The Year St Catherine’s College . Oxford 2012 Master and Fellows 2012 MASTER Louise L Fawcett, MA, Gavin Lowe, MA, MSc, Patrick S Grant, MA, DPhil Christoph Reisinger, Udo C T Oppermann MPhil, DPhil (BA Lond) DPhil (BEng Nott) FREng MA (Dipl Linz, Dr phil (BSc, MSc, PhD Philipps Professor Roger W Tutor in Politics Tutor in Computer Science Cookson Professor of Heidelberg) Marburg) Ainsworth, MA, DPhil, Wilfrid Knapp Fellow Professor of Computer Materials Tutor in Mathematics Professor of FRAeS Science Musculoskeletal Sciences Susan C Cooper, MA (BA (Leave T13) Justine N Pila, MA (BA, Robert E Mabro, CBE, FELLOWS Collby Maine, PhD California) LLB, PhD Melb) MA (BEng Alexandria, MSc Alain Goriely, MA (Lic en Professor of Experimental Richard M Berry, MA, Tutor in Law Lond) Sci Phys, PhD Brussels) Sudhir Anand, BPhil, MA, Physics DPhil College Counsel Fellow by Special Election Professor of Mathematical DPhil Tutor in Physics Modelling Fellow by Special Election Peter R Franklin, MA (BA, Bart B van Es (BA, MPhil, Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, in Economics DPhil York) Ashok I Handa, MA (MB PhD Camb) MA, DPhil (Grunnfag Oslo, Naomi Freud, MA, MSc Professor of Economics Tutor in Music BS Lond), FRCS Tutor in English BA Yale) Fellow by Special Election Professor of Music Fellow by Special Election Senior Tutor Tutor in English Director of Studies for Richard J Parish, MA, (Leave M12) in Medicine Visiting Students DPhil (BA Newc) Reader in Surgery Tommaso Pizzari, MA (BSc Angela B Brueggemann, Tutor in French John Charles Smith, MA Tutor for Graduates Aberd, PhD Shef) DPhil (BSc St Olaf, MSc Gordon Gancz, BM BCh, Philip Spencer Fellow Tutor in French Linguistics Tutor in Zoology Iowa) MA Professor of French President of the Senior James L Bennett, MA (BA Fellow by Special Election Fellow by Special Election (Leave M12) Common Room Reading) Byron W Byrne, MA, DPhil in Biological Sciences College Doctor Fellow by Special Election (BCom, BEng Western Wellcome Trust Career Fram E Dinshaw, MA, Penny A Handford, MA Home Bursar Australia) Development Fellow Geneviève A D M DPhil (BSc, PhD S’ton) Tutor in Engineering Helleringer (Maîtrise Official Fellow Tutor in Biochemistry David J Womersley, MA Science James E Thomson, MChem, ESSEC, JD Columbia, Finance Bursar Wolfson Fellow (PhD Camb), FBA Tutor for Admissions DPhil Maîtrise Sciences Po, Professor of Biochemistry Warton Professor of (Leave M12-H13) Fellow by Special Election Maîtrise Paris-I Panthéon- Peter D Battle, MA, DPhil English Literature in in Chemistry Sorbonne, Maîtrise Tutor in Inorganic Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil W I F (Bill) David, MA, Paris-II Panthéon-Assas, Chemistry Fellow by Special Election Cressida E Chappell, MA DPhil Andrew J Bunker, MA, DPhil Doctorat Paris-I Panthéon- Professor of Chemistry (BA, MA Hull) Fellow by Special Election Tutor in Physics Sorbonne) Richard I Todd, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election in Chemistry Reader in Astrophysics Junior Research Fellow A Gervase Rosser, MA (MA Camb) Academic Registrar in Law (MA, PhD Lond) Tutor in Material Sciences Secretary to the Governing Andrew M Barry (BA Adrian L Smith, MA (BSc Tutor in History of Art Goldsmiths’ Fellow Body Camb, DPhil Sus) Keele, MSc Wales, PhD Duncan A Robertson, MA, Librarian Professor of Materials Tutor in Geography Nott) DPhil (BSc Lond) (Leave M12-H13) (Leave T13) David R H Gillespie, MA, Professor of Political Tutor in Zoology Fellow by Special Election DPhil Geography in Management John S Foord, MA (MA, Marc Lackenby, MA (PhD Tutor in Engineering Andreas Muench, MA (Dr PhD Camb) Camb) Science Richard M Bailey, MA phil, Dipl TU Munich) Peter T Ireland, MA, DPhil Tutor in Physical Chemistry Tutor in Pure Mathematics Rolls-Royce Fellow (BSc Leics, MSc, PhD Lond) Tutor in Mathematics Donald Schultz Professor Professor of Chemistry Leathersellers’ Fellow (Leave T13) Tutor in Geography Reader in Applied of Turbomachinery Vice-Master Professor of Mathematics (Leave M12-H13) Mathematics Peter P Edwards, MA Katharine E Carr (BSc, Robert A Leese, MA (PhD Marc E Mulholland, MA (BSc, PhD Salf), FRS Gaia Scerif (BSc St And, Kerry M M Walker, PhD Glas), FIBiol Durh) (BA, MA, PhD Belf) Professor of Inorganic PhD Lond) DPhil (BSc Memorial, MSc Fellow by Special Election Fellow by Special Election Tutor in History Chemistry Tutor in Psychology Dalhousie) in Medicine in Mathematics Wolfson Fellow Fellow by Special Director of the Smith Dean M12 Karl Sternberg, MA Election in Biomedical & Institute (Leave H13-T13) Fellow by Special Election Physiological Sciences CONTENTS Contents Master’s Report 2 College Life The Cameron Mackintosh Inaugural Lecture 6 The Catz|fivezero Report 8 Laces Trust funds new Fellowship 10 Going Green 11 The Nick Young Award 12 Postcards to the Master 14 The Inaugural JCR Equal Opportunities Lecture 16 Finals Results 2012: A Golden Year 17 Finals Results & Prizes 2012 18 Sports & Societies