The College held its annual lunch for parents on Saturday March 14th, to coincide with students getting ready to go home for the Easter vacation. The parents invited were those with undergraduates in their first year, and almost 200 people had lunch in the College Hall.
Selwyn Fellow David Newland, an emeritus professor in engineering, will be giving a public talk in the Engineering Department
on Friday, March 13th.
The students who took part in this year’s Telephone Campaign to raise funds for the College have been celebrating a successful outcome. A total of £209,000 was raised, and Selwyn would like to thank all the alumni and friends who made contributions.
Selwyn’s Professor Sir Colin Humphreys will be giving a public lecture in Cambridge about the next generation of LED lighting on Monday February 9th. Titled “Lighting the future”, it will take place at 6pm in the Bristol-Myers-Squibb lecture theatre in the Department of Chemistry. Sir Colin is Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, and a Fellow of Selwyn.
He describes his theme:
Selwyn’s football teams have achieved success on the pitch despite tough tests from their opponents and from
the weekend’s wintry weather. The men’s team is through to the final of the Cuppers Plate, after beating
Queens’ College 2-1 in a close semi-final. The match went to extra time, but victory for Selwyn was sealed by this
penalty:
We learned today, with deep regret, that Ann Dobson has died. Ann and her husband Chris provided almost all the funding for
the first two phases of the College’s masterplan for expansion; and Ann’s Court is named in her honour. The Master of
Selwyn, Roger Mosey, said: "This and future generations of students will be enormously grateful to Ann Dobson, along with
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.
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.
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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.
Alumni and friends along with current fellows and students gathered in the magnificent setting of the Drapers' Hall in London to mark the life of our former master Sir David Harrison (1930-2023) and the success already of the fund established in his memory.
