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Digital Hub programme announces Gaming Season
Hot on the heels of the ESI NextGen Oxford conference in March, and the opening of Oxbridge’s first esports suite at Jesus College, the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub events programme today announces a...
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AI ethics are ignoring children, say Oxford researchers
Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Ethical Web and Data Architectures (EWADA), including Jesus College Principal Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FRS, and DPhil student Ge Wang, have called...
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Organ Scholar becomes Associate of the Royal College of Organists
Jesus College Organ Scholar Conrad Spencer has become an Associate of the Royal College of Organists (RCO), following his success in the latest round of the RCO Diploma examinations. The RCO Diploma is...
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Jesus alumna to launch new book on Kafka in centenary year
As part of a year of events marking the centenary of the death of the writer Franz Kafka, Jesus College is excited to announce that it is to host the launch of alumna Professor Leah Tomkins’ new book...
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Cheng Yu Tung Building wins at Civic Trust Awards
The Cheng Yu Tung Building has won an architectural design award at the Civic Trust Awards 2024; the latest accolade for Jesus College’s award-winning new building. The Civic Trust Awards (CTAs) scheme...
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Senior Research Fellow Vili Lehdonvirta awarded ERC Advanced Grant
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, is one of four University of Oxford researchers to have been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of up to...
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Artist Peter McDonald reflects on College Fellowship
Artist Peter McDonald joined Jesus College as one of our first Short Term Visiting Fellows in Art last year, with the aim of producing a new body of creative work to enhance both the College’s art...
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Student entrepreneurs gear-up for JEN-z Venture Forge Pitch Night
Jesus College is to host its first start-up competition for student entrepreneurs. The JEN-z Venture Forge Competition Pitch Night, which takes place on Thursday 9th May, will see some of the College’s...
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Study shows that island bats are valuable allies for farmers
Dr Ricardo Rocha, Tutorial Fellow in Biology at Jesus College and an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, has co-authored a new study highlighting how bats can be valuable allies to...
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Digital Hub Programme for Trinity Term 2024 goes live
The Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Events Programme for Trinity Term 2024 has been launched today, and is the most ambitious since the Hub opened in 2022. Offering up a range of nine diverse events on...
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Alumnus to give talk on Select Committee hearings into US Capitol attack
Jesus College alumnus, and former President of ABC News, James Goldston (1986, PPE) is returning to College next month to give a talk on the Select Committee hearings into the January 6th attack on the...
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Mediale announces new cohort for talent development programme supported by...
Mediale, an international media arts agency that develops, produces, exhibits and tours work from artists working around the blurred edges of digital art, has announced the six creatives commissioned...
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JEN-z | Venture Forge 2024 start-up competition showcases Jesus student...
The culmination of months of hard work and creativity came to fruition on Thursday 9 May at the much-anticipated final pitch night for the JEN-z | Venture Forge 2024 student start-up competition. The...
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Cheng Yu Tung Building wins RIBA South Award 2024
We are delighted to announce that the College’s new Cheng Yu Tung Building has won a RIBA South Award 2024. The award was announced at the RIBA South Awards ceremony on Wednesday 15th May. The...
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College launches Women in Sciences Day for Welsh schools students
Jesus College’s Access & Outreach team has opened applications for its 2024 Women in Sciences Day, which invites young women* in Year 12 at Welsh state schools to experience life as a science...
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Honorary Fellow announced as new Chair of The Prince’s Trust UK’s Board of...
Honorary Fellow Tom Ilube CBE has been named as the incoming Chair of The Prince’s Trust UK’s Board of Trustees. Tom, who was elected an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 2020, is an educational...
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Jesus College to take part in Ellison Scholars programme
Jesus College is one of three pioneering University of Oxford colleges to participate in the new Ellison Scholars programme, which aims to find, fund and develop the next great global innovators, and...
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Study highlights importance of early mental health screening of refugees to...
Research conducted by Jesus College DPhil candidate Raphael Bradenbrink, a researcher in the Department of International Development at Oxford, and international colleagues working across the fields of...
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New book provides fresh insights on the troubled accession of King James I
Professor Susan (Sue) Doran, Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, has today published a new book that tells the story of the troubled accession of England’s first Scottish king, and the transition...
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New undergraduate Don Fowler Classics Bursary announced
Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends of Jesus College, we will be welcoming the first recipient of a new undergraduate bursary in Classics this coming Michaelmas term, named in memory of...
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Professor Tim Palmer awarded top prize in Meteorology
Emeritus Fellow Professor Tim Palmer has been honoured for his pioneering role in weather forecasts and climate predictions at a ceremony celebrating the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) top...
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Close brush with death inspired zoologist’s new book
Tim Coulson, Professorial Fellow in Zoology, had a close brush with death after contracting malaria in his early twenties. It left him pondering big questions, such as why he existed, why is there...
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College’s access partner reports positive impact of access work on admissions
The latest impact report from one of Jesus College’s access partners – Universify Education – shows evidence that hosting residentials at leading universities such as Oxford encourages Universify...
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Professor Roxana Radu named laureate of the Henrik Enderlein Prize for Social...
Professor Roxana Radu, Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College, has been announced as a laureate of the Henrik Enderlein Prize for Social Sciences, awarded to European researchers under forty who have made...
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Techniques of early modern spycraft revealed in new book
Shining a light on the nefarious netherworlds of espionage, a new book co-authored by former Visiting Senior Research Fellow Prof. Nadine Akkerman, and ‘partner in crime’ Dr Pete Langman, is the first...
