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We were pleased to be recognised in the University's Green Impact awards for our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and improve sustainability.

Wadham was the joint winner, with Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, of the Higher Education Inclusion Excellence Award.

Our JRF's team won the University of Oxford's Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Local Community Engagement.

This academic year marked the 50th anniversary of the first women students joining Wadham and we celebrated in style!

This prestigious scheme gives senior researchers, including our Professorial Fellow in Microbiology, the opportunity to pursue ambitious projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs.

Oxford mathematician and computer scientist and Fellow of Wadham, Professor Dame Ursula Martin, receives this award in the King's Birthday Honours 2025.

We are delighted to be Highly Commended, with Eyesea Green, in the in the Green Heat category.

The group of over 35 senior UK academics, coordinated by Prof Nathalie Seddon, delivered an open letter to the Prime Minister.

In May, Wadham was proud to welcome back our alumna, Felicity Jones (English Literature and Language, 2003), a celebrated actor who recently starred in The Brutalist (2024).

Researchers, including Francesco Licausi, are to receive backing of a £6.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat.

We enjoyed the latest in what has become a tradition of full-album playthroughs in the Holywell Music Room.

Congratulations to all Wadham's Boat Club crews