The latest news from Newnham’s Fellows, researchers, students and staff.
Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran used her engineering expertise to support an earthquake search and rescue team in Turkey. She reports on her experience there and the way volunteering allows her to use her understanding of…
The Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Programme welcomed its 2023 cohort on 24 April. The day included plenty of getting to know each other, a leadership training session, and a workshop on research ethics.…
Dr Mezna Qato has been awarded a Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) which supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Dr Qato, a Margaret Anstee Research Fellow…
Our Honorary Fellow Professor Elizabeth Thompson has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Professor Thompson (NC 1967) completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Newnham, holding many…
Dr Carol Atack has a new book out, having written the introduction and notes for Xenophon’s Memories of Socrates, to accompany Martin Hammond’s new translation for Oxford World’s Classics. It’s a ‘readable and lively…
Pam Alexander OBE CGeog Hon FRIBA FRGS FRSA AoU (NC 1972) sadly passed away on Good Friday. She had been suffering from cancer. A geographer, who studied under Dr Lucy Adrian (NC 1954), Pam…
A new paper by Constanza Toro Valdivieso explores what seals could tell us about exposure to extreme pollution – and the implications for biomedicine. On a remote island half a world away from Newnham,…
We are sad to share the news of the death of Joyce Wells, a zoologist who is fondly remembered for her time as Senior Tutor of Newnham College for 25 years. Coming to Newnham…
Newnham rowers have made a significant contribution to Cambridge’s clean sweep in the Boat Race 2023. Newnham College Boat Club (NCBC) Co-Captain Becca Sproston reports from the Tideway: Beginning with the Openweight/Lightweight Spare Coxed…
Associate Lecturer Cerian Webb joined an international panel of scientists to identify 100 of the most important questions facing plant science, ranging from how plants can contribute to tackling climate change, to plant-defence priming…