Merton News

Daniel Schwennicke, a third year undergraduate reading Classics at Merton, has won the Greek Recitation category in the 2015 Classics Faculty Declamation Competition.

How do bacteria sense their micro worlds? One of the questions addressed by 'Biosense', an exhibition at Oxford's Museum of Natural History celebrating the University’s leading research by combining scientific stories with incredible images and previously unseen museum specimens.

Professor David Paterson, Tutor in Pre-Clinical Medicine at Merton, is to deliver the 2016 Brookhart Lecture at Oregon Health Science University's School of Medicine.

Merton graduates students Jessica Thorn and Fay Wanrug Suwanwattana recently found an unusual way help relief efforts in Nepal - they organised a fundraising yoga session at Merton.

Merton second-year undergraduate Chris Hamilton has been awarded the £100 first prize in this year's Department of Physics Speaking Competition.

The recently-published 2013/14 Norrington Table, which measures the performance in finals of students at each of the University of Oxford's colleges, shows Merton in first place.

Merton Tutorial Fellow in Organic Chemistry Professor Véronique Gouverneur was the recipient of this year's American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of the chemistry of fluorine.

First-year undergraduate Katie Ratcliffe has been awarded this year's Criminal Law prize, the second year in a row that it has been awarded to a Merton student.

Merton Law students Laura King and Tinny Chan were part of a five-person team who achieved Oxford’s best results yet when they represented the United Kingdom in the international rounds of Jessup, the world’s largest moot court competition.

Merton’s final-year historians and their tutors enjoyed their annual reading party in Cornwall at the end of March.