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10 Jul 2024: This year's Cambridge Festival tickets are now available, and there are several opportunities to attend events by Corpus members. 

10 Jul 2024: The Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge owes most of its treasures to the efforts of one man: Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504-1575). However, not all of the manuscripts now housed in the Library came from his original bequest to the

10 Jul 2024: The Reverend Dr Andrew Davison, Fellow in Theology, celebrates Corpus Christi with an exploration of the text of Finzi’s well-loved anthem.

10 Jul 2024: Everyone at Corpus wishes you a merry Christmas and a wonderful 2019!

10 Jul 2024: Search. Corpus student helps COVID-19 testing. As featured in the Pelican in Brief, to meet the urgent need of diagnostic COVID tests, Isabella Ferreira (m 2019), Gates Cambridge scholar and ... Working under the supervision of Professor Ravi Gupta,

10 Jul 2024: Search. 500 Years of Cambridge Spies. Before "On the Brink", at 2.00 pm on Friday 16 October in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Professor Christopher Andrew will give an illustrated powerpoint presentation on “500 YEARS OF CAMBRIDGE SPIES” “Spies

10 Jul 2024: Corpus Christi College Boat Club took on the biggest challenge of their rowing lives on Saturday 18th September, rowing 21 miles across the legendary waters of Loch Ness. Having gone out for a practice paddle the day before in less than ideal

10 Jul 2024: Thanks to the JCR Green Officer, Andre Ediagbonya-Davies, we can all learn and share about sustainability this weekend.

10 Jul 2024: Oliver Rackham's beautiful memorial stone has been completed and set in the chapel floor, where it is available for all to see.  The stone will be dedicated at Evensong on Sunday 18 October (6.00 pm).

10 Jul 2024: Engineering or Economics. ... helpful. How is contextual data used in admissions? We are committed to ensuring that we offer admission to students of the highest intellectual potential, irrespective of socio-economic background.

10 Jul 2024: The College fully endorses the statement on Ukraine issued by the Vice-Chancellor.

10 Jul 2024: Elected: The Lord Sainsbury of Turville, K

10 Jul 2024: What does it take to display a priceless and unique historical object in a modern televised event? We at the Parker Library had to take this question seriously when we were asked to lend one of the most precious items in our collections: the

10 Jul 2024: Search. Gold, crowns and coronations. Who could have escaped the news of the coronation ceremony of King Charles III which took place in Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May 2023? For the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge the event

10 Jul 2024: The digital archives of the Parker Library are about to become more widely available and user-friendly in an update that will go live next week.

10 Jul 2024: Some of the most precious manuscripts of the Parker Library are being exhibited in museums in the UK and USA.

10 Jul 2024: Her research was in public economics with particular reference to health economics.

10 Jul 2024: Classics. Computer Science. Design. Economics. Engineering. English. 2024 Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge.

10 Jul 2024: impact tests at high velocities — essentially smashing things into her models and measuring the results.

10 Jul 2024: Last week the Master admitted four new Fellows to Corpus: Dr Duncan Hewitt (an applied mathematician), Dr Sarah Loos (a mathematician/theoretical physicist), Dr Chiara Martini (researching ancient philosophy), and Dr Alicia Smith (researching

10 Jul 2024: Corpus Fellow Dr Jenny Zhang is a group leader and BBSRC David Phillips Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, where she is re-wiring photosynthesis to generate renewable fuels. In the University's 'Women in STEM' this week, she shares why she

10 Jul 2024: Dr Barak ​​Kushner, Corpus Fellow and Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, is one of the guests on the BBC World Service discussing 'The Making of Modern Japan'.

10 Jul 2024: These Saturday lunchtime concerts, featuring many of the College’s finest musicians, take place every fortnight in the beautiful chapel.  Entry is free, with a retiring collection taken to support music in the College.  Two further concerts ar

10 Jul 2024: The Cambridge News covers the launch of a new Early Detection Programme at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre.  One of the co-leaders of the research programme is Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Fellow in Physics.

10 Jul 2024: Amy Hunt, who joined the college this term as an undergraduate student, has written her first column for the BBC Sport website.  She talks about combining her academic studies with life training as an elite athlete with an eye on the next Olympic

10 Jul 2024: Francis Maude, m 1972 History and Law, entered the House of Lords on 26 May 2015.  He was appointed Minister of State for Trade and Investment on 11 May 2015.  Francis was previously Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from May

10 Jul 2024: It is Holy Week and our Service of Music and Readings for Passiontide recounts the events of Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion using the music of Stainer’s Crucifixion, sung by the choir, and the words of St Mark’s Gospel, read by members of the

10 Jul 2024: It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of Dr Aaron Rapport, Fellow of the College since 2014 and lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge since 2013, on Thursday 27 June 2019, aged 38&#

10 Jul 2024: Dr Philippa Hoskin shares the signs of an impending plague in medieval times.  

10 Jul 2024: Contractors working in our medieval dining hall today uncovered a carved 14th century corbel, which had been hidden for decades. The ongoing renovations will eventually restore these architectural details to be in full view.

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.