Oxford University is hosting a three-day global moot competition for law students, starting on Thursday 3 April. Around 25 students will be putting their arguments before judges from the European Court of Human Rights and distinguished scholars and experts from the field of media law in the first ever Price Moot Court Competition.

In this year’s rowing season, six out of seven varsity races between Oxford and Cambridge universities resulted in a win for Oxford.

International scientists are to discuss ways of tackling the threat of climate change to food security, both nationally and globally, at a three-day conference at Oxford University starting on Wednesday 2 April. The conference ‘Food security and environmental change: linking science and policy for development’ is organised by ‘Global Environmental Change and Food Systems’ (GECAFS), a research project in the University’s Environmental Change Institute.

Assessing the quality of research in social science is best done by expert surveys, and not by quantitative methods such as the ‘bibliometric approach’, a working paper by an international team of social scientists suggests.

Two members of the University of Oxford's Zoology Department have received major awards from the Zoological Society of London.

The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, in collaboration with an international research team, has carried out further tests to examine the evidence for the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, reputedly Christ’s burial cloth.

The accounts of Oxford University’s colleges for the year to 31 July 2007 show a modest surplus at the operating level. Investment returns remained strong both absolutely (14.5 per cent over the year) and relative to benchmarks.

A study of meteorites suggests that Mars, the Earth and the Moon share a common composition from ‘growing up’ in a unique planetary nursery in the inner solar system.

Nearly half of minority ethnic residents, including Muslims, said they had experienced race discrimination and 30 per cent of recent Muslim migrants had experienced religious discrimination. They felt that these experiences were a key barrier to a sense of belonging in Britain.

A unique project at Oxford University to develop salt-tolerant wheat has been made possible by a $9.7m grant from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Oxford University is pioneering an energy saving research project for green computing, which is likely to have wide-reaching benefits for further and higher educational institutions across the UK.

Researchers have moved a step closer to understanding why alpha-thalassaemia, an inherited blood disorder, appears to offer protection against severe malarial anaemia. The key appears to be in the abnormally large number of small red blood cells which characterises thalassaemia.