Shirin Homann (Balliol 1990) has marked the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to Balliol as students with ‘re mark able women: visualising the presence of female knowledge’, an art intervention in the Library. The first to view it were alumnae attending the ‘Balliol Women: 40 Years On’ celebration weekend of 27-29 September 2019.
On 29 September 2019 as part of the ‘Balliol Women: 40 Years On’ celebration weekend Balliol alumnae joined current members of the Balliol College Boat Club at the river for coffee/Buck’s fizz and rowing.
Congratulations to DPhil student Richard Burman (Balliol 2018) on winning the 2019 Céline Newman Basic Science in Epilepsy Award.
A talk by DPhil student Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo (Balliol 2018) appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought.
Classicist and translator Emily Wilson (Balliol 1990) has won a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship.
We congratulate Professor Iain Couzin (Junior Research Fellow in the Sciences at Balliol 2003-2006) on being awarded the 2019 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize.
The Martin and Dellal buildings which were part of Balliol’s Graduate Centre have been demolished, allowing BAM Construction to begin preparing the northern end of the Master’s Field development site for the new accommodation blocks that are to be built there.
A series of photographic portraits commissioned to celebrate 40 years since the first women undergraduates matriculated at Balliol have been hung in Hall.
We were deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Professor Sir Christopher Dobson, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge - Balliol’s sister college.
Cressida Dick CBE QPM (Balliol 1979) has been appointed a DBE for public service in the Resignation Honours 2019.
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