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College News

15 Oct 2024

Lincoln Celebrates the Launch of the 600th Campaign

Lincoln headed to Tate Modern, London for a night of revelry as we marked the launch of the campaign to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Lincoln College.

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Four members of the Sustainability Team standing in the Rector's Garden

Sustainability

30 Sep 2024

Good Sustainability News at Lincoln: Another year of progress

With a new academic year drawing near, it is a good time to reflect on some of the positive sustainability steps we have made across our operations from building decarbonisation to gardening.

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Fellows and Research

9 Dec 2024

Ready, Aim, Fire: Discovering the Secrets of the Squirting Cucumber

A groundbreaking study published in the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (PNAS) has revealed the mechanics behind the squirting cucumber.

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Student News

21 Nov 2024

Micon’s Ultra Marathon (50km) Adventure

Lincoln student Micon Garvilles recounts the challenges of completing a 50km ultramarathon in Madeira

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Student News

4 Nov 2024

Running Club Wins Oxford University Cross Country Cuppers!

Our Running Club's team of six won this year's Oxford University Cross Country Cuppers.

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Photo of Henry Woudhuysen standing with others in the Lincoln Library

Fellows and Research

18 Oct 2024

Festschrift honours Professor Henry Woudhuysen

'Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute' is a Festshrift to Lincoln's former Rector, Henry Woudhuysen.

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Alumni

14 Oct 2024

Alumni give generously in 2024 telethon

The Lincoln Telethon successfully raised £212,325 towards the area of greatest need and also student support projects thanks to the generosity of our alumni.

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Pathfinders logo with a green background

Access and Outreach

7 Oct 2024

Pathfinders Included in APP for Best Practice

The College’s Flagship Access Programme, Pathfinders, has been included in the 2025-26 to 2028-29 Access and Participation Plan for the University of Oxford.

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Access and Outreach

23 Sep 2024

Lincoln's 3rd Annual Target Oxbridge Admissions Test Webinars

Our third annual Admissions Test Webinars support Black and Mixed Heritage Students to apply to Oxford.

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Alumni

19 Sep 2024

Death of Dr Bojan Bujić

We announce the death of alumnus Dr Bojan Bujić.

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Headshot of Dr Lucy Wooding, a woman in a purple top, white coat and blue and gold scarf

Fellows and Research

19 Sep 2024

Lucy Wooding Awarded Recognition of Distinction

Lucy Wooding has been awarded the title of full professor in the most recent recognition of distinction round.

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Access and Outreach

18 Sep 2024

Our 5th Pathfinders Event

Our 5th Pathfinders event took place at the University of Lincoln.

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Sustainability

18 Sep 2024

Museum Road Site Goes Solar

In an effort to become more sustainable, we've now installed solar panels along the rooftop of Museum Road’s Lady Abraham Hall buildings.

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Collage of photos of Nigel Clifford from clockwise: Nigel in a blue suit jacket with a microphone; Nigel with his wife; Nigel standing with Henry Woudhuysen handing over a gavel; Nigel in a baseball style hat; Nigel delivering a speech for the Royal Geographical Society; Nigel standing with 4 family members in an outdoor setting.

College News

2 Sep 2024

A warm welcome to Nigel Clifford, Lincoln's 40th Rector

We bade a fond farewell to Henry Woudhysen on 31 August and greet Nigel Clifford today as Lincoln's 40th Rector.

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College News

30 Aug 2024

A Farewell Message from our 39th Rector, Professor Henry Woudhuysen

Watch Professor Henry Woudhuysen's farewell message as he departs Lincoln as our 39th Rector.

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Carmella Elan-Gaston with Lincoln College merchandise

College News

29 Jul 2024

After 21 years, Lincoln bids farewell to Carmella Elan-Gaston!

After 21 years, Lincoln bids farewell to Carmella Elan-Gaston!

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Photo of a page from Thomas Aquinas' manuscript with handwritten notations added to the text.

Fellows and Research

23 Jul 2024

A Lincoln treasure: Aquinas manuscript is now on Digital.Bodleian

Our 13th-century Italian manuscript of St Thomas Aquinas’ 'Commentary on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard Bk.1' can now be accessed by researchers and others.

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Peter Nitsche-Whitfield holding the award

Sustainability

10 Jul 2024

Lincoln retains Gold in Green Impact

Lincoln was awarded a Gold Green Impact Award in the 2023-2024 Sustainability Showcase and Celebration!

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Student News

24 Jun 2024

Austin Spendlowe Awarded 2nd Place in the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize

Congratulations to Austin Spendlowe for being awarded 2nd Place in the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize for the poem, 'We Workshop Love'.

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17 Jun 2024

Addi Haran Diman interviewed for the "Inspiring EDI People" series

DPhil student, Addi Haran Diman was interviewed by the Equality and Diversity Unit (EDU) to be part of the Inspiring EDI People series.

