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 Wolfson College, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolfson College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge.
Wolfson College was founded in 1965 as the "University College", but changed its name to Wolfson College in 1972 in recognition of the generous benefaction of the Wolfson Foundation.
Wolfson was the first Cambridge college to be established for both men and women and it was to be for graduate students with a focus on research and scholarship.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolfson_College,_Cambridge   (297 words)

  
 Wolfson College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolfson College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
It is one of the most egalitarian colleges in Oxford - for instance, there is only one Common Room organization for all the members of the college, students and Fellows alike.
Situated on the bank of the River Cherwell, and owning land on both sides of the river, it is one of the few Oxford colleges with its own punting harbour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolfson_College,_Oxford   (429 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 20 January 2005
Wolfson College proposes to elect up to six non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellows in Humanities and Social Studies, if candidates of sufficient merit present themselves, without limitation of subject, for two years in the first instance from 1 October 2005.
It should be noted that the college is only able to offer financial assistance towards travelling expenses when the endowment associated with the fellowship allows it to do so and, unfortunately, in the current financial climate this is not possible.
Wolfson College proposes to make elections (if suitable candidates are proposed) to two two-year Wolfson/AEA Industrial Fellowships for the academic years 2005--7.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2004-5/weekly/200105/appts/entry_21.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Reporter 14/1/98: Wolfson College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The College proposes to elect up to twelve non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellows, without limitation of subject, for two years in the first instance, from 1 October 1998.
Fellows will be expected to carry out research in Oxford for at least one university term, but may hold the Fellowship for up to an academical year in all.
College accommodation at the normal rent may be available.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5724/65.html   (293 words)

  
 CAPTION 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In a change from previous years, CAPTION will be held in Wolfson College, Oxford, a large modern graduates’ college in North Oxford, on the banks of the River Cherwell.
Unusually for an Oxford College it is fairly easy to reach by car (see how to get there on their web site, including MultiMap directions) and there is a car park.
Wolfson College is at the end of Lindon Road.
caption.org /2004/venue.html   (267 words)

  
 Wolfson College : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2006/07
Wolfson College was founded to provide a stimulating and supportive environment, geared specifically to the needs of graduate students.
The College was purpose built for a graduate community on the banks of the River Cherwell in North Oxford.
Wolfson's facilities are open to graduates and their partners all year except for two short closure periods at Christmas and Easter.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/colleges/wolf.shtml   (511 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Oxford Institute is held with the co-operation of Magdalen College, a constituent college of quasi-federal Oxford University, which provides classrooms, an office, and housing.
Oxford is the gateway to Wales and the Cotswolds.
The Oxford Institute organizes a number of legal visits, such as the courts in Oxford, as well as a trip to London to tour one of the Inns of Court and legal London.
www.sandiego.edu /lawabroad/02oxford.htm   (1038 words)

  
 Reporter 14/10/98: Wolfson College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Governing Body of Wolfson College, Oxford, is beginning the search for a new President to take office on the retirement of Sir David Smith, F.R.S., F.R.S.E., in September 2000.
Wolfson College admits students to read for advanced degrees and diplomas in the University of Oxford.
The President exercises general supervision over the academic affairs and management of the College and over the well-being and discipline of its students.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1998-9/weekly/5750/36.html   (121 words)

  
 Santa Clara University School of Law - CMS : Oxford Academic Component
Roger J. Smith is a member of the Oxford faculty of law and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Chaloka Beyani is a research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and is a lecturer in law at the London School of Economics.
Previously, he was a member of the Oxford law faculty and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
www.scu.edu /law/international/oxford_academic.html   (1207 words)

  
 eventlocation
Wolfson College, Oxford, UK Regent's College Conference Centre, London, UK olfson College, Oxford, UK Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD.
Built on the banks of the River Cherwell just to the North of Oxford City Centre, Wolfson is a postgraduate college with a quiet, relaxed atmosphere.
Wolfson College is easily reached from the A40.
www.arcati.com /eventlocation.html   (383 words)

