The Department of Slavonic Studies is pleased to announce that Katie Sykes, a first-year PhD student working with supervisor Professor Simon Franklin, has been awarded the 2015 Wood-Whistler Medal and Scholarship. The award is given annually to a first-year graduate student in Newnham College who is following a course in English, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Divinity/Theology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Classics, Modern and Medieval Languages, Assyriology, Egyptology or Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Worth 拢3,000, the Scholarship is awarded to the applicant who submits the best written work to the panel of judges. Congratulations, Katie!
