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Selwyn College's 2015 Ramsay Murray lecture will be given by the award-winning BBC broadcaster Bridget Kendall. She will speak about President Putin and Russia, sharing her extensive experience of the country in recent decades.
The College congratulates three of its alumni on recent prestigious appointments.
Dr Nicolas Bell, who matriculated at Selwyn in 1991, has been named as the new Librarian of Trinity
College Cambridge. He will take up the position on 1 October, succeeding Professor David
McKitterick. Dr Bell is currently Curator of Music Collections at the British Library.
Selwyn is welcoming back students for the Easter term with its trees in blossom in a wonderful display across the College gardens. Our cover photograph shows the Prunus TaiHaku Cherry Trees outside Ann’s Court along the walk towards West Road, and the trees are at their best too outside the main entrance in Grange Road.
Easter Monday saw the College’s annual party and Easter Egg Hunt for the children of Fellows, staff
and graduate students. There was a lunch in Hall, with sausages and chips on the menu, and then
participants in the hunt assembled in the College garden.
One of Selwyn’s Fellows, the neuroscientist Fabian Grabenhorst, was featured on a BBC One science programme this week. He
was interviewed for ’The Truth About Fat’, seeking to discover whether our brains are hard-wired to like fats. Keen-eyed
Selwyn’s Hannah Evans (second left in the photograph below) will be competing in the first women’s Boat Race to be held on the Tideway in London. The women’s event has been moved to the same day and location as the men’s, and it will take place – with live television coverage – on Saturday, April 11th.
The author and broadcaster Nick Bryant gave Selwyn’s Ramsay Murray lecture on Friday May 10th. This is our annual flagship event at which previous speakers have ranged from Niall Ferguson to Bridget Kendall and from Trevor Phillips to Amanda Vickery.
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Selwyn’s high-profile events from this Spring, and earlier, are available to view online.
We began the recent series with the visit by the Swedish foreign minister Tobias Billström on April 16th. Mr Billström, a Selwyn alumnus, explained why Sweden had joined NATO. The video of the session can be viewed here:
Sweden’s foreign minister Tobias Billström gave a talk at Selwyn on April 16th about why his country has joined NATO. He warned that the world is going through a dangerous phase: not just the Russian attack on Ukraine, but also China’s intentions and the current crisis in the Middle East. These changing circumstances were why Sweden decided to relinquish the neutrality that it has held for more than two centuries.
An MA graduation ceremony was held in the university Senate House on Saturday April 6th. Selwyn’s graduands gathered in Old Court on a warm, windy Spring day and then made the journey into the centre of the city via West Bye Lane and King’s College.
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Selwyn three minute thesis competition. It’s an opportunity for undergraduate and postgraduate students to explain their academic work - against the clock.
