Articles about 'Newnham College'

Professor David Spiegelhalter will deliver Newnham College’s inaugural Gillian Vaisey Memorial Lecture this Friday at the Faculty of Law on West Road.

A series of programmes which aim to address and counteract radical thought in British youth is now being adapted for use across Europe.

Clare Holtham (1948-2010) had a huge enthusiasm for learning. After a troubled childhood, which led to a spell of homelessness, she became an intrepid traveller and independent-minded student at Newnham College, Cambridge. A book of Clare’s poems called The Road from Herat, launched today at Newnham, reflects a life lived to the full. It included working on the buses and a rapid marriage to an Uzbek chieftain.

His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, paid his final visit to the University before he stood down as Chancellor.

Professor Dame Athene Donald will give Newnham College’s Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture this Friday at the Faculty of Law on West Road.

The University of Cambridge has today submitted the names of eight distinguished individuals to the Regent House for approval for the conferment of honorary degrees at a Congregation in the Senate House on Thursday 23 June 2011.

Forget your preconceptions about the civilised, sparkling, white cityscapes of the ancient world: Real-life Pompeii was an altogether more sordid proposition, as Cambridge classicist Mary Beard is set to explain.

Two leading Cambridge academics have been acknowledged in the Sunday Telegraph's 100 Most Powerful Women in Britain list.

The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.

Five Cambridge scientists have been featured on a commemorative stamp sheet, released by the Royal Mail to celebrate the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary.