Former Visiting Fellow (2015-16) and current Oriel SCR member Dr Merridee Bailey has been awarded the S. Ernest Sprott Fellowship for her project leading to a book on the history of meekness.
A team of student helpers are on standby, ready to give College tours and hand out advice to potential applicants and their families during the first of this year's Oxford Open Days, which will take place on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th June.
Congratulations to the two winners of this year's Eugene Lee-Hamilton Poetry Competition: Dominic Leonard, from Christ Church, Oxford and Shimali de Silva from Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Oriel students have been named as winners of the NUS Oxford Student Switch Off, a not-for-profit campaign that encourages students to save energy when living in University halls of residence.
Tickets are now on sale for this year's Oriel Garden Play, a production of George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem. The play will run for three nights from Tuesday 12th to Thursday 14th June.
It was a good year on the whole for Oriel's Summer Eights crews, and although we weren't Head of the River this time, many of the seven Oriel boats competing made good progress in their respective divisions with some excellent performances.
The final Oriel Talks of this academic year will take place on Tuesday 29th May, and is now open for bookings. The theme for the evening will be "(un)ravelling".
Today Oxford University is publishing its first Annual Admissions Statistical Report, drawing together data about undergraduate admissions for the University as a whole, and for individual colleges and subjects.
Fellow in Modern Languages Professor Annette Volfing has co-edited a new book, Punishment & Penitential Practices in Medieval German Writing, with Dr Sarah Bowden (Kings College London).
Honorary Fellow and former Regius Professor of Modern History Sir John Elliott will receive the first ever Premio Órdenes Españolas Award at a ceremony in Madrid on the 25th May.
