Selwynites played a key role in new research about the earliest example of reproduction in a complex organism. The work was led by Emily Mitchell with Charlotte Kenchington, who are both members of the College and have studied for their doctorates in Professor Nick Butterfield’s research group.

As another Admissions process draws to a close, Admissions Tutor (Arts and Social Sciences) Dr Mike Sewell writes about what happened at Selwyn in 2014-15:

Selwyn College has hosted a group of 35 high-achieving Year 12s from state schools in West Yorkshire, East Berkshire and Scotland who visited Cambridge to learn more about the university, and experience what life as a student will be like.

 

The Selwyn choir is enjoying chart success with its latest CD. "Eternal Ecstasy" has risen to number 8 in the official specialist classical chart, which can be viewed here:

Hundreds of people - family, colleagues, alumni and friends - attended the funeral service for our former Master, Owen
Chadwick, at Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge on August 3rd. Professor Chadwick died in July in his hundredth year.

Here are the addresses delivered at the service. The first was by another former Master of Selwyn, Sir David Harrison:

Members of the Selwyn College choir dedicated a concert in Victoria, British
Columbia, on July 18th to the memory of Professor Chadwick. The news of his death had come while they were on a tour of the
Pacific Northwest.

It was with great regret that we heard on Friday 17^th July, that Owen Chadwick had passed away - peacefully, and surrounded by his family.

Alumni and friends met the Master, Roger Mosey, and development director Mike Nicholson at a reception and dinner in San Francisco on Tuesday July 14th. Selwynites are well represented in California in jobs ranging from finance and the high-tech industries to advising the British government on climate change.

The College welcomed back alumni for its annual Commemoration of Benefactors service and dinner on Friday July 3^rd. This marks our thanksgiving for the people who founded the College in 1882 and our appreciation for those who have supported it over the past 133 years. The toast at the dinner was proposed by Sir Simon Hughes, the former Liberal Democrat MP and Justice Minister, who became an undergraduate member of Selwyn in 1970.

Two Selwynites appeared on BBC Radio 3 this week. On Monday Clare Walker Gore spoke on ‘Free
Thinking’ about disability in the works of Trollope. Clare is one of the Radio 3 New Generation
Thinkers, and will be broadcasting on the network throughout the next year. You can hear the
programme via the BBC iPlayer:
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