Merton News

At last, the mystery of the tapestry that hangs in the Porters' Lodge has been solved!

Merton graduate student Nicholas Black will be off to the American midwest next year, having been awarded the 2016 Iowa elective scholarship.

The Braun Family Archive, recently catalogued by the Bodleian Library, covers the family’s life over the last 200 years in Berlin and northeast Germany and later in Britain—it includes personal papers and writings of Merton classicist Thomas Braun (1935-2008), Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History from 1963.

Merton Law students Laura King and Tinny Chan are heading for Washington, DC as part of a five-person team from Oxford competing in the Jessup, the world's largest moot court competition.

Christian Ruckteschler reports on the 2015 Finals Forum, an annual event held in Hilary Term for all undergraduates preparing for their final exams, to provide information and offer revision strategies.

Graduate student Vinesh Rajpaul, currently reading for a DPhil in Astrophysics, has achieved success in two recent major photographic competitions.

Former Merton Biology undergraduate Ben Hopkins has been awarded the Zoological Society of London's Charles Darwin Award and Marsh Prize for his research on the reproductive biology of fruit flies.

Following the launch of the Merton@750 project’s online Anniversary Collection in June 2014, Mertonians from all walks of life have been sending in stories and items from their personal collections to add to the archive.

It is with sadness that the College has learned of the death of Sir Martin Gilbert, a Fellow from 1962 until 1994, when he was elected as an Honorary Fellow.

Our Chapel Administrator, Timothy Coleman has been selected for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain Fellowship programme.