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    Vicken Parsons: Pool

    Between 8 February – 25 March 2018, the West Court Gallery hosted a show of paintings by Vicken Parsons under...

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    Vicken Parsons: Pool
  • The Boat Race 2018 crews with Tower Bridge London in the background

    Good luck to 2018 Boat Race crews

    Good luck today to Paula Wesselmann (2017) and Spencer Furey (2017) - rowing in the number three and five seats...

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    Good luck to 2018 Boat Race crews
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    Creating the coolest objects in the Universe

    Intellectual Forum was pleased to host Fellow, Ulrich Schneider, to explore how you can make things colder than anything in outer space.

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    Creating the coolest objects in the Universe
  • Group shot of four people, Kim Liu being presented with his certificate and medal

    Graduate takes gold prize

    Congratulation to Kim Liu (2011), on being awarded a £2,000 prize and gold medal for the excellence of his PhD...

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    Graduate takes gold prize
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    Rustat Report on Inequality

    On 19 March 2015, experts come together to discuss inequality in the contemporary UK, exploring issues such as health, education, social cohesion and housing.

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    Rustat Report on Inequality
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    Using Materials to Think

    Advances in science provide the means to probe matter on increasingly minute and vast scales, expanding human senses and calling into question what it means to know and perceive.

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    Using Materials to Think
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    Fashion and the circular economy: engineering biology for textile dyeing

    The textile industry is a global environmental disaster. Everything from the production of both natural and synthetic fibres to making finished garments carry a negative environmental impact.

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    Fashion and the circular economy: engineering biology for textile dyeing
  • Statement from : USS pensions

    The College Council issued the following statement to Members of the Society (governing body) on 12th March 2018.

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    Statement from : USS pensions
  • Bioscience Panel

    Hot topics in bioscience I wished I knew more about

    Intellectual Forum hosted a panel of bioscientists from around the University of Cambridge to discuss the hot topics of the day for the Cambridge Science Festival.

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    Hot topics in bioscience I wished I knew more about
  • Mrs Margaret White pictured holding her book 'A Good Education'

    A Good Education published

    Congratulations to Mrs Margaret White (1979), Deputy Head Academic at St Faith’s School in Cambridge, on the publication of her...

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    A Good Education published
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    How science really works: the secret life of science

    Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS explored "Is the scientific enterprise truly as healthy as we tend to think? How does the system itself shape what scientists do?”

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    How science really works: the secret life of science
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    Women in sport - tackling misconceptions

    This International Womens' Day, the This Girl Can campaign is celebrating women getting active to overcome the fear of judgement...

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    Women in sport - tackling misconceptions
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    Archive of the month: The Cricket Pavilion

    Certainly the most striking building in the College grounds, the cricket pavilion has been providing shelter to cricketers and spectators...

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    Archive of the month: The Cricket Pavilion
  • The nine crew members of the 2018 Women's Boat race crew

    Jesuans selected for 2018 Boat Race

    Congratulations to Jesuans Paula Wesselmann and Spencer Furey who have been selected to be part of the University of Cambridge...

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    Jesuans selected for 2018 Boat Race
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    New Wine List

    Over the last few months we have been working with our wine supplier Ellis Wines to update our wine list...

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    New Wine List
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    Jesuan opera singers on the big stage

    Two Jesuan singers continue to make their operatic mark, with a competition win for one and return to a title...

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    Jesuan opera singers on the big stage
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    Fellow to open Westminster Abbey's 'Truth' season

    College Fellow Professor Janet Soskice will deliver The Charles Gore Lecture 2018 on 27 February - marking the inagural event...

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    Fellow to open Westminster Abbey's 'Truth' season
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    Spring into Easter with our new menus

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

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    Spring into Easter with our new menus
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    Bookings open for Festival of Science events

    Booking is now open for the 2018 Cambridge Science Festival, and the Intellectual Forum at is delighted to...

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    Bookings open for Festival of Science events
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    Taking College cricket to Croatia

    For their first international cricket tour last summer, Cricket Club eschewed countries well-known for their love of cricket...

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    Taking College cricket to Croatia

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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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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)