The College is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Jean Blumberg on 14 March 2023. She was the widow of Baruch (Barry) Blumberg, Master of Balliol 1989–1994.
Balliol people were among a group of Oxford physicists who conducted an experiment in which two optical atomic clocks were quantum entangled for the first time.
Balliol postgraduate Richard Dumbill (2010, DPhil Surgical Sciences) won the Medawar Medal for best clinical presentation at the British Transplant Society annual congress.
Wenmiao Yu (Balliol 2015) has been selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2023 list in the technology category, with George Dunlop and Ramy Shelbaya, with whom she co-founded Quantum Dice.
Professor Coralia Cartis (Professor Numerical Optimisation and Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics) has been elected EUROPT Fellow 2023.
Felix Simon (Balliol 2016, DPhil in Information, Communication & Social Sciences) has published, with colleagues, a major report for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on what news organisations should do to improve their coverage of climate change.
The Carl Woodall launch, belonging to Balliol College Boat Club, has had a complete overhaul and is now riverworthy again, thanks to a generous donation by Carl Woodall himself, Fellow and Domestic Bursar of Balliol 2000–2009.
Professor John Tasioulas (Balliol 1989, Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow, and Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI) has been awarded an AI2050 Senior Fellowship by Schmidt Futures, which will allow him to pursue a three-year research project that will take a humanistic approach to the ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
Two Balliol alumni from India, Soha Khan (1996) Arghya Sengupta (2008), have received UK India Achievers Awards for achieving excellence in their field.
The fifth Dawkins Prize for Conservation and Animal Welfare has been awarded to Dr Amanda Vincent for her work in ocean conservation, including the study of seahorses. The prize is awarded by Balliol for outstanding research into ecology and behaviour of animals whose welfare may be endangered by human activity.