Mar
31
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![Celebrating the Commonwealth’s role in higher education]()
Oxford will tonight celebrate 50 years of Commonwealth Scholarships, which have brought talented students from across Commonwealth countries to study at Oxford.
Mar
31
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![Family tree of UK’s ‘super-sized lions’ revealed]()
The giant cats that roamed the British Isles, as well as Europe and North America, as recently as 13,000 years ago were lions rather than giant jaguars or tigers, a team led by Oxford University scientists has proved.
Mar
30
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![Boat Race triumph for Oxford again]()
Oxford’s rowers won the 155th Boat Race yesterday for the second year in a row, holding off a determined Cambridge to clinch the title by three and a half lengths.
Mar
27
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![Oxford-Google Digitization Project reaches milestone]()
This summer will see the completion of the first phase of the Oxford-Google digitization partnership project at the Bodleian Library. For the first time a large proportion of Oxford’s 19th century out-of-copyright holdings will be made easily accessible to a new generation of readers around the globe.
Mar
26
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![Providing hope in Africa’s battle against cervical cancer]()
A global conference, organised by Oxford University's Africa-Oxford Cancer Consortium (AfrOx) and Cardiff University, is to set down a strategy for preventing cervical cancer in Africa and issue an international call for action in combating the disease.
Mar
25
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![Long-term effects of the Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down]()
Oxford researchers have reported results from a study of death and cancer rates in military veterans who took part in the Ministry of Defence’s Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down between 1941 and 1989.
Mar
24
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![New map shows malaria challenge]()
Over 70 per cent of the 2.4 billion people at risk from the most deadly form of malaria live in areas where the obstacles to malaria control are relatively small, a new global map of malaria risk has revealed in work led by Oxford University scientists.
Mar
23
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![To be or not to be]()
A scholar from Oxford’s English Faculty has discovered that a painting lauded as the only known portrait of William Shakespeare painted from life is almost certainly of somebody else.
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