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after many years of service, to Therese Herbert as <strong>College</strong> Accountant and Heather<br />
Waring as Senior Battels Clerk. Among other departures we send good wishes for<br />
their future to Rachael Connelly from the Academic Office, and to Dianne Tonks<br />
from the nursery. We’ve been extremely pleased to welcome to Accounts, first, on a<br />
temporary basis, Caroline Hayter, and then as our new Accountant, Kathryn Pocock.<br />
We welcome Louise Scrivens as the new Admissions Officer. And we note with<br />
gratitude and awe that Jan Scriven, our invaluable Arts Administrator, and Sue Hales<br />
– the person without whom I could not have done my job – both celebrate 25 years<br />
of service to the <strong>College</strong> this year.<br />
Many Wolfsonians received recognition and had significant academic successes this<br />
year. I never fail to list these achievements without a sense of wonder and delight<br />
at the astonishing range of Wolfsonian research activities. Sebastian Brock was<br />
recognized by the British Academy for his peerless contributions to Syriac language<br />
and literature. Andrew Briggs co-authored The Penultimate Curiosity for OUP, on<br />
the relation between science and religion. Ros Rickaby was awarded the Geological<br />
Society’s prestigious Lyell Medal. Elleke Boehmer was awarded a European Studies<br />
of English award for her book Indian Arrivals 1870–1915 and received a major award<br />
from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Jan Fellerer and Wolfgang de Melo are both<br />
on Leverhulme Research Fellowships. Jay Lewis is President of the Association for<br />
Korean Studies in Europe. Moritz Riede was elected co-chair to the Global Young<br />
Academy Council for young scientists, among them our Research Fellow Matthew<br />
Levy. Rick Schulting obtained two external research grants, one from the British<br />
Academy. Pamela Clemit was awarded the Keats-Shelley Distinguished Scholar<br />
Award for her work on Godwin. Mark Merrony published a book on The Plight of<br />
Rome in the Fifth Century AD. Samson Abramsky was co-recipient of the <strong>2017</strong><br />
Alonzo Church Award for logic and computation.<br />
In the Recognition of Distinction exercise for 2016, our Research Fellow Harish<br />
Bhaskaran became Professor of Applied Nanomaterials, Philomen Probert became<br />
Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics, and Ulrike Roesler was made<br />
Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, and also won OUSU’s Outstanding<br />
Supervisor Award. Bettina Lange and our Research Fellow Omer Dushek were<br />
shortlisted for the Outstanding Graduate Supervisor Award.<br />
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