Merton News

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.

Mertonian Kirsten Claiden-Yardley (2003) played a key role in creating the world of Wolf Hall, the BBC's dramatisation of Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning novel.

Can you crack the tapestry code before anyone else?

Merton alumna Rebecca Jeffree has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to gender equality in the workplace.