St Cross College, Oxford

Calling all Cambridge-based alumni!

The Master and Development Director will be visiting next week and there are still a few places at the alumni drinks event at our sister college, Clare Hall.

🗓 Tuesday 16 June
⏰ 6pm–8pm
📍 Richard Eden Suite, West Court, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

Join us as we continue our celebrations of 60 years of St Cross, gathering with fellow alumni and friends for an enjoyable evening together.

The event offers a wonderful opportunity to reconnect, reminisce, and mark this special milestone with the St Cross community.

We look forward to enjoying drinks and canapés with you, and you are warmly welcome to bring a guest!

📩 RSVP: [email protected]

𝑺𝒕 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒏𝒖𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒋𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊

We are incredibly proud to see St Cross alumnus Dr Thomas Monahan (2022, DPhil Engineering Science) featured in a major new study published in Science.
Dr Monahan's research investigates the aftermath of an astonishing 481-metre megatsunami in Alaska, triggered by glacial retreat. By analysing the resulting "landslide-induced seiche" (long-lived standing waves), his work is providing essential new insights into complex natural hazards in a warming world.
Please join us in congratulating Thomas on this fantastic contribution

Read the full story here: https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/article/st-cross-alumnus-contributes-to-major-study-of-alaskan-megatsunami

𝑺𝒕 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒉𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔

Step inside Disobedient Buildings, a thought-provoking new digital exhibition by St Cross Fellow in Anthropology, Professor Inge Daniels!
Culminating five years of international research, this multi-sensory archive explores housing, welfare, and the everyday lived experiences of residents in retrofitted high-rise buildings.

Explore Disobedient Buildings here: https://stx.web.ox.ac.uk/article/st-cross-fellow-launches-digital-exhibition

𝑹𝑪𝑷𝑪𝑯 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘

Huge congratulations to St Cross Fellow, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, on being awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)!
Sir Andrew, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and a founding member of the RCPCH, receives this well-deserved honour in recognition of his lifetime dedication to paediatric infectious disease research and global immunisation.

Read more about the award: https://stx.web.ox.ac.uk/article/honorary-fellowship-awarded-to-st-cross-fellow-sir-andrew-pollard

𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞!

Huge congratulations to St Cross Emeritus Fellow, Professor Dan Olteanu, on being named a 2025 Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)!
This prestigious international honour comes right alongside his recent Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2025 for his groundbreaking research in data management.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Olteanu on these outstanding achievements!

🔗 Read more about his work here: https://stx.web.ox.ac.uk/article/st-cross-emeritus-fellow-dan-olteanu-recognised-by-the-association-for-computing-machinery

𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅

We are incredibly proud to announce the very first winners of our CrossLinks Awards, providing vital funding for interdisciplinary research led by our St Cross students and Fellows!
Congratulations to the brilliant teams behind these three innovative pilot projects:
Is AI Changing History? (Archaeology, Anthropology & AI)
AI in the Humanities (Archival Research Prototype)
Postcolonial Aftermaths (Caribbean Cultural Preservation)

🔗 Read the full breakdown of the winning teams here:
https://stx.web.ox.ac.uk/article/first-crosslinks-award-winners-announced

Calling all London-based alumni!

The St Cross Development Team is back in town for the next edition of St Cross in the City.

🗓 Thursday 14 May 2026
⏰ 6pm–8pm
📍 The Astronomer Pub E1 7JF

Join us as we continue our celebrations of 60 years of St Cross, gathering for a drink with fellow alumni and friends.

This biannual gathering is the perfect chance to reconnect, reminisce, and celebrate this special milestone together.

You are welcome to bring a guest and the first drink is on us!

📩 RSVP: [email protected]

A prestigious international honour for archaeological research.

Congratulations to St Cross Fellow Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz on receiving the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

This award recognises his outstanding contributions to archaeology and supports future collaboration with leading scholars in Germany.

Read more: https://stx.web.ox.ac.uk/article/prof-fernandez-gotz-friedrich-wilhelm-bessel-research-award