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Last week Brasenose College held our annual graduation event, where undergraduates and post-graduates who have recently completed their courses return to Brasenose to celebrate the end of their studies, along with their families.

Thanks to the generous award from the Brasenose College Annual Fund, I was able to take a long sought-after trip to India this May.

Brasenose College is delighted to announce another year of excellent results in the summer “finals” examinations.

Brasenose’s Junior Common Room (our student council) has made amazing contributions again this year to charities in a range of ways.

However you feel about them, insects have always fascinated us humans. Egyptians worshipped them as Gods, they inspired the most famous scientists’ in history, and they are characters in some of our favourite stories – they become deeply woven into our culture.

Scout Debbie Hall has worked at Brasenose for 25 years! She reflected with journalist Olivia Gordon about her time here.

The next undergraduate Open Days at Brasenose College will be Wednesday and Thursday 27th and 28th June.

It was over eight years ago since I visited Oxford for the first time during an Open Day, yet two vivid memories have stuck with me ever since.

Over Easter, three of us, Angharad (1st year Biology), Tom (2nd year PPE), and Joe Organ (Schools Liaison Officer), toured North Yorkshire schools for four days encouraging students to apply to Oxford and Cambridge.

On Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of June, Brasenose Lecturer Dr Sophie Bocksberger and Brasenose graduate student Annina Hessel will take to the stage at Wychwood School for a performance by the Yuka Kodama Ballet Group, in conjunction with Oxford University Ballet Society.

Over the last few months, I’ve been helping start up the Sustainable Communities programme at McKinsey.org, a new non-profit founded by McKinsey & Company to tackle some of the world’s most pressing social challenges.

Our summer "Trinity" Term is one of sun, fun and getting things done. At least that’s what we’re hoping for as we get through a whole host of student events this term. Following on from the Easter Egg Hunt, on Sunday 6^th May, the inaugural Brasenose Holi took place at our Sports Ground

The Oxford Belles are Oxford’s oldest all-female acapella group, and this summer we’re hoping to represent not only Oxford University, but Brasenose College, by heading off to the Edinburgh Fringe to spread some female empowerment and universal love...

Brasenose College once again had a fantastic turn out for the Oxford Town and Gown 10 kilometre charity race. Now a firm Brasenose tradition, the college produced a large team, with a team of over 50 students, tutors, alumni and staff forming Team Brasenose for the run in support of Muscular Dystrophy UK.

Professor Graham Richards CBE FRS, Emeritus Fellow at Brasenose College, has been elected to the Royal Society.

If like Sir Thomas Bodley of Bodleian fame, you were hoping to have a library named after you on Radcliffe Square, then it’s too late..

Professor Simon Palfrey, Tutor in English at Brasenose College has led on a multi-media event – film, play, paintings, sculptures, soundscapes, digital drama – in which a beautiful, violent, hallucinogenic poem comes uncannily and alarmingly to life.

They say that by the time you go to university, you’re supposed to be an adult, but at Brasenose, every so often, we like to let out our childhood spirit again.

Nosedive is Brasenose’s diversity and equality themed magazine. We publish articles, artwork, creative writing and any other contributions produced on this theme by students of Brasenose.

Head Porter Andy Talbot, winner of the 'Best Support Staff' award for making a significant difference to the lives of students at the OUSU awards, spoke to Olivia Gordon about his life and time at Brasenose.