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Check out our blog posts to learn about our study abroad programmes and grants, to hear current students and alumni share their experiences of the city of dreaming spires, and to celebrate key milestones with us.

Hannah Grdy

Life after SCIO: alumna to read for MPhil at Cambridge - on 3rd July 2018 in Life after SCIO, News

We are delighted by the news that SCIO alumna Hannah Grady (Michaelmas Term 2016) has been accepted to study for an MPhil in Theology at Clare College, Cambridge. Hannah received offers from a number of universities, including Duke, Yale, Oxford,... Read More >

Richardscarolyn

Life after SCIO: alumna selected for prestigious internship - on 29th May 2018 in Life after SCIO, News

  SCIO is delighted by the news that Michaelmas 2017/Hilary 2018 alumna, Carolyn Richards, has been selected for a prestigious summer internship as a research assistant at the Gopnik Cognitive Development Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Expanding on her role in... Read More >

Rachel Sakrisson For Prize Article

Life after SCIO: alumna wins academic prizes - on 1st May 2018 in Life after SCIO, News

SCIO is delighted that alumna Rachel Sakrisson (Michaelmas Term 2017), an undergraduate at Palm Beach Atlantic University, has recently received two essay prizes. Rachel has been awarded first place in the category of British literature at the Sigma Tau Delta... Read More >

Mt17 Leavers

Congratulations to SCIO’s fall 2017 de Jager prizewinners - on 27th April 2018 in News, Student Programmes

SCIO is pleased to announce the fall 2017 de Jager prizewinners. Awarded at the close of each term, the de Jager prizes recognize outstanding scholarly work submitted by each awardee during the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford.  The de Jager prize... Read More >

Luke Arend

SCIO STEM student reflects on his time at Oxford - on 19th March 2018 in News, Student Programmes

SCIO is excited to be including STEM subjects formally in its programme from 2018 on. In previous years it has in some instances been possible to arrange STEM tutorials on a case-by-case basis.  In an interview for SCIO, one alumnus,... Read More >

Natural Museum

Group selected for SCIO Science and Religion project - on 9th March 2018 in News, Research and Projects

SCIO has selected the 24 participants for the Bridging the Two Cultures of Science and the Humanities II project. The group of participants comes from a range of universities around the world, including institutions in Canada, India, Kenya, Mexico, the United States,... Read More >