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

The College is deeply sad to report the death of Ruth Chadwick. Ruth’s service to the College over the years in partnership
with her husband Owen was immense; and they were a welcoming presence for generations of Selwyn students during Professor
Chadwick’s long Mastership. It was heartwarming that, even with her illness in recent years, she was able to come to the most