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Zadie Smith and Romeo Liyan

My room, your room /

Zadie Smith: V6 Bodley’s Court, King’s

Novelist Zadie Smith joins History student Romeo Liyan to explore the “luxurious” surroundings where she started her award-winning debut.
Women on a podium

News /

Campendium: Lent Term 2024

Academic rankings, wild honeyguide birds and the rise of skateboarding.
Professor Deborah Prentice

Features /

VC: year one

From California to Cambridge: Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Prentice wants to use her fascination with the way humans interact to help her establish a common mission.
Lincoln Grasby (Engineering, Second Year)

Student life /

All that jazz!

Getting in the swing… If it’s a challenge you’re after, the Jazz Orchestra is for you.
Professor Ruchi Choudhary

Brainwaves /

Energy efficiency in housing: it’s time to act not just talk

Professor Ruchi Choudhary on improving the energy efficiency of housing.
People watching lights in the sky

Features /

Is there anybody out there?

Do aliens exist? What do they look like? Are they looking for us? How long until they find us?
Mike Brearley (St John’s 1960)

Alumni life /

Mike Brearley on finding harmony and being respectful of disharmony

Cricketer-turned-psychoanalyst Mike Brearley (St John’s 1960) says to balance the different sides of our personalities, we need to captain ourselves.
App updates

This idea must die /

This idea must die: “Gen Z are lazier than previous generations”

Professor Thomas Roulet says, actually, we must all adjust to the new working environment to hit our true potential.
Emma Davis (Emmanuel 2002)

Features /

The art of borrowing

Ever fancied a Nicholson or Gaudier-Brzeska on your wall? Every year since 1957, students have been pitching up at Kettle’s Yard in the hope of claiming a master.
Gilgamesh

Features /

Once upon a time…

Forget facts. If you really want to win an argument, sell someone something or win an election, make sure you’ve got a really good story. Because humans love stories.
Sheep

Features /

Down on the farm

Two hundred cows. Three hundred lambs. Two hundred and fifty hectares of arable. And a wood. Just four miles from Cambridge… welcome to the University’s farm.
Someone trying to catch letters with a net

Inbox /

Inbox: CAM 100

Welcome to the Michaelmas edition of CAM – and in fact, the 100th edition of CAM. Brilliant minds, hot innovations, multiple editors – CAM has seen it all. We had to ask: what has she made of it all? We ask the doyenne of Cambridge to spill it.

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