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Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. The latest issue. Cambridge Alumni Magazine. Issue 101 - Lent term 2024. Features. From California to Cambridge: Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Prentice wants to use her fascination with

Download. The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of economics must be reshaped with the natural world at their heart.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Rethinking economics. The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of economics must be reshaped with the natural world at their heart. WORDS. VICTORIA JAMES. PHOTOGRAPHY.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Crossword. Due to an unforeseen technical issue some submissions haven’t been received. If you haven’t received a confirmation email please re-submit your entry All entries to be

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. The Cambridge Foundation Year. The need to build new pathways into higher education for those facing exceptional disadvantage has never been so pressing. Photography. Lloyd Mann. 5 April

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Issue Archive. The University's alumni magazine. Reinvigorating the art of the spirited essay, CAM brings together the best of Cambridge thought and debate. Published three times a year,

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Politics. To mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, CAM asks leading Cambridge experts to give their views on the issues that matter. Britpop, Ross and Rachel, cyber cafés

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Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Courting Success. The Cambridge University Squash Rackets Club blends competitiveness with fun. Interview. Diane Shipley. Photography. Adam Lawrence. 1 December 2017. - 1 minute read. Twice

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Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. All The Best: Widening Participation at Cambridge. Dr Mark Wormald is Secretary of the Senior Tutors’ Committee and Co-Chair of the Student Support Initiative. Illustration. Kate

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘It is the most sumptuous piece of heart-aching music, and I fully intend to have it sung at my funeral’. Comedian Alexander Armstrong (Trinity 1989), presenter of the BBC gameshow

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. About CAM. The University’s alumni magazine. Welcome to the new online home of CAM. Here you will find the latest issue of CAM, as well as additional audio and visual content. You can

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Scholarships create a better future for all. Matt Mahmoudi on the academic and financial support that, he says, has changed his life forever. Interview. Justine Bashford. Photography.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Alumni Groups. Our volunteer-led Groups are a remarkable network of friendly and engaged alumni sharing a passion and commitment to Cambridge. There are over 400 officially recognised

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Leaving a legacy. Leaving a legacy has a long-term, extraordinary impact, enabling Cambridge to do more, whether that is in providing support to students or pushing forward the boundaries

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Too Legit To Quit. Cambridge University Hip Hop Society is spreading the love with good vibes – and great music. Interview. Lucy Jolin. Photography. Adam Lawrence. 1 December 2018. - 2

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. When researchers discovered an apparently medieval ‘table top’, the hunt was on to find out more. Professor Liba Taub examines an equatorium held at the Whipple Museum of the History

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Explaining the Student Support Initiative. We are putting student support at the top of our agenda with an ambitious new initiative, writes Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor,

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘An extraordinary, almost exotic work’. Composer Jonathan Dove (Trinity 1977) shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge. Interview. Sarah Woodward. 1 July 2019. - 2

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Educate. Empower. Entertain. The Cambridge University African Caribbean Society is no standard society – it’s a celebration, a safe space and a campaign. Interview. Lucy Jolin.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Howzaaat! Cambridge University Women’s Cricket Club stayed busy in lockdown with Zoom meetings – and a lot of press-ups, sit-ups and burpees. WORDS. DIANE SHIPLEY. PHOTOGRAPHY. ADAM

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Living in the Grad Lane. Grad students are the lifeblood – and future – of the University. So what attracts the world’s very best to Cambridge? Interview. Pamela Evans. Photography.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Community action: ‘I just chat, play games and referee their wrestling matches!’. The Cambridge bubble is a comfortable place. Stepping outside can be hugely rewarding, explain the

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Josie Rourke: Room D19, Murray Edwards. Josie Rourke (New Hall, Murray Edwards 1995) and fourth-year Modern and Medieval Languages student Annabel van Daalen discuss crockery, cutlery and

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Here Comes The Band. The Cambridge University Brass Band have it all: pancakes, costumes and Uptown Funk. Interview. Lucy Jolin. Photography. Adam Lawrence. 1 July 2019. - 2 minute read.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Why you are central to our mission. Alison Traub is Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations. Illustration. Kate Copeland. 1 April 2019. - 4 minute read. What do I think

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Lent Term went by in a flash as the Beast from the East brought wet socks – and cold toes. Dr Andrew Grant is a Senior University Lecturer in Microbial Pathogenesis in the Department of

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Lady Hale: Room C2, Girton. Brenda Hale DBE (Girton 1963) and third-year Mathematician Maisie Muir discuss Yorkshire roots and the challenge of being outnumbered. Interview. Lucy Jolin.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Society: Eyes to the skies with the astronomers. The Cambridge University Astronomical Society can teach you how to get a lens cap off, focus a telescope and use the coordinate system. But

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Hub Life. Cambridge Hub supports pioneering students to develop real-world, practical solutions to climate change. WORDS. DIANE SHIPLEY. ILLUSTRATION. KATE COPELAND. 1 December 2021. - 2

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Caroline Wilson: Room 10, Downing. The former Europe director at the Foreign and Commonwealth office says getting out and about is key to making the most of Cambridge life. Interview. Lucy

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘I’ll never forget singing old-school house, waiting for the phone to ring’. Musician Lizzie Ball (St John’s 1999) shares the sounds which shaped her student days at Cambridge.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Ed Smith: Room C2, Old Court, Peterhouse. The chief selector for the England cricket team and fourth-year natural scientist Lauren Baldwin discuss sport, life – and the surprising uses

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘Every note is etched on my mind’. Robin Holloway (King’s 1963), composer and former Professor of Musical Composition, shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge. 1

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. A cache of new material reveals political subversion. Dr Stanley Bill is a University Senior Lecturer in Polish Studies in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and a Fellow of

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘It leaves you with a feeling – like listening to a snippet of music’. Former BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall, now Master of Peterhouse, reveals the reads which have had

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘I ploughed through a lot of Dostoyevsky in the hot strip mill’. Dr Spike Bucklow, Reader in Material Culture at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, reveals the reads which have had the

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Unearthing how people in Nigeria lived 2,000 years ago. Archaeologist Chioma Vivian Ngonadi’s literally groundbreaking PhD research in Igboland is revealing the area’s dynamic history.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘Thank God we’re in week seven!’ is the last thing you want to hear on research leave. Dr JD Rhodes is the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Film and Screen and a Fellow of Corpus

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Training the next generation of historians is a serious business. Historians typically take months to write an article and years to write a book, but a Director of Graduate Training

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Professor Dame Ann Dowling: Room F35, Girton. The first female President of the Royal Academy of Engineering discusses space-time, infinity and corridors with third-year mathematician

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘Hearing Caliban’s words in the 2012 Olympics was breathtaking’. Dr Jessica Gardner, the University Librarian, reveals the reads which have had the greatest influence on her life.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘Anyone who thinks that books don’t matter is only half-alive’. Professor Geoff Ward, Principal of Homerton and Acting Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, reveals the reads which

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Much improv about nothing. The Impronauts are Cambridge’s oldest – and best-loved – comedy troupe. Allegedly. Interview. Lucy Jolin. Photography. Adam Lawrence. 1 July 2018. - 3

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘Books remind us that unexpected things can make a huge difference’. Dr Terri Apter, Psychologist and Fellow Emerita of Newnham, reveals the reads which have had the greatest influence

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Touch down! Hut, hut, hike! The Pythons are here to take American football at Cambridge into the end zone. 11 April 2022. - 3 minute read. Like most of his Pythons teammates, Daniel

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Sebastian Faulks: Room P6, New Court, Emmanuel. Sebastian Faulks (Emmanuel 1971) and third-year mathematician Fraser Waters discuss eclectic decoration and built-in storage at P6, New Court

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘I realised Big Boi had sampled Aida on General Patton’. Julian Gregory (St John’s 2009), tenor, King’s Singers, shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge.

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. ‘They’re a good bunch – bright, keen. They’ll come up with something’. Dr Martin Ruehl is University Senior Lecturer in German intellectual history at the Faculty of Modern and