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For 12 days this summer I was in Morocco in a rural village at the foothills of the Atlas mountains interviewing local people, watching goats climb trees and eating way too much couscous.

Undergraduate First Years officially became part the Brasenose community at the beginning of October when they came up to Oxford to experience Freshers’ Week.

This Friday sees the return of the Platnauer Concert series at Brasenose College, with virtuoso flautist Claire Wickes performing with pianist Nigel Clayton.

Back in June I was fortunate enough to be involved as a student helper in The Brasenose College Study Day for English Literature, Languages and Classics.

The three month long Oxford summer always seems a dauntingly long time, and the search for something productive to do is one with which I’ve often struggled.

Brasenose College Economics tutor, Dr Ferdinand Rauch, has co-authored a paper which suggests that Tube strikes could actually have long-term benefits for some commuters.

Brasenose is pleased to welcome to the College Professor Adam Perry as a new tutorial fellow in Law.

I’ve got to be honest: from the off, Oxford glittered in my mind not just for the smorgasbord of academic delights wafted under my nose (sorry Dr Llewelyn), but also for its vibrant drama scene.

Malcolm Turnbull to become next Prime Minister of Australia – Brasenose’s second sitting premier.

The final 2015 undergraduate Open Days at Brasenose College will be Friday 18th September 2015 - why not come and visit us if you are thinking of applying to Oxford University?

If you’d have told me this time last year that I’d be spending a fortnight in Paris, researching my final year thesis, I wouldn’t have believed you for a second.

As this year marks the 150^th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, birthday (and un-birthday) parties are well under way all over the world.

To me, the idea of these once symbolised a cruel punishment where kids were sent off to sit through tedious lessons on very dull subjects. However, that was before I got involved with the UNIQ summer schools.

I'm in the unusual and privileged position of having graduated from Oxford last month and being an Oxford student next month.

Earlier this month, Brasenose College held graduation events, where the majority of our recently-finished undergraduates, and a number of post-graduates, returned to college to celebrate the end of their studies.

Henry Zeffman, who has just finished his PPE degree at Brasenose College, has won the 2015 Anthony Howard Award for Young Journalists. As part of this prestigious award, Henry will undertake three fellowships for the Times, the Observer and New Statesman. The award was announced recently in the Guardian newspaper.

Professor Elspeth Garman has been awarded the 2016 Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship at the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging and the University of Hamburg.

The fourth year project (known as ‘part II’) is the most exciting year Chemistry at Oxford has to offer. You swap lectures, exams and tutorials for working as a Masters student in one of the many incredible Oxford research groups.