Merton News

A team from Merton scored a convincing win over opponents from King's College London in Monday's first round contest, coming away winners with an impressive 285 points to KCL's 110.

The powerful Oscar-nominated documentary film about the life of American writer and activist James Baldwin was followed by a panel discussion with artist filmmaker Isaac Julien and writer Caryl Phillips.

Ella's entry, which gave EM Forster's A Room With A View a Brexit twist, was selected as the Under 30 category winner by a panel of current cartooning greats that included The Guardian's Martin Rowson & Steve Bell, Peter Brookes of The Times, the Daily Mail's Mac, and the Telegraph's Matt.

At a meeting on Friday 29 September the College’s Governing Body declared its intention to elect Professor Irene Tracey FMedSci, currently Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetic Science, as its next Warden.

The Senior Organ Scholar at Merton has won the Sawyer/Durrant Prize and the Doris Wookey Prize for the second highest marks in the Associate of the Royal College of Organists examination.

Merton’s talented head gardener is one of 14 gardeners profiled in a new book by award-winning writer and garden historian Ambra Edwards.

Her talk on Wednesday 25 October will be entitled 'Choreography of bacterial nanomotors revealed by live-cell imaging'.

The exhibition, which has opened in Catania on the Italian island of Sicily, consists of some 35 inscriptions along with sculptures and a set of frescoes from the collection of the city's Civic Museum.

All Physics alumni will be sad to learn of the death on Thursday 10 August of Michael Baker, Merton’s first ever Physics Tutor, aged 86.

Merton's Tutor in Philosophy and Professor of the Philosophy of Science at Oxford University has been elected as BSPS President and will serve for two years.