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Barbara Lorna Hudson (Gullachsen, NC 1958) has published Do You Remember the Barn Owl?, a book of short stories with Fantastic Books Publishing. Barbara, who read Modern Languages at Newnham and is Fellow Emerita…
Ruth Haynes MA MEng CEng FICE (NC 1994) has published a timely book for the Institution of Structural Engineers, Structural Robustness and Disproportionate Collapse in Buildings. In 2021 she became a Fellow of the…
Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn, BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Sheila Hayman (NC 1974)’s new feature documentary starring global Decca star, Isata Kanneh-Mason, recently launched at cinemas across the UK. The photo above is a still from…
Honorary Fellow Joan Armatrading CBE’s first classical work was premiered by the Chineke! Orchestra on 24 November at the Southbank Centre in London. Symphony No.1 was performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Chineke! is…
Julie Etchingham (NC 1988) has become Pro Chancellor at Birmingham Newman University. The Pro Chancellor acts as an advocate and ambassador of the University and represents it in a ceremonial and representative capacity. Julie,…
In this video, Wei Bi (NC 2021), this year’s recipient of the US Travel Bursary, explains how the Bursary has helped support her work and what her experiences have been studying in the US. Wei is…
Hear from Jerome Viard from our gardening team in this video about how they are working to reduce wastage, save water, attract wildlife and deal with the challenges of climate change in Newnham Gardens.…
As one of the main priorities of the Shaping Newnham’s Future Fundraising Campaign, Newnham is currently fundraising to build a £10 million fighting fund to green our estate, including our Champneys buildings, most of…
A big thank you to everyone who took part in the recent Shaping Newnham’s Future Telephone Campaign (18 September to 2 October). Our wonderful callers raised £200,000, with just over 250 alumnae pledging a…
St Catharine’s College has named one of its two new student houses in hour of Dr Marian Silver (Scrase, NC 1945). Marian, among the first cohort at Newnham to be awarded a Cambridge degree in…