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12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham marks Anne Jemima Clough’s bicentenary. January 20th, 2020. Self-taught scholar, teacher, suffragist, passionate advocate of women’s education and our founding Principal. Anne Jemima Clough was a

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Mlle Laura Ouillon. Lectrice. Lectrice. Email:Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue. Cambridge. CB3 9DF. Tel. 44 (0)1223 335700. Quicklinks. Related Websites. Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DF, UK. T.

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. A tribute to Betty Boothroyd (1929 to 2023). February 28th, 2023. We were sad to hear of the death of Betty, Lady Boothroyd, the first female Speaker of the House of Commons and an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Sharon Cheung. Database Assistant. Database Assistant. Email:Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue. Cambridge. CB3 9DF. Tel. 44 (0)1223 335700. Quicklinks. Related Websites. Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge,

11 Jun 2024: 450-1100 AD). How much did people travel in the past? And where did they travel from and to?

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Mr Callum McGachen. Night Porter. Night Porter. Telephone: 01223 335700. Email:Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue. Cambridge. CB3 9DF. Tel. 44 (0)1223 335700. Quicklinks. Related Websites. Newnham College. Sidgwick

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Ilaria Harrison. Café Manager. Café Manager. Staff Health & Safety Representative. Telephone: 01223 763869. Email:Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue. Cambridge. CB3 9DF. Tel. 44 (0)1223 335700. Quicklinks. Related

15 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Congratulations to the Newnham graduands of 2019. July 01st, 2019. Black robes in a heatwave, farewells to friends, and a certificate held tightly in hot hands. Three years of challenge, friendship and learning

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Dr Harry Baker. BA (Open), MSc (London Guildhall), DSc (Open). Privileges of a Fellow Emerita. Privileges of a Fellow Emerita. Email: hfb22@cam.ac.uk. Initially a biochemist I began my 43 year career with the

11 Jun 2024: More than 1,000 people in total attended this year’s festival which included a stimulating series of lectures, tours and events at various locations across the city.

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Dr Alex Bryan. BA (York), MA (York), PhD (KCL). Director of Studies. Director of Studies. Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in Philosophy. Email: ajb387@cam.ac.uk. Dr Alexander Bryan is an Isaac

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Rebecca Woollard. IT Manager. IT Manager. Telephone: 01223 763112. Email:Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue. Cambridge. CB3 9DF. Tel. 44 (0)1223 335700. Quicklinks. Related Websites. Newnham College. Sidgwick Avenue,

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. ‘Forgotten’ Newnham poet to be celebrated in BBC documentary. November 18th, 2016. The life and work of a Newnham alumna once described by Virginia Woolf as ‘her own heroine – capricious, exacting and very

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Dr Ruth Scurr. BA (Oxon), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab). Director of Studies, Postgraduate Mentor. Director of Studies in History & Politics (Politics). Director of Studies in Human, Social & Political Sciences

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham author secures grant for ‘dazzling’ book . November 01st, 2022. Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi has been awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete her critical memoir. The Trembling Hand:

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Mr Michael Chapman. Senior Porter. Senior Porter. Telephone: 01223 335800. Email: senior.porters@newn.cam.ac.uk. Born in London, Mike trained as an Electrical Engineer and moved to Cambridgeshire over 30 years ago,

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Farewell to a College super-hero after 21 years. February 26th, 2019. Some superheroes carry cookbooks – and Peter Robinson, the Catering Manager affectionately known as ‘CatMan’ to Newnham College students,

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Professor Lisa Saksida. BSc (Western Ontario), MA (British Columbia), MA (Cantab), MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Carnegie Mellon). Privileges of a Fellow Emerita. Privileges of a Fellow Emerita. Telephone: 44 (0) 1223

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Dr Niamh Mulcahy. Special Supervisor. Special Supervisor in Sociology. Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Financial Insecurity; CRASSH. Email: nagm2@cam.ac.uk. Dr Niamh Mulcahy is an economic sociologist

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham student named ‘most committed’ in Sports England awards. August 16th, 2017. A Newnham sportswoman who juggled her PhD studies with playing Goalball around the world has just been given the ‘most

12 Jun 2024: Another co-edited collection, Chosen Peoples: the Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (Manchester Studies in Imperialism, 2020), points towards his next project, which aims to use the

16 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham’s first BAME formal hall a night to remember. November 03rd, 2023. One of my first priorities as BAME Officer was to have a BAME formal. The idea of students from different backgrounds coming together in

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Lindsey Charlesworth. Development Assistant & Gifts Administrator. Development Assistant & Gifts Administrator. Telephone: 01223 335757. Email: lindsey.charlesworth@newn.cam.ac.uk. Lindsey’s role is gift

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Mary Ann Steane. BA, MA, MPhil (Cantab), DipArch (Cantab). Director of Studies, Postgraduate Mentor. Director of Studies in Architecture. Director of Studies in Design. Postgraduate Mentor. Retired University

13 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Professor Thompson elected to Royal Society Fellowship. May 10th, 2023. Our Honorary Fellow Professor Elizabeth Thompson has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Thompson (NC 1967) completed her

12 Jun 2024: Most crucially, we are here to help people within College communicate – with each other and the outside world.