Review 2012 24 The 50th Anniversary The World of 1962 26 St Catherine’s, Oxford: A Pen Portrait 28 Celebrating 50 Years 29 The Anniversary Weekend 30 Student Perspectives Thom Mallon (2009, English) 32 Isabel Ernst (2009, PPE) 34 Ed Richardson (2009, Modern Languages) 36 Alumni News Lara Fielden (1986, PPE) 38 Bluebell Martin (1994, Geography) 40 Morley Hollenberg (1964, Medicine) 42 Matthew Yeo (2001, History) 43 Nadeem Lalani (2007, PPE) 44 Sally Francis (1990, Biology) 45 Alumni News in Brief 46 College Events 2013 48 Catz Research Christoph Reisinger & Kerry Walker 49 Sudhir Anand 50 Bart van Es 52 Ben Bolling 54 Kirsten Shepherd Barr 55 Gaia Scerif 56 Gazette Obituaries 58 Admissions 2012 69 Page Image: The Charter, granted to the College by HM The Queen, in 1963 Photograph by Guy Bell (www.gbphotos.com) ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2012/#1 MESSAGES Master’s Report pilot of this great experiment, taking on the role of first In our fiftieth Censor. As part of the research for the book we have recently published about St Catherine’s, we uncovered anniversary his portrait lying in a basement in Christ Church. He can year as a now be seen in our book alongside his five successors, Censor Bullock being the last of them. College, it The book also offers a glimpse of the character of JB is worth Baker – known as ‘The Jibber’ – in the photograph of the reflecting on 1899 Torpids Four. He appears there as the scruffiest, most nondescript coach, and together with an equally the paths that flea-bitten mongrel, poses alongside the proud winners of have drawn the a prize pewter tankard for their performance on the river. community of The Jibber was actually a very popular Senior Tutor from 1891 and, later in the book, he may be seen thirty St Catherine’s years on, sporting the same unmistakable luxuriant together In our fiftieth anniversary year as a College, it is worth moustache, but now in smarter attire, as Censor, a post reflecting on the paths that have drawn the community he held from 1919 until 1930. He conducted a much of St Catherine’s together. Our roots lie in the founding needed reorganisation of the tutors and sowed the of the Delegacy for Unattached Students in 1868, seeds for our taking the name ‘St Catherine’s’. following the Royal Commission of 1852, which had concluded that Oxford and Cambridge needed opening up The moving finger of time shifts now to the last Censor, to a broader based clientele. Bullock, appointed sixty years ago, becoming the first Master eight years later, and the orchestrator of all we George Kitchin, later Dean Kitchin, Dean of Winchester see around us today. The Bullock years and characters and then of Durham, had the privilege of being the seem so vibrantly familiar to my generation that it 2 /A/ST MESSAGE CATHERINE’S FROM COLLEGE THE MASTER 2012 MESSAGES feels somewhat unnatural to be considering them in a Yet in such a remarkable year, we ask too, ‘why historical context. else are we here’? We can, of course, revel in the achievements of our alumni and our Fellows, by drawing Nova et Vetera – Knapp recruiting Bullock; Bullock, encouragement in the discoveries, writings, honours, Jacobsen, the key players besides Knapp: Horwood, medals and prizes with which so many have been Davies, Dickson, Tayler, Holmes, Schultz and associated. We are double the size of the college which Simopoulos; the orchestra somehow miraculously Bullock and his team founded, and there are few parts playing in the same key. Shaping, debating, passion, of society that we haven’t touched in a significant way vision, politics, arguments. Their legacy for us is both during the course of this past year. remarkable and distinctive – a forge for our students, a stage for our players, and a board for our pieces. Mark Simpson (2008, Music) was commissioned to produce the opening fanfare for the Last Night of the It is clear that our students have indeed made the Proms. Andy Triggs Hodge (2004, Geography) secured most of this forge in our anniversary year. They have a gold medal in the London Olympics. Honorary Fellow teased us in this year of all years by producing 49 Professor John Goodenough was elected to the US Firsts in our 50th year, but we are more than pleased National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his with that. We will take that, because by more than the distinguished and continuing contribution to research. simple arithmetic, we have had an astonishing year in Professor Peter Edwards was awarded an Einstein terms of the quality of performance. Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Lord Stern (Honorary Fellow) was elected President of the Across thirteen end-of-year examinations, our students British Academy. Sir Tim Rice (Emeritus Fellow) collected secured top Firsts: Geography (Sebastian Koa, Prelims); a special Olivier Award for his outstanding contribution Our students Human Sciences (Lizzie Wilkins, Prelims; Benjamin to musical theatre.