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New Johnian Fellow of the Royal Society
16/05/2012
One Johnian was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 19 April 2012: Professor Trevor John McDougall FRS

Travel Award and Research Project Reports
Photo by Aurora Horwood
06/03/2012
A book of Travel Award and Research Project reports is now available online. This compendium contains the reports of students awarded money by the College to complete a travel related or academic research project over the summer of 2011.

Johnians help develop the Raspberry Pi
01/03/2012
Johnians are enjoying great success with a new project designed to spark interest in computer programming and electronics among school children: the Raspberry Pi. Eben Upton, a Johnian, and Dr Robert Mullins, a Fellow of the College, are two co-founders of the Raspberry Pi foundation. Over the past six years they have been involved with the development of a new credit-card sized computer which is set to revolutionise and revitalise the way IT is taught in schools by making computer programming fun and accessible.

Art Exhibition in the Ante-Chapel: The Stations of the Cross
21/02/2012
Patrice Moor makes paintings and installations of paintings. The skull has been central to her work for the last five years. Her work initially was focused on portraits and more traditional still life subjects such as fruit, tulips and wooden spoons. Her work always focuses on one subject, which appears alone and isolated. The atmosphere generated by her work is one of peace and contemplation. The paintings vary in size, ranging from very small to large. She works exclusively in oils and mostly on linen.  

College Research Associates - 2012
07/02/2012
St John’s College intends to appoint two College Research Associates during the Easter Term 2012. Full details and information about how to apply can be found on the College Research Associates vacancies page.

Elected to an Honorary Fellowship
03/02/2012
Professor David William HARVEY; Anthropologist & Geographer

Sophocles' Ajax - Performances Arranged by Prof Boyde
30/01/2012
Professor Patrick Boyde (Emeritus Professor of Italian) is now in his tenth year as Fellow Borderer, organising cultural events to bring research students, associates and visitors into regular contact with the Fellowship and the College. His programme for the Lent Term has come to be dominated by the performance of a play in Ancient Greek, adapted and staged in such a way as to appeal to a varied audience drawn from 40 faculties and 50 different countries.

Annual Election of Research Fellows
19/01/2012
The following are elected into Fellowships under Title A from 1 October 2012: Emile Chabal (BA, MPhil, PhD, Cambridge) for French Political History Katrina Max Forrester (BA, MPhil, Cambridge) for History of Political Thought John Slight (BA, MPhil, PhD, Cambridge) for British History Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson (BS, Carnegie Mellon, PhD, Cambridge) for Computer Science

Wilkinson Quincentenary Prizes 2012
16/01/2012
St John’s College welcomes entries for the College’s Quincentenary Prize essay competition, open to all students in Year 12 (Lower Sixth form, or equivalent).More information is available on the Wilkinson Quincentenary Prizes page.

Dr Richard Samworth awarded Guy Medal
16/01/2012
Dr Richard Samworth has been awarded a Guy Medal in Bronze by the Royal Statistical Society for his work on ‘theoretical, methodological, and computational aspects of non-parametric statistics’. For more information about the Guy Medals, and to read the original announcement, please visit the Royal Statistical Society’s website using the links below.