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12 Jul 2021: On Thursday 8 July, we were honoured to welcome Lord Browne and a small number of guests to the opening of Paula Browne House. Earlier this year, the John Browne Charitable Trust made a gift of &po

3 Sep 2021: Degrees     BA, MA, MPhil, PhD (all Cantab.) Awards & Prizes          &a

17 Jun 2021: Dr Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft I am the external Director of Studies in TRPR for Murray Edwards, as well as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity. I supervise undergraduate students for a

9 Jun 2021: The Murray Edwards College Student Union (MECSU) has a dedicated LGBT+ Officer whose role is to make sure that every LGBT+ student feels supported at College. The LGBT Officer is the point of conta

15 Feb 2021: A very warm welcome to Mary Graham who has recently joined our Porters' Lodge team. Mary started her career in the horse racing industry, which she greatly enjoyed as she was able to travel a

13 Oct 2021: Degrees PhD and MSc in Psycholinguistics, University of Edinburgh BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh Research Interests    My research investigat

2 Dec 2021: The President and Fellows of Murray Edwards College, founded as. New Hall, in the University of Cambridge. Annual Report and Financial Statements. Year Ended 30 June 2021 Charity Registration number 1137530. MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT AND

9 Sep 2021: A portrait of Dame Barbara Stocking by renowned artist, Daphne Todd, has been unveiled to mark her Presidency of Murray Edwards College. The work hangs in the College's Council Room alongside port

9 Jun 2021: The Cambridge University LGBT+ Campaign is run by students at the University. They run a range of social and educational events, including regular coffee meets, speaker events, pub crawls and more!

5 Oct 2021: Degrees &  Honours MBBCh – Alexandria University, Egypt MSc Biomedical engineering – Bogazici University, Turkey PhD Medical Sciences (Cognitive neuroscience) - University of Cambri

14 Jun 2021: We are delighted to announce that Amika George (2018, History) has been awarded an MBE for Services to Education in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Amika has campaigned for free period products i

2 Sep 2021: Degrees & Honours     MA (Oxon) MBBS (London) DM (Oxon) FRCP (UK) Awards & Prizes      &

3 Mar 2021: To celebrate 10 years of the Gateway Programme, we have invited 10 alumnae to share their experiences of Gateway and discuss their careers since leaving Murray Edwards. We will release one new video o

15 Feb 2021: A warm Medwards welcome to Matthew Foley who recently joined the Porters' Lodge team at College. Welcome to Murray Edwards, how does it feel to be here? I'm very pleased to be here. Even

9 Mar 2021: Murray Edwards was founded as a College for women and we are proud of our tradition of welcoming bright young women from all backgrounds to study here.  Admissions At the admissions level,

25 Aug 2021: Degrees & Honours PhD Zoology, University of Cambridge BA & MA Natural Sciences (1st), University of Cambridge Research Interests David is building and supervising a research t

16 Nov 2021: We are delighted to announce that Dr Moataz Assem, Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow in Neuroscience, has been awarded the Frith Prize by the Experimental Psychology Society. The Frith Prize

1 Feb 2021: Degrees &  Honours:      M.A. (Edinburgh), D.Phil (Oxford)        &

5 Jul 2021: Huge congratulations to our students who graduated on Saturday 3 July. What an amazing achievement! We are so proud of each and every one of you. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, guests were not permi

7 Oct 2021: Degrees &  Honours MA (Hons) History of Art, University of Edinburgh Diploma in Decorative Arts, Glasgow University Diploma in Museum Studies, University of Leicester Awards &a

3 Mar 2021: A very warm welcome to Caitlin Sparksman who recently joined the Gardens Team at College. Welcome to Murray Edwards, how does it feel to be here? I'm really happy to be working here. When I

16 Feb 2021: Serena Nik-Zainal is an alumna of the College (NH, 1995) and is a CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist and an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics.  She qualified in medicine in 2000 on a schola

9 Mar 2021: Baroness Doreen Lawrence (Honorary Fellow) was tasked by the Labour Party leader to investigate why COVID-19 disproportionately impacts people from BAME backgrounds and their communities. The findi

