NEWSLETTER ISSUE 25 – TT16 INSIDE: PLUS: • First 100 Bursary Awarded • Centenary of Harold Wilson’s Birth • Geography Appeal Launched • Jesus College Through Generations • Plaque to the Leoline Jenkins Laboratories • Working in… Healthcare Unveiled Introduction Comment CONTENTS WELCOME TO THE TRINITY TERM NEWSLETTER Welcome from the Principal 2 It hardly seems possible College News 3 that I am approaching the Development News 4 end of my first year as Principal. A year full of new A Selection of Events so far 6 and interesting experiences A Few Moments with… Gavin Schmidt 8 combined with the pleasure Harold Wilson’s Centenary of Birth 10 of making new friends From the Archives: Harold Wilson at Jesus 12 amongst Fellows and staff, Alumni News 14 alumni and students. My family and I have felt very First Recipient of the First 100 Bursary 15 welcome here at Jesus. My Jesus College: Christopher Muttukumaru 16 2016 has seen many notable Fellows’ News 18 student achievements. Here Working in… Healthcare 19 are four that exemplify those achievements. Sophia Hall, Postcards from Overseas 23 recipient of the First 100 Bursary, was chosen by the BBC In Print and Forthcoming Events 24 to compose music, performed live at the Royal Festival Hall, for this year’s International Women’s Day. Christoph Weis and Philipp Kempski helped their team achieve a silver FROM THE EDITOR medal at the International Olympiad in Theoretical Physics. I am pleased to introduce Hannah Greenstreet won the award for the best overall another issue of the Newsletter. production at the Oxford University Drama Society New As ever, we are delighted to Writing Festival. Prime Minister David Cameron presented share with you achievements of MSc student Simon Bayliss with the National Teaching our alumni, students and Fellows. Award for Outstanding New Teacher. We love hearing from our Old Members about their time at Our Fellows continue to excel and bring great credit to Jesus, so please keep in touch the College. Examples include the award of a £5m grant with us by sending your letters from the Welcome Trust to develop and apply new imaging to the editor at nina.kruglikova@ methods to study cellular dynamics. No less than six of our jesus.ox.ac.uk. Fellows worked together to secure the grant: Professors Ian Davis, Martin Booth, Yvonne Jones, Paul Riley and Shankar In the meantime, we are delighted to let you know that we Srinivas. This is an excellent example of the collaborative are preparing a new history of the College to celebrate the spirit that the College engenders. Professor Susan Jebb has 450th anniversary of its foundation in 1571. We would be been in the news as Government Obesity Advisor. Her most grateful if you could help us by sharing your memories research is laying the foundations for effective policy in this of Jesus with the editorial team. Both stories and images important area of public health. Professor Paulina Kewes would be most welcome. If the latter, please scan pictures to us in the first instance. co-leads a fascinating project, Stuarts Online, a resource that brings scholarship on the Stuart era to a wider audience. As many reminiscences as possible will be included in the final text, but space will be limited and we therefore plan to A number of our alumni have been recognised in the last have an internal website to use as much of the material sent six months. Sir Edward Davey (1985), former Secretary to us. If you would prefer not to have your name attached of State for Energy and Climate Change, was knighted in to any submission used in the printed publication or online, the New Years Honours List. In the Queen’s 90th Birthday please do make it clear in your correspondence. Please Honours List Glyn Mathias (1963) was made an OBE for submit your comments and images to our archivist, Dr ‘public service and services to broadcasting in Wales’ and Robin Darwall-Smith, at [email protected]. You may Rajeeb Dey (2004) was awarded an MBE in recognition also make your submissions by post to Dr Robin Darwall- of his services to entrepreneurship. Elizabeth Price Smith, Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DW. (1985), winner of the 2012 Turner Prize, displayed her Dr Nina Kruglikova, Contemporary Art Society Award winning work in the Communications and Development Officer Ashmolean Museum. Professor Nigel Hitchin (1965), a Jesus 2 Introduction CollegeComment News WELCOME TO THE TRINITY TERM CHEMISTRY NEWSLETTER REUNION College Honorary Fellow, has been awarded the Shaw Prize in Math em atical Sciences 2016. Carole Souter (1975) has been elected Master of St Cross College, Oxford. I wish her every success as Head of House. This year was my first Town and Gown Run: the Jesus team along with thousands of other runners raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. I was delighted to discover an algorithm that age corrected my time – apparently I had run much faster than