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Detail of a portrait of Sir James Holt by Michael Noakes, courtesy Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Sir James Clarke Holt 1922-2014

An obituary by Dr Matthew Grimley.
Ian Simester

Merton undergraduate wins criminal law prize

First year law undergraduate Ian Simester has been awarded the Slaughter & May Prize for Criminal Law.
Terracotta Army Pit 1 - in Xi'an, China - photo: Maros Mraz (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons

Former Warden to lecture on Terracotta Warriors

Professor Dame Jessica Rawson, former Warden of Merton College, has been invited to give the 45th William Cohn Memorial Lecture.
Merton history finalists at the annual reading party in Cornwall

History finalists prepare at annual reading party

The reading party helps undergraduates to prepare for finals by reading and discussing recently-published history books.
Professor King demonstrating how our ears and brains process speech sounds

Unlocking the Brain

As part of Brain Awareness Week 2014, Merton Supernumerary Fellow Professor Andrew King and his colleagues took part in Unlocking The Brain, five days of activities, games and experiments at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science.
Dr Kate Blackmon

Dr Kate Blackmon to be admitted as Senior Proctor

Merton Fellow Dr Kate Blackmon will be admitted as Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford today, Wednesday 19 March 2014. We interviewed her before the ceremony to find out more.
Gabriel Jackson - Photo: © IR f64 Reinis Hofmanis

Gabriel Jackson’s 'Passion' to première at Merton

A highlight of this year's Passiontide at Merton festival is the world première of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ by Gabriel Jackson.
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson - Photo: © John Cairns - www.johncairns.co.uk

Former Warden delivers Slade Lectures on 2,500 years of interaction between China & The West

Former Warden Professor Dame Jessica Rawson was this year's Slade Lecturer at Cambridge University's Department of History of Art.
Photo: Sgt. Matthew Freire - License: CC-BY 2.0

Finals Forum offers strategies for exam success

The session was designed to offer some strategies for successfully tackling the exam period, and to answer any questions.
Dr Edmund Highcock

Mertonian wins top physics thesis award

Dr Edmund Highcock, a former DPhil student at Merton, has been awarded this year's European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division's PhD award for his thesis 'The zero turbulence manifold in fusion plasmas'.