Oxford student Xin Hui Chan from Singapore won the title of South East’s International Student of the Year 2008, impressing the judging panel with her story of extra-curricular work at Oxford.

A School of Medicine researcher’s world-leading work on free radicals in inflammation has been honoured at the annual European science awards ceremony in Brussels.

Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher and Managing Director Laura Penn , announces Thomas J. Armitage, Director of Theatre at North Central High School in Spokane, as the second recipient of its biennial Ruben Van Kempen Arts Educator Award. The award will be presented at Intiman's Annual Meeting on Monday, March 17 at 5:30 pm.

At 16, Anjali Bhatia founded a student organization to raise awareness of global issues. Today that organization, Discover Worlds, is building relationships between American students and Rwandans orphans. VOA's Susan Logue has a profile of this remarkable young woman.

Garrie Watson, from Dundee, has been named the winner of the Dundee Civic Award 2008, awarded by Town and Regional Planning at the University of Dundee.

Somalia Seaton, a final-year BA Contemporary Theatre student at East 15, has won Epping Forest District Council's Leisure Bursary Award, worth £750. She is the first East 15 student to win this award and was nominated by her course tutor Uri Roodner, who is also a director and a performer working in theatre, dance, film and TV.

The editor of The Oakland Post, a weekly journal for black readers, became one of the winners of George Polk Awards for 2007. Chauncey W. Bailey Jr., 57, was killed on August 2 as he investigated Your Black Muslim Bakery, a criminal business linked to kidnappings, rapes and killings. Other awards went to reporters investigating atrocities in Myanmar and Iraq, the disastrous environmental situation in China and corruption in the USA.

One of the film world's most prestigious awards has been won by a student at The University of Nottingham.

Two more members of the Department of Earth Sciences are to receive notable awards, hard on the heels of Professor Geoffrey Eglinton's recent triumph.

A Dundee based business with a big idea for tackling climate change has won a Shell Springboard award of £40,000.

The quality of the University Counselling Service's work has been recognised with a national award.

The American Chemical Society History of Chemistry Division has announced that Sir John Shipley Rowlinson, a Fellow of Exeter College at Oxford, has been selected to receive the 2008 Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry.