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1 Dec 2016: The discussion marked the 40. th. anniversary of the first female postgraduates at Trinity. ... While Graduate Dean at Tufts she established initiatives aimed at enabling and encouraging more women to pursue postgraduate study and careers in academia.

1 Feb 2016: At first glance the Master of Trinity, Sir Gregory Winter, appears in a melee of swooping arrows, one larger-than-life hand raised. Then you notice his other ha

5 May 2016: Visitors to Great Court are often surprised by its splendour and size. On 9 May 2016 there will be an added attraction. Tourists and students alike should be ab

2 Nov 2016: An array of portraits of Trinity Fellows is on display in the Wren Library. Professors Catherine Barnard, Valerie Gibson and Marian Hobson reflect on the experi

30 Jun 2016: After 43 years at Trinity, the Manciple, Maria Liston, is retiring. If you haven’t come across Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, you’d be forgiven for not having

4 Feb 2016: Mimi Trevelyan-Davis charts her experience as the first elected LGBT+ Officer of Trinity College Students’ Union, her hopes for the future and plans for LGBT+ H

14 Apr 2016: Only 9% of physics professors in the UK are women. One of those is Professor Valerie Gibson, a Fellow at Trinity, and Head of the High Energy Physics Research G

14 Jul 2016: Duncan Malthouse-Hobbs became Head of IT at Trinity in October 2015. He describes his department’s remit and skills, and the challenges ahead for IT services at

18 Nov 2016: Fellows, students, staff and alumni are invited to submit ideas – in a photo and words - about what has inspired them at Trinity. The best ideas will feature in

19 Apr 2016: As everyone knows the EU referendum looms. Trinity's Senior Tutor and Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law at Cambridge, Catherine Barnard, reflec

8 Jan 2016: The eclectic activities and pioneering achievements of Trinity Fellows, students and the Master have been recognised in recent awards and the New Year honours.

14 Jun 2016: Undeterred by summer showers, revellers relished Trinity’s May Ball, which this year celebrated its 150th anniversary. Some 1800 guests attended the historic ev

10 May 2016: More than 60 people viewed Mercury’s transit across the sun from Trinity’s Great Court on 9 May including the Master, Sir Gregory Winter, the Astronomer Royal,

20 May 2016: Whichever way you do it, just vote! Trinity's Senior Tutor, Professor Catherine Barnard explains the importance of young people voting in the forthcoming refere

28 Dec 2016: A charmingly illustrated book about Florence Nightingale’s pet owl, written by her sister Parthenope, Lady Verney, is now viewable on the Wren Digital Library.

14 Jun 2016: Trinity Head Porter Peter Windmill isn’t one for the limelight. But he has taken part in Louise Riley-Smith’s project to paint the portraits of the Head Porters

4 May 2016: 'It was like staring at someone through a kaleidoscope, fractured into small glittering pieces...' Trinity Fellow Joe Moshenska on writing the life of adventure

16 Nov 2016: The Master of Trinity, Sir Gregory Winter, has received the Prince Mahidol Award 2016 in the field of medicine. Established in 1992 by Thailand’s royal family,

5 Apr 2016: Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel plays self-taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in a major new film charting his extraordinary story from impoverishment

19 Jul 2016: Professor Sir Timothy Gowers has been awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society and the De Morgan Medal by the London Mathematical Society. Trinity Fello

21 Mar 2016: The Wren Library is open to the public, Monday-Friday, 12-2pm. Entry is free but will be restricted at busy times.

29 Mar 2016: Lost or forgotten works by psychiatrist and political thinker Frantz Fanon have been unearthed by Trinity Fellow Dr Jean Khalfa and Professor Robert Young of Ne

3 Feb 2016: Actually PhD student Spike Gibbs didn’t boldly go…but after Trinity’s digital training workshops, you’ll be well equipped to! In fact, medieval historian Spike

28 Apr 2016: Three Trinity computer science students scored gold in a new cybersecurity competition designed to stretch their hacking abilities and capacity for teamwork – a

5 Apr 2016: Former Vice-Master of Trinity, Professor Gareth Jones, passed away on 2 April 2016. Gareth Jones became a Teaching Fellow of Trinity in 1961, Senior Tutor in 19

25 Oct 2016: On Friday 21 October, College Council elected Professor Stephen Toope, an alumnus of Trinity College, as an Honorary Fellow with immediate effect. The Master, S

1 Dec 2016: Trinity alumna and CEO of The Women’s Foundation, Su-Mei Thompson, explains the rationale and aims of She Objects, a documentary and campaign against gender ste

19 Sep 2016: He said:. Villiers Park Educational Trust is doing important and useful work to help widen access to universities with the highest entrance requirements.

