Looking back; Moving forwards: The history of Black Lives Matter (BLM)

For almost two years Dr. Anna Caballe has used molecular biology and biochemistry to study a cellular component, called the centrosome. Centrosomes are small organelles within cells that help coordinate correct separation of our chromosomes during cell division: the live imaging below displays a dividing early Drosophila (fruit fly) embryo, showing two fluorescently labelled cellular structures: microtubules in red, and centrioles, the core bit of centrosomes, in green.

A couple of months ago Akash Trivedi was selected to take part in a two-week expedition as an analogue astronaut to the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert. Late December, his crew completed the journey and arrived back on Earth from what was a truly out-of-this-world experience.

A new exhibition, Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opened at the Ashmolean Museum on 19 October 2017, curated by JaÅ› Elsner and Stefanie Lenk with the full participation of the Empires of Faith team. 
The exhibition is the result of new collaborative research produced by members of the Empire of Faith team at Wolfson College and the British Museum, contributed to by leading scholars, showing the fundamental importance of imagery in the development and explanation of religious ideas. 

I will be standing in as Acting President for the next few months, between the presidencies of two remarkable people: Hermione Lee, who retired at the end of September, and Tim Hitchens, whom we look forward to welcoming this summer.

When friends ask about my life at Wolfson, I tell them about the sunny office overlooking a garden; the College's elegant modernist architecture and many rural vistas; exciting, active minds you meet at meals and special events; and most of all the peace and quiet in which one can work, a real boon for any artist. One mate replied “the place sounds like a Japanese mountaintop” and I guess, for me, it is.