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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fellows and Research

11 Jul 2023

Martin Booth Appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering

Martin Booth appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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