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5 Nov 2020: The first week of November has been a significant date for Trinity Hall since its foundation 670 years ago, featuring important donations that gave the College the distinctive look we see today and our connections with the Gunpowder Plot.

17 Jul 2020: More than 120 people attended the virtual Open Day on Friday 26 June.

16 Apr 2020: Gerard Manley Hopkins poem God’s Grandeur Hopkins poem is not just another lament for the wounds we have inflicted on our world. As a Christian priest, a Jesuit, he sees the damage we have done as our failure to “Reck God’s rod”, and calls

2 Nov 2020: 66. Trinity Hall Front Court. Lockdown at WychfieldEmpty hallways. People leaving one by one. ... The Passage’s aim is to provide homeless people with support to transform their own lives.

17 Oct 2020: From my experience it was very apparent, and remains so, that those at greatest risk are the elderly and people with underlying conditions.

20 May 2020: Apart from the general anxiety that came with the sudden and rapid change in the operations of the University as a result of the pandemic, mine was worsened for two reasons. Firstly, I am visually impaired and the lockdown meant that I was going to

30 Sep 2020: On 29 September 2020, Blackbaud contacted us to advise that after the initial ransomware attack, they continued their investigation which revealed a subset of customers who had been affected further than they previously anticipated. They have

23 Apr 2020: Mia Hansen-Løve’s film Things to Come (L’Avenir, 2016) depicts a woman at a time of personal crisis: her husband has unexpectedly left her, her publisher has dropped the book series she edits, and caring for her elderly mother is becoming an

27 Apr 2020: My reason for this was because the painting was to hang in a place full of young people, so colour might bring life and vibrancy to the portrait. ... After a series of somewhat exhausting climbing trips, I started to wonder how people tolerated normal

12 Nov 2020: Trinity Hall has recently approved a revised investment policy. As part of this revision the College has committed to divest within six months from direct investments in companies whose primary activity is in fossil fuel exploration or extraction.

19 May 2020: Highs and lows with Elgar When I went up to the Hall in 1967 to read Modern and Mediaeval Languages, I took with me the rather dodgy amplifier for an electric guitar which I had never learned to play and a painted plywood box of my own manufacture

13 Apr 2020: Trinity Hall musicians are using their talents to keep our community spirits up by recording performances in their homes. From piano to vocals to French horn, and classical to modern songs. Every Monday, the Trinity Hall YouTube channel shares a new

26 May 2020: And if that’s not enough, people look at the state of the political world today, and that seems almost worse.

12 Nov 2020: Dr Gonçalo Bernardes, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Chemistry at Trinity Hall, has been selected to receive the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist award.

7 May 2020: During lockdown, I have been ‘meeting’ weekly on Zoom with the friends I made while training for ministry thirty years ago. We’re scattered around the UK and beyond, these days and see each other less often than I’d like. But these are

25 Sep 2020: Alumnus Billy Boyle (1997) is a serial inventor, entrepreneur and a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medallist. At Cambridge, he co-founded Owlstone Nanotech, marketing a programmable microchip sensor with applications ranging from toxic gas

31 May 2020: One of the great pleasures of teaching English Literature is that my students often surprise and delight me with the unusual material that they find to study, especially when they move on to more independent research in their final year, or

20 Jul 2020: It connects people to community services and resources, such as gardening, walking groups and debt advice, which enhance their health and wellbeing. ... GoodGym (London). GoodGym is a fitness community that combines exercise with volunteering for

15 Dec 2020: Yet because it was filmed during lockdown, the footage lacked the vital Trinity Hall ingredient: its people. ... The most important factor throughout 2020 so far has been communication and keeping as many people.

5 May 2020: Professor Jack Thorne (2004) has become the youngest living member of the Royal Society, aged 32. He has been recognised for multiple breakthroughs in diverse areas of algebraic number theory. Professor Thorne studied Mathematics at Trinity Hall

22 May 2020: A joint statement from the heads of all 31 colleges at the University of Cambridge, including the Acting Vice- Master of Trinity Hall Dr Daniel Tyler, has appeared in The Times. The statement says in full: “As heads of Cambridge colleges, we have

24 Sep 2020: September update The College’s Fellows, staff and JCR and MCR Committees have been working hard to ensure time spent in College is as Covid-secure and comfortable as possible. Our priority remains promoting the safety, wellbeing and health of

6 Nov 2020: It is crucial to raise awareness about how many people suffer from mental illness in Cambridge, like everywhere else, and to make sure that we can speak about this openly, and

11 Dec 2020: To protect vulnerable people and other members of the public the College acts in the following way:. • ... We have a policy for fundraising from vulnerable people which can be found on our website. •

13 Nov 2020: At the start of the last academic year, the Vice-Chancellor announced the Harding Challenge, made possible by part of a £100 million gift from David and Claudia Harding. The Harding’s vision is to encourage new donors to collegiate Cambridge and

3 Jun 2020: Announcing the social entrepreneurs shortlisted for the 2020 Cambridge Social Innovation Prize, awarded by Trinity Hall and the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cambridge From fighting loneliness on your morning jog, to

7 May 2020: As a result of Philipp’s work, the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) convened a citizens’ assembly to give people living and working in Cambridge the chance share their views on the

8 Dec 2020: Many people chose shots that highlighted the wonderful surroundings of Trinity Hall and the people in it.

8 Jan 2020: But it is to say that the widest possible variety of people do come to Cambridge. ... In 2009, during the global financial meltdown, our investments were as badly affected as most people’s.

27 Jul 2020: A woman who had a life-saving kidney transplant back in 1970 celebrates 50 years of healthy active life. Angela Dunn, now 74 and living in France, is thought to be the longest-surviving transplant* patient in the world, still leading a healthy life

30 Nov 2020: Taking on a tech giant like Google requires preparation and hard evidence, particularly when the target for legal challenge is the jewel in its crown – the Google search engine. A recent ruling made against Google shows European nations are taking

4 May 2020: Seven of Trintiy Hall’s final year medical students graduated earlier than planned on 13 April from the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine. This enables them to seek early registration with the General Medical Council (GMC),

30 Sep 2020: The Meetings Industry Association (mia) has awarded Trinity Hall AIM Covid Secure accreditation, highlighting our excellent health and hygiene standards. The AIM Secure award also recognises our operational excellence, our commitment to best