On Thursday 11th December, at a ceremony in the Old Schools, our Department Administrator Julian Jacobs was awarded an individual Employee Recognition Award in the category ‘we respect others and value diversity’. He was nominated by Professor Rebecca Kilner , who cited the vision and drive he contributed to the recent...

Warm congratulations to Professor Nick Davies on being awarded the Royal Society Croonian Prize Lecture for 2015, for his work on the co-evolved responses of brood parasitic cuckoos and their hosts, the process of co-evolution and adaptation and the extraordinary biology of these unusual birds. This prize lecture is the...

Professor Jennifer Clack has been awarded a Honorary Doctor of Science Degree by the University of Leicester, which she will receive on 17th July 2014. In April, Professor Clack was also elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Department held a farewell tea party on 25 June 2014 to mark the retirement of Neal Maskell. Neal joined the Department in 1967 and retires having served since 2007 as Chief Teaching Laboratory Technician. Attending the tea party was Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Jeremy Sanders, representing the Vice-Chancellor...