Professor Martin Maiden, FBA, Professor of the Romance Languages and Fellow of Trinity, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bucharest on 26 September 2013, in recognition of his work in promoting Romanian Studies. Oxford has ever closer links with Romania, following the publication of the new Grammar of Romanian, OUP 2013, the arrival of Dr. Oana Uţă Bărbulescu, of the University of Bucharest, as Oxford's first ever lector in Romanian (thanks to the generosity of Institutul Limbii Române and the Romanian state). More information in Romanian is available here: