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  St Anne's College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
What is now St Anne's College began life as part of the "Association for the Education of Women", the first institution in Oxford to allow for the education of women (see: Somerville College, Oxford), then later the "Society of Home Students".
Today it is one of the larger colleges in Oxford, with around 450 undergraduate and 150 graduate students, in a roughly equal mix of men and women.
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 Encyclopedia: Somerville College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Somerville College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College, part of the University of Oxford, was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there.
The name they chose was Somerville College after the then recently deceased mathematician Mary Somerville, one of the greatest English mathematicians of the 19th century.
Somerville has educated some of the most influential minds of the 20th century.
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 Somerville College, Oxford - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there.
This new effort resulted in the founding of Somerville Hall, named for the then recently deceased Mary Somerville, one of the greatest English mathematicians of the 19th century.
The University of Oxford in the eighteenth century: a reconsideration: A James Bryce memorial lecture delivered in the hall of Somerville College, Oxford,...
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 Somerville College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College The official college web site with a virtual tour, information on admissions, college life, adacemic facilities, conferences, and contact information.
Somerville Living Wage Committee Somerville MA residents for fair treatment at the workplace.
Somerville Community Computing Center Non-profit providing free computer facilities, assistance and training to Somerville residents and education and human service programs.
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 Somerville College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College part of the University of Oxford was one of the first women's to be founded there.
In June 1878 the Association for the Higher Education of Women was formed aiming for the eventual of a college for women in Oxford.
The they chose was Somerville College after the then recently deceased mathematician Mary Somerville one of the greatest English mathematicians the 19th century.
www.freeglossary.com /University_of_Oxford/Somerville   (586 words)

  
 Ockham's Razor - 03/06/2001: Mary Somerville
After a few years the Somervilles moved to London and their Edinburgh friends ensured that they were welcomed into the scientific community there.
She was very pleased that Cambridge had established a college for women, and it was to that, Girton College, that Mary’s daughters gave their mother’s scientific library after her death.
Robyn Williams: And among the Somerville College alumni: Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and the incandescently brilliant, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.
www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s306256.htm   (2120 words)

  
 Somerville College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Somerville Bicycle Committee Ad-hoc advocacy group who want to improve bicycling in the Seven Hills City.
Boston.com on Somerville The Boston Globe's online Somerville section has a comparitive city profile, real estate and school information, lists of events, maps, and death notices.
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 Somerville College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College, part of the Universityof Oxford, was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there.
In June 1878 the Association for the HigherEducation of Women was formed, aiming for the eventual creation of a college for women in Oxford.
The name they chose was Somerville College after thethen recently deceased mathematician Mary Somerville, one of thegreatest English mathematicians of the 19th century.
www.therfcc.org /somerville-college-76145.html   (238 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | eG weekly | A different ball game
A place at Worcester College, Oxford, won by one of his upper sixth last year is enough to make sure that Woodhouse High is represented at this type of conference for the first time.
Laura Smith, 19, an engineering student in her second year at Somerville College, Oxford, went to state schools in Bromsgrove, but won a scholarship to the sixth form of Bromsgrove school, which is independent.
Oxford does not keep this type of record, but expects the numbers are similar.
education.guardian.co.uk /egweekly/story/0,5500,1437197,00.html   (1627 words)

  
 Somerville College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville is a college for women and men.
It was founded (as Somerville Hall) in 1879 to provide an opportunity for women, who at that date were excluded from membership of the University, to gain some kind of higher education in Oxford.
The Principal is delighted to announce that Somerville's finalists sitting for their Final Honours Schools examinations this summer have taken Somerville to 12th in the "league table" of all the Colleges' academic achievements.
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 Mary Somerville Project: Mechanism of the Heavens [1831] - second edition [2001]
Somerville, who was completely self taught, was considered as one of only a handful of english speaking mathematicians able to undertake this work and was praised lavishly by many of the leading scientists, mathematicians and other intellectuals of her day including James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Sir Charles Lyell and John Stuart Mill.
Somerville College, Oxford, during the research phase of this project.
Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science 1815-1840, an invaluable source for students of Mary Somerville.
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 LAGB Autumn Meeting 2003: University of Oxford (Somerville College)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.
Somerville College was founded in 1879 as a women's college (boasting such alumni as Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Hodgkin and Iris Murdoch),  but has been admitting men since 1994.
  Somerville is located very centrally, within a 5-10 min walking distance of the town centre with its bars and cafes, and is also a short 10min walk from the bus and rail stations.
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 Suspicion in the SCR: Gaudy Night, Feminism and Higher Education for Women
Somerville’s history is a microcosm of University women’s struggle to obtain equal rights with their male counterparts.
Somerville Hall, as it originally was, had been founded in 1879, when an old manor house on the outskirts of Oxford was bought to house women students.
‘Somerville College was born, then, of enlightened ideas, and in particular of a progressive conception of woman, which clothed itself in the hereditary feminine garb of modest manners and watchful tact.’ (Byrne: Somerville College, p 15).
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 HDR - Training - Oxford Course - University of Oxford - 2004
The University of Oxford has been associated with the HDR from its inception in 1990.
The HDR has received invaluable contributions and support from Oxford faculty, including the Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, Queen Elizabeth House, Frances Stewart, as well as Professors Sudhir Anand, Keith Griffin, Paul Streeten, Ngaire Woods and others.
Somerville College has the facilities for all the technical demands of the course, as well as containing suitable accommodation within the traditional atmosphere of an Oxford college.
hdr.undp.org /training/oxford/university.cfm   (183 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 21 February 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College proposes to elect a Tutorial Fellow in Law with effect from October 2002.
The Somerville appointment is tenable in conjunction with a university lecturership (CUF).
Somerville College is seeking to appoint two Junior Deans for the forthcoming academic year, 2002--3.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2001-2/weekly/210202/appts/entry_14.htm   (443 words)

