This season's events series has kicked off with an incredibly topical talk! On the same evening that the UK government announced its approval of the Jackdaw gas field, Professor Myles Allen explored a pressing question: Can we reach Net Zero whilst continuing to use fossil fuels? Catch the full talk + Q&A on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=Gzsxcriw… Want to join us for our next event? Check out our upcoming talks and recitals at Trinity: trinity.ox.ac.uk/events-at-t…

Hot take: Does the Trinity College Chapel look better from the Balliol grounds?

How can metals stay tough at temperatures close to absolute zero? New research involving Trinity Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science Professor Dong (Lilly) Liu has revealed how certain metal alloys can resist cracking at temperatures as low as −253°C. Published in Nature, the findings could help in designing tougher materials for extreme environments, with potential applications in aerospace, energy and other advanced technologies. 🔗 Read more: ox.ac.uk/news/2026-10-14-new…

Trinity College DPhil student Dieu Ly Hoang has been selected as one of the 100 Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft — “100 Faces of Berlin Science” — an annual feature highlighting researchers who are shaping the intellectual life of Berlin and beyond. The profile, published by the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, places Hoang among a group of researchers exploring what community means and how history, philosophy and culture can help us better understand both the world and one another. For Hoang, those questions are closely connected to her own history. Born in Vietnam, she grew up first in Hanoi and later in Nauen, a town in Brandenburg outside Berlin. Her path eventually took her through Berlin's universities and, in 2026, to Trinity College and the University of Oxford, where she is undertaking a DPhil in History of Art. Her research takes her back to Vietnam, though much further into its past. Hoang studies the cultural heritage of the Cham, whose civilisation flourished for centuries in parts of what is now central and southern Vietnam. Cham temples, sculptures and other objects survive today both in Vietnam and in museum collections around the world. Their dispersal raises questions that sit at the heart of Hoang's research: who removed and classified these objects, under what circumstances, and what happens to our understanding of a culture when its material heritage is fragmented? Her DPhil, Shattered Legacies: Colonial Vietnam and the Making of Fragmented Heritage: The Champa Case (c. 1898–1956), examines those questions through the intertwined histories of French colonialism, archaeology, museums and Vietnamese nation-building. Central to the project is a change of perspective. Conventional provenance research often begins with an object in a museum collection and reconstructs how it arrived there. Hoang instead seeks to begin at the other end of that journey: with the places from which objects disappeared. By returning to archaeological sites and examining archives, excavation histories and gaps in the surviving record, she aims to reconstruct the processes through which Cham cultural heritage was excavated, removed, classified and dispersed. Hoang describes this history in terms of a “double dispossession”. Cham heritage was affected first by the structures and practices of French colonial archaeology, but its meaning was also reshaped through subsequent processes of Vietnamese territorialisation and nation-building. Her work therefore asks not only what colonial powers did with cultural objects, but how competing ideas of heritage and national identity can determine who is able to claim the past. Read more here: trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinit…

Can we reach net zero without ending fossil fuels? Climate targets imply a dramatic transformation of the global energy system. But what if oil and gas remain part of that system for decades? Join Professor Myles Allen CBE FRS, Professor of Geosystem Science at the University of Oxford, as he explores what this tension means for climate policy and the future of fossil fuels — including the contested UK developments at Jackdaw and Rosebank. Following the presentation, Myles will be joined in conversation by Professor Stephen Fisher, Professor of Political Sociology at Trinity College, before opening the discussion to audience questions. Wednesday 21 October, 5:30pm de Jager Auditorium, Trinity College, Oxford Book your tickets: ticketsoxford.com/events/net… #NetZero #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #EnergyTransition #Oxford #UniversityOfOxford

Trinity Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Natalia Gromak has been awarded the title of Professor of RNA Biology by the University of Oxford. Professor Gromak is a group leader at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, where her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of gene regulation in health and disease. In particular, her group studies non-canonical RNA/DNA structures known as R-loops and their role in neurodegenerative disorders and cancer. Her recent research has focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying triplet repeat expansion disorders, including Friedreich’s Ataxia and Huntington’s Disease. Professor Gromak said: “I am honoured to receive this title. It is a wonderful recognition of our team’s hard work, and an achievement that would not have been possible without the contributions of past and present team members, as well as our many collaborators. “I am deeply grateful for the support I have received at the Dunn School and Trinity College over the years, and I feel very fortunate to teach such outstanding medical students and work with great colleagues.” Read the full announcement trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinit…

Congratulations to Catherine McMullan, a History undergraduate at Trinity College, is part of the five-student team behind Ictus, which won the £10,000 top prize at StEP's 2026 Demo Day last month. The startup is developing a wearable device for low-cost epileptic seizure detection. In the interdisciplinary team, Catherine is joined by Engineering Science undergraduates Elizaveta Verzhbitskaya and Vivian Lui, Biology undergraduate Nancy Locke and Nanotechnology postgraduate Arya Navab. Read the full story: trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinit…

