Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart, the New Zealand-based entrepreneurs and philanthropists, were made Fellow Benefactors of Selwyn College, Cambridge, on 22 October 2026.

A Selwyn Trevelyan Research Associate has been awarded an Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant to study how nutritional deficiencies affect recovery from traumatic brain injury in older adults.

Dr Daniel Beauregard has been appointed as Selwyn’s next Senior Tutor and will take up the role in January 2027, succeeding Dr Mike Sewell who is retiring

Selwyn has welcomed 191 students this term over two matriculation ceremonies.

Professor James Keeler has started as Selwyn's Vice-Master, succeeding Professor Janet O’Sullivan.

Four years' funding will guarantee that select new students settle into Cambridge life.

Meet the newest members of our Fellowship.

Thank you to the more than 300 generous alumni who have together given £2.5m to the Ann's Court North project. When added to Selwyn College reserves of £1.5 million, the project has now reached its £4m target for the renovation and just been given planning permission.

Nearly a year into a five-year study of Sanskrit scholarship in the Kaveri delta, researchers led by Selwyn Bye-Fellow Dr Jonathan Duquette have made their first major find. It is a manuscript that may be the earliest known work of Nāmasiddhānta in South India, a religious movement holding that reciting the name of a god is enough to achieve spiritual liberation.