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7 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Eminent alumna receives Honorary Degree from Harvard. May 31st, 2016. Philosopher and metaphysician Professor Judith Thomson was awarded a highly prestigious Honorary Degree from Harvard University. Professor

7 Jun 2024: In the ceremony, the new Fellows and Scholars also make promises to “promote the honour and usefulness of the College as a place of education, learning and research,” and sign their ... Seven new fellows also made their Solemn Promise and signed the

16 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Fundraising Promise. This promise outlines the commitment made to alumnae, donors and other supporters by Newnham. Newnham is registered with the Fundraising Regulator and agrees to ensure our fundraising is legal,

20 Jun 2024: Jo Burch, President of the Roll and herself a former member of NCBC, responded “This is fabulous news and so well-deserved – a wonderful achievement.”. ... Pioneering botanist and Newnham Alumna Agnes Arber (NC 1899) has been remembered with a new

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham student named ‘most committed’ in Sports England awards. August 16th, 2017. A Newnham sportswoman who juggled her PhD studies with playing Goalball around the world has just been given the ‘most

22 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Rising interest in Classics ‘highlights political resonance’. October 10th, 2022. Fellows Dr Shushma Malik and Dr Carol Atack made a strong case for the contemporary relevance of Classics to help illuminate

13 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Professor Thompson elected to Royal Society Fellowship. May 10th, 2023. Our Honorary Fellow Professor Elizabeth Thompson has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Thompson (NC 1967) completed her

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham alumnae return to Cambridge for 25th Alumni Festival. September 28th, 2015. Cambridge played host to the 25th Alumni Festival this weekend and more Newnham alumnae returned to the city than former students

16 Jun 2024: Students who saw their favourite dishes, that are undoubtedly special to them, on the menu expressed deep gratitude to us, and many got to experience new cultural dishes for the first

22 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Cambridge’s first McWhirter conference takes place at Newnham College. April 11th, 2016. Sixth-form students from around the country experienced life at a Cambridge college at the inaugural Rosalind Franklin

20 Jun 2024: Pioneering botanist and Newnham Alumna Agnes Arber (NC 1899) has been remembered with a new PhD….

28 Jun 2024: Julia was included in Financial News’ 100 Most Influential Women in Europe’s Financial Markets (2010, 2011, 2012, 2021,2022 and 2023), and awarded Industry Leader of the year 2023 by

22 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. A Day in the Life at Cambridge University: Zainab Haider. Zainab Haider shares her ‘Day in the Life’, showing you what it’s like to be a Psychological and Behavioural Sciences student at Newnham College.

10 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. The Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology course is taught by the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, which is a separate department to Engineering within

12 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Confirmed TEDxNewnham Speakers. Julie Etchingham (NC 1988) is one of Britain’s foremost reporters: she has worked for the BBC and Sky News, and has ... She has presented Tonight on ITV since 2010, having replaced

25 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Family Day marks Philippa Fawcett anniversary with Maths activities. July 14th, 2023. A great time was had by all at our Family Day for alumnae and staff on Saturday 8 July. The theme of the event was Mathematics,

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14 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. YouTube maths star returns to Cambridge to cook up a storm at memorial lecture. March 20th, 2017. Dr Eugenia Cheng aims to rid the world of ‘maths phobia’ and she brought her innovative campaign to Newnham for

29 Jun 2024: February 14th, 2022. Prof Róisín Owens has long been at the forefront of bioengineering research, creating technologies to develop medicines with new speed and accuracy. ... bridges the gap between traditional cell culture assays and human studies, to

27 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham College works to challenge culture of silence around sexual harassment. November 02nd, 2016. A special training course to help challenge the culture of silence at university around sexual harassment was

20 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Emma Thompson tells students ‘Newnham taught me how to think’. June 13th, 2017. Newnhamite Emma Thompson returned to College to talk to students about her life and career and advised them that ‘failure is

22 Jun 2024: Her contribution to the College was always highly valued by Fellows and students and moving tributes were paid to her on social media when the sad news of her death was ... Georgia Ruth, one former student, said on Twitter: “Very sad news about Jenny

28 Jun 2024: Her research also involves understanding the potential for the discovery or characterisation of new physics scenarios at future colliders. ... Pioneering botanist and Newnham Alumna Agnes Arber (NC 1899) has been remembered with a new PhD….

