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- We want to wish a huge congratulations to our Senior Research Fellow Patricia Kingori, who has become both one of the youngest women to be awarded a full professorship in Oxford’s 925-year history and the youngest Black professor at Oxford or Cambridge.
- #DorothyHodgkin was the first academic at Oxford to be paid maternity leave - then called extended sick leave! She later helped to found Somerville nursery with her Nobel Prize. To date, Somerville is one of the few colleges with onsite childcare provision in the university.
- We are offering two new fully-funded Sanctuary Scholarships. They're open to applicants for 2022 Masters courses who have been displaced from or within their home country due to conflict, persecution or human rights abuse. Please RT and help get this message to those who need it!
- Please find an account concerning the police presence at Somerville College earlier today.
- It’s been SO hard keeping a lid on this, but we can finally confirm that we received a visit today from @ClarenceHouse during which HRH The Prince of Wales heard about 100 years of degrees for women, sustainability research at the @OICSD and our plans to become fully sustainable.
- Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel prize in chemistry for her groundbreaking discoveries – but she doesn’t have the recognition she deserves. Let's change that. We nominate #DorothyHodgkin for the £50 note.
- #ALevelResults2020 We are doing everything in our power to prevent Thursday's results from negatively impacting less-advantaged students. Read more here: some.ox.ac.uk/news/somervill…
- A huge congratulations to everyone who received an offer from @UniofOxford today! We're especially delighted to have been able to offer 72.6% of places at Somerville to state school pupils this year - a big improvement on 61.5% in 2018.
- On this day, we remember Mary Somerville, a woman so accomplished they had to create the gender-neutral term 'scientist' to describe her (previously it was 'man of science'). Hoping she inspires #GirlsinSTEM everywhere! #IWD2023 Read more here: some.ox.ac.uk/eminent/mary-s…
- It is with tremendous sadness that we must inform you that Dame Fiona Caldicott, our former Principal, passed away in the early hours of this morning. She was a brilliant, dedicated, and empathetic leader of this college. She will be greatly missed. some.ox.ac.uk/news/dame-fion…
- Starting from October 2020, we are launching a new refugee scholarship to provide support for outstanding scholars who have been forced to migrate from their home. Read more: some.ox.ac.uk/news/somervill…
- 100 years ago today, women were finally permitted to stand for parliament. Eleanor Rathbone (1893, humanities) was the first Somerville woman to contest a General Election in 1922, and the first to win a seat in 1929. #askhertostand
- We’re trying something exciting this weekend: 150 state school applicants - over half of this year’s cohort of state school applicants - will join us in college to learn more about interviews and get some advice from our team.