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College open days attract thousands of prospective students
More than 4,500 prospective students, and their friends and families, visited Jesus College during the University of Oxford’s 2024 Open Days on 26th and 27th June. Blessed with some of the warmest...
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DPhil student receives OPEN funding for ventilator management policy project
Jesus College postgraduate student Arun Joseph, who is reading for a DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences, has been awarded £5,000 by the Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Seed Fund to support a...
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Women’s Football team enjoy match trip to Portugal
Twelve members of the Jesus Women’s Football team (including one player from New College) have just returned from Portugal after a three-day sports trip to Lisbon. They were in the city for a match...
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Former Jesus College students become new MPs
Two Jesus College alumni, who both matriculated in 2010, will be taking their seats in the House of Commons this week as new Labour MPs. Following the General Election on Thursday 4th July 2024, Sarah...
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Conference to explore proposal for permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly
Stuart White, Associate Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at Oxford and Nicholas Drake Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Jesus College, is...
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College welcomes teachers to DPAG Residential
Jesus College was delighted to welcome a group of secondary school teachers to Oxford last week for the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics’ annual Teacher Residential. The DPAG...
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Francis Jones Prize in Welsh History awarded posthumously to alumnus...
Jesus College is proud to announce that the Francis Jones Prize in Welsh History 2023 has been awarded posthumously to alumnus Professor Robin Okey (1960, History) for his book ‘Towards Modern...
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Jesus Fellow launches It’s All Greek (and Latin!) To Me podcast
A new podcast series featuring Armand D’Angour, Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, aims to shine a light on the ancient world through expressions,...
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Department of Education unveils portrait of Professor Kathy Sylva OBE
A new portrait of Emeritus Fellow Professor Kathy Sylva OBE, the Oxford Department of Education’s first female Professor and first Professor of Educational Psychology, has been unveiled. Commissioned...
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College Principal to lead pioneering AI project from new UKRI...
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College and Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oxford, is to lead a new project which addresses the pressing issue of fostering...
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Berta Verd awarded ERC Starting Grant to launch ambitious research project
Berta Verd, Peter Brunet Fellow in Biological Sciences at Jesus College and an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, is one of six Oxford academics to have been awarded a European Research...
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College’s portrait of late Queen loaned to Ashmolean for new exhibition
An artwork from Jesus College’s collection is on display at the Ashmolean Museum, as part of a new exhibition on the place of money in our world through different artistic lenses. ‘Equanimity’ by...
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Former student launches new Oxford LGBTQ+ alumni network
A Jesus College alumnus has launched a new initiative designed to connect, empower, and celebrate an estimated 35,000 LGBTQ+ Oxford graduates living and working around the world. Christer Holloman...
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College welcomes first Career Development Fellow for Academic Skills Support
Jesus College is delighted to welcome Dr Luisa Ostacchini as its inaugural Nelson J Carr Career Development Fellow for Academic Skills Support. The new post has been created to support Jesus students...
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College launches Crisis Scholarship Scheme
Following the success of its Ukrainian Student Support Fund, which provided financial assistance to three successive students from Ukraine through graduate studentships, Jesus College is delighted to...
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Jesus Meets Jamaica: Shaping Metaverse Ethics with Youth Voices
Project Amplify – a Jesus College-funded project in Jamaica, which worked with young people to explore the potentials and pitfalls of interacting in virtual environments and gaming spaces – has...
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As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence – Nigel Shadbolt in...
Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and...
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Digital Hub Event: Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery Conference
Diverse digital technologies—from artificial intelligence and social media to satellite sensing and mapping applications—are touted as potential solutions to overlapping crises of the 21st century,...
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Digital Hub Event: Immersive Assembly Vol 4: ‘Dreams & Echoes’ Exhibition
In 2024, and in collaboration with the renowned international media arts agency Mediale and the Cultural Programme, the Digital Hub has been hosting a cutting-edge artist development programme for...
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Digital Hub Event: Conscious Sleep Day
This event will take place in the Jesus College Ship Street Centre on Ship Street, Oxford. A morning of talks, and creative interventions around ‘Conscious Sleep’ with Professor Sally Shuttleworth....
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Digital Hub Event: Singularity Sounds – AI & the Internet in Musical Performance
Singularity Sounds brings together two of the UK’s foremost contemporary music performers, David Zucchi (saxophone) and Stephanie Lamprea (soprano), for an ambitious musical programme at the...
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Support the Chapel Appeal
Jesus College has launched a special heritage appeal to raise funds towards the restoration and upgrade of its much-loved Chapel. Consecrated in 1621, the Chapel is both a site of historical...
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AI, Genomics, and the 21st Century Physician
Location: Ship Street Centre, Jesus College Speaker: John D. Lantos MD; Respondent: Angeliki Kerasidou (Ethox Centre, University of Oxford) AI and genomics are transforming our understanding of health...
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College launches first online Archives Catalogue
Jesus College has launched its first online Archives Catalogue, which is now available to anyone interested in exploring its archival collections. College Archivist Dr Robin Darwall-Smith has spent the...
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Alumnus returns to Oxford as Tutor in Creative Writing
Jesus College alumnus Dr Matthew (Matt) Parvin (2009, English Language and Literature), an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, has been appointed Tutor in Creative Writing in the University’s...
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