St Cross College, Oxford

St Cross is now holding the annual photography competition for student members of College.   This year's theme is 'Hidden Oxford'.

During January St Cross undertook a successful telephone fund-raising campaign in conjunction with the University Development Office.

St Cross junior member Ben Hebbert (DPhil Music) has recently taken a major part in a remarkable musical project.  Ben is at present combining completing his DPhil with a post as head of early stringed instrument making at West Dean College, Chichester, West Sussex, and was part of the team assembled by Charles Hazlewood, conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, to make an entire orchestra of 44 instruments from scrap metal, unwanted furniture, the contents of roadside skips, or junk from any other source they could find.

Another play directed by St Cross student Griff Rees (DPhil Sociology) has just been produced in Oxford, following his well received version of Strindberg's A Dream Play in Hilary Term 2011.

Marcia Favale-Tarter, a student member of St Cross who is currently studying for an EMBA degree at the Said Business School, continues to combine her studies with acting as an adviser to the prime minister of Kazakhstan.

St Cross was very well represented at this year's OxTALENT awards ceremony, hosted by Oxford's Computer Services centre on Tuesday 28 June.

The Going Down Dinner on Friday 24th June was an especially enjoyable occasion this year, as it played host to the Annual Student Recognition Awards.

St Cross student, Thanasis Tsanas, has been awarded a Mindsports Blue in recognition of his performance on behalf of Oxford in the recent chess Varsity Match.

Two St Cross junior members helped the Dark Blues secure a victory over rivals Cambridge in the 37th Dancesport Varsity Match, which took place on Saturday 7 May in Cambridge.[img_assist|nid=2873

Marcia Favale-Tarter, a current student at St Cross, has appeared in a special edition of ‘Euromoney Magazine' that focused on the ‘Deals of 2010'.