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Jacob Dahl heads team to crack world's oldest undeciphered writing system

Published on: 21 October 2012

The world's oldest writing system, which has for the past 5,000 years remained undeciphered, could be about to be decoded by an international team of academics led by Dr Jacob Dahl, fellow at Wolfson and Director of the College's Ancient World Research Cluster, as reported by the BBC today.

Fournier Trio performance supports concert piano campaign

Published on: 25 January 2013

Wolfson College welcomed back Artists-in-Residence the Fournier Piano Trio last week for a performance of Brahms held as part of the campaign to raise funds for a new concert piano for the College.

Wolfson Telethon 2013 raises over £50,000 for student support

Published on: 22 January 2013

The 2013 telethon campaign at Wolfson ended yesterday, raising over £50,000 for student support; the highest total to date.

Display of Wolfson's Hornik Collection complements major international conference

Published on: 14 December 2012

On Friday, 7 December 2012, the College played joint host to the final day of a major international conference, ‘Aristotle Transformed, 200-600 CE'.

New research project aims to test if beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Published on: 19 November 2012

Wolfson Governing Body Fellow Professor Glyn Humphreys has won an European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award worth around 2.2 million euro, which will support a research team working towards a significant breakthrough in our understanding of perception and the degree to which it is influenced by personal social biases.