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10 Jul 2024: On 2 July 1823, the Foundation Stone for New Court was laid in front of a throng of specators.

10 Jul 2024: After many years I finally returned to Japan last May to spend a relaxing holiday with my family and friends. I also took the opportunity to reconnect and exchange ideas with my colleagues in the museum, library, and conservation fields. Of course,

10 Jul 2024: Dr Philippa Hoskin looks at how Matthew Parker dealt with unwanted guests in time of plague.

10 Jul 2024: Search. A visit by alumnus Hugh Bonneville. The College was thrilled to have a visit from alumni Hugh Bonneville (m. 1982) during his recent visit to Cambridge to participate in the Cambridge Literary Festival. Hugh is a multi-award-winning actor

10 Jul 2024: Search. Oliver Rackham digital archive. The Cambridge Digital Library has finished preparing the first showing of the Oliver Rackham web pages: You can now view online some of Oliver's notebooks. The red notebooks form a chronological sequence, and

10 Jul 2024: Search. Hong Kong robotics competition. In collaboration with the WYNG and Philomathia foundations, Corpus Christi College has recently organised a competition for Form 4 and 5 school students in Hong Kong on the theme of artificial intelligence and

10 Jul 2024: It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of our distinguished alumnus and Honorary Fellow Shaharyar Muhammad Khan (m.1953). He died in Lahore after a long illness on Saturday 23 March 2024 aged 89, six days before his 90th

10 Jul 2024: Search. MSCA prize for Dr Sarah Bohndiek. promotes the achievements of the best Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions grant holders. Dr Sarah Bohndiek has been awarded the 2014 "Nurturing Research Talent" prize. Throughout her career, Sarah has been

10 Jul 2024: Corpus Fellows, Professor David Abrahams and Dr Anastasia Kisil feature among the interviewees in recent podcasts from the University's Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

10 Jul 2024: The college’s foundational document has been on display since the start of the year as part of the current ‘Town and Gown’ exhibition. The historic link with St Bene’t’s church, attested in this document, is celebrated anew in this yea

10 Jul 2024: Dr Shruti Kapila, Fellow in History, discusses Nitish Kumar and his politics in The Wire: 'Why Anti-Corruption Was the Perfect Mask for Nitish to Align With BJP'.

10 Jul 2024: Search. Dr Kushner's Prizewinning Noodles. Dr Barak Kushner, Fellow of Corpus Christi and Senior Lecturer in Japanese History, has been awarded the Sophie Coe Prize for writing in food history. He won the accolade for his fascinating book on the

10 Jul 2024: In fact, the eagle tests its young by holding them up to the sun, and if they cannot look right at it, they are cast out of the nest.

10 Jul 2024: The Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College offer their warm congratulations to Honorary Fellow, Dr John C Taylor, who has been made an OBE in the New Year Honours for his services to Business and to Horology.  

10 Jul 2024: Plants really don’t move. The majority grow in the same places, look the same, smell the same, and act the same for thousands of years, and this slow evolution is a useful lodestone to help us navigate the shoals of botanical thought, which have

10 Jul 2024: Dr Emma Spary, Fellow in History, discusses drug-taking (the taking of 'a material substance that packed a powerful punch in a small volume') in 17th-century Paris in the latest issue of CAM Magazine. Read the full article here.

10 Jul 2024: Alice Taylor joined Corpus as a Butler’s Assistant in March, 2023. Other than travels and study, Alice has lived in Cambridge her whole life. Tell us about your job at Corpus It is a mixture of running cafeteria, working on student events,

10 Jul 2024: Search. Curing Thousands of Diseases. One of the great privileges of working in The Parker Library is the opportunity to slowly discover the collections, to spend a few minutes looking at a manuscript whose shelfmark you don’t recognise, to talk

10 Jul 2024: Dr Rachel Adelstein's research interests cover contemporary Jewish liturgical music, artistic expressions of Jewish feminism and American vernacular musics. In this podcast, Dr Adelstein examines music in the life of the Jews of Kerala.    

10 Jul 2024: Engineering PhD student Yashas Raj went to COP28. Here's what it was like.

10 Jul 2024: Applications are invited for one non-stipendiary Research Fellowship tenable for three years from 1 October 2011.  

10 Jul 2024: Professor Christopher Howe is one of the team of researchers who have discovered that a common insect larva that eats beeswax also break downs chemical bonds in the plastic used for packaging and shopping bags at uniquely high speeds. The discovery

10 Jul 2024: The College is delighted to welcome our first Domus Bursar, Gemma Donaldson. Gemma joins us having previously held the role of Faculty Operating Officer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Whilst at the School G

10 Jul 2024: A research team led by Corpus Fellow Dr ​​Fumiya Iida, has developed what is believed to be the first robotic lettuce leaf peeling system of its kind.

10 Jul 2024: This manuscript comprises chronicles and records of benefactions to St Albans Abbey, compiled in St Albans in the early fifteenth century. The picture of the abbot and his monks (on the right) illustrates the account of the death of John de la Moote

10 Jul 2024: The Parker Library was recently featured in Le Monde alongside Cambridge University Library, Gonville and Caius,Trinity and Pembroke Colleges. 

