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  • 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.

  • Students at Selwyn have achieved outstanding academic results for 2026, with the college's performance improving for the third year in a row.
  • A mission, called CosmoCube, is outlined in the recent edition of Nature Astronomy by a team of scientists led by Selwyn Fellow Professor Eloy de Lera Acedo.
  • Four members of Selwyn's MCR community will take an original musical, One Night at Ford's Theatre, to the Edinburgh Fringe.
  • Andrew Barnes (SE 1978) and his partner Charlotte Lockhart have given £10 million to the University of Cambridge to establish the Charlotte Lockhart Precision Breast Cancer Institute, supporting research to give people more time and hope.
  • Meet the newest members of our Fellowship.
  • Dr Tom Smith has taken up a new role as Assistant Senior Tutor at Selwyn.
  • New research reveals that bumblebees collect up to seven times as much toxic heavy metal as honeybees, even when foraging in exactly the same environment.

  • Congratulations to all our new graduates.