The college is delighted to announce that the distinguished journalist and broadcaster Frank Gardner OBE will give this year’s Ramsay Murray lecture. Mr Gardner is the BBC’s security correspondent, and also a best-selling author. You can read more about his life on his website: http://www.frankgardner.co.uk/.

In the year that we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the extension of voting rights to some women, here's a portrait of one of the great Selwyn figures involved in the suffrage movement.

Remembering greatness: a plaque was unveiled in Westminster Abbey on February 1st commemorating our former Master Owen Chadwick and his brother Henry.

Selwyn Fellow Dr James Keeler is one of the authors of the latest
edition of a key textbook for student chemists. Atkins' Physical
Chemistry is acknowledged by students and lecturers around the
globe to be the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry, and
it’s now being published in its 11th edition.

Another new face in the college for 2018: Dr Kirsty McDougall joins us as admissions tutor for the arts and social sciences. She will become part of the team which manages our outreach programmes and selects new undergraduates, working alongside the science admissions tutors Dr Daniel Beauregard and Dr Stuart Eves.

The start of 2018 marks a change in command in Selwyn's gardens. Following the retirement of Paul Gallant, our new head gardener is Andrew Myson - who began work on January 2nd.

Andrew has a lot of Cambridge college experience: he was previously head gardener at Trinity Hall. We welcome him to Selwyn, and wish him every success in his work here.

Selwyn was featured in the 2017 Christmas special editions of ‘University Challenge’. The match against the University of St Andrews was shown on BBC2 on December 26^th.

Selwyn welcomed back two of its best known alumni this December: television & film star Hugh Laurie and top-selling novelist Robert Harris. They're pictured alongside the Christmas tree in Hall.

For some time now the JCR has been running a ‘Students of Selwyn’ series, profiling some of the undergraduates at the college. We’re delighted that the MCR is now working to expand the series, so that in future it will include graduate students too.

The first representative of our MCR is Hiba Salem, who talks about her journey from Syria to Selwyn - and her research among refugee communities.

The Master of Selwyn, Roger Mosey, has responded to criticisms of Cambridge over its admissions policy – and other recent media stories about the university. In a speech to parents and students, he argued that the university has a good story to tell about the progress it is making.