1 Nov 2021: Chantal-Aimée Doerries KC is currently the Head of Atkin Chambers and was Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales in 2016. She is a commercial barrister, focusing on major international energy and in

9 Aug 2021: Please read the below in conjunction with the University of Cambridge’s advice for offer holders and the College’s FAQs for undergraduate offer holders. I’ve got the results I nee

27 Aug 2021: Degrees             PhD in Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK MSc in Organic Chem

19 Jul 2021: We are delighted to announce that Khadija Tahir (2018, History) has been awarded the Alan Coulson Prize for the best dissertation on a topic in the field of British imperial expansion.  

21 May 2021: Degrees &  Honours:      MA Hons (University of Aberdeen), MA (King’s College London), PhD (King’s College London) Awards & Prizes (selected):&nb

4 Oct 2021: We are pleased to announce that five new Fellows were admitted to the College last week, in a ceremony led by President Dorothy Byrne and Praelector Dr Miranda Griffin. Left to right:

27 Aug 2021: Degrees        MA (Cantab.), MPhil (Cantab.), PhD (Cantab.) Awards & Prizes:     &

12 May 2021: Many congratulations to first year Biological Natural Scientist, Chloe Burgess, whose team 'Trial and Success' won the first Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club-AstraZ

16 Mar 2021: Chinese Go Home | Dir. Rachel Leow | 2021 | EU/Malaysia | 20 mins.  Between 1948 and 1953, over 20,000 Chinese people were deported from what was then British Malaya to China. Both the countri

27 Aug 2021: Degrees &  Honours:      Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Education (PGCTHLE) PhD (Theology) MMus (Early Music Performance Studies) MPhil (Philo

2 Feb 2021: During February, we are hosting three Subject Taster Sessions for Year 12 students who identify as female. The events will take place via Zoom. Each event includes: An overview of the Cambrid

9 Aug 2021: Many congratulations to everyone receiving their A Level or SQA results today! If you achieved the grades you need to study here, well done! You don’t need to do anything as your place is aut

17 Feb 2021: The College is delighted to announce that Dr Holly Krieger (Corfield Fellow in Mathematics) has been awarded a Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society. Dr Krieger was awarded the prize

11 Mar 2021: Each year, Murray Edwards College is proud to host the New Hall Society International Day to celebrate International Women's Day. This year, we held a special online event on Saturday 6 Ma

16 Feb 2021: The College would like to wish Anne Lonsdale a very happy 80th birthday! Anne was the third President of New Hall/Murray Edwards from 1996 to 2008 – a period that saw much change within the C

22 Jun 2021: The University of Cambridge will provide over £100 million in bursaries to support students experiencing financial pressures over the next 10 years. A new enhanced bursary scheme is

22 Jul 2021: Every year, Murray Edwards College’s science society, the Franklin Society, hosts a science-based essay competition. The competition is open to Sixth Form students (or equivalent) from any count

24 Aug 2021: The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Each year the Royal Society honours the achievements

5 Jul 2021: Lylaah Bhalerao (2017, Classics) (pictured) has received an All Disciplines Fulbright Award to enable her to study at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, on one

10 Mar 2021: The Helen Richards Creative Writing Award was launched in 2019/20 to acknowledge literary talent at Murray Edwards College. College alumna, Helen Richards (1998, English) passed away in 2017 and th

14 Apr 2021: Multilingualism is more important than ever in an increasingly interconnected world: languages are important for study, work, art, international diplomacy, and collaboration. Understanding how our lin

10 Dec 2021: Graduation ceremonies at Cambridge happen several times a year and they are always joyous occasions. After years of hard work, the fruits of a student’s labour are recognised in a formal ceremon

9 Dec 2021: Murray Edwards welcomes postgraduate student, Hanaa Yousif, thanks to group giving in support of the 'Get in Cambridge' initiative The ethos of the ‘Get in Cambridge’ i

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

25 Aug 2021: Murray Edwards College proudly flies the Rainbow Flag and the Transgender Flag on key dates in the LGBTQ+ calendar – but we know there is so much more we can do to show that we provide a warm an

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