  
 Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies: Faculty
Peter Oppenheimer, President of the Centre since April 2000, is a distinguished Oxford economist with strong record of involvement in the Anglo-Jewish community.
His academic roots are at Christ Church, Oxford, where among other things he served his turn as 'Senior Censor', though his period of office was truncated because the college (and the University) generously allowed him a two-year leave of absence in 1985-6 to become Chief Economist at Shell.
Peter is a qualified Russian interpreter and the later stages of his career in economics have brought him into close and frequent contact with post-Communist Russia, where his language skills, coupled with the fact that he is not a Sovietologist, have made him a usefully objective observer and advisor.
www.public-action.com /x/nh-oxfordstaff   (630 words)

  
 BBC - Oxford Features - Rod Craig exhibition
Woodstock-based artist Rod Craig is holding an exhibition of his work at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1st - 19th November.
Rod Craig trained at West England College of Art and has lived and worked as an artist and designer in Oxfordshire for over twenty five years.
Visitors are advised to telephone the college first on 01865 274100 as the gallery occasionally closes due to other functions.
www.bbc.co.uk /oxford/features/2004/10/rod_craig.shtml   (227 words)

  
 Graduate Studies Office: Junior Research Fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In general terms (but subject to any conditions associated with a particular college or award) the awards listed here are intended for those who seek funding to enable them to undertake research at post-doctoral level, or who are well-advanced in their doctoral research.
Accommodation in College or a housing allowance, together with free lunches and dinners, and allowances for hospitality and research expenses.
Type The main interests of the College are in Economics, Politics, and Sociology, but these are broadly construed to include, for example, social science approaches to history, social and medical statistics, international relations, social psychology and social policy.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /gso/jrf.shtml   (5290 words)

  
 Wolfson College Library
Wolfson College Library's primary responsibility in the delivery of its services is to the members of Wolfson College and Common Room.
Reference access to its collections may be provided to other scholars for material not available in other Oxford libraries, and lending of such material to other libraries may be considered.
The Wolfson College Library is a member of OLIS.
www.lib.ox.ac.uk /libraries/guides/WOL.html   (169 words)

  
 Oxford rowing
Constitution of the Oxford University Rowing Clubs is available.
Various rowing terms at Oxford (and elsewhere): boater, the Boat Race, bump, bump supper, eight, Eights Week, Head of the River, hearty, Isis, over-bump and Torpids.
This information is brought to you by Jonathan Bowen as part of the Oxford information and WWW Virtual Library Rowing pages.
archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk /other/rowing/oxford.html   (236 words)

  
 Conference Facilities - Wolfson College
Wolfson College offers a range of rooms which can accommodate meetings, training courses, conferences and lunches for groups from 10 to 100.
The College is built on the banks of the River Cherwell.
The main entrance leads to a cloistered quadrangle and to the east of this the lawns gently slope down to the river and the meadows beyond.
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk /conference   (274 words)

  
 Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
While studying for her doctorate at the University of Cambridge in the mid-1930s, she and a coworker took the first X-ray diffraction photograph of the protein pepsin, and somewhat later she made a survey of the sterols.
She returned to Oxford as a tutor in 1935, and in 1937 she married the writer and lecturer Thomas L. Hodgkin.
She continued to teach at Oxford, eventually becoming emeritus professor there as well as Wolfson research professor of the Royal Society (1960-77), chancellor of Bristol University (1970-88), and fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford (1977-82).
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/273_38.html   (196 words)

  
 Wolfson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
What you can't hear are the annoying birds who tweet away at 3am, when it's still pitch fl outside.
Wolfson College is one of the priveleged colleges to be situated on one of the two rivers flowing through Oxford.
This is one reason why Oxford is bettter than Cambridge, we have twice as many rivers:).
nodens.physics.ox.ac.uk /~oi/Album/wolfson.html   (140 words)

  
 Positive and Negative Liberty
Hardy, London: Hogarth Press; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Christman, J. (ed.), 1989, The Inner Citadel: Essays on Individual Autonomy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Miller, D. (ed.), 1991, Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/liberty-positive-negative   (6639 words)

  
 Geraint Jones
When at work I am a university lecturer in Computation at the University of Oxford, an ordinary fellow of Wolfson College Oxford, and a college lecturer at New College Oxford.
I shall be one of the FHS examiners in 2006 examining Computer Science papers in the second, third and fourth years of (at the last count) four schools involving Computer Science.
As well as my rôle in admissions to New College I am a supporter of the Access Scheme which aims to encourage students from the state sector in Wales to consider applying to Oxford.
web.comlab.ox.ac.uk /oucl/work/geraint.jones   (308 words)

  
 Kathryn Whitney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Following the completion of her DPhil in music at Somerville College, Oxford in 2000, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Whitney took a post-graduate diploma in singing performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her teachers were Susan McCulloch and Emma Kirbky.
In October 2002, Kathryn was elected Creative Arts Fellow in Music at Wolfson College, Oxford, a position that requires her to perform a number of solo concerts in Oxford each year until 2005.
Kathryn is the recipient of a number of scholarships and awards, including the Postgraduate Arts Award from the Worshipful Company of Drapers of London and the Margaret Pollock Scholarship from Somerville College, which supported her singing studies in London.
www.smallgrin.plus.com /oxfordlieder/performers/whitney.htm   (179 words)

  
 Honorary degree awarded to Lord Wolfson
The Lord Wolfson of Marylebone has been presented with an honorary degree from Loughborough University in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of health, education, arts and the humanities.
The Right Honourable the Lord Wolfson, FBA, is a founder trustee of the Wolfson Foundation – which supports health, education and youth activities – and has been its chairman since 1972.
Educated at King’s School, Worcester, Lord Wolfson is a Fellow of the Israel Museum, and an Honorary Fellow of numerous university colleges, including St Catherine’s College Oxford, University College London (UCL) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
www.lboro.ac.uk /service/publicity/news-releases/2003/03_53_wolfson_HonDeg.html   (386 words)

  
 Ashwin Srinivasan
Since 1993, Ashwin has been a member of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he has been involved in pioneering applications of ILP systems to difficult real-world problems in molecular biology and chemistry.
From 1998-2000 he was the Nuffield Trust Research Fellow in Medical Mathematics and a Research Fellow of Green College, Oxford.
Prior to this, he has been a member of Wolfson College, Oxford.
web.comlab.ox.ac.uk /oucl/work/ashwin.srinivasan   (285 words)

  
 Poetry cast loose, 12/2/99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
[Jon Stallworthy is a poet, biographer, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Professor of English at Oxford.
Sir, Henry Reece, Chief Executive of the Oxford University Press (letter, January 9; see also letter, January 11), describes Alan Howarth's charge of "barbarianism" against the OUP as "bizarre".
Sir Keith Thomas, a great scholar whom I hold in warm regard, claims indeed that to be guardian of the OED is to be the custodian of the English language.
www.geocities.com /mjsayers/stalwort.html   (453 words)

  
 Wolfson College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wolfson College is a large graduate college of the University of Oxford situated in North Oxford beside the River Cherwell.
Wolfson College Workshop on Investment in Northern Cyprus
Oxford Workshop on the use of Metrics in Research Assessment
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk   (192 words)

  
 Oxford Biosensors - Sensor Advisory Board
Allen Hill is Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and has been a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, since 1965.
Dr Peter Leigh moved to Oxford University in 1990 from the BT Research Laboratories at Martlesham Heath where he worked on the development of both electronic integrated and opto-electronic circuits.
Graduating from Oxford University in 1987 with a D.Phil in chemistry, Luet Wong spent two years as the Guy-Newton Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, before joining the California Institute of Technology as a NATO research fellow, working on protein science.
www.oxford-biosensors.com /people.asp?page_key=58&type=3   (406 words)

  
 Selina Chen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I recently received my doctorate in political theory from the University of Oxford (June 1996) and I am currently a research assistant at Nuffield College, Oxford.
I am at present interested in assessing new normative approaches to justifying human rights which can bridge what I consider to be a wide gap between theory and practice in human rights, and I shall be exploring empirical issues related to women's rights and attitude change towards traditional value systems.
I teach Oxford undergraduates the main political theory paper in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics course, and many visiting American junior-year students.
www.nuff.ox.ac.uk /users/chen   (332 words)

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