Michael Edwards, a former member of staff at Warwick, has become the first British-born writer to be elected to the prestigious Académie française, France's highest learned body charged with defending the purity of the French language.

The University is saddened to report that former Politics and International Studies Lecturer, and later Principal Teaching Fellow, Dr Roger Duclaud-Williams died on 13 June 2012.

We are saddened to report that one the University’s longest standing friends and servants, Dr Brian Woods-Scawen, died on Friday 8 June 2012.

The University is saddened to hear of the death of Geoffrey Middleton. He served as Warwick’s Publicity Services Officer between 1987 and 1990 in what was then the University’s Publications and Information Office.

George Simon, a former Associate Fellow at the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies (formerly the Centre for Caribbean Studies) and Paula Lucie-Smith, a Warwick History graduate have been announced as laureates of The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence.