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10 Jul 2024: Corpus Fellow Dr Aaron Rapport discusses the most destructive weapons and how they continue to shape international politics .

10 Jul 2024: UPDATE: Many congratulations to Andrew, who was the winner of this award. Dr Andrew Sanger has been shortlisted by the Cambridge Student Union for a Student-Led Teaching Award for Small-Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences).&#x

10 Jul 2024: The Farm Africa Chefs Five-a-side Football Tournament returned on Sunday 3 July for its fourth year. Held in Birmingham, this popular tournament draws teams from around the country to compete for the coveted title of Farm Africa Football Champions.

10 Jul 2024: Search. Inaugural Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize. The Jessica and Peter Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and Fellow of King's College,is the inaugural winner of the Aaron Rapport prize, awarded by the

10 Jul 2024: Search. Corpus Presence at Canterbury Enthronement. Our oldest and most precious book, the St Augustine Gospels (CCCC MS 286), also known as the Canterbury Gospels, played an important role today (Thursday the 21st of March) in the enthronement of

10 Jul 2024: The Parker Library has been featured in today's Guardian Art & Design editorial: "The Guardian view on digitising culture: make manuscripts more illuminating". 

10 Jul 2024: On 11th January 2016 it was announced that Clare is to be appointed as Queen’s Counsel.  She will be sworn in by the Lord Chief Justice at a ceremony on 22nd February 2016. Clare studied law at Corpus, from where she graduated with a firs

10 Jul 2024: Jess Peet, who graduated in 2014 from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Easter Studies with a degree in Japanese Studies, was recently awarded the Ivan Morris Prize for 2014-15, for her undergraduate dissertation, ''The Play's the Thing': Fukuda

10 Jul 2024: The answer is no. We don't expect applicants to have read certain things and we aren't looking to test knowledge acquired from specific books.

10 Jul 2024: In what might be a first for a Cambridge College, two Corpus alumni are set to compete in the final of the BBC television quiz show Mastermind. The show will be broadcast on Monday 11 April at 20.00.

10 Jul 2024: Corpus students were narrowly outscored by Fellows yesterday as the annual cricket match was played on the field at Leckhampton. The final result was Fellows: 100 (in 18 overs), Students: 95 (in 20 overs). Fellow Professor Simon Godsill, who

10 Jul 2024: We are pleased to announce that the College has welcomed eight new Fellows to Corpus this academic year in a traditional ceremony led by the Master, Professor Christopher Kelly.

10 Jul 2024: Dr James Warren, Corpus Fellow and Reader in Ancient Philosophy, was a guest panelist this morning on the popular Radio 4 programme In Our Time. The show featured a discussion of a central question raised in Plato's Republic - "Is it always better

10 Jul 2024: Today on 19 September we recognise the 12th anniversary of the unveiling of the Corpus Clock by Professor Stephen Hawking. Corpus alumnus Dr John C Taylor is the creator of the clock, which remains internationally recognised for its light display

10 Jul 2024: THE founder of Scottish charity the Teapot Trust has been honoured in the Queen’s New Year Honours. Laura Young, founder of the East Lothian-based charity, has received a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of her

10 Jul 2024: COVID19 vaccines and tests.

10 Jul 2024: The Admissions Team and all of us here at Corpus congratulation our successful applicants during a challenging A-level period.

10 Jul 2024: Congratulations to Guild Fellow, Laura Young, for being named 'Tesco Charitable Mum of the Year' 2014. More about the award and the work of Laura's charity, the Teapot Trust, can be found here.

10 Jul 2024: Consultant Archivist Dr Lucy Hughes and Book Conservator Mito Matsumaru turn to science to research the College's original ‘Grant of Arms’ .

10 Jul 2024: Since graduating from her PhD, Harriet has held fellowships at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

10 Jul 2024: Downing Street has announced that the Rt Rev Graham Usher (m1993) will become the ​72nd Bishop of Norwich.

10 Jul 2024: Copies of The Record 2022 No. 101 are arriving in the post for Corpuscles across the globe. For those who have not yet received it or have opted to read the digital version, you also can read it online now.

10 Jul 2024: The College would like to congratulate the following Corpus Fellows who have received academic promotions:

10 Jul 2024: At its meeting in March the College Governing Body approved a new Statement on Investment. At its meeting in March the College Governing Body approved a new Statement on Investment. 