14 Jun 2024: The College has introduced:. Free use of six staff bicycles to encourage people to cycle rather than drive to meetings or into town during the working day. ... Access to a staff shower and locker facilities for those people who wish to cycle or exercise

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Rev'd Dr Arabella Milbank Robinson. BA (Oxon), MSt (Oxon), PhD (Cantab), MPhil (Cantab). Chaplain at Newnham. Chaplain at Newnham. Dean & Chaplain of Selwyn College. Telephone: 01223 335775. Email: amm245@cam.ac.uk.

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Record-breaking win for Cambridge in the 76th Boat Race. April 04th, 2022. Cambridge won the 76th Boat Race against Oxford in an outstanding race, with both crews breaking the previous course record. Three Newnham

14 Jun 2024: She said: “My aim is to show that maths can be made fun, intriguing and relevant for people of all ages, by means of hand-on activities, examples that everyone can

12 Jun 2024: 1 in 30,000-50,000 people.

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Dr Luana-Teodora Bulat. BSc (Leicester), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab). Special Supervisor. Special Supervisor in Computer Science. Email: ltf24@cam.ac.uk. Dr Luana Bulat is a computer scientist, specialising in

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Principal and undergraduate student join BBC edit-a-thon to add more women to Wikipedia. December 09th, 2016. Newnham’s Head of House travelled to London to take part in a BBC project to address the lack of

12 Jun 2024: A direct hit killed 166 people and Churchill called it the ‘worst single incident of the war’ in terms of loss of life.

11 Jun 2024: Carol explains, “Growing up in Nigeria gave me the opportunity to understand the struggles that many people living in Africa face, especially to provide food for themselves and their families. ... Researchers like Carol are the people who are tackling

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Principal takes her message of healthy workplaces to Washington. May 10th, 2018. Health and Wellbeing in the workplace is no longer merely a matter of traditional ‘health and safety’, but of stress, autonomy,

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. From a difficult marriage in Pakistan to a PhD in Cambridge – one Newnhamite’s inspiring story. August 16th, 2017. Aliya Khalid is from Peshawar in North West Pakistan where she says ‘a girl is supposed to be

16 Jun 2024: Professor Mary Joanou, who campaigned for the plaque, said “Clara was a wonderful pioneering feminist, shaped by the women’s movement, who devoted her life to other people.” Joanou described her

15 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham tackles under-representation of women in the tech sector. October 26th, 2018. Why are women actively self-selecting out of the technology sector? Newnham College and the WoMen’s Leadership Centre at

16 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. First female presenter of mainstream comedy show formally becomes Honorary Fellow. December 03rd, 2016. Sandi Toksvig said ‘anyone who can cook dinner and look after children can host QI’ when she gave a

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham Politics and Debating Society welcomed Sir Oliver Letwin. February 22nd, 2021. Newnham Politics and Debating Society hosted Sir Oliver Letwin last week for a insightful talk and Q&A session via Zoom. This

16 Jun 2024: These talented, committed young people may be up to three times more likely to drop out of University as a result. ... The Realise Project works with young people in care and estranged people pre-University.

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. The second Newnham Anthology – Walking on the Grass, Dancing in the Corridors: Newnham at 150. August 04th, 2020. Open the Gates, and walk on the grass with us through 150 years of Newnham…. Walking on the Grass

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. First woman to reach rank of under-secretary-general at UN has died. August 25th, 2016. Pioneering alumna and Honorary Fellow, Dame Margaret Anstee, has died at the age of 90. Dame Margaret (NC 1944) worked for the

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. School pupils visit Newnham to help make the internet less sexist on International Day of the Girl. October 11th, 2017. Newnham College held a Wikipedia edit-a-thon for 45 school pupils on International Day of the

15 Jun 2024: The bar will be selling drinks and hopefully we’ll be able to meet like-minded people and have some good discussions about climate activism and COP26!

18 Jun 2024: To study the effect of therapeutic drugs on the brains of people living with Huntington’s disease, the researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure immediate changes in the animals’ brain waves

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. The strongest women on – and off – the river: Newnham W1 is Head of the River. June 14th, 2019. Training, dedication, coaching and sheer hard work paid off this week, as Newnham’s first boat took Headship of

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Pioneering botanist Agnes Arber remembered with a new PhD Prize and Blue Plaque. June 17th, 2024. Pioneering botanist and Newnham Alumna Agnes Arber (NC 1899) has been remembered with a new PhD Prize in comparative

12 Jun 2024: Some people see Amazon as an online store, but ultimately we are a global technology company and the attendees really embodied the Amazon leadership principles during this task. ... backgrounds – we had six people in the team and we were from six