Jesus College Record 2022

May, and we announced our participation in the inaugural
Astrophoria Foundation Year (AFY). The AFY is a University
initiative that provides a one‐year residential course to help able
students from disadvantaged backgrounds to raise their
academic standards and apply successfully to Oxford. The
College is delighted to be a part of the new initiative, which
builds on our already exceptional access and outreach work,
and our participation continues in the year ahead.
In June, the NHS Northgate Health Centre opened on the
lower ground floor of our new building. This accessible and
spacious new healthcare centre combines three local GP
practices under one roof, and College staff were delighted to
join the Practice Managers, GPs and staff for its formal opening
in October. August saw the Royal Society recognise two College
Fellows with prestigious awards. Emeritus Fellow Richard
Moxon, founder of the Oxford Vaccine Group, received the
Buchanan Medal for his contribution to the biomedical sciences,
and Professorial Fellow Ray Pierrehumbert received the
Rumford Medal for his “contributions to atmospheric physics,
employing fundamental principles of physics to elucidate
phenomena across the spectrum of planetary atmospheres”.
Elsewhere, Senior Research Fellow Philip Burrows was elected
Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
Collaboration Board, and Zeitlyn Fellow Caroline Warman was
jointly awarded the Society of French Studies prestigious
R. Gapper Book Prize for her book, The Atheist’s Bible: Diderot
and the Éléments de physiologie (Open Book Publishing, 2020).
In ‘The Year in the JCR’ (page 136), JCR President Eoin Hanlon
reports on the sense of joy and enthusiasm with which our
undergraduates have embraced the return to a more normal
College life after the challenging days of the pandemic. Garden
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