Merton News

Mena Mark Hanna (2006) is set to become the next General Director of the South Carolina-based Spoleto Festival, which runs across 17 days each spring.

Each year, the Queen’s Birthday Honours List recognises the accomplishments of extraordinary people across the UK and beyond. Among the 2021 recipients were two alumni of Merton who have served in different fields.

little scratch, the debut novel by Rebecca Watson (2013), tells the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics, clock-watching and WhatsApp notifications.

Two final-year medical students, Hannah Bacon and Georgina Whitaker, have been commended for playing a significant part in urgent recruitment to the COV-Boost (third vaccine) clinical trial.

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of Emeritus Fellow Professor J Peter Neary.

The winners of the second Merton College Louis MacNeice Prize for Creative Writing have been announced, with an additional five entries receiving commendations.

Now in its sixth year, the competition saw another strong field, with the judges choosing joint winners for the second-year and above prize.

Alumnus Neh Thaker (1992) is part of the team behind HedgeFlows who have been included in the latest cohort of entrepreneurs selected for the Oxford Foundry's OXFO Elevate programme.

A team that included Merton's Andrei Eftime took first place at the 2021 international final of the annual physics competition.

Professor Higgins has been recognised for his work using structural biology to transform our understanding of host-parasite interactions, with particular focuses on malaria and on African trypanosomes.