St Anne's College

Our student ambassadors are waiting to welcome you to St Anne's this -- find out what's on here: https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate/open-days/

Many congratulations to St Anne's Fellow Professor Saiful Islam, who has won the Faraday Institution Community Award 2024 for Public Engagement/STEM Outreach!

Professor Saiful Islam named as STEM Outreach / Public Engagement Award winner | St Anne's College, Oxford Congratulations to St Anne’s Fellow, Professor Saiful Islam, for winning the Faraday Institution Community Award 2024 for Public Engagement / STEM Outreach.

If you've graduated from St Anne's within the last 10 years, we'd love to see you at our Young Stanners networking drinks in London on 21st November -- find out more and how to register here:

Young Stanners- London Networking Drinks Catch up with friends and strengthen your connections with other recent St Anne's alumnae at this relaxed drinks event in central London.

We've been made aware that due to an error at Royal Mail which still has not been rectified, Freepost envelopes sent to us may not have been getting through. If you've sent us something in the past few months and not received a reply, please do get in touch by phone or email! [email protected] or 01865 274804

Not long now until our next Open Day on 20th September! Come and visit us to meet students and tutors, watch demonstration interviews, and much more https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate/open-days/

Many congratulations to St Anne's Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science, Prof. Christian Coester, who is one of 6 Oxford academics to have received major European Research Council funding for his next research project

St Anne’s Fellow, Prof. Christian Coester, one of six Oxford academics awarded European Research Council Starting Grants to launch ambitious research projects | St Anne's College, Oxford We are pleased to share the news that Professor Christian Coester, Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science, has been awarded one of 494 major European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants. The funding – totalling nearly €780 million this year– is part of the Horizon Europe programme and will sup...

During their office summer clear-up, the Development Team found some art from the past!

These three cards were created and were sold in 1979 in aid of the centenary appeal. The College also sold tea-towels and pendants for the centenary, but we had not seen these cards for a long time.

L-R: (A) St Anne and the Virgin Mary, (B) Symbols of the British Isles, and (C) the St Anne’s Beaver.

(A) The first card shows a drawing of a monumental brass from St Mary’s Church in Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, made in c.1400. It is of St Anne, and her daughter, the Virgin Mary, whom she instructs in reading.

(B) The drawing on this card shows a leek (Wales), thistle (Scotland), rose (England) and shamrock (Ireland), symbols of the British Isles. They were carved by 82-year old Edward Belcher, a local stone mason, to commemorate the opening of the St Anne’s Dining Hall in 1960 by HM Queen Elizabeth II. The stone carving is now built into a wall in the Michelle Clayman Roof Garden. See if you can spot it next time you visit College!

(C) This last card shows a representation of the beaver carving on Hartland House, which is above the students' pidge room today.

The cards will now be part of the St Anne’s archive. We believe that they may have been designed by beloved St Anne’s tutor, the late Dr Hazel Rossotti, whose artistic talents can also be seen around College, most prominently in her stain glass windows on Hartland House. However, if anyone has any more information about the cards, we would love to hear about it!

"New toys like machine learning...allow us to do things that five or six years ago we thought were impossible" - St Anne's Fellow, Prof. Charlotte Deane, executive chair of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC), discusses how investment in AI could yield huge returns in the THE

Keeping up with big tech on AI research ‘never about competition’ As tech giants spend staggering sums on artificial intelligence, the head of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council explains why it’s vital for academia to engage in this ‘hot’ area of research

It was lovely to welcome the Merze Tate Explorers to College on August 9th! Here they are enjoying the Bridge of Sighs after their visit to St Anne's.

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-Level results today -- you've worked so hard! Let us know if you're and will see us at St Anne's in October!

Today we had a wonderful visit from the Merze Tate Explorers, who came all the way from Michigan, USA!

