Chloe Allison, who's currently studying for an MPhil at Selwyn, has been awarded a highly prestigious Vice-Chancellor's & Selwyn College scholarship for a PhD in Music. The Vice-Chancellor's scholarships go to the most promising PhD students across the university. Selwyn has partnered with the Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarships for the first time this year and we are thrilled to be able to welcome Chloe back next year for her PhD.

The college held a reunion for the 1967 and 1977 year groups on Saturday April 8^th, marking the 50^th and 40^th anniversaries of their arrival at the college. Among those attending was Richard Budgett (SE 1977) who won a gold medal for rowing in the men's coxed fours at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. Richard studied medicine at Selwyn, and he is now Medical and Scientific director for the International Olympic Committee.

We’re pleased to announce that this year’s Ramsay Murray lecture at Selwyn will be given by the historian Professor Amanda Vickery. Her title will be ‘No Happy Ending? At Home with Miss Bates in Georgian England’ and it will bring to life England in the time of Jane Austen.

It’s the end of the season for many university-wide sports – and Selwyn has had some notable successes.

Our women’s football team, which includes players from Selwyn and Robinson colleges, finished top of division one after a tough 2-1 victory over Pembroke in their final match. Our senior tutor, Mike Sewell, offers this brief match report:

The college is entering a particularly busy period of events for alumni and friends, which will include reunions in Cambridge and the North of England – but also in New York, Hong Kong and Australia.  

Some of the college’s students have been capturing the beauties of Selwyn in a series of photographs that are proving to be very popular. They have been viewed and ‘liked’ tens of thousands of times on our social media platforms, and they offer some different perspectives on familiar scenes.

Selwyn alumna Jessi Baker has been featured as a digital disruptor by the BBC. Jessi, who studied manufacturing engineering at the college, has set up a company – Provenance – that helps consumers identify precisely where their food comes from. It is now operating in four countries, and has signed up the Co-op in the UK as a commercial partner.

Two Selwynites have discovered a new species of fossil that will shed light on early animal ecosystems.

Dr Tom Harvey, a Selwyn alumnus now at Leicester's Department of Geology, together with our Fellow Professor Nick Butterfield, discovered the new species while conducting a survey of microfossils in mudstones from western Canada.

Here Nick sets out four reasons why the discovery matters:

College members have been supporting Time to Talk Day, which aims to get the nation talking about mental health. The organisers’ website is at http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/timetotalkday.