Undergraduate James Lockwood has won the inaugural Simon Turner-Bottomley Climbing Competition for first-year students, which took place at the Climbing Centre in June 2012.

Dahlia Janan, a PhD student from Warwick Institute of Education, has been awarded a prize for the best thesis on literacy by the UK Literary Association.

Dani Caverzaschi, first year student in Economics, has been selected to represent Spain in the wheelchair tennis event at the London 2012 Paralympic Games this summer.

Final-year Theatre and Performance Studies student Holly Parker will be taking part in the Olympic Torch Relay on Sunday 1 July 2012, carrying the Torch through Alcester, near Redditch.

A trio of University of Warwick students have been commended by the Japan Foundation for a talk and presentation on Coventry Cathedral. Caijia Li, Yeng Yeng Shang and David Walton were awarded the War and Peace Prize for their talk at the Seventh Japanese Speech Contest.