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Alumni and Development news

  • Individual headshot photos of Hamish Symington and Laura Taylor

    Students highly commended in Cambridge awards

    Two of our Plant Science postgraduate students, Laura Taylor and Hamish Symington, have been highly commended in this year’s Cambridge...

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    Students highly commended in Cambridge awards
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    Sir Samuel Brittan (1933-2020)

    It is with great sadness that we note the death of Honorary Fellow Sir Samuel Brittan (1952) on Monday 12...

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    Sir Samuel Brittan (1933-2020)
  • The Forum - a large one-storey brick building with large glass windows at end and sides.

    Giving an old building a new lease of life

    An old building has been given a new purpose in College for the new academic year, with a professional kitchen and spacious dining rooms opening in our Forum building.

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    Giving an old building a new lease of life
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    Cambridge University Alumni Festival kicks off

    Don’t forget to check out the programme for this year’s Cambridge University Alumni Festival. There are still spaces available for...

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    Cambridge University Alumni Festival kicks off
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    Telephone Campaign 2020 begins soon

    A group of current students will be telephoning alumni from 17 – 25 September seeking support for our Development Campaign...

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    Telephone Campaign 2020 begins soon
  • Photograph of Simon Durrant

    Meet our new Head Porter

    Meet Simon Durrant, our new Head Porter. We spoke to Simon to find out more about him and his new role.

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    Meet our new Head Porter
  • Photograph of Grahame Appleby

    Goodbye to Grahame - Head Porter retires

    Retiring Head Porter, Grahame Appleby, shares some of his memories of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û and tells us what he plans to do next.

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    Goodbye to Grahame - Head Porter retires
  • Photograph of Rosamunde Almond

    WWF Living Planet Report published

    Global verterbrate populations have suffered on average a 68% decline since 1970. That's the headline finding from the newly published WWF Living Planet Report. Dr Rosamunde Almond, editor-in-chief of this year’s report is also a Senior Research Associate at our Intellectual Forum.

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    WWF Living Planet Report published
  • Photo of beekeeper and bees

    How do you move a bee colony?

    Some strange boxes appeared on scaffolding in Second Court over the summer, which turned out to be a removals van...

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    How do you move a bee colony?
  • Photo of Prof Anna Vignoles in a room at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û

    Professor Anna Vignoles appointed as Director of the Leverhulme Trust

    Professor Anna Vignoles, College Fellow and education economist known for her work using large-scale data to shed light on inequality and its consequences, has been appointed as the new Director of the Leverhulme Trust.

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    Professor Anna Vignoles appointed as Director of the Leverhulme Trust
  • Undergraduate admissions 2020 - update

    We are delighted to announce that we have completed our admissions round and are in touch with all of our...

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    Undergraduate admissions 2020 - update
  • University College Hospital

    Free meals for NHS staff

    Back in 2006, two students became close friends at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û. Fourteen years on, they worked together to deliver over...

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    Free meals for NHS staff

Hear from our alumni

  • Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)

    We first met in 2021 when we joined the May Ball committee as webmaster and graphic designer. We spent a lot of time together that year, working closely to create a graphic scheme and build a website for the event. Even though it was a lot of hard work and very stressful at times, we are so grateful to have been part of it as it is thanks to that opportunity that we became great friends. A couple of years later, we are still great friends and now have a...

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    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)
  • Lene Northwood

    Criminology (1996)

    As a person who grew up on the opposite side of the planet to a family that had no history of attending university, the idea of me attending Cambridge was, quite frankly, laughable. Then I fell in love with Criminology and wrote a thesis that caught the attention of the College. It is just one example of the incredibly outward looking approach that, in the decades that I have known the College, has defined °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û. One letter with a now familiar letterhead, quite literally raised my expectations of life...

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    Criminology (1996)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)