Alumni and Development news

  • Kitchen development model

    Kitchen development strives for sustainability

    Plans to expand and update the College kitchens, located within our Grade I-listed historic buildings, are well underway. Combining modern...

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    Kitchen development strives for sustainability
  • A book cover showing the title 'Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil

    Dr Maite Conde wins Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize

    College Fellow Dr Maite Conde has won the Modern Language Association of America’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for her book Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil (University of California Press, 2018).

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    Dr Maite Conde wins Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize
  • Photo of Dr Donald Wagner and of a blast furnace in Jinzhai, Anhui, ca.1958

    Iron and steel in Chinese history

    The final Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Tuesday 26 November 2019 in the Webb Library. Dr Donald Wagner, Senior Research Fellow (Emeritus) at the University of Copenhagen, delivered a seminar on the history of the Chinese iron and steel industry.

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    Iron and steel in Chinese history
  • Felix Culpa poster, 1956

    Archive of the month: Felix Culpa

    The 2 nd December 1956 saw the ninth annual production (since 1948) of mystery plays with accompanying medieval music take...

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    Archive of the month: Felix Culpa
  • Image of Fellows' China Day 2019 banner

    Fellows’ China Day

    On Thursday 21 November 2019 the China Centre hosted the second Fellows’ China Day in the Webb Library.

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    Fellows’ China Day
  • Photo: Chris Loades

    Legacy of Slavery Working Party recommendations

    Following interim recommendations from our Legacy of Slavery Working Party (LSWP), has decided that a Benin Bronze statue...

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    Legacy of Slavery Working Party recommendations
  • Food

    Autumn/Winter menus now available

    We are pleased to release our new Autumn and Winter menus for events and private dining. This new menu launches...

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    Autumn/Winter menus now available
  • Miranda Green Frankopan Hall

    Are British politics in turmoil?

    On Tuesday 19 November, the Financial Times journalist and Jesus Alumna, Miranda Green, came to the Intellectual Forum to talk...

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    Are British politics in turmoil?
  • Photo of Prof Michael Waring at a College event

    Professor Michael Waring (1939-2019)

    It is with great sadness that we note the death of Professor Michael Waring on 16 November 2019. We offer...

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    Professor Michael Waring (1939-2019)
  • Orla holding the College teddy bear

    Teddy Bear Named: JC!

    After holding a competition to 'Name Our New Teddy Bear' amongst students, JC was chosen as the winning...

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    Teddy Bear Named: JC!
  • Photo of Prof Zhu Tianbiao delivering his lecture

    China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations

    The third Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Monday 4 November 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Zhu Tianbiao gave a lecture on China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations.

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    China’s multi-layered state capacity in the context of central-local relations
  • Photo of Sir Douglas Flint delivery lecture

    China's Belt and Road Initiative - understanding its potential impact

    The second Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminar was held on Thursday 24 October 2019 in the Webb Library. Sir Douglas Flint CBE delivered a lecture on understanding the potential impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

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    China's Belt and Road Initiative - understanding its potential impact
  • Image of part of book cover of The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State

    Understanding modern China: where does it come from and where is it going?

    The first of the Michaelmas term 2019 China Centre 'China in the World' seminars was held on Tuesday 15 October 2019 in the Webb Library. Professor Zhang Weiwei delivered a lecture about understanding mondern China.

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    Understanding modern China: where does it come from and where is it going?
  • Ellie Brown

    Prisoners? Artists? Or Both?

    PhD student Ellie Brown came to the Intellectual Forum to talk about her work with prisoners.

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    Prisoners? Artists? Or Both?
  • Professor Julian Dowdeswell being presented with the W S Bruce Medal

    Professor Julian Dowdeswell awarded 2019 W S Bruce Medal

    Congratulations to Professor Julian Dowdeswell (1977), College Fellow and Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, on being awarded the...

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    Professor Julian Dowdeswell awarded 2019 W S Bruce Medal

Hear from our alumni

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    John Arrastia

    Law (1995)

    I came to Cambridge at the suggestion of a Professor who was visiting the US. I borrowed the funds to study there. What appealed to me at Jesus was that it was so inclusive and embracing. I played golf with the Porters and rugby with the staff. I dined with the other students, socialised with the Fellows, danced with the Master’s wife, and really got to know people. My friends and colleagues were engineers, doctors, politicians, religious scholars, undergrads, lawyers, professors – basically every stripe of humanity one could find...

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    Law (1995)
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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)
  • 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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    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)
  • Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)

    We first met in 2021 when we joined the May Ball committee as webmaster and graphic designer. We spent a lot of time together that year, working closely to create a graphic scheme and build a website for the event. Even though it was a lot of hard work and very stressful at times, we are so grateful to have been part of it as it is thanks to that opportunity that we became great friends. A couple of years later, we are still great friends and now have a...

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    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)