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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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Dr Victoria Van Hyning and Team Awarded MW2016 Platinum Prize for AnnoTate

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A text-based crowdsourcing project co-founded by Dr Victoria Vvan Hyning, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow based at Pembroke, has been awarded the Platinum prize in the 2016 Museums and the Web GLAMi Awards (MW2016).

Dr Vvan Hyning remains a lead researcher for AnnoTate, a project hosted on Zooniverse.org in collaboration with Tate museums and archives, which invites volunteers to transcribe artists’ notebooks, sketchbooks, letters and personal papers. 

From 6th – 9th April 2016 in Los Angeles, USA, the 20th annual Museums and the Web conference brought together professionals working in diverse roles across museum, gallery, library and archive sectors. This year’s GLAMi Awards, previously known as the Best of the Web Awards, also celebrated websites featuring solar eclipse live broadcasts and public art collections.

The MW2016 judges explained their decision to give AnnoTate the Platinum prize: ‘We love the design – it maintains the look and feel of something tangible, which is not an easy feat… the interface is very thoughtfully designed and user friendly.’

Dr Vvan Hyning commented on the project’s success at MW2016: ‘It's one of the most important conferences for gallery, library, archive and museum specialists around the world, and this is the top prize this year. My team and I are quite chuffed!’

Click here for more information about Zooniverse and Dr Vvan Hyning’s work with crowdsourcing projects.