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6 Jul 2024: On 2 July 1823, the Foundation Stone for New Court was laid in front of a throng of specators.

6 Jul 2024: Search. The College was thrilled to have a visit from alumni Hugh Bonneville (m. 1982) during his recent visit to Cambridge to participate in the Cambridge Literary Festival. Hugh is a multi-award-winning actor who has performed widely across theatre

6 Jul 2024: Dr Philippa Hoskin looks at how Matthew Parker dealt with unwanted guests in time of plague.

7 Jul 2024: Engineering PhD student Yashas Raj went to COP28. Here's what it was like.

5 Jul 2024: Elected: The Lord Sainsbury of Turville, K

6 Jul 2024: It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of our distinguished alumnus and Honorary Fellow Shaharyar Muhammad Khan (m.1953). He died in Lahore after a long illness on Saturday 23 March 2024 aged 89, six days before his 90th

6 Jul 2024: The college’s foundational document has been on display since the start of the year as part of the current ‘Town and Gown’ exhibition. The historic link with St Bene’t’s church, attested in this document, is celebrated anew in this yea

6 Jul 2024: Search. Dr Barak Kushner, Fellow of Corpus Christi and Senior Lecturer in Japanese History, has been awarded the Sophie Coe Prize for writing in food history. He won the accolade for his fascinating book on the history of ramen in Japan. Slurp! A

5 Jul 2024: impact tests at high velocities — essentially smashing things into her models and measuring the results.

7 Jul 2024: A research team led by Corpus Fellow Dr ​​Fumiya Iida, has developed what is believed to be the first robotic lettuce leaf peeling system of its kind.

6 Jul 2024: Dr Shruti Kapila, Fellow in History, discusses Nitish Kumar and his politics in The Wire: 'Why Anti-Corruption Was the Perfect Mask for Nitish to Align With BJP'.

6 Jul 2024: The Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College offer their warm congratulations to Honorary Fellow, Dr John C Taylor, who has been made an OBE in the New Year Honours for his services to Business and to Horology.  

7 Jul 2024: Search. Abdullah Kattineh, a Syrian student from Damascus, heard back in January that he had won a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences after battling with extraordinary conditions in his home country. He studied by

5 Jul 2024: Francis Maude, m 1972 History and Law, entered the House of Lords on 26 May 2015.  He was appointed Minister of State for Trade and Investment on 11 May 2015.  Francis was previously Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from May

5 Jul 2024: Amy Hunt, who joined the college this term as an undergraduate student, has written her first column for the BBC Sport website.  She talks about combining her academic studies with life training as an elite athlete with an eye on the next Olympic

5 Jul 2024: Dr Philippa Hoskin shares the signs of an impending plague in medieval times.  

5 Jul 2024: After many years I finally returned to Japan last May to spend a relaxing holiday with my family and friends. I also took the opportunity to reconnect and exchange ideas with my colleagues in the museum, library, and conservation fields. Of course,

5 Jul 2024: Contractors working in our medieval dining hall today uncovered a carved 14th century corbel, which had been hidden for decades. The ongoing renovations will eventually restore these architectural details to be in full view.

6 Jul 2024: Dr Rachel Adelstein's research interests cover contemporary Jewish liturgical music, artistic expressions of Jewish feminism and American vernacular musics. In this podcast, Dr Adelstein examines music in the life of the Jews of Kerala.    

6 Jul 2024: Applications are invited for one non-stipendiary Research Fellowship tenable for three years from 1 October 2011.  

5 Jul 2024: Corpus Fellows, Professor David Abrahams and Dr Anastasia Kisil feature among the interviewees in recent podcasts from the University's Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

6 Jul 2024: Professor Christopher Howe is one of the team of researchers who have discovered that a common insect larva that eats beeswax also break downs chemical bonds in the plastic used for packaging and shopping bags at uniquely high speeds. The discovery

6 Jul 2024: The College is delighted to welcome our first Domus Bursar, Gemma Donaldson. Gemma joins us having previously held the role of Faculty Operating Officer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Whilst at the School G

6 Jul 2024: This manuscript comprises chronicles and records of benefactions to St Albans Abbey, compiled in St Albans in the early fifteenth century. The picture of the abbot and his monks (on the right) illustrates the account of the death of John de la Moote

6 Jul 2024: Melvin Jefferson, Conservation Officer describes how almost every leaf of every one of the 600 books was captured in high-resolution digital format, using state-of-the-art equipment to provide a free virtual Parker Library on the web.

7 Jul 2024: Under the leadership of Captain of Boats Lucy Hall, women's captain Bella Beckett, and Men's Captain Jack Morley, four Corpus boats will take to the River Cam today for four days of fierce competition for those all-important willow garlands. Follow

7 Jul 2024: Search. As part of my work experience here at the Parker Library I was given the opportunity to do my own research and write it up on a blog post. This was an amazing chance to see what research means practically, and at first I was overwhelmed by

6 Jul 2024: The Parker Library was recently featured in Le Monde alongside Cambridge University Library, Gonville and Caius,Trinity and Pembroke Colleges. 

