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Catz Year 2010_v4 colour change:Catz Year 2007a 28/1/11 11:16 Page c The Year St Catherine’s College . Oxford 2010 Catz Year 2010_v4 colour change:Catz Year 2007a 28/1/11 11:16 Page d Master and Fellows 2010 MASTER RobertALeese, MA (PhD Durh) Marc Lackenby, MA (PhD Camb) Peter P Edwards, MA (BSc, PhD Christoph Reisinger, (Dipl Linz, Professor Roger W Fellow by Special Election in Tutor in Pure Mathematics Salf), FRS Dr phil Heidelberg) Ainsworth, MA, DPhil, FRAeS Mathematics Leathersellers’ Fellow Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Tutor in Mathematics Director of the Smith Institute Professor of Mathematics (Leave M10-T11) FELLOWS Timothy J Bayne, (BA Otago, Sudhir Anand, MA, DPhil Louise L Fawcett, MA, DPhil (BA Marc E Mulholland, MA (BA, Patrick S Grant, MA, DPhil (BEng PhD Arizona) Tutor in Economics Lond) MA, PhD Belf) Nott) FREng Tutor in Philosophy Harold Hindley Fellow Tutor in Politics Wolfson Fellow Cookson Professor of Materials Professor of Quantitative Wilfrid Knapp Fellow Tutor in History Robert E Mabro, CBE, MA (BEng Economic Analysis (Leave M10-T11) Dean Justine N Pila, MA (BA, LLB, PhD Alexandria, MSc Lond) (Leave M10) Melb) Fellow by Special Election Susan C Cooper, MA (BA Collby Gavin Lowe, MA, MSc, DPhil Tutor in Law Richard J Parish, MA, DPhil (BA Maine, PhD California) Tutor in Computer Science College Counsel Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, MA, Newc) Professor of Experimental Physics Professor of Computer Science DPhil (Grunnfag Oslo, BA Yale) Tutor in French (Leave T11) Bart B van Es, (BA, MPhil, PhD Tutor in English Philip Spencer Fellow Helen J Mardon, MA, DPhil (BSc Camb) Professor of French Sus) Richard M Berry, MA, DPhil Tutor in English Angela B Brueggemann, DPhil Tutor in Medical Studies Tutor in Physics (Leave M10-T11) (BSc St Olaf, MSc Iowa) FramEDinshaw, MA, DPhil Wolfson Fellow (Leave M10) Fellow by Special Election in Official Fellow Professor of Reproductive Science Tommaso Pizzari, (BSc Aberd, Biological Sciences Finance Bursar Ashok I Handa, MA (MB BS PhD Shef) Wellcome Career Development PeterRFranklin, MA (BA, DPhil Lond), FRCS Tutor in Zoology Fellow Peter D Battle, MA, DPhil York) Fellow by Special Election in Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry Tutor in Music Medicine Byron W Byrne, MA, DPhil James E Thomson, MChem, Unilever Fellow Professor of Music Tutor for Graduates (BCom, BEng Western Australia) DPhil Professor of Chemistry (Leave M10) Reader in Surgery Tutor in Engineering Science Fellow by Special Election in in Senior Tutor Tutor for Admissions Chemistry (Leave M10) John Charles Smith, MA James L Bennett, MA (BA Tutor in French Linguistics Reading) W I F (Bill) David, MA, DPhil Maja H Spener, BA (MPhil, PhD Revd Colin P Thompson, MA, President of the Senior Common Fellow by Special Election Fellow by Special Election in Lond) DPhil Room Home Bursar Physics Junior Research Fellow in Tutor in Spanish Philosophy Senior Proctor M10-H11 Penny A Handford, MA (BSc, David J Womersley, MA (PhD Andrew M Barry, (BA Camb, (Leave T11) PhD S’ton) Camb), FBA DPhil Sus) Andrew J Bunker, BA, DPhil Tutor in Biochemistry Warton Professor of English Tutor in Geography Tutor in Physics A Gervase Rosser, MA (MA, PhD Wolfson Fellow Literature Reader in Geography Reader in Astrophysics Lond) Professor of Biochemistry Tutor in History of Art Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil Cressida E Chappell, MA (BA, Richard M Bailey, (BSc Leics, Adrian L Smith, (BSc Keele, MSc Vice-Master Fellow by Special Election MA Hull) MSc, PhD Lond) Wales, PhD Nott) Librarian Fellow by Special Election Tutor in Geography Tutor in Zoology Richard I Todd, MA, DPhil (MA Academic Registrar JohnSFoord, MA (MA, PhD Camb) Secretary to the Governing Body Gaia Scerif, (BSc St And, PhD Andreas Muench, MA (PhD, Dipl Camb) Tutor in Material Sciences Lond) TU Munich) Tutor in Physical Chemistry Goldsmiths’ Fellow David R H Gillespie, MA, DPhil Tutor in Psychology Tutor in Mathematics Professor of Chemistry Reader in Materials Tutor in Engineering Science Reader in Applied Mathematics (Leave M10) Rolls-Royce Fellow Karl Sternberg, MA Fellow by Special Election Catz Year 2010_v4 colour change:Catz Year 2007a 28/1/11 11:12 Page 1 CONTENTS Contents Master’s Report 2 College Life Dr Gancz 6 Catz|fivezero – a campaign update 9 Postcards to the Master 10 50th anniversary book project 12 OXIP 14 Cameron Mackintosh inaugural lecture 16 Finals results & prizes 2010 18 Graduate degrees and diplomas 21 The Catz Ball - A proud legacy 23 Sports review 26 Student Perspectives Kyrillous Amin 28 Brandon Dorn 30 Zoë de Toledo 32 Roland Lasius 33 Tim Motz 34 Laura Nellums 36 Alumni News M G Harris 38 Alexander Campkin 40 David Hemery 42 Femi Fadugba 43 Ellen Bruce 44 News in brief 46 Development Office contacts 47 College events list 2010 and time capsule clue 48 Catz Research Louise Fawcett 49 Tim Bayne 50 Barrie Juniper 52 Patrick McSharry 54 Gazette Jack Pole 56 Alan Head 59 Lord Wolfson 