Alumni and Development news

  • Ed Hyde

    Ed Hyde awarded ‘Hawk of the Year’

    Congratulations to current undergraduate, Ed Hyde (2017, Geography) who has received the 2020 ‘Hawk of the Year' award from the...

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    Ed Hyde awarded ‘Hawk of the Year’
  • Virtual May Bumps

    Call for alumni teams for ‘Virtual May Bumps'

    Much of Cambridge life is moving online, including a version of this year’s May Bumps. With the Cam and rowing...

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    Call for alumni teams for ‘Virtual May Bumps'
  •  Award

    wins Green Impact award

    We are delighted to have won a 2019-20 Green Impact Gold Award for our commitment to reducing our environmental impact...

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    wins Green Impact award
  • ice sheets on the sea - the view from the top of a research vessel

    Antarctic ice sheets capable of retreating up to 50 metres per day

    New research led by College Fellow Professor Julian Dowdeswell at the Scott Polar Reaserch Institute has found that the ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic coastline retreated at speeds of up to 50 metres per day at the end of the last Ice Age.

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    Antarctic ice sheets capable of retreating up to 50 metres per day
  • Lisa Vickers

    Update from a student in residence

    Lisa Vickers (2016) is a postgraduate student and has remained in Cambridge during the pandemic lockdown. In her own words...

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    Update from a student in residence
  • Sally Adams

    Alumna seeks coronavirus vaccine

    With decades of experience in developing therapies against HIV and cancer, Dr Sally Adams (1979) is part of the scientific...

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    Alumna seeks coronavirus vaccine
  • Eliot's Face

    Call for submissions for Eliot's Face

    Eliot’s Face, Jesus’s very own arts magazine, first began in 2000. Twenty years on, we’re opening up submissions for a...

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    Call for submissions for Eliot's Face
  • The Redentore - one of Venice’s plague churches

    Precedented events: historical perspectives on COVID-19

    Global pandemics are nothing new. Social distancing and quarantining have been repeatedly deployed in the past to control mass disease...

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    Precedented events: historical perspectives on COVID-19
  • Guen Bradbury

    From vet to innovation consultant

    Guen Bradbury (2005) studied Veterinary Medicine with Pharmacology at Jesus, graduating in 2011. She worked in veterinary medicine before embarking...

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    From vet to innovation consultant
  • The Cambridge Union 30 April

    Does coronavirus show humanity at its best?

    Are we at our best when we are most stressed? Does adversity unite or divide us as a species? Guest...

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    Does coronavirus show humanity at its best?
  • Theo Lundberg standing next to a technical structure

    Student awarded prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship

    Congratulations to Jesus postgraduate Theo Lundberg who is one of only 24 students worldwide to be awarded a 2020 IBM PhD Fellowship Award.

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    Student awarded prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship
  • A daytime shot of a wide city centre road, all shops closed, no pedestrians and no traffic apart from one bus.

    Economic activity halved during Spain’s lockdown, study suggests

    A new analysis of 1.4 billion anonymised credit and debit card transactions during the first three months of 2020 shows that spending in Spain post-lockdown was an average of 49% lower than the same date the previous year.

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    Economic activity halved during Spain’s lockdown, study suggests
  • Chapel court

    How to contact us

    Our conference team is working remotely and is available and ready to help event organisers.

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    How to contact us
  • Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first US case of COVID-19

    New app collects the sounds of COVID-19

    The development of a new app to collect data that could help machine learning algorithms automatically detect COVID-19 infections has been led by College Fellow Professor Cecilia Mascolo.

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    New app collects the sounds of COVID-19
  • Jacopo del Sellaio

    Inspire 2020 exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum

    The Inspire 2020 exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum ran from December 2019 until March 2020. It brought together artwork by...

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    Inspire 2020 exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Hear from our alumni

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    Lene Northwood

    Criminology (1996)

    As a person who grew up on the opposite side of the planet to a family that had no history of attending university, the idea of me attending Cambridge was, quite frankly, laughable. Then I fell in love with Criminology and wrote a thesis that caught the attention of the College. It is just one example of the incredibly outward looking approach that, in the decades that I have known the College, has defined . One letter with a now familiar letterhead, quite literally raised my expectations of life...

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    Criminology (1996)
  • Ilana Cohen

    Ilana Cohen

    Human, Social and Political Sciences (2022)

    I arrived at in 2022 as a Harvard Social Studies Exchange student. Initially, I was compelled to pursue the program due to the academic freedom it offered, excited to work closely with leading thinkers in self-directed studies around climate change ethics. Upon starting at Jesus, though, I realised that I also gained the opportunity to join an incredible community of wonderfully eclectic and deeply welcoming scholars and peers. My Jesus experience was also formative for me as a climate justice activist. Sharing knowledge and building relationships with Cambridge...

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    Human, Social and Political Sciences (2022)
  • Philip Slotkin

    Philip Slotkin

    Modern and Medieval Languages (1958)

    As a "bright kid" from a non-academic background I had to adjust quickly on arrival at Jesus, but I soon made friends and was never made to feel that I did not fit in socially. Since my wife and I have no children, it was to that my thoughts turned with advancing years, and given the attachment to the College that I felt from the beginning it was obvious that Jesus would be a major beneficiary of my Will. This intention was only reinforced by the unstinting assistance...

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    Modern and Medieval Languages (1958)
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    Johnny Harounoff and Stephanie Posner

    Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2013) and Classics (2012)

    We met 10 years ago as undergraduates living in the same staircase in North Court and have since been studying and working in the United States. The College was so accommodating to us by providing us — and other Jewish students — with kosher facilities and by supporting the creation of the College's first Jewish Society. For us, the College is full of happy memories thanks to the friends we made and for all of the kindness shown to us from the porters, professors and staff. That sense of community...

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    Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2013) and Classics (2012)
  • Mark and Janet Hayes

    Mark Hayes and Janet Livesley

    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)

    We first met in 1980 when Mark returned to Jesus to study for the postgraduate diploma in Architecture and Janet joined the college on the same course. Graduate dinners in Upper Hall were a highlight of the week and an opportunity to meet socially with other Jesuans. Part of our studies included trips to Zambia and an earthquake-hit area in Southern Italy. We were married in the College Chapel just after completing our studies in the summer of 1982 and remained in Cambridge for a period following Mark’s election to...

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    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)