6 Jul 2024: The Scala Mundi, or ‘Ladder of the World’, is a diagrammatical chronicle of universal history from the Creation to the early fourteenth century, when the manuscript was made. It includes the earliest known depiction of Stonehenge, described

6 Jul 2024: Just a day after we welcomed back the Corpus Chronophage following a vandalism attack that damaged its protective glass, the clock has been wreathed in flowers for one day only as part of British Flowers Week (26-30 June). The Cambridge hub of

5 Jul 2024: Dr Emma Spary, Fellow in History, discusses drug-taking (the taking of 'a material substance that packed a powerful punch in a small volume') in 17th-century Paris in the latest issue of CAM Magazine. Read the full article here.

6 Jul 2024: Matilda Gillis joined Corpus in Michaelmas 2022 as the Hong Kong Link Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Law. Matilda researches in international law, human rights law and immigration law. Her doctoral research, which she is currently revising

6 Jul 2024: Some of the College’s distant past is being revealed by the current Old House Kitchen project.  The work is concentrated in the old Master’s Lodge and Hall, the first parts of the College to be constructed, in 1352. The college kitchens are

5 Jul 2024: Search. One of the great privileges of working in The Parker Library is the opportunity to slowly discover the collections, to spend a few minutes looking at a manuscript whose shelfmark you don’t recognise, to talk to readers working on things

6 Jul 2024: John Richardson is Tutorial Administrator and Praelector’s Secretary. He is has worked at Corpus for six months and is originally from Huntington Beach, California. Tell us about your job at Corpus

6 Jul 2024: In work funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Corpus Fellow Dr Ewan St. John Smith and Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr James Hockley, both based in the Department of Pharmacology teamed up with DragonLight Films to

6 Jul 2024: Dr Fumiya Iida, Corpus Fellow and Reader in Robotics, discusses the diversity and adaptations of the Earth's evolving life forms to design more autonomous "bio-inspired" robots.

6 Jul 2024: History and Modern Languages at Corpus Fact File. Typical Offer: AAA in A Levels (or equivalent). Required subjects: History, a language (unless proposing to study a language from scratch). Submitted written work requirements: see our Written Work

6 Jul 2024: Congratulations to the winners of the Atkin Chambers Cuppers Moot Final 2021-22 Dominic Bielby and Curtis Allen, representing Corpus Christi, and the runners-up Jonty Yin and Saifullah Shah representi

6 Jul 2024: Dr Ewan St. John Smith, Fellow in Pharmacology and Director of Studies in Biological Natural Sciences, is one of the senior authors of a new study published in the journal Nature.  The study sheds new light on why naked mole-rats are so resistant

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7 Jul 2024: The Farm Africa Chefs Five-a-side Football Tournament returned on Sunday 3 July for its fourth year. Held in Birmingham, this popular tournament draws teams from around the country to compete for the coveted title of Farm Africa Football Champions.

7 Jul 2024: Search. The Jessica and Peter Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies and Fellow of King's College,is the inaugural winner of the Aaron Rapport prize, awarded by the Department of Politics and International

6 Jul 2024: It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of Professor Oliver Rackham OBE MA PhD FBA, Botanist, Master of the College 2007-8, Fellow of the College 1964-2007 and 2008-2010, Honorary Fellow 2008-2015 and Life Fellow 2010-2015, on

6 Jul 2024: On a recent trip to Asia, Corpus Admissions Tutor Dr Michael Sutherland and Director of Development & Alumni Relations Rachel Lawson visited schools and alumni in Hong Kong.

5 Jul 2024: If you have a positive COVID-19 test result, please follow Government guidance.

7 Jul 2024: In what might be a first for a Cambridge College, two Corpus alumni are set to compete in the final of the BBC television quiz show Mastermind. The show will be broadcast on Monday 11 April at 20.00.

7 Jul 2024: Today on 19 September we recognise the 12th anniversary of the unveiling of the Corpus Clock by Professor Stephen Hawking. Corpus alumnus Dr John C Taylor is the creator of the clock, which remains internationally recognised for its light display

6 Jul 2024: Think of algae and you’ll probably think trouble. Algal blooms turned the diving pool green at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Smelly seaweed ruins many a trip to the beach. But Professor Alison Smith, Professor of Plant Biochemistry at the University of

6 Jul 2024: Search. Fifty two years ago eight Cambridge men bought two VW Kombi vans, travelled to 21 countries and called the whole thing The Expedition. Fifty years later they finally wrote a book about it, The Kombi Trail, published in early 2013 by IB