10 Jul 2024: If you have a positive COVID-19 test result, please follow Government guidance.

10 Jul 2024: Melvin Jefferson, Conservation Officer describes how almost every leaf of every one of the 600 books was captured in high-resolution digital format, using state-of-the-art equipment to provide a free virtual Parker Library on the web.

10 Jul 2024: Search. Funding for Abdullah Kattineh achieved. Abdullah Kattineh, a Syrian student from Damascus, heard back in January that he had won a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences after battling with extraordinary

10 Jul 2024: The Scala Mundi, or ‘Ladder of the World’, is a diagrammatical chronicle of universal history from the Creation to the early fourteenth century, when the manuscript was made. It includes the earliest known depiction of Stonehenge, described

10 Jul 2024: Just a day after we welcomed back the Corpus Chronophage following a vandalism attack that damaged its protective glass, the clock has been wreathed in flowers for one day only as part of British Flowers Week (26-30 June). The Cambridge hub of

10 Jul 2024: Some of the College’s distant past is being revealed by the current Old House Kitchen project.  The work is concentrated in the old Master’s Lodge and Hall, the first parts of the College to be constructed, in 1352. The college kitchens are

10 Jul 2024: Matilda Gillis joined Corpus in Michaelmas 2022 as the Hong Kong Link Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Law. Matilda researches in international law, human rights law and immigration law. Her doctoral research, which she is currently revising

10 Jul 2024: John Richardson is Tutorial Administrator and Praelector’s Secretary. He is has worked at Corpus for six months and is originally from Huntington Beach, California. Tell us about your job at Corpus

10 Jul 2024: In work funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Corpus Fellow Dr Ewan St. John Smith and Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr James Hockley, both based in the Department of Pharmacology teamed up with DragonLight Films to

10 Jul 2024: Dr Fumiya Iida, Corpus Fellow and Reader in Robotics, discusses the diversity and adaptations of the Earth's evolving life forms to design more autonomous "bio-inspired" robots.

10 Jul 2024: Search. History and Modern Languages. History and Modern Languages at Corpus Fact File. Typical Offer: AAA in A Levels (or equivalent). Required subjects: History, a language (unless proposing to study a language from scratch). Submitted written

10 Jul 2024: Dr Ewan St. John Smith, Fellow in Pharmacology and Director of Studies in Biological Natural Sciences, is one of the senior authors of a new study published in the journal Nature.  The study sheds new light on why naked mole-rats are so resistant

10 Jul 2024: Search. An interview with Dave Barton, Head Gardener. Latest news. 2024 Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge. Web design by Contra Digital Agency.

10 Jul 2024: Congratulations to the winners of the Atkin Chambers Cuppers Moot Final 2021-22 Dominic Bielby and Curtis Allen, representing Corpus Christi, and the runners-up Jonty Yin and Saifullah Shah representi

10 Jul 2024: It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of Professor Oliver Rackham OBE MA PhD FBA, Botanist, Master of the College 2007-8, Fellow of the College 1964-2007 and 2008-2010, Honorary Fellow 2008-2015 and Life Fellow 2010-2015, on

10 Jul 2024: On a recent trip to Asia, Corpus Admissions Tutor Dr Michael Sutherland and Director of Development & Alumni Relations Rachel Lawson visited schools and alumni in Hong Kong.

10 Jul 2024: Under the leadership of Captain of Boats Lucy Hall, women's captain Bella Beckett, and Men's Captain Jack Morley, four Corpus boats will take to the River Cam today for four days of fierce competition for those all-important willow garlands. Follow

10 Jul 2024: Search. A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World. As part of my work experience here at the Parker Library I was given the opportunity to do my own research and write it up on a blog post. This was an amazing chance to see what research

10 Jul 2024: Think of algae and you’ll probably think trouble. Algal blooms turned the diving pool green at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Smelly seaweed ruins many a trip to the beach. But Professor Alison Smith, Professor of Plant Biochemistry at the University of

10 Jul 2024: Search. An unforgettable adventure - The Kombi Trail. Fifty two years ago eight Cambridge men bought two VW Kombi vans, travelled to 21 countries and called the whole thing The Expedition. Fifty years later they finally wrote a book about it, The

10 Jul 2024: Having a diverse student body, with academically outstanding students from across all socio-economic backgrounds is an important goal for Corpus. ... socio-economic deprivation, or having been in care (see Cambridge University’s contextual data system)

10 Jul 2024: Dr Richard Henderson (m1966), winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Honorary Fellow of the College will be on Radio 4 'The life Scientific' (Tuesday 13 February) at 9am.   

10 Jul 2024: Corpus alumnus and Fellow Dr Alexis Joannides will be featured in BBC Two’s ‘Surgeons: At the Edge of Life’ at 21.00 today, Thursday 2 December 2021.

10 Jul 2024: Search. The genetic roots of childhood kidney cancer. Fellow in Medical Sciences, is the lead author of a new paper in the journal Science that uncovers the genetic roots of the childhood kidney cancer Wilms’ tumour. He comments: "The discovery of