Issue - Any -Issue 104Issue 103Issue 102Issue 101Issue 100Issue 99Issue 98Issue 97 Type - Any -Alumni lifeFeaturesBrainwavesCrosswordDon's diaryDownloadInboxMuseoMy room, your roomNewsSchool of thoughtShelfieSoundtrackStudent lifeThis idea must dieUniversity matters Topic - Any -Arts, humanities and societyBusiness and financeScience, medicine and technologySports, hobbies and personal stories My room, your room / Okechukwu Nzelu: Great Hall, Girton The award-winning writer Okechukwu Nzelu meets Aiseosa Eweka-Okera to celebrate Girton’s splendid isolation and the joy of bringing people together. News / Campendium: Easter Term 2023 Super memorisers, sequencing Beethoven’s DNA and a visit from The King. Features / Let there be light The material of the future is here… though chances are you’ve never heard of it. Gallium nitride has the potential to transform energy use through its incredible efficiency, and Professor Rachel Oliver has dedicated her life to the cause. Features / A Vice-Chancellor’s life A £2bn turnover. Global reach. More than 30,000 brilliant – and independent – thinkers. And a governing system that has evolved over 800 years. As new Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice takes up the reins, we ask: what does it really take to lead one of the greatest universities in the world? Features / All in the best possible taste? When is it OK to laugh? Who gets to make the jokes? When is enough? What is never funny? Modern comedy might tussle with what is and isn’t appropriate, but it’s got nothing on the 18th-century Great Laughter Debate. Features / CAM presents: Emergency Education on Ireland British ignorance of Irish history and politics is legendary (it’s a topic of academic study and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar even commented on it in public). Indeed, phrases such as the ‘Irish’ question and ‘Irish’ borders bizarrely leave out any suggestion of British involvement. So, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, CAM delivers a piece of emergency education, asking leading Cambridge experts to give us their views on the issues that matter. Soundtrack / “The music was a visceral scream of being alive” Bassoonist Rachel Gough (King’s 1984) discovered a deep love for music at King’s, even if it meant the odd all-nighter. This idea must die / This idea must die: “Learning styles determine outcomes” Professor Duncan Astle says an over-reliance on adapting teaching methods to specific individuals is misplaced. Alumni life / “Not everyone is going to like you – and that’s fine. In fact: “Embrace it!” An alumni life: Maud Millar (Clare 2007) swaps opera for operating systems to launch a revision app for students. News / Search it up! Your directory to alumni life: events, benefits and updates. Features / Best in class Everyone’s path to Cambridge is different and, as a stepping stone to study, the Foundation Year programme is giving outstanding students a chance they might not have expected. Inbox / Inbox: CAM 99 Read the editor’s letter and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 98. Pages« first‹ previous…2345678910next ›last »
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