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2024 Telethon raises £182,000

The 2024 Telethon was a great success, with many funds designated by donors to the Student Support Fund.
Peter Horby

Sir Peter Horby Kt FMedSci FRS has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society

More than 90 exceptional researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Otter

Getting my ducks in a row

May edition of the Remote Water series from our Visiting Research Fellow, Bevis Bowden
History reading party group

History Reading Party 2024

Historians dodge the Herefordshire rain
Cara Treacey

Creative Writing is alive and well at Merton

Results of the 2024 Louis MacNeice Creative Writing Prize.
Computer team

Merton Student Wins Gold in Computer Programming Contest

Oxford teams took gold and came fourth in International Collegiate Programming Contest
quantum reality

Professor Alan Barr's work featured in the New Scientist

Unravelling quantum reality
Portrait of Stuart Hall by Claudette Johnson

Claudette Johnson, painter of Merton's Stuart Hall portrait, nominated for the Turner Prize

Claudette Johnson was announced today as one of the nominees for Britain's most prestigious contemporary art award, the Turner Prize.
head shot of Toby Adkins

Mertonian wins European Physical Society Award for Plasma Physic Thesis

Former Merton DPhil student Dr Toby Adkins (2014) has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award 2024.
Simon Jones

The Revd Canon Dr Simon Jones appointed next Dean of Lincoln

The Prime Minister’s Office has today announced that The King has approved the nomination of Canon Simon Jones to be the next Dean of Lincoln.