The former Labour education and home secretary, David Blunkett MP, visited the College on Thursday January 8th. He spoke to students in the Master’s Lodge about his career and current issues, and then had dinner in Hall with some of the Fellows.

The Selwyn choir returns to Cambridge to face two demanding events. The first is a recording session of Christmas music. It will take place in the College Chapel and aims to capture the success of the choir's pre-Christmas engagements in Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds and London. The recording will be on sale towards the end of 2015.

Selwyn are out of this year’s University Challenge after losing 235 points
to 100 against St Peter’s College, Oxford. It was a second round match, and Selwyn
were unable to capture the form that saw them knock out previous champions Manchester in
round one. There are now just two Cambridge Colleges left in the competition: Trinity and
Caius. Below is a picture of the Selwyn team on a happier occasion in the College gardens,

This year’s Selwyn College Christmas card has an image created by one of our undergraduates, Nicky Collins. He is studying natural sciences, and is also a keen photographer. He explains the picture, which he titled “A Song of Fire and Ice”, chosen for the card:

The Selwyn College Choir completed five Carol Services in less than a week during its busiest period in December: two in Cambridge, two in London and one in Bury St Edmunds.

Our first photograph shows the service in the College Chapel, after the lights had been dimmed and the candles lit for the final Carol “Hark The Herald Angels Sing”.

Selwyn College is pleased to announce that it will be offering six Graduate studentships with effect from the next academic year. They will be:

The refurbished Cripps Court was officially opened on Wednesday December 3^rd by Robert Cripps, whose family’s Cripps Foundation was the major benefactor for the original building in the 1960s and for its refurbishment in the past two years. Mr Cripps unveiled a plaque on the wall of Cripps Court commemorating the re-opening.

The College is delighted to announce that next year?s Ramsay Murray Lecture will be given by the award-winning broadcaster Bridget Kendall, who is the BBC?s diplomatic correspondent. Ms Kendall was educated at Lady Margaret Hall and St Anthony?s College, Oxford, and was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard. She will lecture on the subject of Russia and President Putin, sharing her extensive experience of the country in recent decades.

 

Photographs, painting and crafts were on display in the Chadwick Room under the banner of “Selwyn’s Got Talent”. This was an initiative by the Staff Social Committee to find our artistically-gifted Fellows, students and staff, and to display their work.

 

 

The winner in the photography competition was this image by Hannah Doyle, who is studying for an MPhil in English at Selwyn.