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15 March 2023

St Hugh’s Fellow leads fossil study to solve a 200-year-old scientific mystery
A large-scale fossil study, led by College Fellow, Professor Erin Saupe, has revealed the origins of modern-day biodiversity gradient 15 million years ago. Researchers used nearly half a million fossils to solve a 200-year-old scientific mystery: why the number of different species is greatest near the equator and decreases steadily towards polar regions. The results – published in the journal Nature – give valuable insight into how biodiversity is generated over long timescales, a...
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28 February 2023
St Hugh’s Honorary Fellow Betty Boothroyd has died
St Hugh’s was saddened to learn of the passing of Honorary Fellow Betty Boothroyd (Rt Hon Baroness Boothroyd of Sandwell) on the 26th Feb...
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28 February 2023
St Hugh’s FC storms to first ever Cuppers final
St Hugh's FC gave a fantastic performance at the Oxford University Football final against Brasenose on Saturday 25 February 2023. Brasenose won 1-0 af...
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24 February 2023
The First Anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 24 February 2023
Over the past year we have been horrified by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and by the scale of the violence and destruction there. Many mi...
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24 February 2023
St Hugh’s student passes France’s most selective international exam
French and History final-year undergraduate at St Hugh's College Maya Thapa-Ó Faoláin is one of only 10 Arts & Humanities students worldwide to ...
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20 February 2023
Intersectionalising Oxford Society launches inaugural event
Intersectionalising Oxford, founded by St Hugh's student body, is holding the first of a series of events entitled, "St Hugh’s Women: Negotiating Ge...
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16 February 2023
#HUMANSOFSTHUGHS: Oghale-Oghene Erikigho
In episode four of our #HumansofStHughs series, second-year Psychology and Philosophy (PPL) student, Oghale explains how Oxford University is open to ...
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14 February 2023
St Hugh’s Fellow’s paper receives Outstanding Paper Award at flagship AI conference
A paper, co-authored by Professor Alessandro Abate and DPhil student Joar Skalse, and entitled "Misspecification in Inverse Reinforcement Learning" ha...
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13 February 2023
#HumansofStHughs: Jakub Senesi
Our feature series, #HumansofStHughs continues with undergraduate, Jakub Senesi who offers some invaluable advice for potential students who wish to s...
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10 February 2023
The Avril Gilchrist Bruten Award for Creative Writing 2023
Applications for the Avril Bruten Award for Creative Writing 2023 are now open! The competition is open to all current undergraduate and postgradua...
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9 February 2023
Professor Anne Hudson’s legacy to fund graduate scholarship at St Hugh’s College
St Hugh's is honoured to be one of two Oxford colleges hosting scholarships supported by an extremely generous legacy left to the English Faculty, St ...
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7 February 2023
St Hugh’s Gardens in Winter by Head Gardener, Ed Reid
It seems strange to be writing this article in what feels like the first proper winter we’ve had in Oxford for a long time with temperatures only ju...
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7 February 2023
St Hugh’s alumna, Rebecca George awarded CBE in New Year Honours 2023
We are delighted to offer our congratulations to St Hugh’s alumna, Rebecca George CBE (English Language and Literature, 1980) who has been appointed...
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6 February 2023
#HumansofStHughs: Ben Moisan
In the second of a series of features entitled #HumansofStHughs we hear from undergraduate, Ben Moisan who explains his philosophy for applying to Oxf...
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6 February 2023
The Belcher One-Day Colloquium, “Victorians and Animal Welfare: The Transnational Network in Literature, Culture and Intellectual Thought”
The Belcher One-Day Colloquium will be held at St Hugh's College on Thursday 2 March 2023 and will focus on: "‘Victorians and Animal Welfare: The Tr...
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1 February 2023
Applications now open for St Hugh’s College Teachers’ Residential 2023
Applications are now open for the St Hugh’s Teachers’ Residential 2023. A limited number of places is available on our fully-funded summer school ...
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30 January 2023
#HumansofStHughs: Kimberley Achebo-Awusu
The following article is the first in a series entitled #HumansofStHughs which feature stories written by St Hugh's undergraduate students about their...
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26 January 2023
St Hugh’s Burns Night Celebration 2023
St Hugh's Fellows, students and guests attended a formal dinner on Friday 20 January to celebrate the life and works of Rabbie Burns, the Bard of ...
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20 January 2023
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA: THE JOURNEY OF ONE UKRAINIAN TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY
We were delighted to be able to welcome our first Ukrainian Graduate scholarship holder, Taras Prodaniuk, to St Hugh's at the beginning of Michaelmas ...
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5 January 2023
St Hugh’s Emeritus Fellow, Susan Wood has died
Former colleagues and pupils will be distressed to learn that Susan Wood died on 30 December 2022, aged 97. Her funeral will take place at St Mary Mag...
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6 December 2022
St Hugh’s Archive loans letter to British Library
St Hugh's has loaned a letter written by novelist and alumna Mary Renault (English Language and Literature, 1925) to the British Library for their exh...
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28 November 2022
St Hugh’s Principal presented with Life-Time Achievement Award
We are proud to announce that St Hugh's Principal, Lady Elish Angiolini has been presented with The Herald's "Lifetime Achievement Award" for her outs...
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17 November 2022
St Hugh’s Emeritus Fellow recognised as one of the best female scientists in the world
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9 November 2022
The Lady Ademola Lecture: “Approaching Disability and Race in British Literature 1780-1840”
We were thrilled to be able to welcome Professor Essaka Joshua, Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, to St Hugh's on Thursd...
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2 November 2022
St Hugh’s Undergraduate finds 1.8m year old tooth of early human
Congratulations to third year St Hugh's student, Jack Peart (Archaeology and Anthropology, 2020) who found a 1.8m year old Homo erectus mandi...
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25 October 2022
Black History Month 2022: The Lady Ademola Project
The Lady Ademola Project Update by Professor Thomas Cousins, Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences and Tutor for Equality & Diversity...
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13 October 2022
Black History Month: St Hugh’s first Lady Ademola scholarship holder
We were delighted to welcome our first Lady Ademola scholarship holder in 2021, Ndume Ibrahimu, who read for a Master of Studies in Linguistics, Philo...
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13 October 2022
Poetry readings event at St Hugh’s in tribute to alumna, Ruth Bidgood (1922-2022)
The College will be paying tribute to major Welsh poet and alumna Ruth Bidgood (English Language and Literature, 1940) on Tue...
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11 October 2022
Oxford Alumni Choir performs in St Hugh’s Chapel
We were delighted to welcome the Standish Consort, an Oxford Alumni Choir based in Gloucestershire as part of their residency in Oxford. The choir was...
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6 October 2022
Student Stories: Exploring clubs and societies by St Hugh’s student Molayo Ogunde
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6 October 2022
Ruth Bidgood, 20 July 1922-4 March 2022
On National Poetry Day, we remember St Hugh's alumna, Ruth Bidgood (née Jones, English Language and Literature, 1940) who was one of Wales's finest p...
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