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15 Oct 2021: The Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) has awarded the 2021 Aaron Rapport Prize for excellent undergraduate teaching to Dr Evaleila Pesaran, Fellow in Politics and International

16 Sep 2021: On Friday 17 September 2021, Ms Dorothy Byrne was admitted as President of Murray Edwards College. Dorothy is the sixth President to lead the College since its foundation in 1954. Prior to joining

16 Mar 2021: Recorded on the occasion of the BNPA Medal being awarded to College alumna, Eileen Joyce (NH, 1972), Professor of Psychiatry at University College London and the National Hospital for Neurology and Ne

24 Nov 2021: In Easter term, I was fortunate enough to have my Gateway Challenges Funding application approved to undertake my personal challenge of solo travel.  I had been taking part in the university C

1 Dec 2021: Although the UCL Summer School in Classics was online rather than in person this year, it was no less enjoyable. Having been placed in the most advanced Greek class, I thought this would be a challeng

1 Dec 2021: During the summer, I spent a week of July in Newquay, Cornwall. Whilst I was there, I explored the amazing coasts and countryside that Newquay has to offer, as well as swimming in the ocean every day.

1 Dec 2021: The main challenge of my research is the instability of CsPbI3 and to find an economic hole transporting layer material.

17 May 2021: At Murray Edwards College, Modern and Medieval Languages, and Linguistics is a thriving subject, with strong undergraduate numbers, a growing postgraduate community and distinguished Fellows. The G

21 Apr 2021: We are delighted to announce that the John Browne Charitable Trust has made a gift of £2million to Murray Edwards – the largest single gift to the College since 2005.   Increasing

1 Sep 2021: Murray Edwards College is delighted to be among the Colleges welcoming A-level students taking part in the pilot STEM SMART widening participation initiative, offering enhanced learning, encourag

19 Jan 2021: Distinguished art historian and winner of the 2020 Holberg Prize, Griselda Pollock, has made a generous donation to the New Hall Art Collection, which will fund the Collection’s Curator role for

24 Nov 2021: From July 19th to August 13th, I took part in the 'BUILD @ Shearman & Sterling' scheme. BUILD in this context stands for 'Black Undergraduate Internship and Lawyer Development', and the inter

5 Feb 2021: Dying of old age is down to something called senescence. After every cell division by mitosis, the DNA strands at the ends of your chromosomes called telomeres get a little shorter because of Okazaki

1 Dec 2021: I spent three weeks travelling in Greece, on what was an incredibly memorable post-graduation trip. Starting off in Athens, I travelled by ferry to three islands, each of which possessed its own parti

25 Jan 2021: I took photos from the two most challenging excursions I did while camping, a 30K cycle and a kayaking trip. There is also a picture of the communal bike pump I had to use when I got a flat tire on

24 Nov 2021: Thanks to the Gateway Challenges Fund, I was able to support the cost of a two-week trip to Saas-Fee in Switzerland for a ski racing camp at the start of September. As captain of the Ski Team, I organ

24 Nov 2021: With generous funding from Gateway Challenges Funding and Rosemary Murray Travel Award I was able this year to travel to the Leahurst Campus of the University of Liverpool, to work at their busy Equin

25 Jan 2021: This year, with the help of the Gateway Challenges Funding, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Sithonia, the middle “arm” of the Chalkidiki Peninsula. The travelling conditions and r

24 Nov 2021: This summer, with the help of Gateway funding, I spent a week in the Yorkshire Dales with some friends from university, hiking and exploring the natural landscape there. We stayed in Ingleton, a villa

1 Dec 2021: This summer I was fortunate enough to receive Gateway funding that allowed me to take a one-day Mental Health Workplace Responder course with St John Ambulance in Cambridge. I had been a Welfare Offic