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Image from a Lincoln College Open Day, featuring several Lincoln students wearing 'ambassador' t-shirts and other visitors, all under a colourful marquee in a Lincoln quad.

Access and Outreach

10 Jun 2024

Oxford's Annual Admissions Statistics Report published today

The University's Annual Admissions Statistics Report is now available. Find out more about the Report and Lincoln's access and outreach programme.

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Lincoln community

3 Jun 2024

The tower of St Michael at the North Gate Church to be refurbished

Learn more about the work to refurbish and restore the tower of St Michael at the North Gate Church.

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M2 crew posing in a line holding up crew member. All are in kit and wearing fun red lobster hats
31 May 2024

Lincoln Crews Give Spirited Performance in the Summer VIIIs

Find out more about how Lincoln College did in this year's Summer VIIIs.

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Graphic of 600th anniversary logo with text underneath that says: The Future Unleashed, with Helen O'Hara

Alumni

29 May 2024

Lincoln Launches New Podcast Series

Lincoln College has launched a new video and audio podcast series, 'The Future Unleashed'.

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24 May 2024

Death of Sir John Boardman, supernumerary and Honorary Fellow

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Sir John Boardman.

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Photo of primary school children collecting pennies in Front Quad on Ascension Day

College News

9 May 2024

Ascension Day 2024 Under Blue Skies!

We were lucky with the weather for this year's Ascension Day, where all the traditional festivities were observed.

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Photo of ornate wooden door to Library lift
17 Apr 2024

The main Library reopens!

We are absolutely delighted that our main Library has reopened its doors for the first time since the Accessibility Project started renovating in August 2023.

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Headshot of Peter Nitsche Whitfield, a man with red hair, glasses, and a dark blue cardigan.

Sustainability

27 Mar 2024

Peter Nitsche-Whitfield shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor’s Awards

Congratulations to our Sustainability Officer, Peter Nitsche-Whitfield, for being shortlisted for an Environmental Sustainability Award in this year's Vice-Chancellor’s Awards.

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Nine photos of biodiversity displayed on a white wall

Sustainability

26 Mar 2024

Biodiversity Photo Competition Photos on Display in the Berrow Foundation Building

Carla Abella Rodríguez, a visiting PhD student, has been awarded first prize for her stunning photo of a bumblebee diving into a purple crocus in Grove Quad.

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Headshot of the Butler Tony Daly in a white shirt, black tie and waistcoat

College News

25 Mar 2024

Honouring Tony Daly for 40 years at Lincoln

Congratulations to our Butler, Tony Daly, for his 40 years at the College.

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Flowering witch hazel plant

Sustainability

13 Mar 2024

Library Garden Biodiversity Gains

The gardening team have made improvements to the Library churchyard to promote biodiversity and encourage wildlife into the space.

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Group of Pathfinders students posed in a group in front of Radcliffe Camera

Access and Outreach

13 Mar 2024

Nurturing Potential: The 4th Pathfinders Event for Free School Meal Pupils in Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire

As part of our outreach programme, Pathfinders, forty Year 9 and 10 pupils visited Lincoln.

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Photo of Harry Bridgwater in Oxford Blues rugby kit, standing in front of the Lincoln crest
28 Feb 2024

Harry Bridgwater selected as a Blue for the rugby Varsity Matches 2024 at StoneX

Congratulations to Harry Bridgwater who has been selected as a Blue for the rugby Varsity Matches 2024 at StoneX.

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9 Feb 2024

Professor Emily Howard elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts

Professor Emily Howard, an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, has been elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts.

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College News

8 Feb 2024

Lincoln Launches Biodiversity Photo Competition

Students, staff, Fellows and alumni are encouraged to take part in our new biodiversity photo competition.

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10 Jan 2024

Lincoln Relaunches Teachers' Conference

This year's Teachers' Conference at Lincoln was greeted with great enthusiasm.

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Posed group shot with students from Lincoln University Challenge Team and from Imperial College London for the 2nd round of the show

Student News

9 Jan 2024

Lincoln College Bows out of University Challenge

The second round of University Challenge was 8 January where Lincoln College battled hard but ultimately lost to Imperial College London 120-250.

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College News

20 Dec 2023

Oxford Literary Festival Comes to Lincoln

Lincoln College will host several events as part of the Oxford Literary Festival, including talks with author Cara Hunter, Professor Peter McCullough and Adam Sisman, John le Carré's biographer.

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A young man, Denys Karlovskyi, in sub fusc standing in front of the Oxford Radcliffe Camera

Student News

13 Dec 2023

Denys Karlovskyi article published in St Anthony's Review

Congratulations to Denys Karlovskyi (2022), whose research article was published in the Oxford student-run peer-reviewed journal, St Antony's International Review.

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Students sitting in groups in the Oakeshott Room

College News

7 Dec 2023

Lincoln's First Hartley Leadership Programme a Success

Sixteen students completed the first Hartley Leadership Development Programme at Lincoln, organised and funded by alumnae Alison Hartley and Jane Jenkins.

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College News

6 Dec 2023

Lincoln Archive Awarded Archive Service Accreditation

We are delighted that the Lincoln Archive has been awarded a prestigious Archive Service Accreditation.

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A group of smiling cast members crowd together in a doorway

Student News

1 Dec 2023

This year's JCR Musical "Joseph" a Sold-Out Success!

This year's JCR musical was 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat'. Hannah Newman, Revue Rep, provides an overview of the performance.

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College News

29 Nov 2023

Lincoln Places 2nd in the Norrington Table!

Lincoln College placed second in the Norrington Table 2021/22.

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College News

27 Nov 2023

Student Helpers Play Supportive Role in Admissions Interview Process

Lincoln College student helpers play key role in online admissions interviews

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Sustainability

24 Nov 2023

Lincoln’s Journey to Sustainability: An Update

News and information about Lincoln's sustainability initiatives

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Photo of 2 Jepson Scholars standing in front of Boston Ivy with window to the right

College News

7 Nov 2023

Lincoln Welcomes First Jepson Scholars

Lincoln College welcomes first Jepson Scholars

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Headshot of Professor David Hills, a man in glasses and a suit and tie
31 Oct 2023

David Hills Awarded Tribology Silver Medal

Professor David Hills has been awarded the Tribology Silver Medal by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

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Headshot of Professor Radu Coldea, a man in a checked shirt
27 Oct 2023

Radu Coldea Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society

Congratulations to Professor Radu Coldea, who has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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Collage of four pictures of Catharine French: posing with a man and a woman in green Barclays t-shirts, speaking at a mic with the Barclays logo in the background, seated with a woman, and seated with a group of women in red t-shirts

College News

20 Oct 2023

Funding for Catharine French Graduate Scholarship secured

Funding for the Catharine French Graduate Scholarship has been secured.

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College News

19 Oct 2023

Presenting our 2023 matriculands!

We welcome our 2023 undergraduate and graduate matriculands to Lincoln College and the University of Oxford.

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Group shot of the Telethon team
3 Oct 2023

Alumni give generously in 2023 telethon

Alumni give generously in 2023 telethon.

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Secondary school students looking at archival materials
4 Sep 2023

Lincoln launches new Outreach webpages for prospective students, teachers, and parents and carers

Lincoln College launches a new Outreach area on its website to provide information for teachers, parents and carers, and prospective students.

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Fellows and Research

31 Aug 2023

Herman Waldmann receives Royal Society Award

Professor Herman Waldmann FMedSci FRS has received the Royal Medal (biological) for pionering monclonal antibodies for human therapy.

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The first illustrated edition of Dante’s Commedia was printed in Florence in 1481, with engravings by Baccio Baldini based on drawings by Sandro Botticelli

Fellows and Research

29 Aug 2023

Cristina Dondi awarded major grant by the Italian Ministry of Research

Professor Cristina Dondi was awarded a four-year grant by the Italian Ministry of Research to work on incunabula (books printed in 15th-century Europe) in the United States.

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College News

25 Jul 2023

Nigel Clifford Elected as Lincoln's 40th Rector

The Governing Body has elected Mr Nigel Clifford FRGS, FRSA, FRICS as its 40th Rector. Mr Clifford will succeed Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA as Rector in September 2024.

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Fellows and Research

21 Jul 2023

Helena Hamerow elected Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Helena Hamerow elected Fellow of the British Academy

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Photo of Robert McDonald in graduation gown in Front Quad

College News

20 Jul 2023

Two Lincolnites Receive Kennedy Scholarships

Robert McDonald (DPhil in Mathematics) and alumna Julia Pamilih (2017) were awarded Kennedy Scholarships to Harvard University.

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Student News

13 Jul 2023

Anna Drummond Young Awarded Poster Prize at Faraday Discussion Conference on Iontronics

Anna Drummond Young Awarded Poster Prize at Faraday Discussion Conference on Iontronics

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Fellows and Research

11 Jul 2023

Martin Booth Appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering

Martin Booth appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering

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GOLD Green Impact Award propped upright on grass in Front Quad

Sustainability

22 Jun 2023

Lincoln Receives GOLD Green Impact Award

Lincoln College has been awarded a GOLD Green Impact award in the Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Environmental Sustainability 2023.

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21 Jun 2023

Hannah Edwards Elected President of Oxford Union for Trinity 2024

Second-year Lincoln College undergraduate Hannah Edwards elected President of the Oxford Union.

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Event programme for Choir tour
2 Jun 2023

Lincoln Choir Finalising Concert Programme for France Tour

Lincoln Choir to deliver concerts while on tour in France.

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Collage of photos from boat naming ceremony
1 Jun 2023

Boat Naming Ceremony at the Summer Eights

Boat naming ceremony was held to celebrate two news boats generously funded by donors.

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31 May 2023

Annual University Admissions Statistics Report Out Today

The Annual University Admissions Statistics Report was published today.

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Fidan Suljik waring Blues football kit and holding trophy
22 May 2023

Lincoln student Fidan Suljik scores in Football Varsity against Cambridge

Lincoln DPhil student Fidan Suljik scored a goal to secure the win in the 138th Football Varsity against Cambridge.

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Primary school children gather pennies in Front Quad for Ascension Day 2023
18 May 2023

Ascension Day 2023!

Lincoln College celebrates Ascension Day under beautiful blue skies.

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Fellows and Research

31 Mar 2023

Dr Alexander Prescott-Couch receives Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Alexander Prescott-Couch has received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project entitled “The Politics of Understanding.”

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Pathfinders year 9 students outside Bodleian

College News

23 Mar 2023

Year 9 Students visit Lincoln as part of Pathfinders Access Programme

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire free school meal students visit Oxford University college for the first time as part of Lincoln College's flagship access programme, Pathfinders.

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College News

8 Mar 2023

Celebrating International Women's Day 2023

Lincoln College staff, students and alumnae were asked to share their thoughts about what International Women's Day means to them.

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6 Mar 2023

Lincoln student Jean-Philippe Dufour to row in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race

Lincoln student Jean-Philippe Dufour has been selected to row for defending champions Dark Blues in the 168th Men’s Boat Race.

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2 Mar 2023

Today is World Book Day

For #WorldBookDay 2023 we asked our students and staff to tell us their favourite book from the Main Library and why. Here are some of their recommendations:

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Crew of Lincoln students rowing on the river.

Student News

24 Feb 2023

It’s Torpids week!

Our five crews raced every day from 22-25 February. It was glorious chaos, as all bumps races are, and our teams battled hard.

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A young man, Denys Karlovskyi, in sub fusc standing in front of the Oxford Radcliffe Camera

Student News

24 Feb 2023

One year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine: A scholar's story of coming to Oxford

This moving article is authored by Denys Karlovskyi, a Ukrainian student at Lincoln College who is completing his Masters of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government.

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Front Quad of Lincoln College, the walls covered in bright green ivy

College News

16 Feb 2023

Rector of Lincoln College

The Governing Body of Lincoln College intends to elect a new Rector as head of the College to succeed Professor Henry Woudhuysen.

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Alumni

27 Jan 2023

Lincoln alumni included in 2023 New Year Honours List

Three Lincoln alumni have been included in the 2023 New Year Honours list for their philanthropic work and impact in their respective fields.

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College News

24 Jan 2023

Lincoln Fellow Matthew Freeman becomes Chair of EMBO Council

The College sends its congratulations to Professor Matthew Freeman, Head of the Dunn School and Fellow of Lincoln College, as he is elected as Chair of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

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Fellows and Research

24 Jan 2023

Lincoln Fellow Prof Dominic Vella helps develop beetle-inspired jumping robots

Inspired by jumping insects, Lincoln College's Professor Dominic Vella and other University of Oxford researchers have helped develop a miniature robot capable of leaping more than 40 times its body length.

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College News

16 Dec 2022

Holiday wishes from Lincoln College

Lincoln College wishes you and your family a festive holiday season and a happy and healthy start to the New Year!

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Poster for Oxford University's 'Be energy friendly' campaign, featuring images with ways to save energy.

College News

8 Nov 2022

Lincoln supports University's energy campaign

Lincoln College is supoprting the University of Oxford's 'be energy friendly' campaign. 

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College News

24 Oct 2022

Lincoln alumnus Rishi Sunak becomes UK Prime Minister

The College sends its congratulations to The Rt Hon. Rishi Sunak MP on becoming the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following his election as Leader of the Conservative Party. He is the first Lincoln graduate to hold the office.

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College News

20 Oct 2022

Lincoln launches flagship Access programme, Pathfinders

The College is proud to announce its new flagship access initiative, Pathfinders. In partnership with the University of Lincoln, our new programme will offer targeted, continuous support to school children (Year 9 and above) in the East Midlands.

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Sustainability

12 Oct 2022

Lincoln appoints Sustainability Coordinator: Peter Nitsche-Whitfield

We are very happy to welcome our new Sustainability Coordinator, Peter Nitsche-Whiffield, to the Lincoln community.

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College News

1 Oct 2022

Welcome to our new students

We would like to wish a warm welcome to the undergraduate and graduate students joining Lincoln College this October.

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Fellows and Research

21 Sep 2022

Professor David Hills elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

The College is proud to announce that Professor David Hills (Embling Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his considerable contribution to the field.

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College News

12 Sep 2022

Bank holiday - 19 September 2022

A national bank holiday will take place on Monday 19 September, the date of Her Majesty the Queen’s state funeral.

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College News

8 Sep 2022

The death of Her Majesty the Queen

The College is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Her Majesty the Queen, aged 96.

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Student News

30 Aug 2022

Lincoln College holds second annual TVS Gordon Moot

In June 2022, Lincoln College held its second annual TVS Gordon Moot; the first to take place in person following the pandemic. Mooting has been part of the process of training lawyers for centuries and plays a key role in legal education at Oxford.

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College News

20 Aug 2022

Lincoln wins silver award for sustainability

We are delighted to announce that Lincoln College has received a Silver Green Impact Award for sustainability.

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Student News

18 Aug 2022

A-level results 2022

Congratulations to all students receiving their A-level results today and to undergraduate offer-holders who have had their place at Lincoln confirmed! We look forward to welcoming you to the College in October.

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Fellows and Research

5 Jul 2022

Professor Andreas Televantos wins Teaching Excellence Award

We are proud to announce that Professor Andreas Televantos (Hanbury Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Law) has been awarded a Teaching Excellence Award by the Social Sciences Division.

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Fellows and Research

1 Jul 2022

Professor Edward Nye publishes new book on Deburau

Professor Edward Nye (Tutorial Fellow in French) has released a new book on Deburau, the nineteenth-century Franco-Czech mime actor known best from the cult French film of his life Les Enfants du paradis.

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Fellows and Research

15 Jun 2022

Dr Samantha Ege releases third album celebrating historical women composers

Dr Samantha Ege has released an album of piano music by five trailblazing early twentieth-century African American female composers, entitled Black Renaissance Woman.

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Photograph from Lincoln College on Ascension Day of a crowd of people, including one priest, bearing long thin sticks

College News

26 May 2022

Lincoln celebrates Ascension Day

On Thursday 26 May, we celebrated Ascension Day at Lincoln for the first time since 2019 and our annual traditions - the beating of the bounds, the ivy beer, the pennies thrown from the tower - returned with gusto. 

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College News

24 May 2022

Lincoln College places third in Norrington Table

We are delighted to announce that Lincoln College is third in the 2020-21 Norrington Table, our highest position in over fifteen years.

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College News

20 May 2022

Lincoln Ukraine Scholarship Appeal is launched

The College has launched the Lincoln Ukraine Scholarship Appeal to fund undergraduate and graduate scholarships for refugees from Ukraine.

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College News

11 May 2022

Professor Jordan Raff elected Fellow of the Royal Society

The College is proud to announce that Professor Jordan Raff has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society; a prestigious honour which recognises his contribution to centrosome biology.

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Access and Outreach

4 May 2022

Undergraduate admissions and access

Statement on undergraduate admissions and access at Lincoln College, Oxford.

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College News

25 Apr 2022

Elman Poole Photographic Prize

Lincoln students, staff, and Fellows are invited to enter our 2022 photography competition, the Elman Poole Photographic Prize.

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College News

20 Apr 2022

Professor Richard Bird (4 February 1943 – 4 April 2022)

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of Professor Richard Bird on 4 April 2022, after a long illness.

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College News

14 Apr 2022

Lincoln College to appoint Sustainability Coordinator

We are delighted to announce the creation of a new post in sustainability, in partnership with Exeter College and Corpus Christi College.

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Fellows and Research

25 Mar 2022

International Women's Day Lecture-Recital premieres on YouTube

Our International Women's Day Lecture-Recital, Florence Price, Black Renaissance Woman' with Dr Samantha Ege, premieres on YouTube.

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College News

24 Mar 2022

Lincoln hosts Oxford Literary Festival events

The 25th Oxford Literary Festival is currently underway and we are delighted to be hosting a number of events at Lincoln College.

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Fellows and Research

24 Jan 2022

Dr Ege to write a book on Black women’s classical music-making in interwar Chicago

Dr Samantha Ege is pleased to announce that her monograph, titled South Side Impresarios: Race Women in the Realm of Music is under contract with the University of Illinois Press and will be published in 2024.

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Fellows and Research

3 Dec 2021

Dr Samantha Ege stuns in Barbican debut

Dr Samantha Ege’s (Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music) makes her Barbican debut with a programme of music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Vítězslava Kaprálová.

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Headshot of Samantha Ege, a woman in a floral bright yellow dress, sitting with her arm rested against a piano

Fellows and Research

12 Nov 2021

Dr Samantha Ege wins American Musicological Society's prestigious Noah Greenberg Award

Dr Samantha Ege has been awarded the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award for a collaborative recording project called Renaissance Woman: Works by the Women-Composer-Pianist of the Black Chicago Renaissance.

