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  • Professor Julian Dowdeswell

    Professor Julian Dowdeswell takes part in Nobel Week Dialogue

    College Fellow Professor Julian Dowdeswell (1977) was recently invited to join several discussion panels with Nobel Laureates, scientists, experts and...

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    Professor Julian Dowdeswell takes part in Nobel Week Dialogue
  • Chapel Choir

    Chapel Choir to sing at Windsor Castle

    Our Chapel Choir will sing services at St George's Chapel this weekend, as part of a mini-tour to Windsor.

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    Chapel Choir to sing at Windsor Castle
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    Alison Wilding: On the edge

    Between 6 October – 11 December 2018, ’s West Court Gallery hosted  On the Edge, an exhibition of work from...

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    Alison Wilding: On the edge
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    Reproduction from Hippocrates to IVF

    A new book is the first to encompass the vast history of how living things procreate, from the banks of...

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    Reproduction from Hippocrates to IVF
  • Three head and shoulder shots of women - left to right Roberta Gilchrist, Alison Wilding and Belinda Wilkes

    Archaeologist, sculptor and astrophysicist elected as Honorary Fellows

    Three women distinguished in their fields of archaeology, sculpture and astrophysics – Professor Roberta Gilchrist, Alison Wilding and Dr Belinda J Wilkes – have been elected as Honorary Fellows of .

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    Archaeologist, sculptor and astrophysicist elected as Honorary Fellows
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    Rustat Report on Managing Organisational Change

    On 4 December 2012, the Rustat Conferences brought together experts to consider managing organisational change, turbulence and transition in the Economic Crisis.

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    Rustat Report on Managing Organisational Change
  • Christmas Formal Tradition

    Christmas Formal Tradition

    Each Christmas, Grahame Appleby, Head Porter at the College since 2001, leads the carol singing in Hall after the annual...

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    Christmas Formal Tradition
  • 1816 Audit vouchers

    Archive of the month: Audit Feast

    Rents received from estates and property have formed a major part of the College’s income since its foundation. As it...

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    Archive of the month: Audit Feast
  • wording Fellows' China Day 2018

    Fellows’ China Day

    The China Centre and the Intellectual Forum jointly hosted a Fellows’ China Day in the Webb Library on Thursday 29 November 2018. The event provided an opportunity to appreciate the wide range of activities involving academics of the College and their counterparts in China.

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    Fellows’ China Day
  • 70 Years On Lunch

    70 Years On …

    Recently we welcomed back five alumni who matriculated in 1948 for our first ever 70th anniversary celebration. They and their...

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    70 Years On …
  • Photography of Stuart Websdale

    Meet our new Domestic Bursar

    Former Møller Institute General Manager, Stuart Websdale, has moved to to become our new Domestic Bursar. He will...

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    Meet our new Domestic Bursar
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    Rustat Report on Transport and Energy

    On 27 November 2014, this Rustat Conference convened experts to consider key priorities and issues around energy and transportation.

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    Rustat Report on Transport and Energy
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    New book celebrates thirty years of art

    Travel through three decades of art at in a new photo-led book, Thirty Years of Contemporary Art, , Cambridge, 1988 – 2018, available now in our online shop

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    New book celebrates thirty years of art
  • Men's rugby match

    Students win Oxford vs Cambridge match

    Congratulations to our athletes for beating Oxford 6-3 in a friendly Varsity match last Saturday (17 November). Our...

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    Students win Oxford vs Cambridge match

Hear from our alumni

  • 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)
  • 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)
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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)
  • 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)