The group visited us to hear more about Dr Merze Tate (matric. 1932), a St Anne's alumna, whom the Merze Tate Explorers take their name from. Dr Tate was the first African-American woman to study at Oxford and the first African-American to be awarded a B.Litt by the University, and was a member of the Society of Oxford Home Students (now St Anne's). You can read more about Dr Tate's life and important legacy on our online archive: https://buff.ly/400RvIN

We listened to a brilliant talk from Alice, our Library Assistant, and Matthew, our archivist, who told the Explorers about Dr Tate's time at Oxford and about life for female students at the University of Oxford in the late 19th- and early 20th-century.

The Explorers also got to look at our archive material on Dr Tate, including letters and telegrams from Merze herself, as well as her student file.

The Library were also gifted a copy of Small Beginnings: The Photographic Journey Through the Life of Merze Tate. The book was authored by the organisation's founder and leader, Sonya Hollins, and our copy was kindly signed by Sonya and the Explorers who visited today.

It was lovely to see such enthusiasm for a very important alumna! We hope the Explorers enjoy the rest of their UK visit.

Former rowers -- do you remember any wonderful lock trips?

SABC recently embarked on their first lock trip for some time, due to flooding on the river making it unsafe. Molly Wilson explains:

"We row on the Isis, which is the stretch of the River Thames between Iffley lock to the South and Osney lock to the North. It's a short stretch, with no more than 1.9k that's consistently rowable. Therefore, when we want to build endurance and row for a longer stretch, we have to row through one of the locks in order to go further without having to constantly stop, spin round, and go back the way we came. This means it takes significantly longer, and the boat has to be accompanied by a launch (a small powerboat), as it isn't possible to cycle alongside the whole time and someone has to be able to operate the sluice gates at the lock. As a result, a lock trip can often prove a bit of an exciting adventure and give rowers the chance for a change of scenery. However, it's also a bit of an administrative nightmare to find enough available and keen people (as it takes most of the day), a launch driver and a coach (if you want to have a productive session). The river also has to be at a level low enough that it's safe to enter and leave the lock, and row when fatigued. As such, there haven't been any lock trips run by SABC this year, and I don't believe there were any last year either. This was therefore quite an exciting trip!"

July is -- why not look back at Dr Maddie Hewitson's talk from last summer on nature in Victorian art?

‘The Birds and the Bees: Nature in Victorian Colour’ with Dr Maddie Hewitson On the 25th May, Dr Maddie Hewitson of the Ashmolean Museum's Western Art Print Room gave a talk to St Anne's College, Oxford's Plumer Society.Following John...

Yellowstone Biosciences, a spinout co-founded by St Anne's Fellow, Prof. Paresh Vyas, has been launched to pioneer new cancer treatments using advanced T-cell therapies developed at MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/yellowstone-biosciences-spinout-co-founded-by-st-annes-fellow-prof-paresh-vyas-launches-to-advance-cutting-edge-cancer-therapies-from-university-of-oxford-research/

Incredibly, it's been a year since we embarked on our project, College's largest ever capital project. The strip-out phase is now over and the rebuild is fully underway!

The Rebuilding Phase Has Begun... - Transforming Bevington Road One year on from the launch of our biggest ever capital project, the strip-out phase of the Bevington Road Regeneration is complete and the rebuilding phase has begun in earnest. Users of Bevington Road will have noticed that the scaffolding has begun to come down from the street-facing fronts of th...

We're back for day 2 of !
☂️Student ambassador-led tours
12.30 - 13.15 - Free buffet lunch
13.30 - 14.30 - Meet the Tutors
13.30 - 14.30 - Parents and Carers Talk
14.30 - 16.00 - Afternoon tea
14.45 - 15.30 - Demonstration interview (Biochem!) 🧬

Come up and see us -- the weather is less overwhelmingly hot today but still Oxford is looking its best!