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Blue cap with the crossed oars and mitre logo of the Lincoln College Boat Club

Alumni

11 Oct 2021

Lincoln College Boat Club merchandise - available to order now!

Represent the Lincoln College Boat Club with our latest range of merchandise!

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College News

21 Sep 2021

The 50th anniversary of Stephen Gill’s fellowship

Celebrating 50 years since Professor Stephen Gill was appointed Fellow in English at Lincoln College.

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Fellows and Research

20 Sep 2021

Dr Gabrielle Watson wins European Book Prize

Dr Gabrielle Watson’s first book, Respect and Criminal Justice (OUP 2020), has been awarded the Policing Book Prize of the European Society of Criminology 2021.

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Fellows and Research

3 Sep 2021

Professor Andreas Televantos wins prestigious book prize

Professor Andreas Televantos (Hanbury Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Law) has been awarded the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for his book, Capitalism before Corporations.

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College News

18 Aug 2021

Live chat launched on Lincoln website

We are pleased to launch our new chat feature, allowing prospective students to get in touch with their questions for our Student Ambassadors.

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Student News

13 Aug 2021

Vice-Chancellor's Social Impact Award for Lincoln's Jacob Kelly (2018)

We are proud to announce that recent PPE graduate Jacob Kelly, has been awarded a Social Impact Award from the Vice-Chancellor for establishing the Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative.

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College News

3 Aug 2021

Confirmation of offers 2021

The College looks forward to welcoming a new cohort of undergraduates in October this year. In this statement, the College outlines its approach to admissions and the confirmation of offers.

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College News

19 Jul 2021

Dr Maryanne Saunders appointed Access and Career Development Fellow

The College is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Maryanne Saunders to the role of Access and Career Development Fellow.

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Access and Outreach

24 Jun 2021

Digital Study Days for prospective students

This month the College is running Digital Study Days for prospective students in Year 12.

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College News

23 Jun 2021

Norrington Table – a top 10 performance

Lincoln College has placed 10th in the Norrington Table for 2019-20, with more than half of our 88 finalists achieving a First.

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Bedroom including a single bed with pillows, cushion and sheets, a bedside table, a desk with drawers, chair, kettle and tea set, a bin, two corkboards, two radiators, two large windows with curtains, an armchair and a set of shelves with clean towels.

College News

16 Jun 2021

Turl Street Mitre - open for bookings this summer

We are delighted to announce that the newly renovated and reopened Turl Street Mitre is now available to book for overnight stays until 18 September 2021. 

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Student News

11 Jun 2021

The Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Conversazione 2021

Ben Wheadon presents '"Grow Some Balls He Said": Revisiting the Gender Politics of Early Punk Rock After IDLES' Joy As An Act of Resistance' as the Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Conversazione 2021.

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College News

8 Jun 2021

Dr David Kenning (29 February 1936- 2 June 2021)

The College is saddened to learn of the death of Dr David Kenning, former Fellow in Engineering and former Senior Tutor and Sub-Rector.

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College News

7 Jun 2021

Graduate scholarship applications close at midnight

We are still accepting applications for a number of partially-funded graduate scholarships at Lincoln College for intake in 2021-22. Deadline is 7 June.

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Fellows and Research

4 Jun 2021

Dr Samantha Ege to co-author biography on Florence Price

Dr Samantha Ege is co-authoring a biography on trailblazing composer Florence Price. Her album of piano music by Florence Price is also out now.

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College News

1 Jun 2021

Inaugural TVS Gordon Moot

On Monday 24 May, Lincoln College held its Inaugural TVS Gordon Moot. We warmly congratulate this year’s winners, Ben Coady and Ted Bennett-Cronk, who received the TVS Gordon Mooting Trophy and prize awards of £100 each.

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Headshot of Peter McCollough, a man in a purple shirt, a black coat, and glasses

College News

25 May 2021

Anti-Racism Advocate appointed to Governing Body

The College is pleased to announce the creation of a new Governing Body officer role, the Anti-Racism Advocate, and the appointment of Prof Peter McCullough (English) to fill the post.

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College News

8 May 2021

Lincoln College invites applications for an Access and Career Development Fellow

Lincoln College invites applications for an Access and Career Development Fellow

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Alumni

5 May 2021

Bernadette Stolz-Pretzer (2013) wins awards for her DPhil thesis

Congratulations to Bernadette Stolz-Pretzer who has been awarded the Mathematical Institute DPhil Thesis Prize 2020 and the 2021 Anile-ECMI Prize for her thesis, Global and local persistent homology for the shape and classification of biological data

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Returfing the lawn in Front Quad

College News

26 Apr 2021

A new lawn for Front Quad

This spring, the lawn in Front Quad was replaced with new soil and a healthy new turf.

