The latest news from Newnham’s Fellows, researchers, students and staff.
Alumna and Honorary Fellow, Dr Jane Goodall DBE, has been named the winner of the 2021 Templeton Prize, in recognition of her life’s work for conservation and animal intelligence. Dr Goodall is a renowned…
Dr Felix Steffek, College Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL), has been awarded a J M Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics. This University Fellowship is funded by the…
Classicist, TV historian, Newnham alumna and Fellow, Professor Mary Beard will help fund two Classics students from under-represented backgrounds as part of efforts to encourage more diversity among those studying the subject. The £80k…
We are delighted to announce that Prof Liba Taub, Fellow and Senior Tutor of Newnham College, has been awarded the Paul Bunge Prize of the Hans R Jenemann Foundation. The prize is awarded jointly…
At Newnham, we love our Iris Café – and some of us love it even more in the evenings, when it transforms into a student-run bar. Is what it needs an Iris Beer? If…
In the 2021 Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture, poet and conservationist Ruth Padel challenged us to reimagine the ways we think about our own humanity, and our relationship with nature. In a talk rich with…
We are delighted to announce that Dr Emma Mawdsley is to be awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s prestigious Busk Medal, “for exceptional engagements with fieldwork, research and knowledge production about the global South”. Dr…
Newnham Fellow Dr Tina Potter will shortly be awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize, a prize which recognises outstanding and pioneering teaching within the University. Dr Potter is a physicist, focusing on the discovery of…
HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last week aged 99, was the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from December 1976 to June 2011, and Visitor of Newnham College. Here, we…
If you don’t know what ‘electroceuticals’ are, we’ve got almost 100 teenage scientists who do. Each year, Newnham College welcomes sixth formers from across the UK to discover and debate some of the cutting-edge…