It was lovely to see so many of you at our Open Day today -- we'll be back tomorrow with coffee and pastries from 8am!

https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate/open-days/

Come on up to St Anne's for lunch -- first come, first served! This afternoon we've got a busy programme of talks, from "Meet the Tutors" to a demonstration interview (today, Classics -- relevant for all literature based courses (English, languages etc). 📚

We’re ready at St Anne’s, with a full programme of events -- find out more https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate/open-days/

Beautiful weather here at St Anne's on the longest day of the year as the marquee goes up -- now you know summer is really coming!

Our next Open Days are coming up on 26 and 27 June. Drop in and find out why St Anne's could be your Oxford home. https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate/open-days/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNUijX5qpW4&t=1s

Welcome to St Anne's College, Oxford! (Admissions Film) Welcome to St Anne's -- your Oxford College.

Today seems a fitting day to remember another of our old students, Christine Ogle. During she was a member of the WRNS and was our only alumna to have died whilst on active service during the war. https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/life-here/library/blog/christine-ogle/

Today is ! At St Anne’s, we are committed to sustainability and our collective responsibility to preserving the environment. We produce regular reports showing what we have done so far, and what we hope to achieve in the future. https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/this-is-st-annes/sustainability-environment/

To mark we're celebrating some of our amazing alumni working to protect the environment.

🌱 Rory Irwin (St Anne's College, 2013) founder Scottish Lavender Oils

♻️ Alexis McGivern (Wolfson College, Oxford, 2019) emerging leader in global climate solutions

🐣 Brian Briggs (Worcester College, Oxford 1998) managing wetland habitats at WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre

🦁 Moreangels Mbizah (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 2012) leading lion conservation in Zimbabwe with Wildcru

Read their alumni stories: ➡️ bit.ly/QUADAlumniStories

This year's Oxford Translation Day programme is now live!

Every year, St Anne's College and the OCCT host Oxford Translation Day to celebrate literary translation with an exciting and vibrant range of workshops, readings, and talks, culminating in the award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. This year, Oxford Translation Day will take place on Saturday, 15 June.

View the full programme on our website: https://occt.web.ox.ac.uk/oxford-translation-day-2024

We're looking forward to welcoming Plumer Society members and their guests into college for lunch and a talk with St Anne's Fellow, Professor Stuart Robinson, tomorrow. These events are an excellent opportunity to thank those who have let us know they plan to leave legacies to St Anne's. We are always keen to celebrate this kind of giving, which makes an enormous difference to our students.

The Plumer Society is named after former St Anne's Principal Eleanor Plumer, who managed our transition from The Society of Oxford Home Students to St Anne's College. The Plumer family shield is now our coat of arms.

If you have plans to leave us a legacy but haven't yet told us, we would love to hear from you! A reminder too that St Anne's alumnae have access to a free will-writing service from Octopus Legacy (whether you are planning to leave anything to College or not -- it doesn't matter!). You can read more about that on our Alumnae Benefits page: https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/alumnae-benefits/

We were thrilled to see the news that St Anne's alumna Shona Minson (1990) has been named a by and . Congratulations! https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumna-shona-minson-1990-named-a-new-generation-thinker-by-the-ahrc-and-bbc/

Watch: Professor Imogen Goold in conversation with Rob Tobin, Partner, Kennedys Law. Imogen and Rob discuss the law around the medical treatment of children and best interests. In doing so, they delve into some of the most challenging cases where differences of views between those with parental responsibility and treating clinicians are managed by the courts

Balancing medical treatment decisions for children: In conversation with Professor Imogen Goold In this long-form video interview, Rob Tobin, Head of UK Medical Law, speaks with Imogen Goold, Professor of Medical Law at the University of Oxford, about d...

Congratulations to all the members of who participated in the Town and Gown 10K in the heat on Sunday!

The Town and Gown supports Muscular Dystrophy UK and raises funds to fight muscle-wasting conditions.

We had 27 runners and the St Anne’s College team was able to raise £540.00 (£650 with Gift Aid).