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Collage of four pictures of Catharine French: posing with a man and a woman in green Barclays t-shirts, speaking at a mic with the Barclays logo in the background, seated with a woman, and seated with a group of women in red t-shirts

College News

6 Apr 2021

New scholarship at Lincoln: The Catharine French Graduate Scholarship

Lincoln is pleased to announce plans for a new scholarship, the Catharine French Graduate Scholarship, honouring the memory of Catharine French (1966-2020).

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9 rowers in a boat on the river

College News

30 Mar 2021

Lincoln student to row in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race

Lincoln student, Jean-Philippe Dufour, rows in the 166th Men's Boat Race on Sunday 4 April.

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Headshot of Alexis Heeb, a man in a black top leaning out of a window

College News

18 Mar 2021

New scholarship at Lincoln: The Alexis Heeb Research Scholarship

Lincoln is pleased to announce plans for a new scholarship, the Alexis Heeb Research Scholarship Fund, honouring the memory of Alexis Heeb (1973-2017).

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Photograph of a UNIQ student ambassador. Explore subjects that interest you and find out what it is like to be an Oxford student. Apply today. #UNIQ2021. Apply at uniq.ox.ac.uk before 15 March

Access and Outreach

10 Mar 2021

Applications open for the University access programme, UNIQ

Applications are now open for the University's access programme, UNIQ.

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High Street Apartment living room, featuring two brown sofas, a coffee table, a radiator, a blue painting, and several large windows

College News

1 Mar 2021

Oxford Preservation Trust Award for 120-122 High Street

incoln College is delighted to have been awarded a certificate from Oxford Preservation Trust for the College’s substantial contribution to Oxford with the restoration of 120-122 High Street (formerly known as the NatWest building).

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A refurbished bedroom overlooking Turl Street

College News

19 Feb 2021

The Turl Street Mitre renovation is complete

The renovation of the Mitre accommodation is complete, with a handover taking place on Friday 12 February.

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Student writing in a notebook in the MCR

College News

10 Feb 2021

Apply now for a graduate scholarship at Lincoln College

We are now accepting applications for a number of partially-funded graduate scholarships at Lincoln College for intake in 2021-22.

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A harvest moon by Roland Trope 2020

Alumni

26 Jan 2021

Photography exhibition: Lincolnites in lockdown

We are pleased to announce a new photographic exhibition, organised by current Lincoln students, entitled 'Lincoln in Lockdown'.

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College News

25 Jan 2021

Lincoln student awarded an MBE for services during the Covid-19 pandemic

Dr Gareth Hynes (2016), a current DPhil student in Clinical Medicine at Lincoln, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honour’s list for services to medical education during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Schedule for Lincoln Unites Week 2021

Student News

22 Jan 2021

Lincoln Unites, equality and diversity week 2021

Lincoln Unites is back for its second year, organised by a team of Lincoln College students from the JCR and MCR. TLincoln Unites seeks to celebrate and promote equality, diversity, and unity in the Lincoln community.

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Lincoln College Chapel Quad

College News

19 Jan 2021

Lincoln College Chapel services streamed online

Throughout Hilary term, our Chaplain, Rev Andy Shamel, will be streaming the Chapel's Sunday services on the Lincoln College Chapel Facebook page.

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Poster for Lincoln Leads 2021

Student News

18 Jan 2021

Join us online for the 2021 Lincoln Leads seminar series

We are pleased to announce the programme for the next Lincoln Leads seminar series, starting this Thursday, 21 January. Lincoln Leads is organised by the Lincoln MCR Academic Team, in collaboration with the Development Office and College Fellows.

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College News

18 Dec 2020

Watch the Lincoln College Christmas Service online

This year the Lincoln Christmas service has moved online thanks to the efforts of our wonderful Choir and Chaplain, Rev Andy Shamel.

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Cover of a book 'Capitalism before Corporations: The Morality of Business Associations and the Roots of Commercial Equity and Law' by Andreas Televantos

Fellows and Research

17 Dec 2020

Professor Andreas Televantos releases new book, Capitalism before Corporations

Professor Andreas Televantos releases new book, Capitalism before Corporations.

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College News

14 Dec 2020

David Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020)

The news of the death last night at the age of 89 from pneumonia of David Cornwell (John le Carré) will come as a great sadness to many alumni who knew him, and to the College as a whole.

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Part of a room with clean white walls, a desk with shelves and drawers, a radiator, windows, and an open door leading into a bathroom

College News

9 Dec 2020

Explore the newly refurbished Mitre

Explore the newly refurbished Mitre rooms online with our interactive floor plans.

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Alumni

1 Dec 2020

Thank you for your support #LincolnTogether

This #GivingTuesday we would like to thank all those who have supported the College this year and given back to the Lincoln community.

