Merton News

Honorary Fellow Sir Roger Bannister CH CBE describes his training and how the record-breaking 3 minutes 59.4 second run unfolded at the Iffley Road track in Oxford.

During the Easter vacation, second-year Law undergraduate Ioana Burtea along with Alex Benn of St Catherine’s College represented Oxford University at the International Rounds of the Monroe E Price Media Law Moot.

Merton's Tutor in Pre-Clinical Medicine has been awarded the 2018 Lectureship by the American Physiological Society; the award will be presented at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, California in April 2018.

Helen Craske's essay, 'The Decadent Ideal of Impenetrability', was adjudged the best postgraduate conference paper submitted to the Society’s Annual Conference.

It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of Emeritus Fellow Dr Roger Highfield on 13 April, following a stroke, at the age of 95.

Supernumerary Fellow Simon Draper, Associate Professor at Oxford's Jenner Institute, is one of the co-founders of a new company using a molecular 'superglue' to aid the rapid development of vaccines targeting a range of diseases.

The 2017 History reading party in Cornwall enjoyed variety in both weather and books.

Merton DPhil candidate Annabel Williams has been awarded the 2016 British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize, for her essay entitled "‘The pilot’s periplus’: Ezra Pound, Cyril Connolly, and the forms of Late Modernist travel".

On Monday 13 March 2017, the Choir sang the first ever Anglican Evensong to be celebrated at the altar of the Chair of St Peter in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.

The Linacre Professor of Zoology will travel to Hong Kong at Easter to give three lectures, following his recent election as the 2017 Yen Kwo Yung Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.