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Alumni and Development news

  • The Great Post Office Scandal

    How do you expose one of the UK's biggest ever miscarriages of justice? The Great Post Office Scandal is the...

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    The Great Post Office Scandal
  • Benjamin Sheen will join °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û as Director of Music on 1 January 2023

    New Director of Music appointed

    °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û is pleased to announce that Benjamin Sheen has accepted the post of Director of Music at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û...

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    New Director of Music appointed
  • Joined Up Thinking

    At a time of existential global challenges, we need our best brainpower. How do we create genius environments, help our...

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    Joined Up Thinking
  • An Intimate History of Evolution

    °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Honorary Fellow Alison Bashford FBA came to the Intellectual Forum on Wednesday 5 October to discuss her book...

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    An Intimate History of Evolution
  • Here We Are: film screening and Q&A

    On the 27th August, we screened the animated short film Here We Are, based on the award-winning book by Oliver...

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    Here We Are: film screening and Q&A
  • The work to the Chapel tower includes a new lead roof

    Chapel tower gets major facelift

    The scaffolding is down and the new-look Chapel tower is visible after it was extensively restored. The project, which first...

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    Chapel tower gets major facelift
  • Young women look at a mobile phone

    Results day 2022 – next steps

    Applicants find out today if they have met their offers to study at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û. We and the University have some advice.

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    Results day 2022 – next steps
  • The Hungry Empire

    The journey of curry around the British Empire

    Dr Lizzie Collingham is a Historian and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Visiting Fellow and will give her fascinating talk on the journey...

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    The journey of curry around the British Empire
  • A photo of a man and the Team Upside logo

    Jesuan awarded Diana Award

    Recent graduate and Team UPside founder Sulaiman Iqbal (2018) was awarded the Diana Award in 2022 for his work supporting young people from underserved backgrounds through Team UPside.

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    Jesuan awarded Diana Award
  • Heba Bevan OBE (pictured centre) with the award

    Jesuan Heba Bevan wins prestigious engineering award

    A Jesuan has received one of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s most prestigious individual awards. Heba Bevan OBE (2011) was...

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    Jesuan Heba Bevan wins prestigious engineering award

Hear from our alumni

  • 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)
  • Ilana Cohen

    Ilana Cohen

    Human, Social and Political Sciences (2022)

    I arrived at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û 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)