We are very pleased to announce that this year's Grote Prize has been awarded to Giulia Maltagliati. Giulia is undertaking a PhD on ‘Persuading by Paradeigmata : the role of historical examples in Attic Oratory’ at Royal Holloway University of London. The George Grote Prize is offered every year by the Institute of Classical Studies from the fund bequeathed by the late Professor V. L. Ehrenberg. The Prize of £3000 is awarded for an original and hitherto unpublished study on a topic in ancient history and is open to current research students of the University of London.

We are delighted to congratulate Dr Emma Bridges, our Public Engagement Fellow, who has just been elected a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Senate House building will be closed this weekend. The Combined Classics Library will be closed from 4pm on Friday and all day on Saturday. We apologise for the short notice, and the inconvenience this may cause. We expect the Library to be open as normal on Monday 15 July.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Caroline Spearing, ICS Research Associate, has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Exeter University. Caroline has been awarded this highly competitive Fellowship to work on seventeenth-century university anthologies of neo-Latin verse.