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11 Dec 2020: OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED If you’re a student, join the Wiki Women project where you can learn skills to help create 150 Newnham-related entries. Join the fight against climate change. We are hoping to see 150 native trees bought, planted and

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21 Dec 2020: Ten Newnham Treasures

11 Dec 2020: Unpaid labour, board & lodging – women’s contribution to economic growth in England 1260-1860 Professor Jane Humphries CBE (NC 1967) will deliver the third of our four special 150th Anniversary Lectures, examining women’s unpaid work and the

7 Jul 2020: Our daily cycle is controlled by a central clock known as the SCN, but it has been unclear how the network of cells that make up the SCN generate the properties that make it a strong clock. Michael Hastings’ group has identified a signalling axis

11 Dec 2020: The second installment in our ‘Wicked Problems in a Complex World’ series will see former BBC World News director and now documentary producer, Sian Kevill (NC 1979), tackling the ‘Wicked Problem’ ... There will be a new film of the Dorothy

8 Jul 2020: Menna Clatworthy’s group has identified a key signalling molecule in determining the balance between wound healing and defence against bacterial invasion, with implications for our understanding of the immune system’s role in inflammatory bowel

15 Jul 2020: Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic joins as a new Group Leader in the PNAC Division, where she will continue her work on regulation of transcription in the context of DNA damage.

23 Mar 2020: Research. Uncertainty about facts can be reported without damaging public trust in news – study.. ... Email. I wish to receive a weekly Cambridge research news summary by email.

25 Nov 2020: Wren Display: Grinling Gibbons. 25/11/2020. Item: Detail of a carving. Date: 17th century. ... Recent News. Legal and Governance. Misc Info. Enquiries:. Trinity College Cambridge.

11 Dec 2020: Join our 150th Anniversary online Wiki workshop for MCR & JCR students led by Dr Alice White - Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust 2-5pm on Saturday 20 March 2021 (pre-booking required) There are still spaces available, don't miss out and

21 Dec 2020: Click to enlarge This banner, first carried in the suffrage marches of the early 20th century, will be familiar to alumnae and is one of the most treasured items in the collection. It was created by students of Newnham and Girton in their fight for

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14 Apr 2020: Lucidity and science. III: Hypercredulity, quantum mechanics, and scientific truth. PROFESSOR MICHAEL E. McINTYRE. Centre for Atmospheric Science at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.

25 Nov 2020: Wren Display: A Bestiary. 25/11/2020. Item: Bestiary. Date: 13th century. A bestiary is an illustrated compendium of mythical and real animals which, like Books of Hours, was often used ... Recent News. Legal and Governance. Misc Info. Enquiries:.

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28 Sep 2020: Keep in mind costs that are not just monetary - how the item was produced, who made it and in what conditions, how many miles it had to travel.

22 Dec 2020: Artist Jilly Edwards created two remarkable works in tapestry for the Dorothy Garrod Building: subtle evocations of the rhythms of College life. Newnham has a strong tradition of the arts, and significant examples of global textile art: these pieces

10 Mar 2020: News-letter Sept. 1988, copy responses by Warren to Revd. Richard Kew relevant to latter’s work on Evangelicals 1880-1930 (1975) and paper by Warren on ‘Presence and Proclamation’ for ... 1981. 12 ‘The Ayatollah and the Archbishop’ by Kenneth

11 Dec 2020: You can do this as an individual, group or as part of a society or external organisation. You may want to deliver your project – large or small – virtually or with a real life element (when circumstances allow). It might be an exhibition or

22 Dec 2020: Currently housed in Newnham's Senior Common Room. Amongst the decorative art collections at Newnham are a number of items associated with the traditional college ritual of tea parties in student rooms. Several Victorian copper kettles survive from

25 Nov 2020: Wren Display: Christmas Greetings. 25/11/2020. Item: Envelope. Date: 1942. The correspondence of Robert Calverley Trevelyan, a poet and dramatist and his Dutch wife Elizabeth, a musician is kept at ... Recent News. Legal and Governance. Misc Info.

