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Student holding Welsh flag

Student life /

Yma o Hyd!

They’re still here: the Cambridge Welsh Society has been offering a taste of home for exiles – and others – since 1887.
Angelos Michaelides

Brainwaves /

It’s in the water: how to solve our planet’s biggest challenges

Professor Angelos Michaelides is on a quest to understand water in all its forms.
Okechukwu Nzelu and Aiseosa Eweka-Okera talking at a table

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.
Taking a strand of Beethoven's hair

News /

Campendium: Easter Term 2023

Super memorisers, sequencing Beethoven’s DNA and a visit from The King.
Maud Millar

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.
Treasures of Satan

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.
Illustration of a cat looking at bird out of a window

News /

Search it up!

Your directory to alumni life: events, benefits and updates.
Freddie King and Dr Shyane Siriwardena

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.
Professor Rachel Oliver

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.
Marketing slogans for learning

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.
Deborah Prentice

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?
Humorous scene

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.

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