10 Jul 2024: If all goes to plan, next week will see the landing of the NASA Mars rover Perseverence in a 48-km-wide Martian crater called Jezero. The rover will explore the crater for at least one Mars year (687 Earth days) collecting rock and soil sam

10 Jul 2024: Matthew Parker had been chaplain to Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII. His close relationship with their daughter, Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth, had an important part to play in his life, She was born on 7 September 1533. This coloured

10 Jul 2024: Several tons of bronze resounded this weekend from the tower at All Saints' Church Landbeach, thanks to restoration of and additions to the church's bells. In addition to cleaning and repairing the existing bells, one of which dates back to medieval

10 Jul 2024: Following the resounding success of last year’s Pelican Programme, the second year of our super-curricular engagement initiative is underway. This six-month Programme sees Year 12 students from educationally disadvantaged and underrepresented

10 Jul 2024: Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle (​m1976) as the new Dean of Westminster.

10 Jul 2024: Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Honorary Fellow, is interviewed in the Guardian about her new novel and the return of Tracy Beaker.

10 Jul 2024: Cooking is one of these tasks: earlier tests with their robot ‘chef’ have produced a passable omelette using feedback from human tasters. ... To imitate the change in texture caused by chewing, the team then put the egg mixture in a blender and had

10 Jul 2024: The Green Impact auditors commented, "Corpus Christi were eager to get both staff and students involved in the Green Impact Scheme and were doing great work fulfilling the targets across a range of sectors.” Top College Teams:  368 points Clar

10 Jul 2024: Last month, the Master and Fellows were delighted to welcome Mrs Gill Maull, widow of Dr David Maull (m1961) and their grandson, Oliver, to the Fellows' Garden for the dedication of a bench in David's honour. In dedicating the bench, the current

10 Jul 2024: The Office for Fair Access (OFFA) has approved the University of Cambridge’s Access Agreement for 2012/13.

10 Jul 2024: Corpus PhD student to speak at Cambridge Festival about Hortense Mancini and her celebrated London salon.  

10 Jul 2024: This late thirteenth-century Apocalypse was owned by Thomas Markaunt (c.1382-1439), senior proctor of the University and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. The pictures here show the elders around the Throne of God. By his will of November 1439,

10 Jul 2024: Non-Stipendiary Research Fellowship Applications are invited for one non-stipendiary Research Fellowship, tenable for up to three years from 1 October 2014. Applications are welcome in any subject. Candidates must have external funding support for

10 Jul 2024: Corpus Fellow Professor Alison Smith discusses how Brexit will affect scientific research.

10 Jul 2024: The Parker Library is privileged to host an exhibition that combines medieval manuscripts with astrolabes (thank you Whipple Museum for the loans!) and modern art works. Our second Parker Library Early-Career Research Fellow, E.K. Myerson has

10 Jul 2024: Corpus Fellow and Head of Plant Science at Cambridge, Professor Alison Smith was recently highlighted in The Telegraph on how microalgae can be a viable alternative to other, more high-impact foods. Learn more about her insight into algae as a

10 Jul 2024: A new book by Life Fellow Christopher Andrew looks at the life and surprising dual careers of Corpus alumnus Cyril Bertram Mills (m.1955). Although Cyril graduated from Corpus with an MA in Engineering, he went on to become joint director of the

10 Jul 2024: The College is saddened to report the passing of Old Member General Lord David Ramsbotham, former British Army Officer, Chief Inspector of Prisons and an Honorary Fellow of the College.

10 Jul 2024: At Corpus we are proud that our Fellowship consists of a such supportive group of academics, with no greater example than Dr Andrew Sanger. Andrew is a University Associate Professor in International Law and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for

10 Jul 2024: The two-volume Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris (c.1190-1259), monk of St Albans, is one of the major records of history at the time of the Crusades. It is the author’s own copy, with illustrations in his own hand. The picture here shows the d

10 Jul 2024: Professor Barak Kushner, Director of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, appears in a 75th anniversary, 8 part documentary series on “War Crimes Trials in East Asia,” produced by the Shanghai Media Group. An international team produced

10 Jul 2024: This is the finest surviving copy of Chaucer’s epic Trojan romance, Troilus and Criseyde, illuminated in London c.1415-20, perhaps for the royal prisoner in the Tower of London, Charles d’Orléans (1394-1465). The frontispiece shows Geoffrey

10 Jul 2024: The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded grants worth a total of €627 million to 308 researchers across Europe, amongst the four Cambridge University awardees is Fellow of Corpus Dr Jenny Zhang The grants are part of the European Union’s

10 Jul 2024: This year's Corpus Challenge took on a new format, as the traditional clash with Corpus Christi College Oxford was cancelled. Our students were determined not to let their competitive spirit lapse, however, and rather than face their traditional

10 Jul 2024: Since studying for an MPhil in American Literature at Corpus, Antonia Cundy (m2017) has carved out an impressive career in journalism which led to her winning multiple awards for her recent coverage of the war in Ukraine. She won the Marie Colvi

10 Jul 2024: Former Devizes schoolboy turned internationally acclaimed composer Simon May has been awarded an honorary degree in recognition of his contribution to the music industry. He was in Southampton to receive his Doctor of Music from Solent University.