Selwyn Fellow Ken Coutts, along with former Fellow Graham Gudgin, published a UK economic forecast report in
December, taking issue with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for the way they do their forecasts, and coming up
with a less optimistic view about economic prospects. You can download the report here
href="http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/publications/special-reports/"
target="_blank">http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/publications/special-reports/ and there's a summary along with an audio blog
also online:
href="http://www.blogs.jbs.cam.ac.uk/cbr/uk-economy-forecast-report/">http://www.blogs.jbs.cam.ac.uk/cbr/uk-economy-forecast-
report/. The report was covered by a range of media including The Guardian and the Evening Standard, and there were
further pieces on the Social Europe blog http://www.socialeurope.eu/ and on the
Policy Research in Macroeconomics site
href="http://www.primeeconomics.org/articles/">http://www.primeeconomics.org/articles/.

The Master of Selwyn, Roger Mosey, gave one of the Madingley lectures towards the end of 2015. He spoke about his
time in broadcasting and some of the challenges facing the BBC. The video is now available online href="http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/what-we-do/madingley-lectures/broadcasting-past-and-future">http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/what-we-d
o/madingley-lectures/broadcasting-past-and-future; and you can read more about the series of lectures on the Institute of
Continuing Education's website target="_blank">http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/what-we-do/madingley-lectures.

This has been an exceptional year for the Selwyn College Choir. The summer saw their sell-out tour of the Pacific Northwest, and they arrived home to find that their latest recording was album of the week on Classic FM – and then in the top 10 of the specialist classical chart. Concerts in the UK, and appreciative reviews, have confirmed that this is a choir that excels.

To mark the busiest time of year for the Choir – with Carol Services in Cambridge, London and beyond – we’re releasing a video of a performance of ‘Once in Royal David’s City’, specially recorded in the Chapel. It’s a chance for College members and friends, wherever they are in the world, to share some of the spirit of Christmas.

Click the image below to open the video on youTube.

If you want to support Selwyn students, to ensure access to the College whatever an individual’s financial circumstances, you can make a gift of £5 by texting SELW37 £5 to 70070. Thank you.

Selwyn's Novice Women rowers came second in Division 1 at this year's Emma Sprints. The crews row in fancy dress, and Selwyn opted for the Von Trapp family look. Our correspondent on the Cam tells us:

“In fabulous fancy dress, we stormed our first three races, winning all of them by over two boat lengths. An unfortunate technical issue in the final straight meant Fitz gained a length on us, and although we put in a determined performance and closed the gap considerably it wasn't quite enough to win.”

Many congratulations to those involved for a very promising performance. You can read more about the Boat Club’s activities on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SelwynCollegeBC/?fref=ts
 

Selwyn College is pleased to announce that its former student Tom Hollander has been elected as an Honorary Fellow by the Governing Body. Tom, who came to the College to read English in 1985, has had a distinguished acting career. This year he was named the Royal Television Society Best Actor for his portrayal of Dylan Thomas in ‘A Poet In New York’; and he won considerable acclaim for the BBC comedy series ‘Rev’ which he co-created. His film roles run from the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series through ‘In The Loop’ and ‘Gosford Park’ – and he has also starred on the stage and on radio. He will soon appear on BBC Television in ‘The Night Manager’, written by John Le Carré and co-starring another Selwyn alumnus, Hugh Laurie. Tom Hollander regularly returns to Cambridge, and he was one of the speakers at the 2015 Selwyn English Society dinner. We offer him many congratulations on his Honorary Fellowship.

All Selwyn’s first year undergraduates are invited to a series of informal dinners in
the Master’s Lodge during their early weeks in College. It’s a chance for students to talk to the Master and
some of their tutors or directors of studies about how they’re finding life at Selwyn, and it also
enables different subject groups to have a lively conversation with food and drink supplied. Our
picture shows some recent visitors with the Master, Roger Mosey; and this group was made up
predominantly of students studying medicine or veterinary medicine, with the addition of one
economist.

Selwyn's sports day for Old Boys and Girls took place in late October, and pitted past generations against current students. There were contests in football, rugby, hockey and netball; and, as our photo from the hockey shows, the events took place in the friendliest of atmospheres.

There was also a group who took to the river, and you can read their account at https://selwynrowing.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/selwyn-alumni-go-for-a-paddle/. More photographs from the day can be found on the College Flickr account, https://www.flickr.com/photos/selalum/albums/72157660706555971.

The artist Monika Beisner visited the College on Tuesday October 27^th to show her spectacularly beautiful illustrations of Dante’s ‘Paradise’. There was also a round-table discussion between the artist and Cambridge Dante scholars Robin Kirkpatrick, Heather Webb and Katherine Powlesland. Professor Kirkpatrick read from his Penguin Classics translation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. The event attracted a large attendance, and our photograph shows Ms Beisner (left) with Selwyn Fellow and Italian specialist Dr Heather Webb.

The Master of Selwyn, Roger Mosey, was interviewed by John Humphrys of the Today programme at an
event in London on Tuesday October 20^th. The session covered Roger’s recent book about the BBC,
’Getting Out Alive’. It took place at Hatchards bookshop in Piccadilly, and a number of Selwyn
alumni came along. The author’s proceeds from book sales are being donated to student support at
the College.

Marcos Gallego Llorente (SE 2013) has, as part of his PhD research, helped to lead a pioneering project into the genetic history of humans in Africa. This is the first time a complete assemblage of DNA has been retrieved from an ancient human in Africa and the paper, which was published in ‘Science’, has already garnered significant interest in the scientific community and more widely. Congratulations to Marcos and his colleagues on the success of their research. There’s more about it at

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ancient-genome-from-africa-sequenced-for-the-first-time