Selwyn has welcomed back alumni who first came to the College in 1984 and 1994. The 30- and 20-year Reunion was marked by a dinner in Hall on Saturday, with short speeches by Alastair Rimmer (on behalf of those who matriculated in 1984) and Liz Ross Martyn (1994). Our pictures show guests in Hall and in the New SCR.
After two years of extensive refurbishment and expansion work, the College took possession of a renewed Cripps Court at the beginning of September. The finishing touches are now being put to the building and its gardens, and it will be fully operational for the new academic year beginning in October. The total cost of the project was £13m, and the College is grateful for the generous support it received from the Cripps Foundation.
The Selwyn choir has a growing reputation for its musical excellence; and this autumn it will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War with a number of special events. A highlight will be bringing together the poetry of Wilfred Owen with music in the College Chapel on Sunday November 2nd, in a performance supported by the Wilfred Owen Association. It starts at 8.30pm, and admission is free.
The Master, Roger Mosey, has written about the College ‘cat’ in this week’s edition of the New Statesman:
As another Admissions process draws to a close, Admissions Tutor (Humanities) Dr Mike Sewell writes about what happened at Selwyn in 2013-14:
Selwyn invited Year 12 students to our first Sciences Summer School which took place between Monday 11th and Wednesday 13th August. Almost 40 students attended the residential course, and represented 26 state-maintained schools mostly from the College’s link areas in Scotland, West Yorkshire and East Berkshire.
There’s a particularly good display this year in the Selwyn gardens, with the Victorian-style border a great showpiece in the lower College garden. This is accessible to everyone in the College and to visitors. Our photographs show some of the highlights, with guidance on the plants from our head gardener Paul Gallant – who, with his team, is responsible for one of the most attractive gardens in Cambridge.
If you’re holding a conditional offer of a place at Selwyn College and have met all the conditions in your offer and have the grades required, congratulations! A letter is in the post to you.
Selwyn’s high-profile events from this Spring, and earlier, are available to view online.
We began the recent series with the visit by the Swedish foreign minister Tobias Billström on April 16th. Mr Billström, a Selwyn alumnus, explained why Sweden had joined NATO. The video of the session can be viewed here:
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.