16 Nov 2016: The daily hardships of children in rural Mexico portrayed in an award-winning documentary will be shown at Trinity on Thursday 17 November 2016 at 5.15pm. The I

18 Jul 2016: Dr Wilson said:. Shelley’s visitors’ book entry was meant to be offensive, and many subsequent visitors, including his relatives, Sir John and Lady Shelley, found it so.

21 Oct 2016: A new exhibition of letters and personal effects of Trinity alumnus Frederick Pethick-Lawrence and his wife Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence charts their role in the w

24 May 2016: When Trinity Fellow Dr Hugh Hunt advertised the unusual project for Part IIB of the Engineering Tripos, he didn’t expect anyone to take up the challenge – let a

10 Jun 2016: Professor Angela Leighton is Senior Research Fellow in poetry at Trinity. Spills is her most recent collection of poetry. It includes a memoir, short stories an

27 Jan 2016: Trinity Fellow and Senior Tutor Professor Catherine Barnard is appealing to EU migrants in the UK to participate in research to help inform public debate ahead

13 Sep 2016: Discover the secrets of original masterpieces and modern forgeries. Find out what cutting-edge technologies reveal about their painting materials, and the image

22 Jan 2016: Brian Lowe came up to Trinity in October 1931 to study law. Tomorrow, from the warmth of New South Wales, Mr Lowe, 102, will have his MA conferred – a little la

24 May 2016: Dean of Trinity, Professor Sachiko Kusukawa, discusses Robert Hooke’s unusual combination of skills on The One Show. Hooke’s intricate pictures of the human and

1 Jul 2016: Today, JRFs are expected to engage in research – but that is the only requirement.

22 Jan 2016: As a young Fellow at Trinity in the 1970s, Professor Boyd Hilton knew Brian Lowe's Tutor, Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler, and one of his Supervisors, Professor

19 Aug 2016: Trinity’s residential course for young women considering studying science, technology, engineering, maths or medicine (STEMM) at leading universities is oversub

11 Apr 2016: Eugenio Polgovsky, Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity, has created a video artwork inspired by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell, as part of a spec

15 Jul 2016: Junior Research Fellow at Trinity, Dr Clare Walker Gore, researches portrayals of disability in nineteenth-century fiction. She is a BBC Radio 3 New Generation

24 Feb 2016: Trinity Law Fellow Dr Matt Dyson provided academic firepower for the successful appeal against the doctrine of ‘joint enterprise’, or the law of complicity. On

14 Oct 2016: Professor Valerie Gibson has received a Royal Society award for her activities to increase and advance women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM

1 Feb 2016: Family, friends and Fellows paid tribute to David Calin, a second-year Natural Sciences student at Trinity, who died in his home country, Romania, in December 2

18 Nov 2016: Trinity Sub-Librarian, Sandy Paul, explains his fascination with Arthur Munby’s photographic collection of ‘unbecoming’ women. And why the female acrobats of mi

29 Sep 2016: A hitherto unknown collection of 53 letters from the poet AE Housman shed new light on his final years at Trinity, and his regard for his godson, Gerald Jackson

29 Jul 2016: The winners of Trinity's 2015-16 Teaching Awards, Professor John Lister and Dr Neil Hopkinson, explain what teaching does for them. Professor Lister What do you

9 Nov 2016: Trinity’s Access and Outreach Programme has expanded, with a second Schools Liaison Officer, innovative partnerships, and new videos about College life. Schools

13 Sep 2016: Whether helping an injured punter or responding to the wide range of queries from students and visitors to the College, there is never a dull moment for Trinity