Spring Martlet 2017

Announcements
Our thanks to everyone who contributed an announcement for this issue. If you have news you would like to share in the next issue of
The Martlet, please e-mail communications@univ.ox.ac.uk by 22 May 2017.
1950s
Nick Schlee's (1952, English) latest publications
include Drawing to Painting, featuring 130 or so full
colour plates of his vibrant drawings and paintings.
www.nickschlee.co.uk
We were delighted and honoured
to welcome Univ Old Member
and Honorary Fellow Prof.
Stephen Hawking (1959, Physics)
to College on 15 November
2016. Professor Hawking met
current Physics students, Fellows
and staff – and very kindly
indulged in a ‘selfie’ or two.
Geologist and geophysicist,
Univ Honorary Fellow
Lord Oxburgh KBE,
FRS, HonFREng (1953,
Geology), a member
of the Parliamentary
Advisory Group on
Carbon Capture and
Storage, discussed ‘Lowest
Cost Decarbonisation
for the UK’ in October as
part of the Oxford Energy
term-time talks at the
School of Geography and
the Environment.
1960s
Foundation
Fellow Edward
Scott (1960,
PPE) has
been awarded
the 9th BNP
Paribas prize
for individual
philanthropy. Mr Scott received The Grand
Prize 2016 for his effective policy-led and
campaigning work in areas such as poverty
relief, third-world debt reduction, the fight
against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis as
well as autism research and treatment.
Martin Weitz (1968, PPP)
has written a new thriller
The Elena Text, published
26 January 2017 – the first
volume in The Moses Frank
Trilogy. Novelist Ashley
Stokes calls it ‘upmarket
Dan Brown’.
Martin Davis (1962, Law) has written about a three-week walk on
the Voie de Vézelay in September this year, and since published the
illustrated paperback, Notes in the Slow Lane on Amazon.com – also
available as an eBook via Blurb.co.uk.
Dr David Vaughan (1968, Geology), Research
Professor of Mineralogy at the University of
Manchester, has achieved the rare distinction
of being elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, that country’s national
academy. David is the leading international
authority on metal sulphide minerals, key
materials for the Canadian economy and
natural environment, and has played a major
role in establishing the field of molecular
environmental science which integrates research
on the mineralogical, geochemical and biological
systems of the Earth’s surface at the molecular
scale. Dr Vaughan was a research student at
Univ and the first non-American President of
the American Mineralogical Society.
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