Warwick Graduate James Marvin, who has been taking part in the BBC TV show "Michel Roux's Service", has been awarded one of three Academy of Food and Wine scholarships that the show offers. The intention of the scholarship is to launch James into a career in high-end service.

Professor Alex Linley, who completed his PhD in Psychology at Warwick is preparing to swim across Llyn Llydaw, the UK's coldest lake in aid of the Children's Heart Appeal at the Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Honorary Graduate Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The award was given "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat."

Two Warwick graduates, Thea Osmund Smith and Richard Grimshaw, took part in a mock trial whilst on the Bar Professional Training Course at the College of Law. The mock trials offered them a chance to work on their cross-examination skills in a real Crown Court setting.

Late last year, one Warwick benefactor put a challenge to Student Callers: for every pound that they personally donated to the University, another pound would be given to match their gifts up to a £1,000 limit.