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26 Jan 2017: Burns Night Formal Hall  Students and Fellows enjoyed the annual Burns Night Super Hall on 24 January 2017. Guests gathered in the Fellows Drawing Room for a sherry and soft drinks reception b

9 May 2017: Margaret joined PwC as a partner in September 2012 and was UK firms Chief Risk Officer, General Counsel and a member of the Executive Board. Her responsibilities included Reputation & Regulation,

11 Apr 2017: Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley is a highly successful entrepreneur turned ardent philanthropist. In 1962, she founded the software company originally named Freelance Programmers Ltd. (later named rena

22 Jun 2017: We’re delighted to offer double congratulations to Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley, Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College, for the well-deserved recognition of her outstanding commitment to industr

13 Oct 2017: Degrees & Honours BA(Hons) - 1998 MA  - 2001 BM Bch - 2001 MRCP - 2004 FRCA - 2006 DICM - 2010 FFICM - 2011 Awards & Prizes Pilkington Prize, Cambridge Universi

5 Apr 2017: Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Musgrave was educated at Moreton Hall School, followed by the University of Edinburgh, and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger. In 1970 she became Guest Professor at the

26 Jan 2017: On 27 January, the UK remembers the horrors of the Holocaust in WWII. The aftermath of the Holocaust continues to raise challenging questions for individuals, communities and nations. Alumna Jane Day

9 May 2017: Degrees and honours MA Oxford, MPhil London, PhD Cambridge; FBA; Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities; Member, Academia Europaea; Honorary PhD, Thessaloniki; 102nd Sather Lecture

19 Apr 2017: Joanna MacGregor is one of the world’s most innovative musicians, appearing as a concert pianist, curator and collaborator. Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of the Univers

1 Sep 2017: I was honoured to be awarded a Rosemary Murray Travel Grant to contribute towards the cost of visiting Florence, Italy during July. Since beginning my degree I have become fascinated by the developmen

13 Jun 2017: University Degrees 2001             Litt D., University of Cambridge 1975‑1978&nbsp

1 Nov 2017: We were delighted to read this article from Patsy Wilkinson, Second Permanent Secretary for the Home Office and also an alumna of the College (New Hall, 1980), where she discusses how our Collaboratin

19 Apr 2017: Professor Dame Jean Thomas is Professor Emeritus of Macromolecular Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and former Fellow of New Hall.  Her research is on the structure of chro

30 Sep 2017: During the Summer, I spent a week in Madeira with 5 of my friends from college. We had a great time exploring the island, finding a new activity to do every day. Before Madeira I had never been awa

10 Apr 2017: Dame Jessica Rawson read History at New Hall, matriculating in 1962. Rawson's academic background is in Sinology with a particular research focus on the cosmology of the Han period (206 BC-AD 220)

30 Sep 2017: In 2017 I travelled to the Peruvian Amazon to take part in conservation volunteering with the Crees Foundation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve located just east of the Andes. After arriving in Cusco,

5 Apr 2017: As a postgraduate student, Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars while studying and advised by her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish.

18 Sep 2017: Dame Barbara Stocking, the President of Murray Edwards College, has recently returned from a trip to Uganda and Kenya where, together with Helen Pennant from the Cambridge Trust, she was encouraging s

30 Sep 2017: After two weeks of teaching English in Guangzhou I arrived in Hong Kong. That evening I took the tram up to Victoria Peak which offered a spectacular night time view across the city’s glowing sky line

19 Apr 2017: Professor Dame Julia King DBE FREng is an engineer who was Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016. She read Natural Sciences at New Hall, matriculating in 1972. King is a crossbench