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As this year marks the 150^th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, birthday (and un-birthday) parties are well under way all over the world.

To me, the idea of these once symbolised a cruel punishment where kids were sent off to sit through tedious lessons on very dull subjects. However, that was before I got involved with the UNIQ summer schools.

I'm in the unusual and privileged position of having graduated from Oxford last month and being an Oxford student next month.

Earlier this month, Brasenose College held graduation events, where the majority of our recently-finished undergraduates, and a number of post-graduates, returned to college to celebrate the end of their studies.

Henry Zeffman, who has just finished his PPE degree at Brasenose College, has won the 2015 Anthony Howard Award for Young Journalists. As part of this prestigious award, Henry will undertake three fellowships for the Times, the Observer and New Statesman. The award was announced recently in the Guardian newspaper.

Professor Elspeth Garman has been awarded the 2016 Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship at the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging and the University of Hamburg.

The fourth year project (known as ‘part II’) is the most exciting year Chemistry at Oxford has to offer. You swap lectures, exams and tutorials for working as a Masters student in one of the many incredible Oxford research groups.

Every year, six Brasenose students train to be peer supporters for our college. Peer supporters are ready to listen to absolutely anything that might be concerning you, during drop-in sessions or just around college.

Watch our new time-lapse film - launched to advertise our undergraduate open days on the 1st and 2nd of July and the 18th September.
The film was shot and produced by Phil Rigley - a third year English student, and features footage from the Open Days last summer.

The last Blurbs of the year juxtaposed super-massive and micro-level science. Professor Rob Fender, Tutorial Fellow in Astrophysics, launched proceedings by inviting the audience to reconsider the reputation of Black Holes.

21st birthdays are commonly regarded as quite a milestone for humans. The teenage years have well and truly been left behind, historically it was the birthday after which you could first vote, and it's typically the age at which fresh-faced university graduates are dragged kicking and screaming into the 'real world' to fend for themselves.

The next undergraduate Open Days at Brasenose College will be 1st and 2nd July, and 18th September 2015. The College will be open from 9am to 5pm, and there’s no need to book, just turn up if you are interested in applying to Oxford for undergraduate study.

To commemorate the 40^th anniversary of the admission of women into Brasenose we really wanted to do something to mark this as students, and thought that it was really important for us to look back over these forty years and reflect on some the achievements and contributions to society that the women who have attended College in this time have made

Dr Daniel Lee, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and tutor in History at Brasenose College, has won a BBC New Generation Thinkers 2015 award

Ascension Day, which fell on the 14th May this year, was marked again at Brasenose College with two old traditions.

Brasenose is a very special place on your average day, but on a Saturday in early May, it was transformed into A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Monday morning, too close to nine o'clock for comfort, rattling around on cobbles and fighting through selfie stick wielding tourists - Oxford wasn't really built for mobility scooters.

‘Torpids” is an annual rowing competition held in Oxford and this year was a big one for Brasenose, celebrating ‘200 years of oar-some’ - as our crew t-shirts will tell you!

I’ve been working in the Brasenose archives since 2011, firstly as the archives assistant and more recently as the archivist. However, it never fails to amaze me that the college’s archives have been kept in the same place since at least 1516.

Theatre has always been an important part of my life. Coming to Oxford I thought that I had left the drama world behind for the dreaming spires. Little did I know it would creep back up on me like a rogue spotlight, Oxford drama is one the richest communities to immerse yourself in here, whether you tread the boards for the first time in Cuppers or end up producing a show at the Oxford Playhouse.