  
 Margaret Thatcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1946, the third woman to hold the post.
In 1985, the University of Oxford, as a deliberate snub, voted to refuse her an honorary degree in protest against her cuts in funding for education.
From approximately 1994 to 2000, she served as Chancellor of the College of William and Mary, one of the oldest universities in North America which was established by royal charter in 1693.
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 Reporter 13/3/02: Somerville College and Trinity College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College and Trinity College invite applications for the post of Stipendiary Lecturer in Ancient History for two years from 1 October 2002.
The lecturer will have a teaching room in Somerville College and will be a member of the Senior Common Room of both Colleges.
Somerville College and Trinity College are committed to equal opportunities.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/2001-02/weekly/5878/28.html   (211 words)

  
 BBC - Press Office - University Challenge Winner 2001-2002
Somerville College, Oxford, has notched up its first ever University Challenge series title, beating Imperial College London by 200 points to 185 in the last gasp moments of a stunning match (Monday 11 March, BBC TWO, 8.00 pm).
But Somerville rallied on the Olympics Mascots picture round and were able to claim the title for the first time in their history.
One of the constituent colleges of University of London, the science, technology and medicine college, Imperial, was founded in 1907.
www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/03_march/12/universitycrown.shtml   (701 words)

  
 IMRF - Annual Meeting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College, Oxford University, U.K. Organized by Charles Spence (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
The aim of this meeting was to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, who are interested in issues related to multisensory integration and crossmodal attention.
A number of converging approaches to the study of crossmodal interactions were discussed from behavioural studies in normals and brain-damaged patients, to neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies of the neural correlates of multisensory integration.
www.science.mcmaster.ca /~IMRF/1999   (213 words)

  
 Red Gold . Innovators & Pioneers. Janet Vaughan | PBS
Janet Vaughan, a physician and experimental physiologist who studied blood diseases, blood transfusion, the treatment of starvation, and the effects of radioactivity on bone and bone marrow, was the daughter of a well-known educator, William Wyamar Vaughan, headmaster of the Rugby School.
She stayed on at Oxford for two further postgraduate years studying physiology and pharmacology until a Goldsmith's scholarship to University College Hospital Medical School in London led her to study medicine.
In 1945, Vaughan was made principal of Somerville College, Oxford, a position she held until her retirement in 1967.
www.pbs.org /wnet/redgold/innovators/bio_vaughan.html   (772 words)

  
 Travel and accommodation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Accommodation will be provided on site at Somerville College, in single rooms with shared bathroom facilities.
Many Oxford streets are now closed to traffic and parking is severely limited.
Oxford City Council offers safe parking in the Gloucester Green underground car park at a cost of £22 per 24 hours.
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk /events/lagb/travel-and-accommodation.html   (500 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Students | Universities reunite for a new challenge
Last night, Somerville College, Oxford beat Imperial College, London in a closely fought final to decide the winners of the 2002 series.
At one stage Imperial trailed the Somerville team by minus 10 points to 135, but fought back to within 5 points of Somerville's score.
About 250 universities and colleges apply to appear on the show, and a tough interview process reduces this to 28 teams.
education.guardian.co.uk /students/story/0,9860,666122,00.html   (572 words)

  
 Somerville College : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2006/07
Somerville College was one of the first women's colleges in Oxford, and has now been educating women for over 100 years.
Every graduate student at Somerville has a College Adviser (in addition to a University Supervisor) who is available for consultation on academic and other matters; there is also a Tutor for Graduates.
Margery Fry House is a modern building within the college curtilege with 24 large study bedrooms for single graduate students, a well-equipped common room, kitchens on each floor, and a laundry room.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /gsp/colleges/some.shtml   (597 words)

  
 BBC News | EDUCATION | Somerville wins TV challenge
Somerville College, Oxford has won this year's final of University Challenge, beating last year's champions Imperial College, London by 200 points to 185.
Somerville took the title for the first time, beating off competition from 27 other teams in the 2001/2002 series.
Last year Imperial beat students from St John's College, Oxford by 250 points to 195 - the team also picked up the prize in 1996.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/1867441.stm   (361 words)

  
 Reporter 15/10/97: Somerville College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Somerville College invites applications for a Mary Ewart Junior Research Fellowship tenable for three years from October 1998 in any of the following subjects: English, Modern Languages, Oriental Studies, Mathematics, Engineering, and Computation.
The annual stipend is £11,317 with free board and residence (single) in College.
Applicants must be graduates with a minimum of one year's research but will not be expected to be established in their field.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5715/27.html   (108 words)

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