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  • Selwyn’s building site
    Sun, 16/06/2019 - 23:50
    Work is intensifying on the site of Selwyn’s new library and auditorium. A piling rig has been installed, and a crane will soon follow. The photo, taken from the roof of Cripps Court, shows where construction is underway on the corner of Grange Road and West Road.


  • Bursar bows out
    Thu, 23/05/2019 - 22:49
    The bursar of Selwyn, Nick Downer, is to retire at the end of this year.
  • Building begins
    Tue, 02/04/2019 - 20:42
    Preparation work has begun on the site of the new library & auditorium which will be built during 2019-21. At the corner of Grange Road and West Road, it will provide an auditorium on the ground floor – with flexible space including tiered seating – and then a state-of-the-art library on the first and second floors. The total cost is expected to be £12.6m, and more than £11m of that has been raised already. The main contractor will be the Barnes company.
  • Sporting Success
    Tue, 12/03/2019 - 09:58
    Selwyn has had notable success on the badminton courts and on the river this March.

    Our women’s badminton team won Cuppers: the competition between all the Cambridge colleges. They beat Murray Edwards 3-0 in the final. The college has a strong reputation in the sport: this is the third year in a row that we"ve made the final, but the first victory.
  • Ramsay Murray Lecture 2019
    Sun, 10/03/2019 - 10:06

    We"re delighted to announce that this year"s Selwyn Ramsay Murray lecture will be given by Professor David Reynolds, speaking on "History: academic, personal and public".

  • Try Cambridge Teaching
    Mon, 25/02/2019 - 20:22
    Selwyn will be running three major summer schools this year for prospective students. We’ll be introducing year 12s to the opportunities of studying medicine at Cambridge; there’s a climate change curation project, also for year 12s; and for year 11s we’re offering a taster for arts and humanities, in which participants will get a chance to make a virtual journey through Italy.
  • Brexit Briefing
    Sun, 10/02/2019 - 17:09
    The Cambridge colleges and the university recognise that the approach of Britain’s departure from the European Union will prompt questions from students and staff. The university is therefore collating all the latest information on its website, and you can find useful links on this page: https://www.eu.admin.cam.ac.uk/
  • How we select students
    Wed, 16/01/2019 - 08:17
  • A Dean for 2019
    Mon, 07/01/2019 - 11:02
    Selwyn has a new Dean: Dr Charlotte Summers, who takes up the role this January. Charlotte is one of our Fellows in medicine. She is also a university lecturer, and an honorary consultant in intensive care medicine for the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

  • Dr Christopher Johnson, 1931-2019, RIP
    Mon, 07/01/2019 - 11:01
    It is with great sadness that we report the death on January 5th 2019 of Dr Christopher Johnson, Honorary Fellow of the college.
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  • Prestige lecture
    Wed, 01/05/2024 - 14:17

    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.

     

    Nick Bryant Panel

     

  • Watch Selwyn events
    Mon, 29/04/2024 - 22:47

    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:

  • Minister’s warning
    Wed, 17/04/2024 - 12:20

    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.

  • MA Graduation 2024
    Tue, 09/04/2024 - 12:02

    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.

     

    People Graduating

     

  • Student champions
    Fri, 15/03/2024 - 10:35

    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.

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