Wolfson College, Oxford

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Wolfson College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is unusual in being a graduate-only college, and is one of the most modern in the university, in architectural terms.

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University of Oxford - United Kingdom

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It is one of the larger colleges of the university. Wolfson College is quietly located in the north of Oxford along the River Cherwell. There are over sixty governing body fellow, about thirty research fellows in the college and another forty junior research fellows. The college caters for a wide range of subjects, both in natural and social sciences.

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Oxford - River Cherwell

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The college has a centre for Korean Studies and is home to the International Association of Tibetan Studies.

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The college motto is Humani nil alienum. This is an extract from the Roman playwright Terence: Homo sum, humani nil alienum a me puto which is translated as: I am a human being, and I consider nothing that concerns human beings to be alien from me.

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Darwin College of the University of Cambridge is Wolfson College's sister college. See also Wolfson College, Cambridge.

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Darwin College - University of Cambridge - Wolfson College, Cambridge

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