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\n \n\n \n \n \nFourth-year student Anahy Mercado Zambrana has been recognised with an upReach Student Social Mobility Award, awarded annually to ten students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, across the UK, who have excelled in their studies and show great potential for their future careers.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMembers of MPLS departments were amongst those recognised at the University's seventh Environmental Sustainability Awards today, hosted by Vice Chancellor, Dame Professor Louise Richardson.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year\u2019s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor James Maynard has been named one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics for those under 40.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThree Oxford Mathematicians, John Ball, Ian Griffiths and Dawid Kielak, have won prizes from the London Mathematical Society (LMS) today.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford Chemistry students with innovative, game-changing ideas have been highlighted at the inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Awards ('The Jamies'), a new annual awards scheme co-developed by the Department of Chemistry and Oxford University Innovation (OUI) in honour of the late Dr Jamie Ferguson.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to the eight staff in MPLS departments who have recently been given divisional awards for teaching excellence. The MPLS Divisional Teaching Award Scheme celebrates success, and recognises and rewards excellence in innovative teaching.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDPhil Systems Engineering student, Nadja Yang has been recognised as one of the UK's top 50 women engineers who are creating or significantly improving products or processes to make a difference in the world, on International Women in Engineering Day.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Fellowships were announced by Science Minister George Freeman this morning, to help the UK\u2019s most promising science and research leaders to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations within the UK.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHannah is one of 29 Schmidt Science Fellows selected this year to receive support for up to two years from Schmidt Futures, working in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, to help advance interdisciplinary research and innovation around major challenges facing humanity.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFive individuals and two teams from the University of Oxford have won prestigious prizes at this year\u2019s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Awards.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to all the students and staff in the MPLS Division who have been successful in the University's 2022 Vice Chancellor's Diversity Awards.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Stolz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Mathematical Institute. The Rising Talents Programme is designed to provide flexible and practical financial support, alongside tools and wider support, for early career women scientists to pursue their research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004. Established in 2002 in Hong Kong, it honours living individuals who are currently active in their respective fields and who have made outstanding contributions or achieved excellence.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe new identity for the Department of Biology has been awarded a 2022 Indigo Design Award, winning Gold in their Logo Design category.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 'Meat the Future' exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which draws on research from LEAP, an interdisciplinary programme involving MPLS zoologists, ecologists and physicists, has won 'Partnership of the Year', while Oxford's History of Science Museum won the 'Visitor Welcome Award'.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe House of Lords has appointed Professor Kathy Willis as a new non-party-political peer, after being recommended by the independent House of Lords Commission. She joins the crossbenches, comprising independent peers who provide deep, wide-ranging expertise to the House.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn all, eight scientists from the University of Oxford have joined the Royal Society as Fellows. All but one are from departments in MPLS Division.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFour early-career researchers have been recognised by Forbes' 2022 list, which is intended to illustrate the power that young entrepreneurs and leaders have to transform business and society.
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