Merton News

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.

DPhil candidate in Spanish Yvette Siegert has been awarded the2021 Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting by the Bodleian's Centre for the Study of the Book.

The series resumes with live in-person audiences with a recital given on Thursday 20 May by Rachel Mahon, Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral.

Supernumerary Fellow Professor Frances Platt has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Platt is a biochemist and pharmacologist whose work centres on the study of a group of rare genetic disorders called lysosomal storage diseases.

The 2021 Merton Telethon took place from 6 to 20 April, raising £222,000 to support an array of projects, from scholarships to buildings.

Harriet Teare, a DPhil student 2005-2009, has been selected for the Homeward Bound programme for women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine.

This year’s history finalists made the best of lockdown by gathering for a virtual reading party.