College Record 2013

Professor Paul Aveyard, Reader in Primary Care Health Sciences; and Dr Moritz
Riede, UL in Soft Functional Nanomaterials.
We are saying goodbye to Professor Andrew Neil as the most impeccable, dedicated,
professional Senior Tutor a college could have – though not, luckily, saying goodbye
to him as Wine Steward. He will be a very hard act to follow, but I am confident that
our new Senior Tutor, Gillian Hargreaves, will take on the challenge with spirit. We
pay tribute on his retirement to our Senior Fellow, Professor Dan Isaacson, whose
fine and gentle spirit will be much missed from our Governing Body, though I am
sure we will not be losing sight of him. We have acquired a new College Visitor, the
Rt. Hon. the Lord Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court, who has already paid us a
very affable visit, but who I don’t think has any very onerous duties here unless the
College decides to depose me.
In December 2012 we said farewell to Jan Scriven, who had worked for the
College for twenty years as College Secretary, and has now, luckily for us, become
the College’s Arts Administrator. She gave the College twenty years of utterly
professional, impeccable, unstinting work. But more than that, beyond her accurate
and dedicated work for our College committees and administration, she brought to
the College’s life her wonderfully rich and various and deep mixture of interests,
her passionate commitment to the arts, her generous dedication to our charity
AMREF, and her boundless enthusiasm for the College’s activities. At all hours of
the day, on weekends and evenings, Jan could be found setting up or hosting an art
exhibition or a concert, running her reading group, or organising and attending
lectures and seminars. Beyond all that unceasing energy and activity, we thank her
and celebrate her for her generosity, her interest in others, her thoughtfulness, tact,
wisdom, and good humour.
Many of our colleagues have had notable successes this year. It’s hard to persuade
some of them to blow their own trumpet, so let me do it on their behalf. Samson
Abramsky is the 2013 winner of the Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society.
Elleke Boehmer has been awarded a Leverhulme International Network Grant for
2014–16. Barbara Casadei was awarded a British Heart Foundation Professorship.
Lucie Cluver masterminded a project, which included a film by five AIDS orphans
from Cape Town, at the 29th International Conference on AIDS. Jacob Dahl created
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