Student Life in Brief...
Sports Awards
For their achievements in Taekwon-Do, Keble students Eleanor Warrington (2021 DPhil Engineering) and Ben Futcher (2021 DPhil Oncology) have received University Sports Awards. Ben was awarded ‘Teammate of the Year’, whilst Eleanor was awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sport’. Our congratulations to them both.
TEDx Talk | Kelsey Doerksen
Fourth year Computer Science DPhil student, Kelsey Doerksen, recently delivered a TEDx talk based on her machine-learning work completed at Keble. Titled ‘AI Won’t Save Us, But it Can Help Us’, her talk covers the benefits and proven risks of AI and how we can use it ethically, as well as how embedded it already is in our day-to-day life, shaping decisions in areas such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and education. The talk is available to watch on YouTube here.
Professional Practice Award
Second year medical student Geena Capps has been awarded the Year 2 Learning with Patients Professional Practice Award for 2024-25. The award is for outstanding professional behaviour, seen in qualities such as engagement with clinical activities, commitment to self-development and consideration of patient wellbeing and interactions with members of the practice team.
Poster Prize
At this year’s ‘EMBO | EMBL The Ageing Genome’ symposium, DPhil student Xinran Huang (2022 DPhil Medical Sciences) was awarded a prize for her poster on the topic of ‘Haematopoietic stem cell longevity and telomere maintenance in mouse and human’. Held in Heidelberg, the symposium brought together leading researchers to explore how ageing impacts genome stability and contributes to disease.
Gaming Sustainability
Students from Keble’s Sustainability Society contributed to a pilot study with the Department of Psychiatry, which led to the creation of Last Haven. Gathering global data to support sustainability research, Last Haven is an online game exploring how people weigh environmental and human development priorities against one another. Try it out here.
