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11 Jan 2021: Murray Edwards College will welcome Cambridge Foundation Year students as part of a landmark programme to reach a new field of candidates. Murray Edwards is delighted to be among the first

24 Nov 2021: In Easter term, I was fortunate enough to have my Gateway Challenges Funding application approved to undertake my personal challenge of solo travel.  I had been taking part in the university C

1 Apr 2021: Between April and June 2021 the British Library and Murray Edwards College will co-host Histories and Archives of Arabic Publishing: an online series of talks exploring publishing practices in Arabic

17 May 2021: At Murray Edwards College, Modern and Medieval Languages, and Linguistics is a thriving subject, with strong undergraduate numbers, a growing postgraduate community and distinguished Fellows. The G

1 Dec 2021: Although the UCL Summer School in Classics was online rather than in person this year, it was no less enjoyable. Having been placed in the most advanced Greek class, I thought this would be a challeng

1 Dec 2021: During the summer, I spent a week of July in Newquay, Cornwall. Whilst I was there, I explored the amazing coasts and countryside that Newquay has to offer, as well as swimming in the ocean every day.

25 Jan 2021: I took photos from the two most challenging excursions I did while camping, a 30K cycle and a kayaking trip. There is also a picture of the communal bike pump I had to use when I got a flat tire on

21 Apr 2021: We are delighted to announce that the John Browne Charitable Trust has made a gift of £2million to Murray Edwards – the largest single gift to the College since 2005.   Increasing

1 Dec 2021: During my three-month internship in Yang Ming Quantum Tech, I worked as a device engineer and developed effective photovoltaic cell based on CsPbI3 quantum dot (QD) material. CsPbI3 is a type of lead

19 Jan 2021: Distinguished art historian and winner of the 2020 Holberg Prize, Griselda Pollock, has made a generous donation to the New Hall Art Collection, which will fund the Collection’s Curator role for

1 Dec 2021: I spent three weeks travelling in Greece, on what was an incredibly memorable post-graduation trip. Starting off in Athens, I travelled by ferry to three islands, each of which possessed its own parti

24 Nov 2021: From July 19th to August 13th, I took part in the 'BUILD @ Shearman & Sterling' scheme. BUILD in this context stands for 'Black Undergraduate Internship and Lawyer Development', and the inter

24 Nov 2021: Thanks to the Gateway Challenges Fund, I was able to support the cost of a two-week trip to Saas-Fee in Switzerland for a ski racing camp at the start of September. As captain of the Ski Team, I organ

1 Sep 2021: Murray Edwards College is delighted to be among the Colleges welcoming A-level students taking part in the pilot STEM SMART widening participation initiative, offering enhanced learning, encourag

1 Dec 2021: This summer I was fortunate enough to receive Gateway funding that allowed me to take a one-day Mental Health Workplace Responder course with St John Ambulance in Cambridge. I had been a Welfare Offic

5 Feb 2021: Dying of old age is down to something called senescence. After every cell division by mitosis, the DNA strands at the ends of your chromosomes called telomeres get a little shorter because of Okazaki

24 Nov 2021: With generous funding from Gateway Challenges Funding and Rosemary Murray Travel Award I was able this year to travel to the Leahurst Campus of the University of Liverpool, to work at their busy Equin

1 Dec 2021: For the first part of August I went to Edinburgh with a friend to review a series of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, for a student-run publication called 'EdFringe Review'. We stayed in a flat

1 Dec 2021: This year, thanks to the help of Gateway Challenges Funding, I was able to spend two nights and three days in the Peak District. It was one of the most beneficial experiences I’ve had to date since it

1 Dec 2021: At the beginning of August, I travelled to near Grasmere in the Lake District. The trip involved quite a few soggy hikes, including Catbells in Keswick, Great Rigg, Fairfield, and Nab Scar in Grasmere