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12 Oct 2017: Read our blogs to find out more about life at Murray Edwards College and causes we're passionate about.

13 Oct 2017: 2nd place in Oxford Medical School Pathology Exam, Roche Prize - 1999 .

13 Mar 2017: This week we are holding our Offerholders event, welcoming almost 120 Sixth Form students from all over the country to College. We like to give our Offerholders the opportunity to visit us o

11 Oct 2017: Music & Words are a series of events combining choral music from the Inter Alios choir with poetry and a short address on a topic pertinent to the human experience. They take place

10 Apr 2017: Jenny Bacon matriculated from New Hall in 1964, and achieved a First Class degree in History. She joined the Civil Service as Assistant Principal, Ministry of Labour in 1967, and became Private Sec

3 Aug 2017: Stories about how students used their Gateway Challenges Funding to push themselves out of their comfort zone this summer.

9 Feb 2017: Music Profile – Izzy Herschmann About Me I grew up in London and went to an all-girls private school. I took A Levels in Music, Geography and Spanish, but only decided to apply to study mus

19 Apr 2017: Anne Lonsdale was the third President of New Hall from 1996 – 2008.  She was also Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University and Deputy Vice-Chancellor.  She is now Deputy High Steward of the Uni

17 Jul 2017: News and updates from Murray Edwards College.

1 Dec 2017: Degrees and Honours: BA (Cantab) 2009-2012 MSci (Cantab) 2012-2013 PhD (Cantab) 2013-2017 Biography I was at Pembroke College from 2009 to 2012 for an undergraduate Natural Sciences deg

9 Feb 2017: About Me I’m Catherine, a third-year Classicist. I love glitter and tea and partying. Not many people from my school go to Oxbridge, but I set my sights on Cambridge in year 11 because I liked&nbsp

20 Dec 2017: The Murray Edwards College Dome was full to bursting on 29th and 30th November, with maximum numbers of guests at both Murray Edwards College Christmas Formal Halls. Students and Fellows gathered f

9 May 2017: Eileen Cooper was born 1953 in Glossop, in the Derbyshire Peak District. She studied at Goldsmiths College from 1971-1974 being in the cohort of students who were selected by Jon Thompson. Senior memb

18 Jul 2017: A space for young women who are passionate about science to engage with each other.

10 Jan 2017: When I was pooled to Medwards my immediate reaction was hesitation. I had never even considered applying to a college for women, crossing them off the list without a second glance when it came to choo

10 Apr 2017: With over 40 years’ experience in the financial services, automotive and mining sectors, Haruko Fukuda currently also holds a number of non-executive directorships, including Investec Plc, and is curr

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

13 Oct 2017: Degrees & Honours BA French & Russian (QMC and University of London External) DipTEFL, MA TESOL (Applied Linguistics), Institute of Education, University of London Awards & Prizes

9 Feb 2017: I've also received many grants from the college which have helped me afford internships, language and economics courses.

17 Nov 2017: Degrees & Honours: MA (Cantab) PhD (Cantab) Research Interests: Inorganic Chemistry Biography: Robert joined Murray Edwards in October 2017 as a Chemistry Teaching Fellow. His rese

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

11 Apr 2017: Maggi Hambling studied at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing from 1960 under Cedric Morris, then at Ipswich School of Art (1962–4), Camberwell (1964-7), and finally the Slade School of Ar

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

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

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,

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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)

7 Dec 2017: Besides taking standard engineering moducles, I now study Business Economics, which I find fascinatin despite never having done it before, and I've kept up my French by doing language classes

5 Apr 2017: Professor Bell Burnell matriculated at New Hall in 1965. As a postgraduate student, Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars while studying and advised by her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish

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

30 Sep 2017: Using Gateway funding, I travelled to Funchal, a city on the island of Madeira in Portugal with a group of friends. As we were each travelling from different countries, planning this trip entailed coo

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

30 Sep 2017: After taking French lessons at the university’s language centre for the past two years, this summer I decided to put Gateway’s funding opportunity to good use and live in Lyon, France for two weeks.

30 Nov 2017: I’m sure when you think of a fish, the first word that pops into your head isn’t ‘fascinating.’ Fish certainly aren't the most loved animal on the planet, and you'd think that they definitely wouldn’t

2 Nov 2017: I can vividly recall the summer of 2008 in Sri Lanka, looking out of my hotel window and my eyes beholding a bright, fluorescent pink…it was a flamingo. With its broad curves and long stick-like legs

30 Sep 2017: At the beginning of August, 2017, I travelled to Augsburg in Southern Germany to complete a month-long German language course for beginners. The Gateway Fund contributed towards the cost of this trip.

30 Sep 2017: This year with the help of Gateway Challenges Funding, I finally made it to France. I did French from Year 7 through to GCSE at high school and have never stayed in France before. I wanted the opportu

30 Sep 2017: I always knew that, if I were to ever use Gateway funding for a summer experience, it had to be for a research trip to Warsaw – the city is my favourite place in the world, and its bountiful, if hea

30 Sep 2017: Cambridge Development Initiative is a student-run development CIO working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Each year, about 40 volunteers from Cambridge join with 40 volunteers from universities across Dar

1 Sep 2017: With the funding I received from the Murray-Edwards Gateway program I was able to travel to Cameroon this summer, exploring the beautiful country and reconnecting with Cameroonian friends while workin

5 Oct 2017: As a child I asked an infinite number of questions: Why is it always raining? Why can’t I eat chocolate for breakfast? Why is the sky blue? Yet all these questions were answered with ‘‘it just is’