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1314 Society Garden Party - Saturday 12th May 2012
2012 News
Philip Pullman (1965, English) has been awarded the Kingdom of Redonda Literary Prize for 2012.
The new series of ITV's popular crime detective series Lewis starts on 16 May with an episode that was partly shot at Exeter College.
Congratulations to Glen Goodman (2004, Latin American Studies) who has been awarded a prestigious German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship to research in Berlin next academic year.
Cat Williams (2005, Engineering) will be performing at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics in London. Miss Williams will be playing the drums and is looking forward to the excitement of the occasions.
Congratulations to Exonian Tansy Castledine (1997, Music) who has led St George's College Chamber Choir to be crowned the BBC Songs of Praise Senior School Choir of the Year 2012.
Congratulations to Charles de Bourcy (2008, Physics) who has won a Fulbright Science and Technology Award.
Sir Ronald Cohen (1964, PPE) launched Big Society Capital (BSC) this morning. The aim of BSC is to enable organisations tackling social issues to grow by encouraging investments made for social as well as financial return.
Spencer Crawley (2006, History) is embarking on a cricket tour of Pakistan to raise money for the Afghan Appeal Fund.
Psychiatrist David Goldbloom (1975, Physiological Sciences) has been named the new chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Congratulations to Rukmini Callimachi (née Sichitiu) (1997, General Linguistics & Comparative Philology) who has been awarded the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The Bennett Boskey Fellow in Politics and International Relations, Christine Cheng, recently gave the keynote speech for the National Women's Liberal Commission at Canada's Liberal Party's biennial convention.
Donor Weber (1978, English) has published an intimate and touching family memoir, Immortal Bird. The memoir focuses particularly on the fight for life of Mr Weber's eldest son, Damon, who was born with a congenital heart defect and later developed protein-losing enteropathy (PLE).
Chris Carter (1983, PPE) has published Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics.
Matthew Tye (2009, Sociology) delivered the keynote speech at a recent British Academy conference which focussed on contemporary challenges in transitional Vietnam.
Exonian Michael Frankl (1972, Modern Languages) will be appearing in the semi-final of BBC Radio 4's Brain of Britain programme this weekend.
Congratulations to Mark Chatterton (1981, Modern History) who has completed the feat of watching a competitive match at all 92 league football grounds in the country.
Fine Art student Max Mulvany (2009) created a life-sized sculpture of the Rector yesterday, but sadly it has long since melted.
The 'Snow Rector' was well positioned in the Front Quad to welcome - and surprise - visitors to the College.
Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala's debut book, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, was the Book of the Week in The Times last weekend. Dr Dabhoiwala was also recently named one of The Observer's new authors to look out for in 2012.
Exeter College is now on Twitter, the popular social networking and microblogging website. You can follow the College's newsfeed at @exetercollegeox.
Congratulations to Daniel Cashman (2008, Jurisprudence) who has helped Oxford to beat Cambridge in a recent mooting competition held at Gray's Inn.
Exeter College Chapel was featured in Channel 4's Restoration Man last week as presenter George Clarke explored the architecture of gothic revival churches.
In his latest book, All Business is Local: Why Place Matters More than Ever in a Global, Virtual World, John Quelch (1969, Modern History) argues that all companies - large and small - have to be local as well as global in order to succeed.
Dr Katharina Ulmschneider (1991, Modern History) of the University's Institute of Archaeology has been interviewed about a new exhibition,
Persecution and Survival: a wartime refugee story, which opens at the Oxford Town Hall Gallery on 15 January.
Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Fellow in History, has been named one of the Observer's new authors to look out for in 2012.