60 Father Charles Smith 62 Other Obituaries 64 Admissions 69 ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2010/1 Catz Year 2010_v4 colour change:Catz Year 2007a 28/1/11 11:12 Page 2 MESSAGES Master’s report Computer Science. I counted 15 other University prizes ..we have had for our final-year students. This is too many to enumerate, but I would like to draw attention to Haani one of our Paienjton and Richard Mason, who were awarded the most vibrant Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Prize for Best Performance in Chemical Engineering and the Head of years, with fine Department’s Prize for Excellent Performance in student Engineering Science Finals respectively. Our graduates were not to be outdone in academic performance, with achievements, Imran Mahmud being awarded the Geoffrey Hill Spray Prize in Clinical Biochemistry, and Andrii Finogin the honours Clifford Chance Prize for the Best Performance in the showered on Magister Juris. Both are very considerable achievements. our Fellows, We were delighted with the news that three former and our alumni Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professors of Contemporary Theatre were awarded national honours in the New Year making their It is no exaggeration to say, that as a college Honours List — knighthoods for Nicholas Hytner and community, we have had one of our most vibrant years, Patrick Stewart, and a CBE for Phyllida Lloyd. We were mark on with fine student achievements, honours showered on very pleased too that Domus Fellow, Lord Bragg, was society at our Fellows, and our alumni making their mark on awarded a BAFTA Fellowship for his outstanding and society at large. exceptional contribution to television. Chemistry is an large. area of study which is traditionally strong at St We achieved 38 First class degrees in Finals — a very Catherine’s, and the news of the selection of Professor good number — and we were particularly pleased to Ahmed Zewail, Honorary Fellow and Nobel Laureate, to register two University-wide top Firsts in Finals: Max receive the 2011 Priestley Medal from the American Bryant in English, and Thomas Gibson-Robinson in Chemical Society, was noted with pleasure. 2 /A MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER Catz Year 2010_v4 colour change:Catz Year 2007a 28/1/11 11:12 Page 3 MESSAGES This Michaelmas Term, we welcomed several new We are very pleased with the new blood which has We were very members to the Fellowship. Emeritus Fellow and former arrived this year, in terms of Jonathan Healey, to join St Catherine’s Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, the History team, Duncan Robertson, as tutor in pleased too Professor John Goodenough, was made an Honorary Management Studies, and Geneviève Helleringer, who that Domus Fellow. During his time at the College, John worked on came from the Law Department of the Sorbonne, as the science underlying lithium-ion batteries. In October Junior Research Fellow in the Social Sciences. Fellow, Lord 2009 he was the recipient of the Fermi Prize for his lasting contributions to materials science and During the year, we also welcomed Alain Goriely from Bragg, was technology. John is now based at the University of Texas Tucson, Arizona, to take up the Professorship of awarded a at Austin. Mathematical Modelling and the Directorship of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology BAFTA Our link with Texas is further enhanced by the (KAUST), adding significantly to the powerful tradition admission to the Fellowship of Marshall Cloyd, whose of Applied Maths in College. Whilst John Ockendon has Fellowship for major contributions to the oil extraction industry have officially demitted from the Directorship, we have no his outstanding been recognised this year, when he became a ‘Hall of doubt that, as an Emeritus Fellow, he will continue to Fame Pioneer’ at the Offshore Energy Center in be as creative as ever mathematically. We are sorry to and Houston. This great honour is awarded to individuals be losing Jorge Quintanilla to the University of Kent, exceptional who distinguish themselves and enhance the character Giandomenico Iannetti to UCL, Robert Whittaker to the of the industry through their vision, drive, innovation, University of East Anglia, and Barbara Lauriat to King’s contribution to and leadership. I am confident in asserting that Marshall College London. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has is the only Fellow of this College to have had an been particularly lucky in capturing two of our Fellows: television. asteroid named after them: 15499 CLOYD, which was Pawel Swietach takes up a Tutorial Fellowship in discovered in 1999. Physiology, whilst Richard Carwardine, formerly Rhodes Professor of American History, became their new It gave us great pleasure too, to admit our former history President in January. Without exception all have made undergraduate, Christopher Brown (1966, Modern very substantial contributions to the mission of the History), to an Honorary Fellowship this year.