Issue 19, 2013 - Balliol College - University of Oxford

college news
Awards and appointments
New Year
Honours
two old Members of Balliol
have been mentioned in the
new Year Honours List for 2013:
Mridul Hegde (1985), Director,
Financial stability, HM treasury,
was appointed a Companion of
the order of the Bath (CB) for
services to the stabilisation of
the British Banking system;
Neale Coleman (1972),
Director, London 2012,
Greater London Authority,
was appointed a Commander
of the order of the British
empire (CBe) for services to
the London 2012 olympic and
Paralympic Games.
Warden of
Rhodes House
Rhodes House has announced
that Charles Conn (1983)
has been appointed Warden,
with effect from 24 June 2013.
Charles will succeed Andrew
Graham (Master 2001–2011),
who is currently Acting Warden.
Charles is presently senior
Advisor to the Gordon & Betty
Moore Foundation, where he has
served since 2001, focusing on
large-scale conservation projects.
Charles, who read PPe at Balliol,
says of his appointment, ‘this is
an exciting time for the Rhodes
trust as we near its 110th
anniversary, with new strategic
initiatives and an energetic
commitment to helping develop
young leaders for the new
millennium. i am honoured to
have been asked to be Warden.’
Fellows of
the British
Academy
Professor Mary Carruthers,
George eastman Visiting Fellow
at Balliol 2005–2006, and Professor
Bernard Wasserstein (1966) were
elected Corresponding Fellows of the British
Academy for 2012. Mary Carruthers is retired Professor with Chair,
new York university, and her areas of interest are medieval literature
and rhetoric, memory and mnemonic technique, and the history of
spirituality. Wasserstein is currently the Harriet & ulrich e Meyer
Professor of Modern european Jewish History at the university of
Chicago. His researches focus on modern Jewish and Middle eastern
history and the politics and diplomacy of 20th-century europe.
Pulitzer Prize
Jeffrey Gettleman (1994) won the
2012 Pulitzer Prize for international
Reporting, which is given in
recognition of ‘a distinguished
example of reporting on international
affairs, using any available journalistic
tool’. He was awarded a Pulitzer for
‘his vivid reports, often at personal
peril, on famine and conflict in east
Africa, a neglected but increasingly
strategic part of the world’. As east
African bureau chief for The New York Times Gettleman (who
was featured in Floreat Domus in 2008) covers 12 countries and
has focused much of his work on internal conflicts in Kenya,
Congo, somalia, sudan, and ethiopia. He was presented with the
award by Gregory Moore, co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Fellows of the Royal Society
the Royal society’s list of new Fellows for 2012 includes four
old Members of Balliol:
Professor Alasdair Houston
(1969), school of Biological
sciences, university of Bristol;
Professor Chandrashekhar
Khare (1989), Professor of
Mathematics at uCLA;
Dr Julian Hart Lewis (1964),
former Head of the Vertebrate
Development Laboratory,
Cancer Research uK;
Professor John McNamara
(1968), Professor of
Mathematics at Bristol
university.
Australia
Day Honours
Professor Steven Schwartz,
oliver smithies Lecturer
in Hilary term 2013 and
former Vice-Chancellor
of Macquarie university,
sydney, has been appointed
a Member of the order
of Australia (AM) in the
Australia Day Honours List
for 2013, for significant
service to tertiary education,
to the community, and to
mental health. Previously
steven was Vice-Chancellor
of, first, Murdoch university,
Perth, and then Brunel
university, London. in April
2004, the Blair government
asked him to lead a national
taskforce on university
admissions. in 2005, he led a
uK national project on ethics
for the Council for industry
and Higher education. He is
the author of 13 books.
Chief Scientific
Adviser
Professor Vernon Gibson (1980)
has been appointed the Ministry
of Defence’s Chief scientific
Adviser. He comes to the role
after a distinguished career as
an academic researcher and a
period in the commercial sector
as one of BP’s chief scientists.
on his appointment he said:
‘i am tremendously honoured
and privileged to be joining the
Ministry of Defence as its Chief
scientific Adviser. i’m looking
forward to addressing the
science and technology
challenges that will help shape
the capability of our Armed
Forces in the 21st century.’
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