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headlines this year as the head of the team deciphering the world’s oldest writing<br />
system. Feliciano Giustino has a Leverhulme Leadership Award for research into<br />
solar cells. Paul Harrison won the 2012 European <strong>College</strong> of Neuro-psychopharmacology<br />
Award. Glyn Humphreys won the Donald Broadbent prize from the<br />
European Society of Cognitive Psychology.<br />
Ancient World Cluster members, including Jeremy Johns, based in the Khalili<br />
Research Centre, have received major AHRC awards. Gillies McKenna was<br />
awarded the Frank Ellis Medal from the Royal <strong>College</strong> of Radiologists and the<br />
Röntgen Medal from the Deutches Röntgen Museum in Germany, and is to head a<br />
new world-leading £138 million centre for targeted cancer. Jonathan Pila gave two<br />
sets of distinguished lectures, in Berkeley and Columbia. Vlatko Vedral is heading<br />
a groundbreaking programme on quantum technologies. Susan Walker was elected<br />
President of Libyan Studies and won a Hugh Last Senior Fellowship at the British<br />
School at Rome. Marc Ventresca gained a Teaching Award. And Roger Tomlin told<br />
the BBC that a lead tablet discovered in a Roman farmhouse in Kent may have been<br />
used by Romans to cast spells on thieves and malefactors.<br />
Our postdoctoral Research Fellows bring great lustre and energy to Wolfson, and<br />
they too have been gathering honours. Agnieszka Kubal also gained a Teaching<br />
Award. Charlotte Allan went to Parliament to present her work on depression<br />
among the elderly, as a finalist in the ‘Set for Britain’ competition. Omer Dushek<br />
won a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Sara Mitri won a Marie Curie Grant, and Simon<br />
Benjamin had an exhibit called ‘Quantum of Spin’ at last year’s Summer Science<br />
Exhibition.<br />
The students are at the heart of everything we do here. We currently have 594<br />
students from all over the world, 208 of whom came in this year, and 375 of whom<br />
are DPhil students. We have five Rhodes Scholars and three Wolfson Foundation<br />
Humanities Scholars. And we are doing all we can for our graduates. We currently<br />
award 22 scholarships, with more to come next year and still more from 2014<br />
onwards, when our matched funded Oxford Wolfson Marriott scholarships come<br />
on board. We gave out 146 travel and conference awards and 20 academic bursaries<br />
this year, and our total expenditure on scholarships, travel awards and academic<br />
bursaries was just over £206,000.<br />
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