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College News

1 Dec 2020

Successful alumni-student buddying scheme brings comfort during lockdown

At the start of lockdown, Lincoln College launched a buddy scheme to match current students with alumni volunteers.

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Lincoln students participating in Movember

Student News

25 Nov 2020

Lincoln students raise over £6,500 for Movember

Lincoln students raise over £6,500 for Movember

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A young man standing in Lincoln College's Front Quad with red ivy in the background, holding up a sheet of paper that reads #LincolnTogether

Alumni

16 Nov 2020

Support the Lincoln Covid-19 Appeal, this Michaelmas Term

Over the next week, as part of our ‘Lincoln Together’ initiative, we will be sharing video updates about life in lockdown from the Lincoln team and students, and asking our wonderful alumni to join us in the next phase of our Lincoln Covid-19 Appeal

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College News

12 Sep 2020

Introducing our new Fellows

We are delighted to be welcoming four new Fellows to Lincoln College.

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Headshot of Professor John Fox, a man in a suit

Fellows and Research

11 Sep 2020

Knowledge engineering for patient care: lessons from Covid-19

A new approach to rapid translation of clinical guidelines into point of care support services has produced a novel pattern for designing and deploying AI systems across healthcare.

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Headshot of Dr Jody LaPorte, a woman in a blue top and earrings

Fellows and Research

30 Jul 2020

Dr Jody LaPorte wins best article award from the American Political Science Association

Congratulations to Lincoln's Dr Jody LaPorte and Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, who have been awarded the 2020 Alexander L. George Award by the American Political Science Association for their article 'Process Tracing and the Problem of Missing Data'.

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Pictures under a microscope. Left – tendrils of fluorescent fibrils begin to interconnect droplets; Right – electron microscopy confirms the origin of fibrils at the surface of droplets

Fellows and Research

28 Jul 2020

New multidisciplinary study from David Vaux's lab offers insight into Alzheimer's Disease and type II diabetes

In a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Professor David Vaux and colleagues offered new insights into the misbehaviour of proteins that lead to severe chronic degenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease.

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COVID Moonshot. SARS-CoV-2 Mpro with best-binding fragments, with an illustration underneath

Fellows and Research

13 Jul 2020

Accelerating drug-discovery against Covid-19

John Vakonakis (Tutorial Fellow in Biochemistry) and Natassa Kantsadi evaluate how well small chemical molecules bind to a key enzyme of the new coronavirus causing Covid-19 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.17.156679).

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Cover of Respect and Criminal Justice by Dr Gabrielle Watson

Fellows and Research

30 Jun 2020

Dr Gabrielle Watson releases first book, Respect and Criminal Justice

Dr Gabrielle Watson’s first book, Respect and Criminal Justice, has been published by Oxford University Press (Clarendon Studies in Criminology).

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Poster for Oxford University Coronavirus Research

College News

17 Jun 2020

Covid-19: Latest advice

Lincoln takes the health, welfare, and safety of our collegiate community very seriously and has established a Covid-19 planning group to manage our response.

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Student News

11 Jun 2020

The Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Conversazione

Emma Irwin presents 'Laying Waste: Land, Law, and the Supernatural' as the Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Conversazione 2020.

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College News

5 May 2020

Sir Eric Anderson (1936-2020)

We are greatly saddened to learn of the death of our former Rector, Sir Eric Anderson, on Tuesday 21 April. He was 83.

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College News

1 Apr 2020

Sir James Gowans CBE, FRS, FRC (1924-2020)

We are saddened to learn of the death of our Honorary Fellow Sir James Gowans CBE, FRS, FRCP on 1 April 2020.

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Hands holding Tortilla the tortoise

College News

19 Mar 2020

Introducing Tortilla the tortoise

Lincoln College introduces the newest member of its family, a tortoise named Tortilla.

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Christian Radicalism in the Church of England and the Invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970 by Dr Sam Brewitt-Taylor

Fellows and Research

25 Feb 2020

Darby Fellow wins EHS Book Prize

Congratulations to Darby Fellow in History Dr Sam Brewitt-Taylor, winner of the Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) Book Prize for Christian Radicalism in the Church of England and the Invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970.

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College News

17 Feb 2020

Lincoln College sculptures on Art UK

Lincoln College sculptures are now available to view on the Art UK website.

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Greyscale photograph of Judith Weingarten, a woman wearing a large beaded necklace

College News

1 Feb 2020

Celebrating 40 years of Lincoln alumnae

2019-20 marks the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to Lincoln College. To celebrate this anniversary, the College commissioned a photograph portrait exhibition featuring 21 outstanding Lincoln alumnae.

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The Mitre project scaffolding

College News

10 Jan 2020

Mitre project progress and naming opportunities

The College's ambitious project to refurbish the Mitre is well underway and we plan to open the building later this year.

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