Professor Maier, Professor of American History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered her engaging and wide-ranging lecture entitled The Strange History of the American Federal Bill of Rights: England, the United States, and the Atlantic World, at Jesus College Ship Street Centre on 17th May.

Humphreys has also received a three-year Distinguished Visiting Scholar award from the University of Hong Kong.

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The sonar images, which show an underwater eruption which raised an area of the volcano by 79 metres, was described by lead author Tony Watts as "a wake-up call that the sea-floor may be more dynamic than we previously thought." Only Vesuvius and Mount St Helens have recorded larger growth rates.

Professor Watts said: "Any movement on the seabed has the potential to create a tsunami. An earthquake suddenly dislocates the seabed. Here a violent disturbance lasted five days with magma oozing out which might be too slow to trigger a tsunami - but it's unknown.

The research project used water locked inside crystals in seabed sediment to calculate the rate of Antarctic ice melt, and hence how warm the climate was, at key historical periods, revealing that the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age affected more of the globe than previously believed, making it as far as Antarctica. 

Katie Watson, Anna Zubek, Anja Jeczalik, Jan Scriven, and Rose Truby completed the 5-km swim in under two hours, raising £1466.

It's not too late to sponsor their effort - just visit their Swimathon online giving page to make a donation.

The lecture for the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) at Wolfson was introduced by OCLW Director and College President Hermione Lee, who recounted the thrill of discovering Matar's work while judging the 2006 ManBooker Prize, for which his debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted.

Panellists at the discussion, entitled Europe on the Brink: Economic, Political, and Constitutional Issues, included a former economic adviser to the EC,  and European and constitutional experts.

The grant will enable Dr Grey to conduct research trips to consult archives in Chennai, Mumbai, and Aberystwyth.

His research explores British ideas and practices regarding homicide, which, he argues, had a profound influence on legal attitudes and outcomes in India during the long nineteenth century.

Dr Grey is a junior research fellow in World History at Wolfson College. 

The discussion explored different applications of Mindfulness and its effectiveness as a tool for inner development, self-awareness and healing. 

Accompanying the Gyalwang Drukpa were six Tibetan Buddhist Kung Fu nuns of North India, Ladakh, who demonstrated their skills in martial arts on the College lawns, recorded by BBC Oxford News. The Gyalwang Drukpa is known for his promotion of women's rights in a culture where such freedoms are not often preached:

In an article published in Nature last week, Dr Sridhar argues that alcohol abuse, which kills more than 2.5 million people across the world every year, should be targeted by the international community through a new binding treaty in addition to those addressing disease outbreaks and tobacco use.