on your nerves" at an awards ceremony on 15 October.

A message from the Warden, Professor Irene Tracey, on the occasion of the Enthronement of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Naruhito.

We congratulate Michael Whitworth, tutorial fellow in English, who has been awarded the title Professor of Modern Literature and Culture in the University's 2019 Recognition of Distinction exercise.

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of John J Kirby Jr., President of the Merton College Charitable Corporation (MC3) in the US and alumnus of Merton.

Professor Gouverneur, Tutor in Organic Chemistry at Merton, has been awarded the 2019 Prelog Medal of the Laboratorium für Organische Chemie at ETH Zürich, and will give the Prelog Lecture on Monday 7 October.

The exhibition features a series of paintings made by Kieran and inspired by the environment of Merton College; it is the culmination of a series of workshops run by him during his time here as Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts.

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of Sir Christopher Dobson FRS FRSC FMedSci, an alumnus and Honorary Fellow of the College.

It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of Sir Rex Richards FRS, who served as Warden of the College from 1969 to 1984 and as Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1977 to 1981.

Peter, who is Linacre Professor of Zoology at Merton, has been recognised for his work with many organisms and genes elucidating key aspects of how changes in the genome influence evolution of animal development.