Professor Sir David Williams (1930 – 2009)

07 September 2009

The University reported the death of Professor Sir David Williams, who was a Life Fellow and Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, President of Wolfson College from 1980 to 1992 and Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1989 to 1996.

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The summer school diaries: this week – conquerors and creepy crawlies

04 August 2009

The winner of the second category in our summer school diary-writing competition is Ieva Lismane, who took part in a residential run by Fitzwilliam and Emmanuel Colleges. Seventeen-year-old Ieva goes to Hounslow Manor School in West London. She and her family came from Latvia to the UK as asylum seekers when she was six years old, and Ieva will be the first in her family to go to university.

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Whose world is it anyway?

27 February 2009

Jane Cocking, Humanitarian Director for Oxfam, will deliver this year’s Humanitarian Centre’s Annual lecture on Monday 2 March to an audience of senior figures in humanitarian aid, academics, students and the local community.

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God, Science and the New Atheism

27 January 2009

The Reverend Professor Keith Ward will be discussing the so-called ‘new atheists’ in a lecture entitled God, Science and New Atheism at the Faraday Institutes termly Public Lecture this afternoon

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