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30 May 2023: The College celebrates its 50th Anniversary with numerous events throughout the year including the 50th anniversary Summer Ball and 50th anniversary exhibition on the College’s scientists. Robert Edwards, Fellow, awarded Nobel Prize for in-vitro

6 Oct 2023: Clare is an Affiliated Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine, Respiratory teaching lead and College lecturer in Medicine. She is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Addenbrookes Hospital, specialising in acute and chronic respiratory infections

30 May 2023: Statutes amended to admit students as members of College Council

6 Mar 2023: Physilia Chua is a molecular ecologist who leverages cutting-edge DNA techniques to explore ecological questions and address the issue of biodiversity loss. During her PhD, Physilia was a Marie-Curie PhD Fellow at the Globe Institute, University of

30 May 2023: Cowan Court opened by HRH The Duke of Gloucester who cut the ribbon at the entrance to Cowan Court as part of a ceremony attended by 130 guests comprising: Fellows and staff, benefactors and alumni on 26th September 2016. The Royal party, including

26 Sep 2023: Fabian is a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow and an Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellow at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, where he collaborates with Prof. Angelos Michaelides. His research is centered around gaining a simulation-based

30 May 2023: Churchill becomes the first men’s college to decide to admit women (8 March) Student representatives admitted as observers to College Council: first reps are Julian Filowchowski (U66) and Edward Libbey (U&G66) Students (in particular Michael Trier,

25 Jul 2023: Diane Coyle is Bennett Professor of Public Policy and co-director of the University’s Bennett Institute.

30 May 2023: Death of the Founder, Sir Winston Governing Body votes to rescind men-only clause in its Charter Bevin and Bracken Libraries and Wolfson Hall opened by the Lord Chancellor The Library includes an archives room Wolfson Flats completed Prime Minister

25 Jul 2023: Mary Kendall was the College Librarian from 1984-2015. She was elected to a Fellowship in 2001

30 May 2023: First Roskill Memorial Lecture (biennial thereafter) Main concourse enclosed and its north side infilled with offices

2 Oct 2023: Professor Wolfram Schultz is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Physiology.

30 May 2023: ‘Audit Feast’ renamed ‘Scholars’ Feast’ Exhibition to mark the original College architectural competition Opening of the New Study Centre and Music Rooms Cambridge University Radio (broadcast from Churchill) winner of UK Best Student Radio

26 Sep 2023: Ergin obtained a BA in English Language Teaching and Linguistics at Bogazici University, Turkey, in 2007. Following an MA in Sociolinguistics at Rouen University, Ergin pursued a joint PhD in General Linguistics at Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and

26 Sep 2023: Milos Dubajic is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He works under the supervision of Prof. Sam Stranks and focuses on the structural and spectroscopic

27 Sep 2023: The first female Bursar of Churchill College, Jennifer Rigby (later Brook) was appointed in 1999.

26 Sep 2023: Giacomo is a research associate in the Department of Psychology. Giacomo’s research centres on social inequalities in educational and mental health outcomes in childhood and adolescence. He has a particular interest in psychometrics and data

30 May 2023: Carol Robinson is the first alumna to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.

26 Sep 2023: Abigail is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Cell Signalling Group in the Department of Pharmacology, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ladds. Her research interests centre around receptor pharmacology, specifically the class of

30 May 2023: Sir Winston’s pre-1945 archive transferred from the Bodleian Library Anthony Hewish, Fellow, awarded Nobel Prize for pulsars