22 Dec 2020: Jane Ellen Harrison The ghost of Jane Harrison has a notorious walk-on part in Virginia Woolf’s feminist classic, A Room of One’s Own, flitting across the gardens of Fernham (a very thinly disguised Newnham) College. For Woolf, Harrison was one

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25 Nov 2020: Wren Display: David Louis Clemetson. 25/11/2020. Item: Photograph of the First Trinity Rugby Boat Team. ... Recent News. Legal and Governance. Misc Info. Enquiries:. Trinity College Cambridge.

15 Dec 2020: Dr Maria Ubiali, Fellow and Sheila Edmonds Lecturer in Mathematics Dr Maria Ubiali’s journey into particle physics started as a 16-year old in Milan, with a fascination for art and a frustration with her artistic abilities. But, babysitting the

25 Nov 2020: Wren Display: Woodcuts from Greenland. 25/11/2020. Item: Kaladlit Assilialiait. Date: 1860. ... Recent News. Legal and Governance. Misc Info. Enquiries:. Trinity College Cambridge.

22 Dec 2020: Pilot, architect and entrepreneur, Jadwiga Piłsudska contributed hugely to her adopted country of Britain. She was born in Poland in 1920, the younger daughter of Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Poland’s Chief of State and then dictator. As a teenager,

15 Dec 2020: ‘When I told my dad I was studying disorder he said, “yes, that makes sense”’, Dr Gabi Heller says, grinning. There’s a persistent stereotype that scientific labs are very serious places. But for Gabi, the word she uses over and over again

15 Dec 2020: Gabriela Ramos, Fellow and historian of colonial Latin America, is campaigning to protect one of the most important Inca landscapes from further damaging development. When we meet, Gabriela has just returned from a summer trip to Lucanas, a little

15 Dec 2020: 1911–1998 (Bhagvat) Around the time Kamala Bhagvat was born in India in 1911, the literacy rate among Indian women was below 1%, as they were denied education and any role outside of the home. Fortunately for her (and the world), her family

15 Dec 2020: 1933–2019 (Bye-Fellow, 1994–5) A major scholarship announced this year is dedicated to Rehana Tanwir, who led numerous UN missions around the world in a career spanning more than 30 years at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)/World Food

15 Dec 2020: 1927–2013 Imprisoned for 14 years in a fetid cell, Princess Aida Desta was a woman of remarkable courage. Princess Aida was the eldest granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. After the occupation of Ethiopia by Italy in 1936, she

15 Dec 2020: After he drowned, when Shelley’s body was found, it was so decomposed that they identified him by his clothes and the books in his pocket, Mathelinda said. So you mean that the art survived, and the poet’s body was destroyed? I said. That seems

15 Dec 2020: One of the first Margaret Anstee Research Fellows explains how some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world have become a key battleground in the energy transition Why did you choose to focus on lithium extraction in South America? Lithium is

21 Dec 2020: 1891 – 1968 (Taylor, NC 1912) As a young research scientist, Alice Buxton Taylor worked on the material properties of ceramics and glass, testing how they behaved under pressure and high temperatures at the National Physics Laboratory. The sheer

22 Dec 2020: Margaret Anstee came to Newnham from rural Essex in 1944, to read Modern and Mediaeval Languages. Her school was dubious that someone with her background could apply to Cambridge, but her parents, who hadn’t been able to attend secondary school

15 Dec 2020: 1894–1995 (Elam, NC 1912) At the height of the Second World War, merchant ships carrying vital supplies across the Atlantic were breaking apart - without any apparent cause. The answer seemed obvious – the inexperienced women welding the

15 Dec 2020: Susan Golombok’s career was shaped when she picked up a copy of Spare Rib – that iconic 70s feminist magazine – and read an article about lesbian mothers. It was the beginning of a 40-year career studying new forms of families. She has now