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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'.
composer Judith Weir, who will be participating in the Make an Aria workshop - photo © Kirsten McTernan

Mertonians Make an Aria

Merton is to be well represented in the final workshop for this year's Make an Aria project, organised by prestigious opera company Music Theatre Wales.
Sarah Hickmott

Merton Graduate Wins Gapper Essay Prize

Merton postgraduate student Sarah Hickmott has won this year's RH Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize - the major prize for graduate work in French studies in the UK.
Cayenna Ponchione with conductor Valery Gergiev

Merton student to conduct Oxford Philomusica

DPhil music student Cayenna Ponchione has been selected to conduct the Oxford Philomusica in concert, after a successful conducting masterclass with Valery Gergiev.
Stuart Hall (circled) at his matriculation in 1951

Stuart Hall 1932-2014

An obituary by Dr Michael Whitworth.
Professor Simon Hooker

Simon Hooker made a 2014 Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Merton's Professor in Physics Simon Hooker has been made a 2014 Fellow by The Optical Society of America.
Nicholas Black and Catrin Lloyd

Merton medical students win essay prizes

Two Merton medical students have been awarded prizes in the Medical School's General Practice Essay Competition 2013.