Merton News

Chemistry DPhil student Anna Rydzik has been awarded a commendation for her thesis, making her the second Merton DPhil student to achieve this in the last three years.

Mertonian and Honorary Fellow Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS (1968) has been awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal, in recognition of his pioneering work on variation and mutation in the human genome.

Seán Doherty has won the Choir & Organ Composition Competition 2014, held in partnership with Merton College, with his carol A Nywe Werk.

Dr Miguel Walsh, recently elected as a Special Fellow of Merton College, has been awarded the 2014 Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries.

The Merton@750 project has launched an online collection of Merton memories that paint a picture of life at Merton in its 750th anniversary year.

A new statue in the College chapel is dedicated at a special service to mark the feast of the Birth of St John the Baptist, the Chapel’s Patronal Festival.

Face painting, a coconut shy, plenty of Pimms—and Merton recreated in cake—all made last weekend's Quad Party a great success.

Merton first-year undergraduate Theophilus Kwek has been awarded this year's Martin Starkie Prize by the Oxford Poetry Society.

Merton Fellow Dr Julian Knight, DPhil student Anna Sanniti, and second-year medical undergraduate Ikhuemose Ikhena, recently took part in The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2014.

Daniel Schwennicke, a second year undergraduate reading Classics at Merton, has been awarded the 2014 Chancellor’s Latin Prizes for both prose and verse.