Our Postgraduate students farewelled a number of their cohort who have completed higher degrees and are either moving into industry locally or returning to home overseas. In the traditional way College provided a Valedictory Chapel Service based on the Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent on 28 November, at the end of the final week of Semester 2 Exams. The readers were Claudio Garcia Ramirez (MPublic Pol) who has completed his term as the 2025 Middle Prefect, Brianna Morrison the retiring Associate Dean of Graduate House, Isla Joyce (MN) the newly elected Middle Prefect for 2026, Dr Antone Martinho-Truswell, the founding Dean of Graduate House. The preacher was the Warden and the service was supported by members of the College Chapel Choir and College Organists and Composer-in-Residence David Drury and Organ Scholar Bailey Yeates.

At the Valedictory Dinner the College farewelled 35 students, Brianna and the departing Dean Antone and his wife Emma and children Flora and Clara. In her valedictory speech Emma mentioned the amazing gift that St Paul’s postgraduate community has given her family and the shared joy of living in the McMillan Building: “My two girls are ‘college kids’, and this is the only home they’ve ever known. This was our community through COVID, when we sat at spaced-out tables while Flora learned to wander between them. They talk to their friends about fancy dinners, candles and formals and ‘their oval’. .. They have watched, as I have, as their dad grew a graduate community from scratch, invented traditions with the confidence of a visionary … I have seen how much he has loved and been loved here, how much a difference he has made to hundreds of students.”

The St Paul’s College postgraduate community welcomes students to the University of Sydney from the world over. In 2025 students represented every faculty with a diverse range of courses:

• Law, including Juris Doctor: 16
• Medicine, including Doctor of Medicine: 12
• Business, Finance, Commerce: 7
• Science: 6
• Health, including Physio, Occupational Therapy and Public Health: 5
• Computer Science: 5
• Engineering: 5
• Architecture: 4
• Doctor of Philosophy: 4
• Sustainability, Social Justice: 4
• Dentistry: 3
• Arts: 2
• Education: 2
• Public Policy: 2
• Strategic Public Relations: 2
• Agriculture: 1
• Design: 1
• Management: 1
• Music: 1
• Nursing: 1

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