This year’s Summer Eights proved to be a memorable week for Balliol College Boat Club’s five crews. The vice-captains of the men’s and women’s crews report.
Professor Patrick Unwin (Balliol 1985) has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Professor Philip Torr (Balliol 1990) is among 25 leading AI scientists calling for stronger action on AI risks in a recent Science paper entitled ‘Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress.’
Dr Raghavendra Srinivas (Early Career Fellow in Physics) has been awarded the Optica Foundation’s Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics, in recognition of his work in creating and manipulating nonclassical states of trapped ions.
For the first time, an official Balliol team participated in the Oxford Town and Gown 10k run on 12 May 2024.
Three Balliol students will star in an upcoming production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Oxford Playhouse.
Professor Carol E Harrison (Balliol 1990) is the co-author – with Professor Thomas J Brown of the University of South Carolina – of a new book, Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance, published by LSU Press in April 2024.
Balliol alumnus Dr Robert Montgomery (Balliol 1990) has been awarded the Excellence in Transplantation Award by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
Lindy Cameron (Balliol 1991) has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of India, becoming the first woman to serve as High Commissioner for the UK in India.
Two Balliol alumni have been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, an annual award given for a work wholly or mainly about some aspect of Greece or the world of Hellenism.