Many congratulations to Professor Charlotte Deane who has been appointed Deputy Executive Chair of the EPSRC. Professor Deane joins EPSRC on secondment from the University of Oxford where she is currently Professor of Structural Bioinformatics, and was Head of the Department of Statistics from 2015 until earlier this year.

Mareli Grady and Professor Patrick Rebeschini are both recipients of the MPLS 2019 Teaching Awards.

Along with a group of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) experts from industry and academia and representatives from international non-governmental organisations (NGOs),  the Department of Statistics’s Prof. Yee Whye Teh was involved in releasing the Dagstuhl Declaration to guide future collaborations between AI experts and NGOs.

Congratulations to Prof Peter Donnelly who has been knighted for services to the understanding of human genetics in disease.

There is a whole world of things out there that want us dead – we are talking microscopic invaders that want to get inside our bodies and kill us. Lucky for us we have a secret weapon to keep us alive…ANTIBODIES.

Congratulations to Professor Christina Goldschmidt who has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Professor Goldschmidt received the award for fundamental contributions to the fields of coalescence and fragmentation theory, and to continuum limits for random trees and graphs.

Congratulations to Professor Judith Rousseau who is one of nine Oxford academics to have been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advance Grant in the latest round of funding.

Oxford has just launched UNIQ+, six-week Summer School for talented individuals from under-represented groups in UK universities.

Celebrating International Women's Day.