College Record 2022/23
The 2023/24 edition of the College Record, the formal record of the academic year at Wolfson College, Oxford. As well as recording the fellowship and membership of the College as it stood in 2023/24, the Record is a chance for members to look back on the previous academic year and take stock of the activities of our many research clusters and societies, to celebrate the achievements of our students, researchers and alumni, and to share news of interest with the whole Wolfson community. This year, alongside updates from members across the world, readers can find reflections on the life of Anders Celsius, Byzantine art, the legal fight for clean rivers in the UK, and Wolfson’s own mysterious Second World War bunker. The Record is edited by Dr Roger Tomlin.
The 2023/24 edition of the College Record, the formal record of the academic year at Wolfson College, Oxford.
As well as recording the fellowship and membership of the College as it stood in 2023/24, the Record is a chance for members to look back on the previous academic year and take stock of the activities of our many research clusters and societies, to celebrate the achievements of our students, researchers and alumni, and to share news of interest with the whole Wolfson community. This year, alongside updates from members across the world, readers can find reflections on the life of Anders Celsius, Byzantine art, the legal fight for clean rivers in the UK, and Wolfson’s own mysterious Second World War bunker. The Record is edited by Dr Roger Tomlin.
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ENGINEERING SOCIETY<br />
This is a new society which has<br />
attracted more than a hundred<br />
members of the <strong>College</strong> from all<br />
disciplines. It celebrated its inaugural<br />
Open Day on 31 May.<br />
It has hosted informal dinners to<br />
foster interdisciplinary discussion,<br />
and an intricate paper-folding event<br />
on 1 March 20<strong>23</strong> called ‘Let’s make a<br />
flexagon’.<br />
Photo: Ping Lu<br />
The committee is planning more events for Michaelmas term, to include a welcome for<br />
new members and workshops on cuneiform learning and chess playing.<br />
Ping Lu<br />
FAMILY SOCIETY<br />
The Society has had a year full of events without restrictions, despite a drastically reduced<br />
number of organisers, and it has been wonderful to see families new and old coming<br />
together.<br />
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES<br />
We began with our traditional Welcome Party in October, which brought together lots<br />
of new arrivals to Wolfson, with good food, games and music. This party enabled new<br />
families in <strong>College</strong> to meet their neighbours, and ask any questions they may have. October<br />
was a busy month since it also saw the welcome return of the pumpkin-carving party, in<br />
which pumpkins from a local farm were picked, gutted and carved into all sorts of creative<br />
and spooky designs. We even welcomed some students without children, who had never<br />
carved a pumpkin before, to join in the messy fun. The food waste was all donated to the<br />
gardening team for their compost heap. Halloween celebrations continued with the annual<br />
trick or treating, which began as always with a visit to the President’s house. Our thanks go<br />
to everyone who opened their doors to the children, who were thrilled with all their treats.<br />
The annual fireworks display in November provided another great opportunity for student<br />
families to get together, with the <strong>College</strong> providing the Private Dining Room as an indoor<br />
viewing room for those who were not fans of loud explosions.<br />
We were unable to put on our usual Winter Party because of time constraints, but those<br />
who stayed in <strong>College</strong> during the Christmas break got together for drinks and snacks in the<br />
Family Room on Christmas Eve.<br />
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