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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

1 Dec 2021: The main challenge of my research is the instability of CsPbI3 and to find an economic hole transporting layer material.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24 Nov 2021: This summer, with the help of Gateway funding, I spent a week in the Yorkshire Dales with some friends from university, hiking and exploring the natural landscape there. We stayed in Ingleton, a villa

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

25 Jan 2021: This year, with the help of the Gateway Challenges Funding, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Sithonia, the middle “arm” of the Chalkidiki Peninsula. The travelling conditions and r

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

1 Dec 2021: I spent the summer of 2021 avoiding vitamin D in overcast Edinburgh, at a smaller than usual but still bustling Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society has always br

24 Nov 2021: The Gateway funding I received enabled me to support myself during my internship. I completed the Fluorinated Gases internship, which was an 8-week project with the University’s Sustainability Team.

11 Jan 2021: Arriving in the capital Bratislava, I enjoyed exploring the streets of its historic centre, taking in the relaxed atmosphere of the Danube river promenade, and viewing the city from the castle and the

24 Nov 2021: On 4th September 2021 I travelled to Munich in Germany, making a friend on the plane who then took the train with me into the centre of Munich. The travelling experience required much more organisatio

2 Dec 2021: My name is Lillian and I’m a third year Natural Sciences student at Murray Edwards College. Although specialising in Chemistry in my final year, I love exploring biological subjects, especially

14 Apr 2021: Franklin Society Essay Competition 2021 Every year, Murray Edwards College’s science society, the Franklin Society, hosts a science-based essay competition.  The competition is open to S

4 Nov 2021: The concept of ‘ecosystem services’ is gaining traction across the fields of conservation and economics as a method of quantifying the ways that wild species benefit humans, and estimating the economic

14 Oct 2021: Hello everyone! My name is Jess and I’m a Physical Natural Sciences student at Murray Edwards College. I am currently heading into my second year of studies, focusing on Chemistry and Materials

1 Dec 2021: After the COVID-19 pandemic had shattered any dream of us going abroad for our elective placement, I thought the best I could do is organise something worthwhile and interesting here in Cambridge. And

29 Mar 2021: It’s no secret that sleep is an essential part of our wellbeing but its role in maintaining cardiovascular health, the health of the immune system and its impacts on various cognitive abilities is les

25 Jan 2021: The Gateway funding received by me was put towards the cost of attending a 10-week business accelerator and gathering the skills and tools needed to start my own biotech enterprise. The accelerator of

23 Sep 2021: As doctors are constantly on the front lines of death and illness, they face a conflict between clinical empathy versus the need for efficiency.  Whether it be removing tissue samples from dead b

16 Sep 2021: For centuries it was thought that humans were the only organisms in nature to go through the biological oddity of the menopause. Only recently have we discovered that we are not alone. Surprisingly, t