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10 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. The Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology course is taught by the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, which is a separate department to Engineering within

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Confirmed TEDxNewnham Speakers. Julie Etchingham (NC 1988) is one of Britain’s foremost reporters: she has worked for the BBC and Sky News, and has ... She has presented Tonight on ITV since 2010, having replaced

25 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Family Day marks Philippa Fawcett anniversary with Maths activities. July 14th, 2023. A great time was had by all at our Family Day for alumnae and staff on Saturday 8 July. The theme of the event was Mathematics,

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14 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. YouTube maths star returns to Cambridge to cook up a storm at memorial lecture. March 20th, 2017. Dr Eugenia Cheng aims to rid the world of ‘maths phobia’ and she brought her innovative campaign to Newnham for

20 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Emma Thompson tells students ‘Newnham taught me how to think’. June 13th, 2017. Newnhamite Emma Thompson returned to College to talk to students about her life and career and advised them that ‘failure is

22 Jun 2024: Her contribution to the College was always highly valued by Fellows and students and moving tributes were paid to her on social media when the sad news of her death was ... Georgia Ruth, one former student, said on Twitter: “Very sad news about Jenny

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. A day in the life at Cambridge University: Zaynab Ahmed. Classics student Zaynab Ahmed reflects on why its important to study the arts and classics today, and shares some of the highs and lows of studying arts

18 Jun 2024: Dame Carol Black was joined by Olivia Hylton-Pennant, JCR Access Officer, at the BBC News Wikipedia edit-a-thon event on December 8. ... It was part of BBC 100 Women 2016, the BBC news series which names 100 influential and inspirational women around the

19 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Archaeology. With the Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge is one of the largest centres of archaeological research in Britain. Archaeology students at

7 Jun 2024: But she was a radical in this field. She felt that many ‘epigraphers’ were rightly concerned to discover and decipher new texts (sometimes a formidably difficult task), but did not always ... She is best known for her study of the inscriptions

23 Jun 2024: May 31st, 2019. Newnham’s Prof Susan Golombok has been appointed to the new International Commission on Human Germline Genome Editing. ... Her research focuses on new family forms, including families created by assisted reproduction techniques,

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,

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

25 Jun 2024: February 22nd, 2022. Prof Claire Hughes has launched a new set of pictorial resources for use by researchers interested in how children view themselves and their life experiences. ... The new images, which portray moments from a child’s day, show

9 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham finalists get chance to ‘pet a pup’ to combat exam stress. May 18th, 2017. Students at Newnham College had a special break from revision this week as trainee guide dogs were brought in to aid relaxation

9 Jun 2024: Geographical Magazine, New Scientist, The Economist) is also a good background for studying Geography.

14 Jun 2024: March 22nd, 2017. Newnham College has been shortlisted in the Employer of the Year category in the Cambridge News and Media Business Excellence Awards 2017 for focusing on the health and ... We are delighted to have our work recognised by the Cambridge

15 Jun 2024: 1-4pm Tuesday 9th November, Cynthia Beerbower Room. Drop in between 1 and 4pm to swap your clothes for something new in the Cynthia Beerbower room at Newnham!

26 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Annual University Sermon preached by Newnham alumna Sister Jane Livesey. January 31st, 2019. Sister Jane Livesey CJ (NC 1977), General Superior of the Congregation of Jesus, preached the annual University Sermon on

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

9 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham undergraduate first to receive inaugural Cambridge Leadership Prize. January 25th, 2016. A third year Land Economy student, Aleksandra Pedraszewska, was the first recipient of a recently established

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Music. Cambridge is a great place to study music. The undergraduate degree (referred to as the Music Tripos), is carefully designed to give first year students a solid foundation in a broad range of musical skills

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham’s Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran named as one of the ‘100 Most Influential Women in Engineering’. October 21st, 2019. Newnham Research Fellow and alumna, Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran, has been announced as one of

21 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Veterinary Medicine. Cambridge is a popular choice for a wide variety of students, providing an intellectually satisfying preparation for clinical studies. The subjects within years 1 – 3 (pre-clinical) of the

21 Jun 2024: newer settler colonies of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. ... Student-led research in 2021 shed new light onto Newnham College and the legacies of enslavement.

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham Family Forum 2019: ‘The Sandwich Generation’. The 2019 Newnham Family Forum discussed ‘The Sandwich Generation’: people who are caring for dependent children at the same time as ageing relatives.

7 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Research feature: In contemplation of wellbeing. January 22nd, 2024. Alone in her room and poring over texts, Dr Hannah Lucas can feel very connected to the lives of medieval women who withdrew from society to

11 Jun 2024: Carol has identified a potential new mechanism by which the fungus invades and possibly gains control of the plant’s cell machinery, by disguising itself as a friend and not a ... foe. This better understanding of the fungus can be used to develop new

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. ‘Fighting for a Childhood’: Newnham’s Family Forum addresses forced marriage in the UK. October 18th, 2021. Jasvinder Sanghera CBE and Louise McCallum joined us last week to speak about the extent of forced

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

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Students invited to apply for biennial Ann Duncan travel grants. March 14th, 2023. Applications are invited for small grants for foreign travel during Summer 2023 for students currently studying a language under

16 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham alumna and suffragist Clara Rackham honoured with a blue plaque. November 26th, 2018. Newnham alumna, suffragist and campaigner Clara Rackham has been honoured with a blue plaque outside her Cambridge home.

12 Jun 2024: The 1964 Roll Letter explains its novelty as a new kind of student house:. ... the ceiling to expose the roof joists, to allow for new insulation of all internal walls and ceilings.

25 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. History and Politics. History and Politics at Cambridge is an exciting new Honours degree which started in October 2017. ... This new degree balances a strong grounding in the two component subjects with the opportunity

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

25 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Handmade Christmas cards from the Olive Cook Archive Collection at Newnham College. December 02nd, 2022. In celebration of the Festive Season, our College Archivist Frieda and Curator Laura have been busy collating

26 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Portrait of Carol Black (2018) by Saied Dai. Saied Dai’s portrait of Carol Black is the most recent painting to be commissioned for Newnham’s series of Principals’ portraits. Carol was the College’s

22 Jun 2024: The students really enjoyed the opportunity to learn something new and different.”.

16 Jun 2024: She has been a panellist on a number of TV quiz and game shows including Radio 4’s News Quiz.

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

18 Jun 2024: In the 1994 New Year Honours, the Queen made her a Dame Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George.

18 Jun 2024: March 16th, 2018. Janet Wheeler conducts I Sing and Ever Shall, her exuberant new choral showpiece which celebrates singing in all its forms, setting texts from Dickinson, Tagore, Herrick, and others,

6 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. The Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos is unique to Cambridge. The Tripos offers students a wide and unique range of options in the history, languages and literatures of the British

7 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Collaboration is better than weapons of division, argues Prof Ottoline Leyser, in the #Newnham150 inaugural lecture. February 22nd, 2021. From climate change to the Covid pandemic, divisions in society prevent us

9 Jun 2024: new opportunity to make that happen.

23 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Combatting harassment and sexual misconduct. Newnham College is committed to maintaining an environment for study, work and living which is free from bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct of any kind.

12 Jun 2024: A bright winter’s morning in January 2022 was the date for the much-anticipated reinstatement of the bust in the College’s new award-winning courtyard.

19 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Portrait of Hubert Parry (1898) by Harold Rathbone. This striking and unusual portrait of the composer Hubert Parry (1848-1918) is by the artist Harold Rathbone (1858-1929). Executed in coloured chalks, it portrays

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