St Cross College, Oxford

The College congratulates St Cross Emanoel Lee Junior Research Fellow Dr Gkikas Magiorkinis on a splendid achievement, namely the recent award of a Medical Sciences Prize by the Academy of Athens.

Four of the College Fellows have recently been honoured with the title of Professor in the recent Recognition of Distinction exercise undertaken by the University.

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Fellow of St Cross and Professor of the History of the Church, has received a knighthood in the 2012 New Year Honours, in recognition of his services to scholarship.

The College congratulates the Master on receiving a recent award: Sir Mark Jones has been named as Personality of the Year by Apollo, the international art magazine, which makes a series of Apollo Awards annually to celebrate outstanding achievements in the arts.

Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology and Vice-Master of St Cross, took part in a panel on 'Film, Food and .... Great Britain: a kingdom united around the table?’ at the Sixth Rome International Film Festival in October 2011.

Professor Herb Marsh, of the Department of Educational Studies and Fellow of St Cross, was recently invited to write an opinion article, which is provoking a good deal of impassioned debate, for the Times Higher Education supplement, on why academics are critical about systems of teacher training and assessment.

The Institute of Archaeology has been celebrating its fiftieth anniversary recently and the occasion was marked by a reception held at St Cross on the evening of Thursday 29 September, one of the superb warm days that provided a late taste of summer.

Professor Luciano Floridi, Fellow of St Cross College and member of the Philosophy Faculty and of the Department of Computer Science, has recently been awarded a laurea honoris causa in philosophy

The Ashmolean Museum is celebrating the glories of landscape painting with a new exhibition this autumn, curated by Dr Jon Whiteley, Fellow of St Cross and Senior Assistant Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean, where he specialises in French paintings, drawings and prints.

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church and Fellow of St Cross College, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Virginia Theological Seminary, in Alexandria, Virginia, at their annual Academic Convocation held on 4 October 2011.