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Every year on Shrove Tuesday Brasenose staff and students partake in a very peculiar tradition known as ‘Ale Verses’.

I am currently in my fourth year studying Chemistry at Brasenose College, Oxford, the part of the Chemistry degree known as ‘Part II’. Unlike the first three years of my degree, this year has no exams, tutorials or coursework.

Professor Katja Maria Vogt will give the 11th John Ackrill Memorial Lecture at 4.00 pm on Thursday, 6 June, in the Lecture Room of the Radcliffe Humanities Building.

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At the end of the spring term each year, a group of students from Brasenose put on the annual Musical.

This year’s Boat Race saw three Brasenose students compete.

Two of the students, Katie Anderson (Economics & Management, 2018) and Juliette Allen (Geography, 2016), were in Osiris, the Women’s Reserve Boat: Katie as stroke, and Juliette in the two seat, and Toby de Mendonca (Chemistry, 2016), coxed the Men’s Blue Boat.

It is with sadness that I record the death of Dr Harry Judge, aged 90, on 2 April. He had a very long connection with Brasenose as a student, a Professorial Fellow and latterly from 1988 as Emeritus Fellow.

My Brasenose journey started in a rather unexpected way. I went on the UNIQ Summer School in the summer of my first year of 6th Form.

On the 26^th of January, the college had its annual Burns Supper, a wonderful evening of Scottish food, drink and dancing in honour of poet Robert Burns.

At Brasenose we have a number of themed dinners throughout the year, including St David’s Day, Burns Night, and Diwali.

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February 2019 is the 10^th anniversary of LGBT History Month and in Brasenose we are proudly flying the rainbow flag throughout February.

I was utterly terrified the day I arrived at Brasenose. It was a pleasant, sunny Monday morning in October 2015.

Nothing quite lights up the November gloom like Diwali.

Before term started, I took part in a program called Experience East Ham..

As clichéd as it might sound, my first term at Brasenose has flown by, and I can’t believe I’m already one third of the way through my first year.

Starting to celebrate Christmas in November may seem too early to most...

Earlier in the term, Brasenose held its annual Diversities Week which centred around celebrating our differences as a community...

Where to begin! Terms at Oxford are only 8 weeks long, so whilst time flies by and I can still remember Freshers’ week like it was yesterday...

Hi, I’m Mattie and I’m the Brasenose JCR Environment Rep. My role is to get students interested in environmental issues and try to make the college more sustainable in general.