The President is now on research leave until the start of Michaelmas Term 2012; Professor Christina Redfield is the Acting President.

OxBump features live results during races, weather and safety information, and a history of bumps contests.

John and Susan are active rowers and coxes in the Wolfson College Boat Club and welcome any feedback or innovative ideas.

Anyone can download OxBump for free from the Apple App Store.

Their research, reported last week in Nature, describes how, using X-ray free-electron lasers, the group of physicists created hot dense plasmas which mimic the conditions found in the interior of the Sun.

On the 27^th October, the Fournier Piano Trio performed an introductory concert to celebrate their newly-established association with Wolfson College.

Florentin completed his MSc in ‘Water Science, Policy and Management', and wrote his dissertation on ‘Insights into public experiences in Argentinian water sector after the end of the PPP-era.  Examples from Buenos Aires and the province of Santa Fe'. He will be presenting his findings at the Annual Meeting of American Geographers in New York early next year, another indication of the strength of his work.

Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide, with an estimated six million adults having lost their vision to trachoma and 84 million people affected by the infection worldwide.

But Trachoma is both treatable and preventable, by promoting safe hygiene and sanitation practices, using antibiotic eye ointment, or a simple operation for more complex cases to reverse the scarring and visual damage.

This grant will enable Dr Haslam to continue his work on Primate Archaeology, studying the long-term evolution of tool use among chimpanzees and two species of New and Old World monkey. The grant will commence in January 2012.

The Wolfson women's eight won the 350m sprint in a competitive final against Oxford Academicals, on Saturday 20th August. The Wolfson men then won the IM3 eight event against Reading RC, on the same day.

A final congratulations and commiserations to the women's four who won the semi-final against Curlew RC on Sunday 21st August, but got knocked out in the final by the Linacre IV.

See the Wolfson rowing website for further competition details.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's (EPSRC), Career Acceleration Fellowships are highly sought after, and Sadrzadeh was one of approximately 450 applicants who applied for the 25 prestigious awards.

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh will be working with three project partners the Universities of Utrecht and Cambridge, and Google.

Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson College, academic and author, is the dedicatee of Roth's most recent book Nemesis, and described Roth as “the great literary adventurer, performer, and self-transformer of this and the last century. He has been one of the giants of American fiction for over fifty years, with a following across the world, and the award of the International Man Booker for his life's work is a welcome recognition of his audacity, energy, imaginative courage, comic bravura and historical seriousness."