Merton News

The first in a series of Merton Lockdown Stories, bringing you news of how the College community is adapting and responding to these strangest of times; Emily Bruce talks about participating in the University’s COVID-19 vaccine trials.

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of Robert McCredie May OM FRS, Baron May of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow and former Professor of Zoology.

Robert Hurford, a third-year DPhil Clinical Neurosciences student, has had some of his research published in the May 2020 issue of Lancet Neurology.

As the UK remains in lockdown, this year's May Morning celebrations have inevitably been cancelled - but groups across Oxford are ensuring that this 500-year-old Oxford tradition does not go unmarked.

As the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continues, anyone at the University with questions or concerns about coronavirus (Covid-19) should visit www.ox.ac.uk/coronavirus-advice.

Professor Prag has been awarded €2.5 million by the European Research Council to lead a team working on ‘Crossreads’, a five-year project on ancient Sicilian epigraphic (inscribed text) culture.

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of John Randolph Lucas FBA, Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy from 1960 to 1996.

The Covid-19 lockdown did not prevent Merton’s historians from keeping up the venerable tradition of a finalists’ reading party, this year not in Cornwall or Herefordshire but online.

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of Lt Col James Barney Henderson, the College's Domestic Bursar between 1976 and 1990.

The winners of the first Merton College Louis MacNeice Prize for Creative Writing have been announced, with graduate student Laura Hankins taking top spot in both poetry and short story categories.