On this day a hundred years ago the Reverend Father Thomas Byles (1889) declined a Titanic lifeboat place, and gave absolution and comfort to the doomed as the ship went down.
Oxford beat Cambridge at Oxford Town Hall on Sunday 18 March, in the Varsity Judo match. Balliol provided the captain for the men's team, Max Denning (2010) and a member of the women's team, Rebecca Bayliss (2009).
Oxford Nanopore presents a new portable sequencing device that will allow faster analysis of DNA.
New sponsorship deal for the Boat Race will enable the men’s and women’s races to be held on the same stretch of river on the same day for the first time.
A groundbreaking debate between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Professor Richard Dawkins.
Wildlife conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford, was awarded The Queen's Anniversary Prize.
Four Old Members were mentioned in the New Year Honours 2012.
Balliol College's Ben Woolgar (2009) was victorious in the World Universities Debating Championships.
Lord Reed (Balliol 1978 and Visitor) has been appointed to the UK Supreme Court.
Christopher Hitchens, renowed author and secularist dies aged 62.