2023 St Cross Prizewinners
Moscho Michalopoulou
The Ralph A. Lewin Prize is open to all St Cross students in their second year and above currently studying for a DPhil degree in any of the biological and environmental sciences. The 2023 Ralph A. Lewin Prize has been awarded to Moscho Michalopoulou, who has been developing and evaluating interventions of diet and weight control to prevent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a condition that develops during pregnancy in which women’s blood glucose levels are high and which is a major public health issue.
The Collingswood Prize in History is open to all St Cross students in their second year and above currently studying for a DPhil in History. The 2023 Collingswood Prize in History has been awarded to Arisa Loomba whose research is a global and interdisciplinary exploration of the dynamics of migration and mobility, and human-animal-environment interactions in the late British Empire.
Arisa Loomba, Photo Credit: John Cairns
Lindsay Strouse
The Marcus Harmelin Travel Prize is open to all St Cross members to support the cost of travel for research in the humanities and social sciences, particularly for projects exploring Jewish life, history or culture, and may have a focus on Austria, Germany, Poland or Ukraine. The 2023 Marcus Harmelin Travel Prize has been awarded to Lindsay Strouse for her proposed project to focus on intergenerational stories of trauma for descendants of refugees (including but not limited to Jewish refugees), juxtaposed against the recent experiences of refugees leaving Ukraine.
The Dick Repp Prize is open to all St Cross students and is intended to support an enterprising academic or cultural activity. The 2023 inaugural Dick Repp Prize has been awarded to Jamie Bolam for his proposed project to visit Zambia's Bangweulu Wetlands in order to study the post-release movements and settlement of their cheetahs reintroduced by the conservation NGO African Parks two years ago.
Jamie Bolam
Zhengrong Qian
The HAPP Centre awards an annual Essay Prize in the History/Philosophy of Physics which is open to any undergraduate or Master's student in History, Philosophy or Physics at the University of Oxford. The 2023 HAPP Essay Prize in the History/Philosophy of Physics has been awarded to Zhengrong Qian (St Cross) for his essay entitled "Is Thermodynamics Worryingly Anthropocentric?".
