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27 Sep 2023: The first female Bursar of Churchill College, Jennifer Rigby (later Brook) was appointed in 1999.

26 Sep 2023: Milos Dubajic is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He works under the supervision of Prof. Sam Stranks and focuses on the structural and spectroscopic

30 May 2023: First undergraduates admitted, numbering 75 Sheppard Flats – the first building on site – completed, which provides college facilities until 1964, with dining in a neighbouring portacabin Building of North Court and central buildings commences

26 Sep 2023: Abigail is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Cell Signalling Group in the Department of Pharmacology, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ladds. Her research interests centre around receptor pharmacology, specifically the class of

30 May 2023: Carol Robinson is the first alumna to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.

16 Feb 2023: I was trained initially as a cilia biologist in Jarema Malicki’s lab at the University of Sheffield. For many years, I focused on the development of the zebrafish eye as the photoreceptor contains the most robust cilium in animals and vision

30 May 2023: Sir Winston’s pre-1945 archive transferred from the Bodleian Library Anthony Hewish, Fellow, awarded Nobel Prize for pulsars

26 Sep 2023: Nomisha is a Teaching Associate who completed her PhD on children’s wellbeing at the Cambridge Faculty of Education. She recently became the first Education researcher to win the Cambridge Applied Research Award and also received the

30 May 2023: Archives Centre opened Cap on number of female student admissions abolished First female Junior Common Room President elected

26 Sep 2023: Matthew is a Research Associate in the Department of Physics working in the team of Professor Nigel Cooper.  He earned his PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Virginia in Spring of 2023 under advisor Professor Israel

30 May 2023: Maisonneuve Collection of French art received

5 Oct 2023: My first book, News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in September 2019.

30 May 2023: Lady Soames plants a weeping mulberry tree for 50th anniversary in the grounds of Churchill College, near the oak planted by her father on October 17, 1959. She used the same spade he had used.

3 Feb 2023: Dr Watson studied preclinical medicine at the University of St Andrews before coming to Cambridge for his clinical medical studies.  Like many, he failed to escape Cambridge and undertook his junior medical and specialist cardiology training in the

30 May 2023: Møller Centre for Continuing Education opened by Queen Ingrid of Denmark Fellows’ Gallery remodelled

10 Feb 2023: He studied philosophy and physics in Amsterdam and Oxford, and is passionate about combining these two fields.

30 May 2023: Roger Tsien (G72) is the first alumnus to win a Nobel Prize, it was awarded for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Winston

11 Oct 2023: Osarenkhoe Ogbeide is a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and recipient of the William and Barbara Hawthorne Fellowship and Sydney Harvey Research Fellowship in Engineering. Ogbeide pursued his doctoral studies in

30 May 2023: Visual Arts Trust established.

26 Sep 2023: Hello there! I am currently a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience and UK Dementia Research Institute. I research how organelles contribute to cellular health with a specific focus on the Endoplasmic Reticulum

30 May 2023: Michael Cowan (U70) becomes first Winston Churchill Benefactor Fellow College celebrates its 60th Anniversary, however majority of events are cancelled due to Corona-virus. Students are taught remotely for Easter Term 2020 as the UK enters lockdown

26 Sep 2023: Guendalina Anzolin is a Research Associate based at the Center for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at the University of Cambridge. Her interests lie in technology adoption and diffusion mechanisms,

30 May 2023: A national appeal was launched to raise £3.5 million (equivalent to about £75 million today) to build and endow Churchill College, chiefly addressed to British industry, which produced the

4 Apr 2023: Professor Anna Korhonen is Professor of Computational Linguistics and the co-director of the Language Technology Laboratory at Cambridge.

30 May 2023: Men’s First Boat achieves highest ever position in the Lent Bumps: 5th

9 Jan 2023: Professor Sir David Wallace was the Master of Churchill College from 2006 -2014.

30 May 2023: The new graduate housing at 36 Storey's Way is opened. Two of the houses are named after former Masters, John Boyd and David Wallace.

3 Feb 2023: He is passionate about building reliable and transparent Machine Learning applications.

30 May 2023: Ladies First Boat Head of the River in May Bumps (first of six times) World’s first ‘test tube’ baby born: Bob Edwards, Fellow, later wins Nobel Prize

26 Sep 2023: Marina is an Industrial Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In her hybrid role spanning academia and industry, she is based at the Department of Engineering and the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster + Partners. Marina has a background in

30 May 2023: Our first-ever Giving Day, ChuGives ran for 36 hours in March 2022. During this time our entire community of alumni, students, Fellows and staff were encouraged to join together, from all over the world, to celebrate the best of the College and

20 Mar 2023: Professor Benedikt Löwe is a researcher connecting mathematics, computer science, philosophy and the social sciences.

30 May 2023: 1955: Sir Winston’s ‘Sicilian conversation’ with Lord Cherwell and Sir John Colville about fulfilling his hope for a ‘British MIT’; Sir Winston’s speech at Woodford on a college for

3 Feb 2023: Water remains the most fascinating liquid in our world. In order to provide new insights into aqueous phase behavior, I am developing machine learning methodology trained on accurate electronic structure calculations. In close collaboration with

30 May 2023: Buttery extended and remodelled

3 Feb 2023: Emmanuela completed her PhD with Professor Micah Luftig at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA), developing a novel targeted therapeutic strategy to treat lymphomas caused by Epstein-Barr Virus and related viruses, which often have limited options for

30 May 2023: Alec Broers becomes the fourth Master

4 Oct 2023: Michael Coleman is the van Geest Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, and joined Churchill College, Cambridge, as a Senior Research Fellow. His research groups studies mechanisms of axon

30 May 2023: First female Professorial Fellow elected: Mary Jacobus. Post of Teaching By-Fellow created. Hugh Baillie-Scott’s Arts & Crafts house 48 Storey’s Way sold.

25 Jul 2023: David Holcman is an Applied Mathematician and computational biologist working at ENS-PSL University in Paris (France).

30 May 2023: Møler Foundation undertakes to fund building of the Møller Centre. Malcolm Bradbury’s TV drama ‘Anything More Would be Greedy’ is filmed at Churchill.

14 Apr 2023: Theresa Pankhurst (descendent of tribes Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Porou) graduated in 2021 from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington with a PhD in Biomedical Science under the supervision of Dr Lisa Connor. Her PhD

30 May 2023: Bracken Library Gallery constructed

10 Feb 2023: Marco received his BEng in Mechatronics Engineering (2013) from the Armed Forces University – ESPE (Quito, Ecuador) and his MEng in Micro/Nano Systems (2018) from Korea University (Seoul, Korea), where he worked on OLED material optimization. He

30 May 2023: Dame Athene Donald becomes the seventh and first female Master. The College receives a visit from the Duke of Edinburgh as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. 50th anniversary of first dinner in Dining Hall. Churchill Enterprise Competition

25 Jul 2023: Nathalie Rouach is a neurobiologist developing research on the role of glial cells in brain physiology and pathologies.

30 May 2023: Cloister infills undertaken throughout residential courts to create ensuites. Barrie Hesketh, Artist Fellow Commoner, paints Crucifixion at High Table

2 Oct 2023: Dr Andrea Oyarzún-Aravena is a Chemical Engineer and a Doctor of Engineering Sciences graduated at the Universidad de Concepción (Chile). After completing her PhD on the study of gasification reactions using ab initio methods, Dr Oyarzún

30 May 2023: Postgraduate numbers rise above 400

3 Feb 2023: Besides a series of articles and chapters related to this research, he is also working on a co-edited volume about Peru from the perspective of global history (with Alberto Vergara,