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. A day in the life at Cambridge University: Zaynab Ahmed. Classics student Zaynab Ahmed reflects on why its important to study the arts and classics today, and shares some of the highs and lows of studying arts

18 Jun 2024: Dame Carol Black was joined by Olivia Hylton-Pennant, JCR Access Officer, at the BBC News Wikipedia edit-a-thon event on December 8. ... It was part of BBC 100 Women 2016, the BBC news series which names 100 influential and inspirational women around the

19 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Archaeology. With the Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge is one of the largest centres of archaeological research in Britain. Archaeology students at

7 Jun 2024: But she was a radical in this field. She felt that many ‘epigraphers’ were rightly concerned to discover and decipher new texts (sometimes a formidably difficult task), but did not always ... She is best known for her study of the inscriptions

23 Jun 2024: May 31st, 2019. Newnham’s Prof Susan Golombok has been appointed to the new International Commission on Human Germline Genome Editing. ... Her research focuses on new family forms, including families created by assisted reproduction techniques,

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Principal takes her message of healthy workplaces to Washington. May 10th, 2018. Health and Wellbeing in the workplace is no longer merely a matter of traditional ‘health and safety’, but of stress, autonomy,

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Pioneering botanist Agnes Arber remembered with a new PhD Prize and Blue Plaque. ... June 17th, 2024. Pioneering botanist and Newnham Alumna Agnes Arber (NC 1899) has been remembered with a new PhD Prize in comparative

25 Jun 2024: February 22nd, 2022. Prof Claire Hughes has launched a new set of pictorial resources for use by researchers interested in how children view themselves and their life experiences. ... The new images, which portray moments from a child’s day, show

9 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham finalists get chance to ‘pet a pup’ to combat exam stress. May 18th, 2017. Students at Newnham College had a special break from revision this week as trainee guide dogs were brought in to aid relaxation

9 Jun 2024: Geographical Magazine, New Scientist, The Economist) is also a good background for studying Geography.

14 Jun 2024: March 22nd, 2017. Newnham College has been shortlisted in the Employer of the Year category in the Cambridge News and Media Business Excellence Awards 2017 for focusing on the health and ... We are delighted to have our work recognised by the Cambridge

15 Jun 2024: 1-4pm Tuesday 9th November, Cynthia Beerbower Room. Drop in between 1 and 4pm to swap your clothes for something new in the Cynthia Beerbower room at Newnham!

26 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Annual University Sermon preached by Newnham alumna Sister Jane Livesey. January 31st, 2019. Sister Jane Livesey CJ (NC 1977), General Superior of the Congregation of Jesus, preached the annual University Sermon on

11 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. From a difficult marriage in Pakistan to a PhD in Cambridge – one Newnhamite’s inspiring story. August 16th, 2017. Aliya Khalid is from Peshawar in North West Pakistan where she says ‘a girl is supposed to be

9 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham undergraduate first to receive inaugural Cambridge Leadership Prize. January 25th, 2016. A third year Land Economy student, Aleksandra Pedraszewska, was the first recipient of a recently established

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Music. Cambridge is a great place to study music. The undergraduate degree (referred to as the Music Tripos), is carefully designed to give first year students a solid foundation in a broad range of musical skills

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham’s Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran named as one of the ‘100 Most Influential Women in Engineering’. October 21st, 2019. Newnham Research Fellow and alumna, Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran, has been announced as one of

21 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Veterinary Medicine. Cambridge is a popular choice for a wide variety of students, providing an intellectually satisfying preparation for clinical studies. The subjects within years 1 – 3 (pre-clinical) of the

21 Jun 2024: newer settler colonies of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. ... Student-led research in 2021 shed new light onto Newnham College and the legacies of enslavement.

18 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham Family Forum 2019: ‘The Sandwich Generation’. The 2019 Newnham Family Forum discussed ‘The Sandwich Generation’: people who are caring for dependent children at the same time as ageing relatives.

7 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Research feature: In contemplation of wellbeing. January 22nd, 2024. Alone in her room and poring over texts, Dr Hannah Lucas can feel very connected to the lives of medieval women who withdrew from society to

11 Jun 2024: Carol has identified a potential new mechanism by which the fungus invades and possibly gains control of the plant’s cell machinery, by disguising itself as a friend and not a ... foe. This better understanding of the fungus can be used to develop new

27 Jun 2024: Over long periods of time, these changes might have allowed life forms to perform more complicated functions, like those associated with the evolution of new feeding and movement styles. ... Dr Imran Rahman, lead author and Principal Researcher at the

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. ‘Fighting for a Childhood’: Newnham’s Family Forum addresses forced marriage in the UK. October 18th, 2021. Jasvinder Sanghera CBE and Louise McCallum joined us last week to speak about the extent of forced

15 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham tackles under-representation of women in the tech sector. October 26th, 2018. Why are women actively self-selecting out of the technology sector? Newnham College and the WoMen’s Leadership Centre at

8 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Students invited to apply for biennial Ann Duncan travel grants. March 14th, 2023. Applications are invited for small grants for foreign travel during Summer 2023 for students currently studying a language under

16 Jun 2024: Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Newnham alumna and suffragist Clara Rackham honoured with a blue plaque. November 26th, 2018. Newnham alumna, suffragist and campaigner Clara Rackham has been honoured with a blue plaque outside her Cambridge home.