Jonathan Gabriel is a runner up in this term’s Creative Competition on the theme ‘Boundary’ for his short story, ‘Teralonian Holography’. Nitarka knew the stories well. She, like all children in the kingdom of Teralonia, had grown up with them. Far away, higher than the mountains, the edge of the sky was hardening and becoming…
Gavin Mills is a runner up in this term’s Creative Competition on the theme ‘Boundary’ for his poem, ‘On Moving On’. On Moving On So it begins At this place of going out and coming in. We carry with us only dids and dones, And share them out when fathers farewell their sons. The…
Katherine Reiss is a runner up in this term’s Creative Competition on the theme ‘Boundary’ for her poem, ‘Growth unBounded’. Growth unBounded What trees are these, I’ll never know; Regardless though, they’ll have to go. For trees cover buried fruit, With roots that cease never to grow. Oh! It pains me to see,…
Irene Trung is a runner up in this term’s Creative Competition on the theme ‘Boundary’ for her poem, ‘Ascension to Consciousness’. Ascension to Consciousness What is the brilliant star I grasp for? Always shines in mystery ether. Makes us first dimension earthlings philosophical. A child sleeps and sojourns to the silent, intelligent sea…
The Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford is a large, multi-disciplinary department, which aims to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges by integrating innovative basic biology with cutting edge clinical research. The department has internationally renowned programmes in a broad spectrum of sciences related to medicine, including: Cancer Biology Cardiovascular Science Cellular and Clinical…
Talk Summary by Barbara Walkowiak Many of us are afraid of cardiovascular disease, and very much aware that if a blood clot forms in the vessels in our brain or heart, it can be life-threatening. What we do not usually think about is what happens when such a clot appears in the blood vessels supporting…
Talk Summary by Barbara Walkowiak The basics of photosynthesis, or why getting your own food is always challenging In times of climate change and rising global population, sustainable and efficient food production is of vital importance. The secret to improving crop yields may lie in the algal chloroplast, as powerfully described by Ella Catherall in…
Talk Summary by Jasmine Charles On the third day of the Varsity Sci Symposium, Gayatri Tadikamalia from the University of Oxford delivered a thought-provoking presentation on anorexia nervosa and the microbiome. Throughout this clear and well- constructed slideshow, Gayatri pointed out the links between gut composition and the psychiatric illness, and tried to establish whether…
Talk Summary by Leah Hurst For the second talk in the Translational Medicine series of the symposium we owe our thanks to Aaron Koh, an incoming Natural Sciences student at Cambridge. Following a research project during his holidays based at the Genome Institute of Singapore, Aaron not only shared with us his findings of a…
Talk Summary by Sam van Druten Viruses are a prevalent topic of discussion nowadays. I thought it would be interesting to watch the Varsity Sci talks on virology to help me understand the subject better, and to help distinguish between the fake news and real facts making their way through the media. I was grateful…
