STAAR Volume 3 - St. Anne's MCR

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Content STAAR 2011 Contents About the Contributors 2 The Editors 4 Content 5 Word from the Editors 6 Daria Luchinskaya 6 Himanshu Kaul 7 St Anne’s Subject Family Events 8 Water: The Most Important Molecule in Drug Discovery 9 Gregory Ross Producing a critical edition of a Golden Age Spanish play 13 Naomi Walker St Anne’s Research 16 Assessing Opportunities for a Sustainable Wood-biomass Energy System in Southeast Alaska 17 Munish Sikka Gifted and talented education from the students’ point of view 23 Robert Seddon The Effects of the Navigation Acts on English Transatlantic Trade: An Overview 27 Mark Uttley St Anne’s Highlight of the Year 31 COURSEHORSE.IT – A team from Oxford wins SV2UK 32 Nilu Satharasinghe 5
Word from the Editors/Daria Luchinskaya STAAR 2011 Word from the Editors Daria Luchinskaya, Editor-in-Chief ‘09-10 Hello new academic year and hello new issue of St Anne’s Academic Review. It is with great pleasure that I see STAAR carry on under Himanshu’s direction, he’s done a fantastic job as editor-in-chief, and I would like to thank him and the editors for their work in bringing this third volume to light. STAAR was set up three years ago, building on the successes of the then-recently-established Arts and Humanities and Sciences Discussion Groups, now a vibrant and unique part of our College community, and the esteemed Subject Family Events. Underpinning these initiatives was a sense of sharing the achievements of academic work and in making it accessible and interesting to people in different fields of study, which we hoped to put across from the very first issue of STAAR. I should also acknowledge the role of the New Collection, the peer-reviewed journal run by the New College MCR, as a substantial source of inspiration. When STAAR was established in 2009 I had little idea of the kind of reception that it would have, and I have been so happy to hear from many different people how much they enjoy it. It’s mentioned in all sorts of fascinating and unexpected places, amongst which Onlinedegrees.org, an online education portal, picked up on an article by Dr. Nina Alphey and Christina Mayer from STAAR 2009 on obtaining funding for conferences. I have also been overwhelmed by the support for STAAR - from the extremely helpful and on-the-ball editorial teams, the interest and anticipation in the MCR community, the encouragement from STAAR's successful reception by the JCR and the SCR, and the invaluable help and advice from St Anne's college in STAAR's evolution. Having been the chief editor of STAAR for its first two issues, while doing my MPhil in Russian and East European Studies at St Anne's, I could not be happier to see it thrive under a new editorial team, indicating that it has become a part of College life. As for me, I teach introductory maths to first-year St Anne's students reading Economics in various subject combinations, and doing a PhD in Employment Research at the University of Warwick. I would very much like to publish an article in STAAR when I have some findings! I really hope that STAAR will carry on from strength to strength to celebrate our interests, curiosity and perseverance in doing what we do, across different disciplines and at different stages of our lives. Thanks to everyone who is and has been involved in STAAR, from making it to reading it. 6
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Page 5: The Editors STAAR 2011 The Editors
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