Search

12 Nov 2020: Trinity Hall has recently approved a revised investment policy. As part of this revision the College has committed to divest within six months from direct investments in companies whose primary activity is in fossil fuel exploration or extraction.

12 May 2020: Life in the former “death strip” of the Berlin Wall By Katerina Biliouri (2000) “I see you see me. I’ve been tapping all day, working on my laptop on the dinner table behind our wall-to-wall living room windows. Daytime with a coffee by my

13 Apr 2020: Trinity Hall musicians are using their talents to keep our community spirits up by recording performances in their homes. From piano to vocals to French horn, and classical to modern songs. Every Monday, the Trinity Hall YouTube channel shares a new

16 Apr 2020: Gerard Manley Hopkins poem God’s Grandeur Hopkins poem is not just another lament for the wounds we have inflicted on our world. As a Christian priest, a Jesuit, he sees the damage we have done as our failure to “Reck God’s rod”, and calls

17 Jul 2020: Trinity Hall’s first virtual Open Day for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) applicants on was co-organised by the Admissions Office and current students, led by BME Officer, Maro Okiti. More than 120 people attended the virtual Open Day on Friday 26

23 Apr 2020: Mia Hansen-Løve’s film Things to Come (L’Avenir, 2016) depicts a woman at a time of personal crisis: her husband has unexpectedly left her, her publisher has dropped the book series she edits, and caring for her elderly mother is becoming an

12 Nov 2020: Dr Gonçalo Bernardes, Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in Chemistry at Trinity Hall, has been selected to receive the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist award.

19 May 2020: Highs and lows with Elgar When I went up to the Hall in 1967 to read Modern and Mediaeval Languages, I took with me the rather dodgy amplifier for an electric guitar which I had never learned to play and a painted plywood box of my own manufacture

30 Sep 2020: On 29 September 2020, Blackbaud contacted us to advise that after the initial ransomware attack, they continued their investigation which revealed a subset of customers who had been affected further than they previously anticipated. They have

7 May 2020: During lockdown, I have been ‘meeting’ weekly on Zoom with the friends I made while training for ministry thirty years ago. We’re scattered around the UK and beyond, these days and see each other less often than I’d like. But these are

8 Dec 2020: So many of the entries into the competition showed that while lockdown has been a challenge there has been humour and joy in there too. ... The winning entry won vouchers worth £50 and the runners up received vouchers worth £25.

25 Sep 2020: Alumnus Billy Boyle (1997) is a serial inventor, entrepreneur and a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medallist. At Cambridge, he co-founded Owlstone Nanotech, marketing a programmable microchip sensor with applications ranging from toxic gas

26 May 2020: Here is a poem by the English poet, Geoffrey Hill. Christmas Trees Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell bleached by the flares’ candescent fall, pacing out his own citadel, restores the broken themes of praise, encourages our borrowed days, by logic of

17 Oct 2020: College Nurse Jo Rhodes comes to Trinity Hall after working as a staff nurse for two years in Accident & Emergency. When Coronavirus took hold across the country she and her colleagues faced a new challenge.

31 May 2020: they find to study, especially when they move on to more independent research in their final year, or undertake postgraduate courses.

5 May 2020: Professor Jack Thorne (2004) has become the youngest living member of the Royal Society, aged 32. He has been recognised for multiple breakthroughs in diverse areas of algebraic number theory. Professor Thorne studied Mathematics at Trinity Hall

22 May 2020: A joint statement from the heads of all 31 colleges at the University of Cambridge, including the Acting Vice- Master of Trinity Hall Dr Daniel Tyler, has appeared in The Times. The statement says in full: “As heads of Cambridge colleges, we have

24 Sep 2020: The University plans for lectures to be run on an online-only basis in the next academic year when stringent social distancing requirements are expected to remain in place.

13 Nov 2020: At the start of the last academic year, the Vice-Chancellor announced the Harding Challenge, made possible by part of a £100 million gift from David and Claudia Harding. The Harding’s vision is to encourage new donors to collegiate Cambridge and

3 Jun 2020: Announcing the social entrepreneurs shortlisted for the 2020 Cambridge Social Innovation Prize, awarded by Trinity Hall and the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cambridge From fighting loneliness on your morning jog, to