Reuben College, Oxford

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Reuben College
University of Oxford
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View from Parks Road
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Arms: Argent in pale two Annulets and in base two Ermine Spots in fess Azure all between two Flaunches Vert each charged with an Ermine Spot Or
Location Parks Road, Oxford
Coordinates 51°45′30″N1°15′19″W / 51.7584°N 1.2554°W / 51.7584; -1.2554
MottoPer scientiam illuminabimur (through knowledge we shall be enlightened)
Established2019
Named for David and Simon Reuben
Previous namesParks College (2019–2020)
President Lionel Tarassenko
UndergraduatesN/A
Postgraduates330
Website www.reuben.ox.ac.uk
Map
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Location in Oxford city centre

Reuben College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. [1] [2] The plans for the new graduate college, preliminarily named Parks College, were announced in December 2018. [3] It is the first new Oxford or Cambridge college founded since 1990, when the postgraduate Kellogg College, Oxford, was established. [4] [5] It is located in the Science Area on the historic Radcliffe Science Library site and took in its first graduate students in the 2021–2022 academic year.

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History

The establishment of Parks College was approved by a vote in the university congregation on 7 May 2019. [6] On 11 June 2020, the university announced that it had received an £80 million gift from the Reuben Foundation towards an endowment and scholarships, which would be marked by changing the name of the college to Reuben College. [7] The college was formally renamed on 30 June 2020. [8]

The initial intake of graduate students was in the 2021–2022 academic year with an eventual annual intake of 200 students, studying for research degrees and on taught courses. Initially, there is a focus on three interdisciplinary research clusters, which will be increased to six or eight clusters once there is a full complement of graduate students. [1]

Professor Lionel Tarassenko (head of the Department of Engineering Science) was invited by the Vice-Chancellor, Louise Richardson, to oversee the development of the college as its founding president. [1] [9] The college appointed its first fellows in 2019. [10] Its first vice-president was librarian Catríona Cannon (2019–2021), [11] a role now filled by neuroscientist Esther Becker. [12]

Buildings

The former Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) building is located next to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and consists of three parts:

Reuben College also includes the western wing of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory and Abbot's Kitchen. In 2019, the university launched a major refurbishment project to modernise and convert these facilities into shared space for the Radcliffe Science Library, museum collections storage and the new Reuben College. The project was completed in 2023. [13] Student accommodation is offered in the newly refurbished building at Farndon Court. [14]

Academic focus

At its launch in 2019, the college identified three initial key areas of knowledge as the focus of its research: [15]

In November 2020, the college announced a fourth academic theme: [16]

Administration

Together with Kellogg and St Cross, Reuben is one of only three Oxford colleges without a royal charter. It is officially a society of the university rather than an independent college. [17] The main difference from an independent college is that the governing body only recommends a president, who is then appointed by Council; in other colleges, the head of house is elected and appointed by the governing body directly. For accounting purposes, the societies are considered departments of the university. [18]

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