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1 Nov 2017: We were delighted to read this article from Patsy Wilkinson, Second Permanent Secretary for the Home Office and also an alumna of the College (New Hall, 1980), where she discusses how our Collaboratin

13 Jun 2017: University Degrees 2001             Litt D., University of Cambridge 1975‑1978&nbsp

30 Sep 2017: During the Summer, I spent a week in Madeira with 5 of my friends from college. We had a great time exploring the island, finding a new activity to do every day. Before Madeira I had never been awa

19 Apr 2017: Joanna MacGregor is one of the world’s most innovative musicians, appearing as a concert pianist, curator and collaborator. Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of the Univers

30 Sep 2017: In 2017 I travelled to the Peruvian Amazon to take part in conservation volunteering with the Crees Foundation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve located just east of the Andes. After arriving in Cusco,

19 Apr 2017: Professor Dame Jean Thomas is Professor Emeritus of Macromolecular Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and former Fellow of New Hall.  Her research is on the structure of chro

10 Apr 2017: Dame Jessica Rawson read History at New Hall, matriculating in 1962. Rawson's academic background is in Sinology with a particular research focus on the cosmology of the Han period (206 BC-AD 220)

18 Sep 2017: Dame Barbara Stocking, the President of Murray Edwards College, has recently returned from a trip to Uganda and Kenya where, together with Helen Pennant from the Cambridge Trust, she was encouraging s

5 Apr 2017: Professor Bell Burnell matriculated at New Hall in 1965. As a postgraduate student, Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars while studying and advised by her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish

30 Sep 2017: After two weeks of teaching English in Guangzhou I arrived in Hong Kong. That evening I took the tram up to Victoria Peak which offered a spectacular night time view across the city’s glowing sky line

7 Dec 2017: Besides taking standard engineering moducles, I now study Business Economics, which I find fascinatin despite never having done it before, and I've kept up my French by doing language classes

30 Sep 2017: Using Gateway funding, I travelled to Funchal, a city on the island of Madeira in Portugal with a group of friends. As we were each travelling from different countries, planning this trip entailed coo

19 Apr 2017: Professor Dame Julia King DBE FREng is an engineer who was Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016. She read Natural Sciences at New Hall, matriculating in 1972. King is a crossbench

30 Nov 2017: I’m sure when you think of a fish, the first word that pops into your head isn’t ‘fascinating.’ Fish certainly aren't the most loved animal on the planet, and you'd think that they definitely wouldn’t

30 Sep 2017: This year with the help of Gateway Challenges Funding, I finally made it to France. I did French from Year 7 through to GCSE at high school and have never stayed in France before. I wanted the opportu

30 Sep 2017: At the beginning of August, 2017, I travelled to Augsburg in Southern Germany to complete a month-long German language course for beginners. The Gateway Fund contributed towards the cost of this trip.

2 Nov 2017: I can vividly recall the summer of 2008 in Sri Lanka, looking out of my hotel window and my eyes beholding a bright, fluorescent pink…it was a flamingo. With its broad curves and long stick-like legs

30 Sep 2017: After taking French lessons at the university’s language centre for the past two years, this summer I decided to put Gateway’s funding opportunity to good use and live in Lyon, France for two weeks.

30 Sep 2017: Cambridge Development Initiative is a student-run development CIO working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Each year, about 40 volunteers from Cambridge join with 40 volunteers from universities across Dar

30 Sep 2017: I always knew that, if I were to ever use Gateway funding for a summer experience, it had to be for a research trip to Warsaw – the city is my favourite place in the world, and its bountiful, if hea