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20 March 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 PM CST
Please join us for a casual evening of drinks, nosh, and witty repartee with your fellow Oxonians.
22 March 2023 | 6:00 - 7:00 PM PST
Corpus Christi College invites all university alumni to join them in Toronto on 22 March for a fascinating talk by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Professor in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Corpus Christi and President of the Oxford Centre for Jewish Studies.
22 March 2023 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM PST
New York Public Library to share our free event with Oxford Professor Emma Smith, Why Do We Still Burn Books?
24 March 2023 | 6:00 PM
Join OxCam Chicago for their 81st annual boat race dinner at the University Club of Chicago .
Highlight
Groundbreaking ceremony marks start of Schwarzman Centre construction
Oxford University held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on Thursday 23rd February.
The University also announced an additional gift of £10 million from Stephen A. Schwarzman to the project, which brings his total donation to £185 million – the largest gift in Oxford University’s history.
The building project is the largest ever undertaken by Oxford University and it would become one of the biggest buildings to adhere to Passivhaus standards. Now that spades are in the ground, the Centre remains on track to be completed in 2025.
The Centre will boost teaching and research in the humanities at Oxford University and provide them with a new home which brings together seven faculties, the Institute for Ethics in AI, the Oxford Internet Institute, and a new humanities library. It has been made possible by a gift from Stephen A. Schwarzman, who is the Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment firms.
Giving
For almost 1,000 years, Oxford University has been recognized and celebrated across the world as a jewel in the crown of world learning. Just as our past inspires us, it also demands that we achieve greater heights in the centuries to come. Inspired philanthropy has always played an important role in this University by providing resources for great scholarship, architectural jewels such the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera, or the great engineering, medical and scientific laboratories of the 20th century. By giving to Americans for Oxford, you are continuing this tradition of excellence. Thank you.
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