As Professor Deborah Prentice becomes Cambridge’s seventh full-time Vice-Chancellor, CAM investigates what the job entails. Elsewhere, CAM returns to the 18th Century to explore the Great Laughter Debate.

Professor Rachel Oliver explains why gallium nitride – the material that powers LEDs – could power the future. And to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, CAM introduces a piece of ‘Emergency Education’ on Irish history.

Also in this issue, an opportunity to meet the very first cohort of Foundation Year students and a return to Girton for award-winning writer Okechukwu Nzelu.

Hear from Professor Duncan Astle on why learning styles don’t determine outcomes, the Welsh Society on the meaning of ‘hiraeth’ and alumna Maud Millar on swapping opera for operating systems.

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