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Climb Every Mountain: Two Pembroke Students Complete the Three Peaks Challenge in Aid of Local Charities

Oxford life isn’t just about the libraries – our students do all sorts of interesting things in between lectures and tutorials, including climbing three mountains in one go! Last month, two medical students took on the Three Peaks Challenge, climbing the three tallest peaks in the UK within 24 hours in order to raise money for two local charities.

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Lord John Alderdice Elected to Honorary Fellowship at Pembroke College

We are delighted to announce that Lord John Alderdice has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his distinguished political and academic career.

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Bruker Thesis Prize Awarded to Claudia Tait (DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry, 2011)

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Claudia Tait, who studied at Pembroke for the first year of her DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry, has received the 2016 Bruker Thesis Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The award is presented for outstanding work by PhD students in the field of ESR (electron spin resonance) Spectroscopy, with the winner invited to give a prize lecture at the ESR Group Meeting in April.

The winning thesis described research that used Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to investigate electron delocalization. Claudia continued: ‘By employing a variety of different EPR techniques, we were able to show how the delocalization behaviour changes depending on the size and geometry of the system and how delocalization influences the properties of their radical cation and triplet states.’

Now based at the University of Washington and working in Stefan Stoll’s research group, Claudia studied for her DPhil under the supervision of Christiane Timmel, one of the directors of the Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance (CAESR).

Claudia commented: ‘I was greatly honoured to have been chosen to receive this year's award and grateful to have been given the opportunity to work on such an interesting and exciting topic. I'm thankful to everyone who contributed to the success of my research project, especially to my DPhil supervisor Christiane Timmel.’