The College is OPEN Join us for any of the following: 10am-4pm College tours led by our undergraduate students, excluding during our subject talks between 1:20-2:10pm. No booking required. 12:30-1pm Admissions and Life at Trinity College talk by the Senior Tutor and current students. No booking required. 1:30pm-2:30pm 30-minute subject talks with Trinity College tutors, starting at 1:30pm and repeated at 2:00pm. No booking required. These sessions are for prospective students rather than teachers, parents or carers. More details here: trinity.ox.ac.uk/open-days #oxopendays

The Oxford team has developed a new mechanistic framework for understanding “thermomigration” - the movement of hydrogen through a material in response to a temperature gradient. Read more: trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/new-mo…

Trinity College’s Jackson Building has won Best Low Carbon Building of the Year at the 2026 Oxford Property Awards, recognising the College’s ambitious project to decarbonise one of its historic listed buildings. The award was presented at the OxProp Awards ceremony at Keble College on Thursday 10 September, attended by more than 400 people from across Oxfordshire’s property and built-environment sectors. The Jackson Building was shortlisted alongside Brasenose College’s Frewin Hall and the University of Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, making the award a particularly significant recognition of Trinity’s approach to combining sustainability with the conservation of its historic estate. Read mroe: trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinit…

Congratulations to Associate Professor Alison Andrew (Department of Economics) and Dr Stephen Turton (Faculty of English) on being awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants. The ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. Its Starting Grants, part of the Horizon Europe programme, are designed to support exceptional researchers at the beginning of their careers to develop ambitious ideas, build their own teams, and establish their independence at a pivotal stage in their careers. This year, the scheme attracted a record 4,807 proposals, of which just 421 (8.8%) were funded. trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/early-… @erc_research

Trinity Honorary Fellow Professor Charlotte Williams OBE FRS has been awarded the Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Prize 2026, in recognition of her pioneering research into sustainable polymer materials. The Royal Society awarded Professor Williams the prize for her innovative materials science developing sustainable oxygenated polymers for applications including plastics, thermoplastic elastomers, ionomers and polyelectrolyte binders. Congratulations to Professor Williams on this latest recognition of her outstanding contribution to sustainable chemistry and materials science. trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/honora…

For many of you, today will bring wonderful news. You have achieved the conditions of your offer, and you're coming to Trinity—and to Oxford! We are really looking forward to welcoming you in October. Take a moment to celebrate with those around you; you’ve made them extremely proud. If your results are not what you were hoping for, please remember that they do not define you. There are options available, there is support, and we want to help you think about your next steps. Please get in touch with us—we're here to discuss your options and help you decide where to go next.

A rare sight over Trinity today! Oxford got a front-row seat to the deepest solar eclipse visible in the UK in over two decades, with over 90% of the Sun covered this evening. Eerie.....

We are delighted to share that Professor Janina Dill, Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government, has been named among the winners of the 2026 Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards. The Social Sciences Division Teaching Excellence Awards recognise outstanding contributions to teaching and learning, as well as the academic development of students, across the Division. The scheme is designed to celebrate exceptional commitment to teaching at all career stages, and awards may be made in three categories: individual or team awards for academic staff, individual awards for early career academic staff, and achievement awards for sustained commitment to education. The full list of winners is available on the Social Sciences Division website. Congratulations Professor Dill on this well-deserved recognition.

Megan, Law with French Law Student at Trinity. Missed the July Open Days? Join us on Friday 18 September to discover Trinity College. The College will be open on each of these days from 10am until 4pm.

Wonderful to see the Trinity College Chapel Choir in action on tour in Tallinn. Here is a short excerpt, but you can listen to the full service here: fb.watch/I5T7FKHo6s/

The College is OPEN Join us for any of the following: 10am-4pm College tours led by our undergraduate students, excluding during our subject talks between 1:20-2:10pm. No booking required. 12:30-1pm Admissions and Life at Trinity College talk by the Senior Tutor and current students. No booking required. 1:30pm-2:30pm 30-minute subject talks with Trinity College tutors, starting at 1:30pm and repeated at 2:00pm. No booking required. These sessions are for prospective students rather than teachers, parents or carers. More details here: trinity.ox.ac.uk/open-days

Julius Yam's monograph, Judging for Democracy, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. It is open access and available to all. Julius completed his DPhil in Law at Trinity before joining the University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. An outstanding constitutional scholar, he died in 2024 at the age of 31. His research explored the role of courts in protecting democracy and the rule of law, and Judging for Democracy stands as a lasting contribution to the field. "It is hard to imagine a more important, and timely, book. Julius was a doctoral student at Trinity College, and I am very grateful to Trinity, alongside Julius' other institution, the University of Hong Kong, for providing the funds to make his book available to all. It is a fitting tribute to an outstanding scholar who was taken from us far too soon." - Professor Nick Barber, Wyatt Rushton Fellow and Tutor in Law at Trinity Read more: trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinit… Read the book: cambridge.org/core/books/jud…

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity is the chosen charity for this year’s Trinity College Commemoration Ball. With fundraising efforts led by Trinity student Max Archer, all raffle proceeds will support the Cardio-Oncology Centre of Excellence, whose specialist work helps protect heart health during and after cancer treatment. This is a cause with a close personal connection to our community, and we’re delighted to help raise awareness and funds for such important care. Enter the raffle here: bit.ly/4vtgbIO