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Student Awards & Achievements Each year, Wolfson students reap the rewards of their hard work and enthusiasm with recognition at both College and University level through various awards and grants. Here’s a roundup to celebrate the energy and talent of our community. Tejo Jehart DPhil Engineering Science Wolfson High Profile Support Grant Michail Mavrogiannis DPhil Cardiovascular Medicine Wolfson High Profile Support Grant “I am honoured to have received recognition from Wolfson College, which supported me in participating in the British University Karting Championship” “Being part of the Basketball team was a great honour and I’m thankful for Wolfson’s support. Plus, we beat Cambridge (three times).” Talah Anderson DPhil Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Shuchita Grover MPhil Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Khyentse-Pritzker Scholarship “I have been awarded a Research and Curatorial Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to work on the Assyrian Sculpture Court Pigment Project.” “The Scholarship from the Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre is both financial support and motivation to work harder. I’m grateful to be a recipient.” 8
College News Stallworthy Poetry Prize The annual competition was set up in memory of the late Professor Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014), poet and Fellow of Wolfson College, and is open to any student currently enrolled in postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. The funding for the prize was provided by generous donations from Jon Stallworthy’s many friends and admirers. The prize is awarded for the best poem in English verse not exceeding 40 lines in length, in <strong>2023</strong> on the subject of ‘Disgrace’. The value of the prize is £1,000, and entrants are permitted to submit up to three poems. The judges for this year’s award included the Oxford Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald. The award ceremony took place in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium on 18 January where the winning poem, ‘Trente et Quarante’, by Jennifer Kim was announced along with the runnerup Paul Norris (Brasenose). The other shortlisted poets were Eliza Browning (St Hugh’s), Jordan Maly-Preuss (Merton) and Eira Elisabeth Murphy (Mansfield). Trente et Quarante After Lucian Freud’s The Big Man (1976), painted to repay his gambling debts. In Monaco, I’m afraid you’ve lost the grand tableau again and fled to our narrow suite above the tabac. The Big Man who came brawling upstairs neck tight in a howling ring leans now in your weary armchair, waiting to be made whole. Out of the corner, in drunk atonement, you pull your tricks: palette knife, hog bristle, eight tubes of lightfast oil. If you asked, I could tell you how you will make me. Sink his dark suit into the room until every wrinkle struggles away. Burn the impossible mirror white. Suppose his flesh in peach and vermilion worked up in crests that knuckle under your brush. Last, where the light lands pale and arrogant, mark it – pitch his forehead in Cremnitz, tumble it down his jowls, whorl in opal the moon atop his chin. I am your long apology, your loss lured into the gorgeous. Your expert hand slips varnish over my cadmium skin. Rouge gagne et la couleur: The game is fixed for you now as you strike out your due on my angled face. How spare, how silent the room must be to hear the panting of your bristle against linen every hue belonging to him before I can become myself. Credit: John Cairns About the winner: Jennifer Kim is an MSt student in the History of Art and Visual Culture at Exeter College. Her dissertation research focuses on twentieth-century British portraiture and the nature of debt. She graduated summa cum laude with an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2017. Her work has previously been published in the Harvard Advocate. 9
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