I thought! I was also delighted to witness two of our boats not just bump the opposition at the Summer Eights on 28th May, but they did so directly in front of the College Boat House. Special congratulations to our rowing Blue Tom Cummins who was in the winning Isis team at this year’s Boat Race. We are proud of all our sports teams, Blues and half Blues. Our JCR organised a Staff Appreciation Drinks event in April. It was a really well received gesture and demonstrated the esteem in which our students hold the staff who do so much for them. In the six months since the last Newsletter we have witnessed events that inevitably touch the College and University. The attacks in Paris, Brussels, Orlando and From left: Professor Mark elsewhere remind us that terror and unreason are Brouard and Professor Derek ever-present threats. Our own Dr Caroline Warman Long collected and edited an excellent collection of essays Saturday 9th April from the Age of the Enlightenment – reminding us of 2016 saw the the fundamental importance of tolerance. Chemistry Reunion Most recently we have had the results of the EU with the unveiling Referendum. The consequences for Higher Education of the plaque to will be significant. The UK benefits from EU funding for the Leoline Jenkins research in science, technology, engineering, medicine, Laboratories as the social sciences and the humanities. We employ, with no highlight of the day. let or hindrance, outstanding researchers and staff from across the EU. The flow of students with the EU is a As one who once significant enrichment to this nation’s intellectual and worked there, Emer- cultural life. I hope that any settlement is able to retain itus Professor Derek and preserve these remarkable advantages. Long unveiled the plaque next to the What is certain is that Jesus is a community that values entrance to Staircase XVII, which reads as follows: ‘This build- and cherishes all of its members. We are, and will always ing was opened in 1907 as the Leoline Jenkins Laboratories, be, an open, tolerant and welcoming environment in one of the first college chemistry laboratories at the University which to study and work. of Oxford. Under the leadership of Dr D.L. Chapman (Fel- low 1907-44) it was distinguished for its teaching and research and, during the Second World War, it hosted secret atomic research codenamed the Tube Alloys project. The Laboratories closed in 1947.’ The labs are now occupied by one of the Col- Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College lege’s three libraries. 3 Development News Comment UK-CHINA HIGHER EDUCATION FORUM Visit of the Chinese delegation to On 19th February 2016, the Ship Street Centre delegates meeting the Pro Vice-Chancellor the Fellows’ Library at Jesus College was proud to be the venue Professor Nick Rawlins, a visit to the Rhodes for the UK-China Higher Education Forum, House to meet the Warden and hear about organised by Oxford Prospects Programmes. the newly launched Rhodes Scholars in China Panel discussions on the topic of globalisation programme, and a dinner at St Hugh’s College, and collaboration in higher education included attended by the Jesus College Principal, Sir ‘Developing a University’s International Nigel Shadbolt. The participating universities Strategy’ with speakers Professor Ying Wang from China were: Tsinghua University, Fudan (Director of Academics, Fudan University), University, Jilin University, Shanghai Jiaotong Professor Vincent Emery (Pro Vice-Chancellor University, Zhejiang University, Xiamen of Surrey University), Mr Loren Griffith University, Nanjing University and Nankai (Director of Oxford International Office) and University. UK institutions included: Imperial Ms Hilary Layton (Director of International College, York University, Surrey University and Office, York University); and ‘Global impact of Warwick University. UK/China Collaboration in Higher Education’ with speakers Sir Drummond Bone (Master Jesus College is currently fundraising for a new of Balliol College), Professor Hong Gao (Vice- endowed Graduate Studentship Fund for a Provost of Tsinghua University), Professor student ordinarily resident in Hong Kong or David Gann CBE (Vice-President of Imperial mainland China. College) and Ms Ying Xu (Director of For further information please contact our Internationals, Zhejiang University). Senior Development Executive: rachel.page@ Other highlights of the Forum included the jesus.ox.ac.uk; +44 (0)1865 616812. 4 DevelopmentComment News GEOGRAPHY APPEAL Jesus College is launching an appeal to endow £900,000 towards the endowment of two a Tutorial Fellowship in Geography. This Geography Fellowships. It has allowed us to endowment will help secure the future of endow the College side of the Geography tutorial teaching of Geography at the College. Fellowship held by Professor Patricia Daley It could be said that Geography is better placed with a fund of £600,000.