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Fellowships were awarded to nine Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê alumni for their outstanding contribution to society. They are: Sue Birley (Statistical Sciences 1964), entrepreneur; Michael Aaron Edidin (Zoology 1963), immunologist and biophysicist; Digby Marritt Jones (Laws 1977), Director General of the Confederation of British Industry; Aishah Ong (Royal Free Hospital 1969), Pro Chancellor of the University of Malaysia; Paula Rego (Slade School of Fine Art 1956), painter and printmaker; Richard Michael Smith (Geography 1968), historical demography scholar; Lynne Truss (English 1977), author; Marjorie Shiona Wallace (Psychology and Philosophy 1966), Chief Executive of SANE; and Koizumi Junichiro (Economics 1969), Prime Minister of Japan.

Honorary Fellowships of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê were awarded to eight people for their outstanding achievements and contributions to society. They are: Dame Antonia Byatt, author; Professor David Colquhoun, pharmacologist; Professor Ronald Myles Dworkin, jurist; Michael Freeman, former general manager of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Bloomsbury Theatre; Edward James O' Gorman, company director and founder of the charity Children with Leukaemia; Charles Martin Raff, Emeritus Professor of Biology, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê; and John Andrew Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê.

Seven members of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê community were among 46 people appointed to the House of Lords in May. They are: Jane Bonham Carter (Philosophy 1980), Liberal Democrats; Dr Frances D'Souza (alumna), Independent; Garry Hart (Laws 1962; Fellow 2001), Labour; Delyth Jane Morgan (alumna 1986), Labour; Professor Elaine Murphy (PhD History of Medicine 2001), Independent; Rabbi Dame Julia Neuberger (Council Member 1993-1997), Liberal Democrats; and Dennis Tunnicliffe (Maths 1965), Labour.

Seven Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê academics are among 43 people newly elected to Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. They are: Stuart Cull-Candy, Professor of Pharmacology; Professor Alan Hall, Director of the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology; Philip Hawkins, Professor of Medicine; William McKenna, Professor of Cardiology; Linda Partridge, Weldon Professor of Biometry; John Rothwell, Professor of Human Neurophysiology; Daniel Wolpert, Professor of Motor Neuroscience; and Nicholas Wood, Professor of Clinical Neurology & Neurogenetics.