Two Balliol people, Nick Trefethen (Professor of Numerical Analysis and Professorial Fellow of Balliol) and James Maynard (Balliol 2009), have won Frontiers of Science Awards at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing.
Professor Manuela Zaccolo (Professor of Cell Biology, Fellow and Tutor in Biomedical Sciences) has been awarded the 2023 Ketty Schwartz Award by the International Society for Heart Research European Section; made a Member of the Academia Europaea, and elected a Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
We were delighted to welcome Balliol Rhodes Scholars from across the years and around the world back to College, as part of the celebrations marking 120 years of the Rhodes Scholarships.
Over 150 family members, friends, former students and colleagues gathered at Holywell Manor on Saturday 1 July 2023 to remember Piers Nye (Fellow and Tutor in Physiological Sciences 1991–2011 and Emeritus Fellow 2011–2021).
Balliol College Cricket Club wins Cuppers, and other sporting news.
Balliol’s Outreach Officer, Pravahi Osman, reports on the success of one of the first Gregson Scholarship awards, to Haileybury Turnford School in Hertfordshire.
We warmly congratulate those Balliol people whom the King has recognised in his first Birthday Honours List.
Katrina Davis (Fellow and Tutor in Zoology) has received a Darwin Initiative Award to fund a project called ‘Incentive-based marine conservation’, for which she is principal investigator and Hollie Booth (Balliol 2019) is leader.
An arrangement of a composition by Carol Jones (2018, DPhil Music Composition) is to be premièred at the High Barnet Chamber Musical Festival on 30 June 2023.
Professor Frances Kirwan (Balliol 1981 and Emeritus Fellow) is one of five 2023 laureates of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards